Why display student work from my past? So many of the projects I worked on during my college days are still a part of me. I look back on them with fondness and as a stepping stone to today. I keep them on here as a remembrance as to where I started and a reminder how of how far I have come. I knew early on I wanted a career in computer graphics and began taking drawing, design and art history classes in community college.
Later on during my years at the University of Central Florida I began taking classes focuses on design and 3D animation. I had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects for the university displayed below. For several semesters I had the privilege of working as a assistant to an instructor teaching marketing students the basics of web design and how to implement that into their business practices.
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A collaboration of images from my project working with Digital Book Talk's "The Martian Chronicles". This project was a true challenge utilizing all my skills of design, 3D, directing and video compositing.
Here are a few examples of character and scenes I created based upon hand drawn artwork for the "Eastern Slopes Project".
These are a few of the models I created for the "Rising From The Earth" video game based upon early space exploration history.
The next several pictures are from my final project from my 3D modeling class where I recreated Thorton Church in Buckinghamshire, UK. This image displays the interior naive of a cathedral showing the sunlight peering through the door behind camera and onto the back window
This is the upper view of the arches from the cathedral showing the upper window and ceiling.
Birds -Eye view of the chandelier viewing down upon a reflection from the upper bay window of the Cathedral
Close up on the piano I modeled for the Thornton Church animation.
Close up of the chandelier and pews I created from inside of Thornton Church.
Design I creating breaking apart the letter "M" into four panels creating with the purpose of separating function from design.
This is from one of my first Photoshop Assignments where I was asked to create an hourglass representing images from my past and present.
A Duckbill Plant which was an angry biting plant I modeled that can thrust out to bite our main character.
A larger view of the Fallen Bridge I created for the "Eastern Slopes" Project.
Extreme Closeup of the "Eastern Slopes" hanging bridge. Details can be seen such as nails, ropes and vines.
Back of bridge covered with thorny vines intertwining with danging ropes I developed for "Eastern Slopes".
Opening boat sequence I created for the "Martian Chronicles" book trailer involving modeling, texturing, animating and environmental effects.
Martian landscape with sand dunes and destroyed buildings which served as a backdrop for a scene taped for the "Martian Chronicles".
Scene in the "Martian Chronicles" in which our main characters are pushed aside by a shockwave, floating past old Martian relics
Texturing and Lighting Assignment in which I had to create complex texturing and lighting effects in 3D Studio Max involving hard, reflective and transparent textures.
Modeling a teapot is sort of a right of passage for 3D modelers. This is a lighting and texturing effect I created for a piece called Electric Teapot.
This is a 3D model I created for a parody commercial for a razor called Mach 10.
These are the first 3D characters I ever created from the cartoon, Scoop and Muck.
This is from an assignment of an advanced lighting and atmosphere effects giving the illusion of the teapots to be sunk under water.
This is a 1930's style jeep I modeled and textured for the Real Time video game "Rising From the Earth".
Early NASA utility vehicle modeled and textured for the "Rising From the Earth" Video Game.
Back of utility vehicle I developed for "Rising From the Earth" Video Game.
There are three major projects I worked on during my senior year. Digital Book Talk is a program created with the purpose of helping students from Kindergarten to High School to keep an interest in reading by creating book trailers in the fashion of movie trailers. I was assigned as director of Ray Bradbury's book, The Martian Chronicles. Using my background in 3D animation and production, myself and a group of several others created a 90 second book-trailer which had all the demands of a full scare production including script, location, scheduling, shooting, green screen compositing to video and sound editing. I am proud to say, that after 10 years our book trailer still has a home on their website today. I am also proud to say Digital Book Talk won first place that year in Undergraduate Research.
The Eastern Slopes was a experimental 3D film directed by a fellow student stylized with metaphoric imagery drawn from the bible and surrealism. The story followed an Alice in Wonderland experience through a changing art museum as well as a surrealistic world for our main character to explore. At the end of the story our main character is delivered a fatal blow from a deadly snake forcing her to take a leap of fate. I modeled in 3D a variety of creatures and props for the film to be displayed at Siggraph the following year.
Rising from the Earth was a student produced 3D video game designed to educate players about NASA history and space exploration. The game was supervised by clients working with the Space Coast History Project as well as the director of media convergence. My role was modeling and texturing a variety of launch equipment and vehicles as well as preparing them for the game engine. A year later the game was passed on to a professional developer for marketing as educational software.
