Spring 2012 - Grue

Grue title screen

This is a game that I worked on in my first Project Development class back in Spring 2012 at Richland College. The main concept was that you were supposed to take this ball-shaped lantern down into a large open cave/temple system as some sort of offering to complete an important life threatening ritual and if you went too far away from the lantern's light, you began to get hurt (potentially dying).

I was in charge of concepts (I didn't know how to do anything else at the time) and super basic menu design. Above you can see the title screen of the game.

This also was the moment that I knew this is what I wanted to do for a living. I had never had so much fun "working" on anything before in my life. I loved the people, the work, and just the whole overall environment. It was just awesome, I'd do it again in a heartbeat. 

It never ended up getting finished for various reasons *cough* level designers *cough* <_< But I still enjoyed working on it and I had a great time. 

Here's some music for the game :D (by Ben Guthrie) - MUSIC

^not sure if he's related to Jim Guthrie or not... how exciting! 

Fall 2012 - First Modeling Projects

This is my first 3d scene ever, like in Fall 2012 :D I was really proud at the time, and I learned tons since then.

This was my first modeling project. I think the model itself turned out pretty well :) But the texturing is bad :( I won't upload it, but I learned alot about Normal mapping with this project, mainly because I did everything wrong that I possibly could've done, lol.

Animatic - Squire's Tale - 2011

Squire's Tale - Animatic

I made this my first semester at Richland College for Storyboarding class. It really pushed me outside of my comfort zone but, because of that, I grew a lot in my art (even though it's bad) and ended up with one of the best animatics of the class :] Click the link to watch it on YouTube, and try not to bash it too much please :P

Neliel Tu Oderschvank - Birthday Gift

Nel Tu Odershvank from Bleach. Made this for my girlfriend as a birthday present, who, by the way, was very pleased with her gift :)

Sketches

 

These are some sketches from my sketch book. When I took these pictures with my camera, I got some pretty sweet natural lighting effects which I pushed a little bit in Photoshop with the top 2 pics above.  (the portrait on the right is supposed to be Robert De Niro, but I didn't do a good enough job for people to be able to tell that :/ oh well, next time)

Woman Practice

This one is just an old practice of mine. Maybe one day I won't get distracted and I'll actually finish it.

This is how the line work turned out.
I'll spare you from the god-awful first sketch that it started off as... 
(proportions were atrocious) 

Mystic Flame Concept

This is a concept that I made for a friend of mine. It's my first legitimate commissioned piece of art (no money though).

What you actually see to the left here is actually how it turned out after I came back to it 30 days later to fix background on it.


In the smaller picture, you can see the steps that I took in making it (as well as how bad the second to last one is <_< )

I learned a lot working on this piece, and my friend was really happy with how it turned out :)