Written by I returned to the awesome two week work shop at UTA (University of Texas Arlington) that focuses on a new type of digital art for high school students every year. This summer we had the task of coming up with a concept for a 3D world and then creating it. Our group came up with the idea of the Planet Effluvium by an impressive feat of intellectual craftsmanship that can be found halfway down the page in this article on the UTA Newspaper website. I did a lot of the work on this project mostly because nobody else in my group, or really the workshop had used 3D software before. We each made our own robot, and they modeled the buildings for the planet. I modeled the planet as well as a bird and cockroach models to supplement our world. I’m not explaining the back story because it doesn’t make any sense. Just look at the pictures!
Posts in category 3D
Phonograph- Work in Progress
Unfinished, untextured model
Well, I was sitting in Spanish class when it hit me. I drew a phongraph. It was destiny. My drawing wasn’t so hot, so… I figured I had new inspiration for something to 3D model. It seemed to be not too hard, but certainly challenging. This particular 3D model is different from the rest, because of the amount of detail I put into it, and I started over multiple times rather than taking the easy way out. I also plan to UV map this sucker, which is a tedious but usually necessary process if you want to texture something with complex or photographic textures. I ACTUALLY plan on finishing this one, unlike the T-Rex I never got around to texturing.
I’ve stuck together a short little progress picture as well. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I didn’t keep any of the screw up models.
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Best of 2010- Magazine Art
This is the first of what is most likely going to be a series of covers that I do for my school’s magazine, the Parish PEN. I used mostly vector shapes extruded out into 3D. I used Cinema 4D, Illustrator and Photoshop for an overall nice looking 3D, cover-worthy composition! I retraced their “The PEN” logo for a cleaner, non-pixellated look. I have already been contacted to make their next cover, and I will be posting it as soon as it comes out!
Some “making of” snapshots:
Blast From the Past! Retro 3D Scene
I started what is now the final version of this composition right as soon as Christmas break begun and worked on it for a good week or two before slowing down, and I then left it around for a little while. Actually, I left it around until yesterday; when I decided to promptly finish it. If you look at all of the items in this scene, you may notice that they span across three or so decades. This was pretty much intentional, so no need to worry yourself about that.
I haven’t been posting all to much recently, but I will post things that seem relevant and interesting! I have included progress pictures, as well as a 3D scene that I started a couple of months ago, which I scrapped.
3D Tyrannosaurus Rex
This is actually my third Tyrannosaurus to model in 3D, and there isn’t really anything stopping me from making more… I’ve modeled some fun things, but I seem to always go back to dinosaurs. Hope you enjoy this! This is a work in progress. I think. That doesn’t mean it is finished, nor does it mean that it ever will be! But this site doesn’t get that many views. Maybe nobody will notice! But to you couple people that nag me about putting stuff up: This post is for you!
Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Turntable animation:
