today we learnt how to make sky scrapers

since josh did a poster i thought id do one too

games console and my game

yoda's hands

Nothing overly complicated but its Yoda's hands for he is playing the game in my animation, thought id have a concept render of him playing too.

i umm... drifted away from the project for a bit - living room

I started by making the tv for the end scene of my animation, then i drifted off and made a living room, it wont be used for anything, but i thought it looked cool.

the fireplace is supposed to be one of those fake ones thats like, on a screen.

dont pay too much attention to this, it was just a time filler.

3rd alien head - white eyes or black eyes white horns?

Toon shaded

Alien Helmet

My original sketch of the alien helmet i wanted to create...

My pretty much completed helmet (without body)  which took me from 12.30pm till 8.30pm (not including gym which was 4-7)

It was very hard to model but i feel iv'e captured the concept sketch pretty accurately.

Toon shaded - how it will look in my animation

Nas & Damian Marley - Patience

this is the new video for one of my favourite songs of 2010, 'patience' by Nas and Damian Marley. I love the video and its just brought back memories of my summer as i saw them live, which was great. But yea this is the video for it, which looks similar to the 'Power' video by kanye west, a lot of layers overlapping, very arty.

Directed and shot by: www.NABIL.com

Editor: Eric Greenburg

Post/artwork: Gustavo & Clara

Producer: Nabil

add Prod: Kathleen Heffernan

thx: kathleen Heffernan, Marc Antoine, Jodie Smith, Sheku



Damian Marley & Nas are Distant Relatives

Pod racer and character 1 in 2 locations

cartoon textured 1st character

lumpy skin texture man

a quick scene test

I actually like this image, i think its a good concept image of what i want my finished animation to look like, so im happy woop woop.

Also the 'walt disney' signs are purely for their glow effects and to represent street signs, nothing more.

tunnel 1

I made a practice tunnel, more of a base tunnel, just to see how id like it to look, and even though i do like the bricks, i want a more flat/metal look going on, a futuristic feel. It did take 2 minutes to render this frame, mainly because of the lights, so work is needed on that if im going to need more lights.

making my own textures - road

 I couldn't find a road texture in the maps already on MAX, so i made my own road map with a bump map, obviously since the road is mainly flat, the bump map wont affect much, but i think it has caused little road lumps to look a bit better.
You can use it if you like, its all about sharing :)

Normal Road Map

Road Bump Map

lighting test render 1

few things obviously wrong but also some good parts to this, keep in mind its only a lighting test, not an animation test.

1. the texturing of my pod seems to lack depth when there arent any lights.
2. yea my bad, the camera movement messed everything up and you can barely see the lights hitting the textures when it does look good, but if you pause it when the light hits it, thats the look im after.
3. this environment is almost how i would like it to look, it kind of matches the pods texturing in that its not exactly realistic, its got a GTA feel to it, still needs a lot of work but im happy with how the texturing and the lights work, just need the texture to work when in shadows.

side project - z brush man

im learning Z brush on the side, so this is a man im working on, hes not finished but i thought i would show him being created.

creature start

Kind of like a base mesh for a creature, needs a lot more work obviously, but initial design is getting there.
and he has no legs because all my characters are sitting down inside a pod racer, no need.