Round Peg in a Square Hole

Lunchie Crunchies 004

2011-12-21T00:19:00.000-08:00

Having a rat of a night. Tried to start two sculpts that ended in failure. Pushing on through brought me to this.

Lunchie Crunchies 003

2011-12-15T23:41:00.000-08:00

More pleased with this the sculpt. Made my ZSpheres differently this time and spent more time in low poly mode. Still needs work but getting better. :P

Lunchi Crunchies

2011-12-15T01:00:00.000-08:00

So no crunch today. Had to pick up Chris in Modesto and utterly tired. Tomorrow night for sure!

Lunchie Crunchies 002

2011-12-14T00:51:00.000-08:00

Started off with Zspheres this time. I'm thinking of creating my future basemesh models that way.
I'll be continuing with female faces. Not really happy with this bust but I'm gonna keep at it.

Lunchie Crunchies

2011-12-13T00:13:00.000-08:00

I gotta eat what I preach...

and one hour later I have this. Was hoping to get farther but alas here we are. I ether need to get faster or adapt a different type of work flow for Zbrush and Dynamesh. Maybe start with Zspheres and then Dynamesh?

Ether way.. it's on like a donkey kong!

The Forgotten Blog

2011-06-02T19:37:00.000-07:00

Hi there!

So it turns out I'm not a blog person.

But I am a website person. Go check out my website it's a lot better!

http://www.cgcraig.com

Fire it up!

1 Hour

2010-09-13T04:28:00.000-07:00

Didn't feel like going to bed so I did this quick sketch.

zSpheres, zSketch, and re-topo

2010-09-08T02:22:00.000-07:00

Dave G asked us to learn some software and tasked Chris, Riz and I to learn zSpheres, zSketch, and re-topo within zBrush. I made this model relatively quickly and liked the result. Mind you I don't love it.... but I do really like it.

BFA Intro Video

2010-09-04T02:49:00.000-07:00

So we had one week to make a video that described ourselves.

I have kina throwing around ideas on Friday, Saturday and Sunday... but really could not think of a good video.

It wasn't until Ken Calvert pitched a few ideas that led us to me re-making the Inception trailer.

I want to thank everyone who helped me out the project. Jeff, Wilbur, David, Heather, Jordan and Melissa. And anyone else who encouraged me or helped me out in any way. Thank you.

Eww Musclesss

2010-08-15T17:11:00.000-07:00

So in preparation for 129a project next semester I'm learning about muscles systems to accompany my skeleton. Lucky for me the actual skeleton I made can be used in the muscle calculations. So bones will actually move under the skin. Pretty cool! This leg is from a tutorial I got online. The tutorial describes how to set up a simple muscle and bone system.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=13710022&linkID=9242256

For a brief moment I asked myself, "Why am I learning this? I'm a modeler.. this is for riggers knowledge base." And then I came to the end result. Although it could be tuned more it's very promising to witness. Now.. onward and upward to complex muscle systems.

Working From The Inside Out

2010-08-09T01:34:00.000-07:00

So in an attempt to actually post stuff to my blog I'm going to be posting my work from now and here on out here. So no more facebook. Woot!

Onward with content! So this is a skeleton I just modeled recently. It's a low poly model and will stay low poly because it's going to reside within the Conan Berserker I'll be making this fall semester. I've seen ILM use this technique where they have a human skeleton and then morph it into the monster they want and then create the muscle system associated with it. I don't have to do a skeleton, but it will allow me to create a more accurate muscle system because now I can see the intersection points.

Randomness

2007-10-15T19:37:00.001-07:00

Heres a collect of images to start off the blog.

The bottom needs to be redone but this is a final/concept for a company. Im to the point where I need to add blue in the image.

All Photoshop, created for a yearbook cover... the cover was the best thing :)

If I were a director of animation I guess my credit would look like this!

Holy Jesus

2007-10-15T19:33:00.000-07:00

Me, a blog? Doubt I'll ever update it but well see. Maybe this will be fun. Or maybe I'll just forget about it.