Here I got some more practice on doing realistic but expressive poses, and had some fun putting together immersive backgrounds.

I took a sculpture class at Wheaton because I wanted to pick up some useful perspectives for the projects that I do on the computer. In this project we learned how to model a human head in clay and were … Continue reading →

I just finished a short movie with the cartoon castle and figures I made. I’ve found that creating realistic movements in animation is more challenging than it appears, but I learned a lot here. Music: Legend of Zelda Main Theme

I took some of my favorite Blender projects to date and arranged them together as a composite mural. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it makes for an entertaining background. full size image

A fun experiment with shadows in Blender. Click below for the gallery.  

I wanted to use the cell-shaded manikin in an animated cartoon, so I created this setting: a toon-looking castle to be viewed as 2-dimensional. Almost everything is cell-shaded to some degree, even the bricks. It took a lot of time, but I’m … Continue reading →

I don’t remember how I got the idea to combine these two projects, but I’m very happy with the result. Basically, I re-made the earth model, but used head models instead of spheres: Song: A New Beginning -Good Charlotte pics:

I decided to make a human face in Blender to have for future projects and to test my modeling skills. I just took front and side-view diagrams of a head from google images and used them as references.  

I wanted to animate a “sunset” on the moon. I used a tutorial to get the right textures for the earth (land, clouds, atmospheric glow). I experimented with material nodes to get the effect of city lights appearing only on the dark … Continue reading →

I took the manikin figure I made and gave it a wooden texture. The stills are meant to be viewed in order. Click below for gallery.