I want to become a better artist on paper, so I am going to be going through tutorials and practice with the goal of being able to do realistic representation pieces.
Here is an eye I did based off the tutorial posted here.

I am also changing my theme up, and I will be posting more frequent starting today.

Hello internet. I have been gone, I am aware of this. I have had a busy week with work, school, and doing things socially. This weekend I got about 10 hours of sleep from Friday night till Monday morning here. That is just fun, isn’t it? I am feeling pretty good too if I do say so myself. Anyways! I am going to be busy again this week and probably the week after as I work on some final projects for classes. I have to learn a guitar piece to perform and be graded on (Spanish Study) and about 4 pieces for a class concert we are doing. Those need to be learned in less than 2 weeks. I also have a paper due Wednesday and a final exam the following week. Gotta read 7 chapters for that, it will be fun. I have 2 government quizzes and an exam in the coming week or so as well, I’m not worried about that class. I have to finish a presentation for a product I have been designing for my Interaction Design course all year next Thursday, I think that will go smooth as well.. and finally…. I have to put in about 30 man hours of work into my final lighting and texturing project. I am supposed to by this week have most of the texturing done, and i am still only unwrapping it. Here is a picture.

Wish me luck.

I figured I would take this time to update you all with my classwork from my lighting and texturing course. The previous week i had to create realistic lighting for an outdoor scene for both day and night. The scene was already modeled for me and had textures. All I had to do was place the lights. Not too hard…

Here are the pictures from both the day and night that I did.

And for this weeks assignment that is due tomorrow (I actually finished it before the day has started!) I had to take my night and day scene and render them into a 1 second animated zoom clip. Which is one of the simplest forms of animation I have done, i had to make the water move and zoom into the scene. Not hard. The only pain is I have to render the scene frame by frame (Thank you for being automatic!) and it takes a while. My computer is (not surprisingly) extremely faster than the school computers. What would take those 1 hour to render 30 frames, takes me only about 15 minutes. Granted.. tonight I made a lot of mistakes and had to render the day scene out 5 times before I got it right (I had some weird settings on that was making it grainy) but! The speed of my computer has allowed me to perform those renders and be able to make changes before the due date has come around. If it took as long as it did at school, I would have to settle for something mediocre!

Here are the links to the YouTube. 1 second long, nothing special, you will get a taste though.

Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-GYnKsQ6L8
Night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS6KFgXjzBY

I got an email from the main 3D modeling/animation instructor at my college inviting me to an instructor-invite-only course next spring. The class will be doing texturing, lighting, and rendering of an animated short lasting anywhere from 30-60 seconds. It is a collaborative project with another class overseas in Germany doing the modeling and animation part. So.. class is going to be 8:30am, lasting till 11:15am so we can communicate with them. Thats gonna make for an early Thursday for me as I live a good 30 minutes away, meaning I gotta leave house at 7:30 to be on time with traffic and such.

I am contacting you because you have either done great work in my 3327
class or the section which Crystal instructs. I would like to offer
each of you an invitation to join the animation studio course this
coming spring to gain invaluable experience in animation production.
This class will not be open to the public and I am hand picking
everyone based on their past work.

The email was sent to only 12 students (thats including myself) and only 4 of the 12 are from my class (Crystals). My class has a good 30-32 students, and im sure his has something similar, so out of say 65 students, I was picked.

That is awesome.