It's that time of year again where I take a tiny saw and start cutting into the skin of pumpkins.  Here are the final results for this ...

Now that the character Chimi is complete, we are supposed to be lighting an environment and compositing it together.  Typically you will on...

Today I had the wonderful privilege of visiting Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California, thanks to my directed study advisor, Rog...

This week it was my duty to refine the textures, shaders, and hair of the Alex model for my thesis.  There were a lot of technical challeng...

This week we were working on rendering out turntables for our textured models.  Typically, this is where I fail to excel.  When rendering in...

This week was a big shift in duties for my project.  I moved away from modeling and onto shaders, which is where my brain starts to get a l...

This week's assignment was to start with doing hair.  Now, our normal assignment was to use Maya Paint Effects to generate hair, but I ...

This week I started to work more heavily on the tiny details of the Alex model.  I went a little sculpting crazy on the clothing and a few ...

 This ugly little fellow is Ugly Ray, another model that was provided for us.  Our assignment with this was to test out the subsurface scatt...

This week I took another look at the folds on the clothing after getting some honest feedback from my instructors at school.  It wasn't ...