Have fun!

This is mainly for you guys who don't know about my personal art. Plus, I thought I would mix it up a bit and post something other than thesis work (but I am still working on that of course, you better believe it!). Here are some artworks I've done in 2007 and some now in 2008. You can find these artworks and others I've done on my deviantart page here: gingashi.deviantart.com













Lemme know what you think~ I hope you guys like it!

...to a theater near you!

Today was the submission deadline for thesis poster images. You were allowed to submit as many as you wanted for consideration, and even make images for postcards- but I put all my time into this one poster. I hope that it will be selected- if so, there will be a huge glossy poster in the SVA Computer Art building on one of the walls... so wish me luck!

This image makes me really happy, and I'm so pleased with how things came out... it's like, a symbol that I've accomplished something big so far... but of course, I've still got a long ways to go in this short time left. I want to see these guys moving on screen and beyond these still images in their final renders already!

HENSHIN!

Read

Yay. This is my first test render shot (just this single frame for now) that has this degree of finish with a completed background and completed character with completed animation all here. It's pretty much a shot that could be rendered out completely if not for the constant revisions that can always be made to things. It's just a test after all... doesn't feel super final or concrete but it's getting there.

A note on the books: I don't know who made those beautiful book spines but I give them credit for their wonderfulness... Those are taken from various stock images which I then adjusted as needed to fit my thesis' look and colors, and then applied to the polys... but for the most part they are intact from how the look in the original photos. And there you go- some kind of magic trick revealed... I guess??? (I just needed to say that because I'd feel a bit guilty if people thought I painted those one by one... oh no nooo....)

Keep working hard everyone we can do it. I really hope you like the look of this shot.

Thesis Love

This is for you guys. Let's work our hardest and our best in these final months. We can do it!

Edit: note this is a picture featuring Will Clark's thesis character "Warren", David Han's alien, and my character "Read".

-Eric!

catch the 3:10

today's lil' bit of progress. :) I hope the train station makes a cool impression with the graffiti.

ants in pants in rants

Working better and better as the mind sharpens towards the goal... blurry, but getting clearer. Concentration... need to level up in that. The age old battle between what one feels like doing (drawing cartoons) and what one should be doing (thesis) has been at it again but I will try my best to prioritize. After a better and slightly longer work day than yesterday, I ended it with a doodle (well, I need that outlet right?). The convoluted background is a slightly more updated render with shop signs! Don't mind my doodles all over the picture... I was actually trying out to see what colors and additional models/elements may be needed, like giant satellite dishes!... ???

p.s.- I still think some sort of 2d animation elements would be amazing for this thesis. But that's just a whiff of a thought- gotta focus on my 3d right now!

To arms!

Are you guys getting tired of my dolled up renders? I kind of am. With not so much as two months still left for thesis I am working on getting shaders and textures done so I can render the front animation portions while still being able to move forward with the animations. Since I am focusing on the environment for the time being I still won't show any animations yet- but I thank you guys who did get to see what I have in the labs and whom all gave kind feedback and constructive input! I am pretty much done with the animation of the civillian side of things (the whole intro being their everyday-sides first)- so it's up to the heroe-sides to finish the job now. Just Keith is left to be finished with blendshapes and weighting then the whole team is golden. And... an egg... one vicious alien-laser-spewing-egg is looming over me. After I complete the environment's textures I'll finish up the characters' textures too... gotta get to some test renders quick to debug if need be.

Anyhow- up there are three more further developed concept/renders to close in on just how exactly I want this intangible-amorphous thing to finally look. But- as we all know, the word "final" is nowhere near these images either, but it's certainly more than the starters I had when I first made this blog! Cheers to progress~ of any kind, big and small! Since these were just mock ups, I just used old renders of the characters and so those are not the latest of the models (sorry). Only the town is updated there.

Winter break was lovely- oh so lovely, but no more. To arms brothers~ let's go slay some monster theses! ("thesis" in plural form, I have just learned from dictionary.com, is "theses"... but I still like to blurt out thesisisiss or thesiIIiiii...)

-later all, lemme know what you think of the LOOK! W.I.P. look mind you~