Project Midway

These are some of the pieces I worked on for "Project Midway." The premise for the project was a universe in which mechs existed in WWII and were used for various jobs, like battle mechs, medical mechs, etc. I designed a fire-fighting mech that would be functional on both aircraft carriers and the jungle.

The Phantom Gondola

For the Fall semester of BFA the class did adaptations of Selma Lagerlof's Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness. We were each randomly assigned times and places to adapt the story to. I was very excited to get Venice in 1486 because I've been to Venice several times and I absolutely love it! It's a beautiful place, and it can also be a bit creepy at night, which was perfect for this project!

Here's the final trailer featuring my paintings turned into scenes with special effects, weather, and parallax. The goal was to create a teaser-trailer for a movie.

Here are some sketchbook lighting studies from life I did for the project. I mostly used candle light so that I could learn to replicate night lighting in a pre-electric era.

This is a closeup of Death's gondolier. She drives the gondola and collects the souls of the dead for Death. She wears red and controls a cloud of mosquitoes because she is the personification of malaria. Malaria was a problem in the swampy lagoon of fifteenth century Venice.

First Post!

I'm beginning this blog with a sampling of my previous work so that I can see my improvement over time.

The following five pages are from an assignment where we needed to combine a set (like the Greek gods or the seven deadly sins) with a theme or time period (like Old Western cowboys or circus performers) and design realistic characters, a prop, and a setting for them to fit into. I chose to do five of the Egyptian Gods as gangsters and flapper girls in the 1920's. After the realistic characters were done, we picked one or more famous artists and recreated our characters inspired their style.

 

 Here are some of my favorite sketchbook location studies. Most of these were done in different parts of Italy.

 Here are some figure drawing short and long poses.

I love to go to zoos, aquariums, local farms and natural history museums to draw animals from life. Here are a few examples of my animal studies.

The line of giraffes at the bottom of this page are keyframes from a giraffe walk cycle animated from video reference. Drawing giraffes is always a pleasure; they alternate between being graceful and goofy all the time.

All the parts of this flare gun were modeled and textured separately so that the gun could be taken apart and assembled. Creating a texture with a lot of wear and tear was particularly fun.

Here's my take on Mermaid Lagoon from J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy.

The same lagoon at night.