Mario Gif

This is my first attempt at making a gif, it is just a Mario that I pixelated and colored.
The gif just cycles through the different clothing colors I made.

We also watched a video about maya being used for concept development. I wasn't watching it a lot but I thought it was cool that he made a car in under an hour...

mMaya artistic render

Here is my artistic render / photoshop piece for mMaya.

I used the earth in the middle to show that earth is just like an atom. it is just one planet out of millions. Just as millions of atoms make up a molecule, millions of planets make up the universe.
There is no more significance in earth then there is in an atom when it comes down to it.
However, since we always see ourselves as the center of everything, I put the earth in the middle. This is to show that although we really are just a spec in the universe, we think ourselves to be more important.

Missing projects

These are in my blog but are marked as missing in the gradebook.

-Scholastic Research:
http://killian-s.blogspot.com/2013/02/schoolastic-art-award-pieces.html

-nCloth Experiment:
Wednesday February 20

-Shapeways
http://killian-s.blogspot.com/2013/03/shapeways.html

-Screwdriver Final renders:
http://killian-s.blogspot.com/2013/02/13113.html

3D tribal art and photoshop

I tried making a wolf based off a tribal tattoo.

This is the render in maya.

I used chrome to render it just as a white because it gave a good shading without having to adjust much of anything.

I then took this into photoshop and made these:

I liked both with the wolf as well as just the outline so I kept both.

This piece actually has thought in it.

The wolf represents individuality, a "lone wolf".
The rose represents love.
The wolf "ember" that is coming out next to the rose represents losing a piece of yourself when you are in love.
The rest is open to interpretation, but there were reasons I put them all in.

4/15 - Glass

Today I was looking at some tutorials and I found this one - Caustics. It talked about Rendering a photo-real glass with Maya, using caustics.

This was my result from the tutorial:

I then used some textures of my own and some bump mapping for the rest of the scene.

Shapeways

This is an interesting site. It makes me want to come up with some simple designs that would work as something else if it was printed.
Something simple maybe like salt and pepper shakers or a phone case.

It would just be hard to get the dimensions right but after that there is so much you can do.