A Mahi Mahi

This is a character I modeled based on a previous design.

Two Seconds of Beach

I'm a student at AnimSchool, in the Character Animation program. This was the last assignment I had to do for my first class. I thought it'd be fun to light the scene and render it.

If anybody's been following my posts, they could tell there's a common thing going on. Yes, I want to go to the beach and enjoy some warm weather! This winter's been rough in Chicago...

Island birds

3 minute fish

For some time I've been trying to do a screen capture of me drawing a quick sketch, just for fun. I recently discovered the screen recording feature available on Quicktime, so I packed my stuff, went to a coffee house and this is what came up.





Final result:

A different cover letter

A really good friend of mine reached out to me to help him out with this pretty original idea:
to create a cover letter in a comic/storyboard format. I made 10 different slides for him and these are my favorite ones.

I hope this helps him get the amazing job he deserves!

Freddie Freddy

This one is an oldie, but I really like how it turned out. Limited palette helps you find new ways to apply color.

Doodles on a plane

Going to the West Coast for the long weekend! Nothing like my sketchbook to keep me busy during the flight.

Sketchbook Scans

Kitty is not impressed

T&D

Whatever

Last weekend we had Lollapalooza. These were multiplied by the hundreds.

New brushes!

Speaking of aliens...

I was going through some of my old folders and I found this illo that I did a while back. At the time I was a little obsessed with the Ancient Aliens series, where they usually mentioned that humans were the result of aliens and primitive homo sapiens getting frisky. This is how I think they started seeing each other...

Crystal Planet: a work in progress

I've been playing around with the idea of a blue planet made of rock crystals. I did a 2D mockup at first in Photoshop, to get an idea of what I want, and then I started modeling it and adding textures.

It's still a work in progress, but here's what I have so far...

2D mock up

3D design (work in progress)

A nerd's heart is in the outer space

I have been doing some new stuff in the last 4 months, which has me pretty excited. I finally picked up 3D animation for good and I am thrilled to have a very mini short movie in the works.

There will be aliens, and spaceships, and planets, and nebulas, and stars, and even maybe dark matter...who knows!

I've always been fascinated by the shapes, lighting and colors found in deep space. A few days ago I went to the Adler Planetarium to watch a couple of shows for inspiration. Highly recommendable!

Anyways, here are a couple of screens as a sneak peak.