The Dreamgiver

Meet the Dreamgiver. This is the character for the film, "Dreamgiver," that I'm working on for a BYU student film short. The texture for this is not complete just yet, I still have a little more to go with it. I just thought it was about time I posted my progress. Skin has been the most challenging thing for me to tackle. Mostly when I'm dealing with two seperate UV maps of the head and body and two different resolutions that are being applied to the same geometry. If you put two seperate shaders on a single geometry with both shaders having subsurface, Only one of them will work. This is when rendering in Renderman. So in Slim I had to figure out a complex network that would all lead into one shader Ensemble, and include two different resolution texture maps that can both output their own subsurface type. Just this alone. Took me all of one semester. Now that the big kinks are worked out I'm finishing out the small ones.

Membraines, Chromozomes, Spindle Fibers, Centioles

This is another Project that I'm working on at work. I've been working on some proceedural glow shaders in mental ray. These are Chromozomes, Spindle Fibers, Centrioles, and a Membraine under a UV Light. All of them have rigs and are animatable shaders. Also the Chromozomes, that are orange, has a glow shader the changes colors on particles when certain reactions happen. I can't wait to see all this stuff Animated. (

Animal Cage

Alot of people have been asking me to update my blog more. So here's another item I'm working on at work. It's an animal cage It's still not done. Later I post some of the other cool stuff that I've already done at work when I have time. I always except any critiques. So if you have any ideas to "plus" this cage, let me know.

Updated DemoReel

Please feel free to leave any comments about how it looks. I want to make it better.

Dreamgiver

This is a guy I'm texturing for the film I'm working on. The top image is a study painting I did to help me figure out generally what i want the end result to be when I'm done texturing it in 3d. I am going to document everything I do so all will know how to do a 3d character with subsurface scattering.

Pens in a Jar

This Jar was the next 3d project I worked on for the Dreamgiver film. It was a headache! I don't know about you but Glass is CRAZY to pull off right. There is alot to worry about. At the same time, it was fun. My favorite was putting fingure prints on the pencils and marker. The last image shows the glass refracting the tiles in the back. It also reflects, and creates caustic effects. Spent less time on the shadows. Didn't care.

Gunso

Meet Gunso. It's a used toy robot that I textured for the film.

Baseball Texturing

These are more textured objects I did in Slim for the film. A baseball and a old rusty baseball card box. The baseball was most interesting as you can tell. I cut it up and took a picture of it, then used the texture for my UV's that I placed on my Baseball. It was fun.

hat

This is a hat I recently textured in 3D for a film. Done in Renderman.

My Demo Reel Revised

Alrighty, here is the latest of a recent project that I have been working on. I Textured, Modeled, UVmapped, and created the shaders for these suckers in Mental Ray. And guess what this project is still not done. I still need to finish texturing his cloths and rigging his body and then I will animate him. The goal is to cover all basic aspecs of 3d. Also if you stay tooned by the end of this week I should put up most of my animations that I've done and my demo reel.

Modeling in 3d

Alrighty, so a weakness of mine has been modeling. (because it's so technical to me). I'm not much for a technical person but I am trying to be...somewhat. I modeled this character following the Learning Autodesk Maya 2009 tutorial. Next I'm going to rig it and maybe texture it. I haven't decided. Recently I've been doing animations too but have not put them on the blog because I will maybe later.

Textured Oil Barrels

Right now I'm starting to help with a 3d animated film with the Seniors. I had to texture some oil barrels for the scene. With This texture I used Slim in Renderman for the first time. It was hard at first like every new program you use but I'm starting to get a hang of it.

Texturing the Great Wall

During Christmas break, a friend, Scott and I decided to start a 3D project. This is some of the project. I won't tell you much else other than he's the modeler and I'm the texture artist. Right now I'm painting bricks on the Great wall. Lots of experimentation involved here, but I'm proud to say that I painted all the bricks you see. Why have I taken on this task. Because I like it.

priest in Danger

This is my painting final for Sam Neilsons class. It's been a good class I've learned alot. This is a story of a frog priest being robbed by two villans. One of them is an amature. His more experienced partner is annoyed by him.

3-d Snail final

This is my first bug in 3d. This is my bug final for Brent Adams class.

My first flash animation

I'm very proud of my first attempt at flash animation.
My boss wanted me to do this for a project at work.
My next goal is to work with symbols and rotate body parts.

Great Wall of China on drugs

This a final scene I did for Sam Nielsons class. I tried to do a cooler version of the great wall of China.

Friday Morning Gesture Drawing

These are from friday morning figure drawing. Each pose was 1 to 2 minutes long. I don't think I put up alot of figure drawing so I figured I would.

Another Storyboard panel for work

here is another storyboard panel for work. They are checking out some rocks ontop of a cliff looking over the ocean in china. I've been learning how to create sceneries in Sam Nielsons class. I still struggle with creating characters though. In this scene I'm trying several options and positions

Again my first attempt with 3d

This is my favorite version of the teapot

Teapot final

ok, I'm not working on it anymore. I'm leaving it alone. it will never be done, but I have to move on to other assignments.

1st Teapot in the works

Right now I'm working on my teapot in Maya for my first computer 3d project ever. I'm trying to detail it further to make it as realistic and appealing as possible. If you have any suggestions, I would love to know what I could improve on specifically. Thank you.

Yeehaa! Happy Halloween!

Bill's favorite holiday is Halloween, not just for the trick or treating and haunted houses, but also for the giant ant bull riding at moon light. This is my finished final for a project in Sam Nielsons class.

His pet ant

After Fred gets high off candy on Halloween night, he escapes his house late at night with his friends to do some ant bull riding. This is done for my concept class with Sam Nielson. I tried to be as dynamic as I could. Next we're going to be painting our characters in photoshop.

Hey boys

So this is my attempt to add a hue. I forever want to keep fixing it but I'm done with it for now. I need to study light more. Again I've modeled in photoshop Joe Olsens line drawing.

2 minute gesture of Woman in class

I decided to post this because this has been my favorite gesture I've done. At the time I was trying to get closer to Ryan Woodwards gesture style. Recently I've been less successful at it. I'm putting two versions up. The hard copy and one manipulated in photoshop with a gradient map. Tell me what you think.

Sam Nielson first class project

This was done for a class project in Sam Nielson's class. This is an image of Joe Olsons. We all had to pick an image and put value, cantrast, and model it 3d.

The Great Wall

All these images that I've been working on is for a project that I'm doing at my job. There are many panels that I'm working on but these are some of them. The story for the panels is about two kids that end up traveling around the ancient world and learn about it. This is for a high school history course and it also has interactive games with it.

Another alien concept

hello, my name is joe and i like to drawr me mummy.

Refined Alien teacher

Computer sketchings

David Bowie

Big lipped woman revisited

Huge Nose Man

Big lipped woman finished

My first project at work

Kathryn the Cow Girl

My beautiful wife again

The Swimmer

4x7 foot high school painting, acrylic

Suzie and her Pet Groomit

Kathryn Creswell

This is my lovely wife

Dorothy and her daughter

Robot Man

Wilson Phalarope

Moman on Chair

The Ultimate Trick or Treater

Maffia

I created this out of my head using reference

Misty girl

Show me the way Priest Man

The man

Yankee

Rachel Creswell

My mother as a child

Lyn Creswell

Flower sack

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