Toonimating

Camping environment

2011-12-22T22:26:00.000-08:00

Here's an environment I've been working on my free time. Wanted to polish up some low polygon skills and texturing (all textures hand-painted).

And here's the wireframe:

Environments!

2011-12-15T23:18:00.000-08:00

Finally got a little break from school! I'll be working on my portfolio, including environments. Here's a snapshot for a little diorama I'm working on...Pretty low poly with just diffuse (no normals, speculars, etc) Obviously, still in the works...Next update will include texture for the floor and other props.

Concept art

2011-12-05T00:26:00.001-08:00

Bunch of pictures developed for my concept art class. Have a look!

Pezco turntable!

2011-10-07T15:17:00.000-07:00

Alien Agressor- Finished

2011-10-02T00:09:00.000-07:00

I'm finished with this sculpt...It was fun while it lasted. I could've done more with this, but this was meant just for concept purposes. I'm posting the original drawing (or thumb) that I drew and a final render!

Story Illustrations

2011-09-28T01:53:00.001-07:00

Zbrush 4R2!

2011-09-25T20:08:00.000-07:00

I love what they did to this thing. The dynamesh feature is awesome, everyone should check it out. Did this for practice.... Not done with it but this is what I got so far :)

Bouncing ball

2011-09-17T16:28:00.001-07:00

A bouncing ball animation!

Wild Animals

2011-07-25T11:20:00.001-07:00

More drawings!

2011-07-06T17:43:00.000-07:00

Here's a character design for a short I'm working with Lapis Lazuli studio:

Agustín

A midget who lives in El Pozo. With a very unfriendly attitude, he manages a small grocery store to which Esteban arrives very puzzled, searching for help.

For more cool stuff, be sure to check out Lapis Lazuli website!

And here's an old painting I did. Never got a chance to upload it:

Sat on a Tack: Final

2011-07-05T22:45:00.000-07:00

Sat on a Tack - Polishing

2011-07-04T12:06:00.000-07:00

Here's another pass. Suggestions welcome, I have a bit more time to work on this before I turn anything in.

Sat on a tack: Blocking

2011-06-17T12:54:00.000-07:00

Here's the blocking! Any suggestions are totally welcome!

Animated Thumbs

2011-06-10T22:21:00.000-07:00

Did some thumbs today for the next animation I'll be working on the next 3 weeks. Made in flash. I'll be posting the progress every week! Next: blocking in maya

Sneaky Thief

2011-06-10T11:13:00.000-07:00

Still in the works, but here's something for the blog!

A Caveman's Christmas

2011-04-26T23:26:00.001-07:00

Here is the final animation render for our short "A Caveman's Christmas" The production was 4 months long. Wish we could have more time to polish stuff, but time's up!
Special thanks to Rodrigo Duenez from Lapis Lazuli studi for helping us with the music and SFX

Created by Marcos Gomes and me... ENJOY!

Untitled from Marcos Gomes on Vimeo.

Final Sculpt renderings!

2011-04-26T22:37:00.000-07:00

Here are the final renderings for both the Royal Hippopotamus Carriage and Pezco the Alien! Both modeled in 3dsMax and sculpted in Zbrush:

Hippopotamus Carriage

2011-04-25T13:26:00.000-07:00

This is the hippo itself finished. Still have to finish the rest of it (carriage). I think it should be done by tomorrow! Here's the turntable:

And this is what i got so far of the carriage: Always critique welcome!

I'll post the finished thing tomorrow!

Hippo progress

2011-04-23T14:23:00.000-07:00

Rendered a turntable. Now with diffuse!

A zbrush update

2011-04-20T03:00:00.000-07:00

Working on a quadruped this time... A Hippo!

I'll continue posting the progress throughout the week!

Animations!

2011-04-15T12:28:00.000-07:00

Pezco render in 3dsMax

2011-03-20T02:34:00.001-07:00

Did the unwrap for my alien character and finally got it into Max for some render tests!

Another zbrush update

2011-02-25T00:02:00.000-08:00

Another update for the alien character. This time I got to sculpt a bit more and color it. This isn't the finished version...But I'll get it done pretty soon!

Pezco Update

2011-02-16T19:19:00.001-08:00

An update of the model I'm doing in zbrush:

More Backgrounds!

2011-02-12T14:09:00.000-08:00

More backgrounds I did for another project (a 2D animation):

Pezco

2011-01-31T00:01:00.001-08:00

Modeling this alien. His name is Pezco and he needs water to breathe in. His best friend is a fish that swims in his helmet. Both have great adventures!!!!

This is the basic mesh I did in 3ds max and maya:

I'll be working on the mesh a bit more and then bring it in to Zbrush. We'll see how it goes! D:

Demb and the Bird

2010-12-13T18:19:00.000-08:00

Final render: "Demb and the Bird"

It's a short SHORT, so don't expect too much of a interesting and deep story :P

Caveman's Christmas

2010-12-10T23:35:00.001-08:00

Look and feel for the next animation I'll work next year.

Sketches

2010-11-29T00:06:00.000-08:00

Some practicing...

Cityscape

2010-11-23T18:30:00.000-08:00

It's a weird city....

A Caveman's Christmas

2010-11-22T19:31:00.001-08:00

A storyboard, for christmas!

Aztec City

2010-11-20T21:57:00.000-08:00

Aztec City

This is for Moehrle's class again (yeah, dedicated this week for BG class) It's a "look and feel" for my Projects class.

Medieval house

2010-11-19T22:33:00.000-08:00

For Peter Moehrle's class. It's a medieval house...

3D Continued

2010-11-16T00:13:00.001-08:00

This is still in the process....Lots of wrong stuff going on,
but i guess it is fun to post stuff in process. Here it is:

Trees and some backgrounds

2010-11-14T14:40:00.000-08:00

A background for a class @ DigiPen for Peter Moehrle's class. It's inspired on Bladerunner.

Experimenting with brushes on some thumbs for future backgrounds.

One point perspective.

Two Point perspective...

Some tree sketches.

Storyboarding!

2010-11-09T15:50:00.001-08:00

This is an assignment. We had to make up a story with two miners that are stuck in a mine. So here's my take:

Yeah. Sorry if that was not mature enough for you guys :P

INSIDE the well

2010-11-03T00:19:00.001-07:00

This is the thumb from the storyboard for the project with Lazuli Studio. I had to make another BG.

Adding details to the foreground and changing some color and tone.

Fixing more, added grass and stuff...

Final Background ready for production! :D

This one is a shot at the bottom of the well. No process for this one...It's pretty boring. There is going to have water (it's a well after all), but it's going to be traditionally animated.

This one is a shot for the store (one that it's some posts below).

The character is going to get something from the bottom of the counter, and the camera is going to pan up. The thing is in the middle of the bottles...It's not there because it's going to be animated.

Another shot.

And that's all for today! I still have to work on a bunch more. =D

More backgrounds!

2010-11-02T21:06:00.000-07:00

So all this batch is backgrounds done for an animation project I'm working with Lazuli studio:This one looks very plane by itself....but it is for an animation (a layer) so it had to be done this way...Final

A store...It had to look "old" and from a small town.This is the final version.A test showing the character in the background.

Painting!

2010-11-02T20:48:00.000-07:00

Used OpenCanvas 1.1 for this one. It's also done for my Biology class.

Also done for Bio. We were assigned to draw an imaginary creature. So I just went ahead to get dorky and painted a boss from Super Metroid =P
One of my first tries with photoshop... It was done for my photoshop class. I remember that half the time while doing this I didn't know what the hell I was doing but I did learn from it.
This one was made for my job at DigiPen. I work as a production assistant.Just a doodle...A caveman figuring out what the hell what a spoon is for.

The Well

2010-11-02T20:39:00.000-07:00

This is a background I did for a project with Lapis Lazuli studio. It's a well in a desert. Some process:

And finished...

Portraits!

2010-10-31T00:43:00.000-07:00

I usually never post Artist studies because the whole purpose is just to...well study them,..but since this is my first portrait ever done in Photoshop, I guess it's fine this time. The original was made by Menzel.
Then I just started practicing away....I consider myself horrible at doing portraits so i decided to do a lot of em...I think all of these were in the span of two weeks. Used OpenCanvas 1.0 (crappiest version) which....is pretty good. Didn't use layers to force myself pay attention to colors.

I learned a lot doing this exercise...I recommend people to do it!

Alien Interloper

2010-10-31T00:28:00.000-07:00

Hi guys!We were assigned to do a painting for a scene of "Alien Interloper". But I decided just to stick with doing a character design. The character's name is Vera.

Did some thumbs, and decided to do something cartoony.Had some fun doing this.

And this is the final render. Didn't put all of the process cuz that's boring =)

3d animating

2010-10-30T23:31:00.000-07:00

this is my first EVER short made in 3D...so im pretty much completely new to this. It's for my projects class @ DigiPen....Using 3ds max.

Just putting something I've done so far for the short. The guy throws a spear to a bird and hits him...Hope it reads!

OBVIOUSLY this is in the process... So if you see this I would appreciate having any kind of critique!

Jerry

2010-10-29T18:50:00.000-07:00

Another assignment for my character design class. His name is Jerry and he's an engineer.
Roughs...Clean up
Color

Character Design

2010-10-29T18:31:00.000-07:00

Some stuff from my character design class... This is a guy from a tribe, his name is Demb. Enjoy:

Inspired from AMAZON tribes....

This one was the first sketch that was resembling the character... I gave him a goofy/dumb personality giving a dance.Aaaand this is the final Model sheet!

Figure Drawing

2010-10-29T18:15:00.000-07:00

Some stuff done for my Life Drawing and Advance Life Drawing class. First one is a self portrait.

Thanks for watching!

Tone Color and Comp

2010-10-29T17:58:00.000-07:00

From my Tone Color and Composition Class.... It's one of my first EVER paintings, so please don't expect too much from these....

Starting the Blog!

2010-04-14T17:51:00.001-07:00

And with starting would be since posting stuff from my freshman year @ DigiPen....

Here's some traditional animations:

This is my bouncing ball... Well, it's actually a bomb. I like to animate some effects so I went on and animated the smoke.

This is the floursack assignment.... It's jumping over buildings and ends up with a spider...He hates spiders :C

This one is a collab between me and a fellow animator...(Kim Font) We worked on this for 2 weeks I think.