Pottery Class

This year I had a pottery class that was very fun. For the last half of the semester we had to come up with new three new projects. My first one was themed, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" and the second one was a "series of three." and the last was about "gravity."

These photos are about the chicken.

The next set of three are a more practical assignment of three noodle containers for the counter tops. The black one is for lasagna, the red one is for spaghetti, and the yellow and red one is for shell noodles.

This last one is the gravity one. I decided to make a fountain. Its not finished yet. I cant wait to get it all finished and running.

-Special thanks to Ali Lockwood for photography and Willis Coston for helping with the fountain framework.-

Creature Design

My new project is creating a creature. We pulled out of a hat three attributes that the creature should posses. My was that it lived in a rainforest, that one of it's strengths was hearing, and last that it was considered a graceful creature. The graceful part was a bit difficult because I do not get why some animals are graceful while others are not. Giraffes for example are considered graceful...who knew? So the creative process begins with sketches followed by quick illustrations so that you can next build the creature in clay. After it is in clay then it is created in a 3D modeling program called maya and finished off in mudbox. From there I may put it in photoshop and make a final illustration or rig it for a animation.  This whole process is new to me and it has been fun so far. I hope to continue with this type of stuff. I am not too sure I have the talent to do this as a career but I would love to do this as a hobby.

First image is the sketches and quick illustration.

 The top hat gentleman is for scale. 

 This one is the armature made of wood, floral wire, armature wire, tinfoil, and plumbers putty.

 The next series is the clay model before it is baked.

 coming soon...painted sculpture, 3d model, final illustration.

 I painted this with acrylics. It was fun to paint. I wish I had put more time into it.

Update 8-7-2011
This is a turntable video of the the creature in 3D.