New WORK!

Howdy. I have been busy with getting my reel actually completed... It's coming along pretty well. I've hit a few walls in the past week or so and I have 4 assets going at the moment. I want to post my progress but I don't want to showing anything 1/2 finished... With that being said I DO wish to share THIS piece because Elise has been helping me greatly on it! Look at the grungy texture job on the poster! She also modeled the character in the scene! She's amazing I love her! Anyways have a look at the preview render below. Textures on the character are not connected yet!

I added a bit of DOF to it. The artifacting will be cleaned up in post with proper layering!

HorsePOOP!

Check this out. I finished the poker table project... It's not really finished I don't just want to work on it cause it's crappy lighting, terrible filming and ugly composition. So whammy right?

The past 8 months....

Hmmm well it's been a while and there's just too much to go through so I'll give you the highlight reel.

Had a job with Turbosquid.com as a support agent for the most part of last year. It was a pretty good job with quite a few people I will never forget. Good times indeed but of course it wasn't in film... So I had to get back to working on my reel. I Was doing small little things here and there like the ones you see on earlier blog posts when an opportunity presented itself. A coworker's brother was opening a studio down here in Louisiana and I had to be involved. Make things short I got the job and have been at this new VFX company since late November early December. It's called Bayou FX and it's definitely what I was looking for. Unfortunately I can't show any final pieces of work but I have been given permission to show how I got it done via my NUKE scripts. Soooooooo yeah... that's all... Long story right?

New stuff part 3......

So here is the final for the project I was working on in the last 2 posts.

I know I initially wanted to have a good composition but I'd have to roto/paint out all of the cables, tripods and window reflections to achieve that. The footage was initially shot as a test so I didn't take that information into account and I should have. I think the composite came out well though so not all negatives right?

New Stuff Part 2...

I've decided to put up a fill frame for you guys to get a more clear idea on what I am working on exactly. Short post I know but its Part 2... When has there ever been a good sequel?

Frame 57 now with playing card and specular highlights... yay...

New stuff...

I have been working on a bunch of new stuff all compositing related. I know its been a while since I've posted but hey who reads this crap anyway right? So the goal is to get some new animated stuff out there composited with live action footage shot with the EX1. I've got some filming planned out at an industrial site where a bridge near by was built years ago and I have some shots I've done in the house just for simple things. I'll post a little render on what I'm working but no composites yet... Don't wanna ruin the fun too too much... Anyways take a look below.

Just the CG plate ;) no footage comped for this post. Probably next time though!

HDRI stuff...

YES! I have something to post about... I've been working on a few HDRI studio domes for a friend back at school and I made a few different ones. He needed something to use to show off his car models and I figured I could help him out a bit. They're not completely finished but the renders aren't going to change much with the test scene I created so I'll just post the renders made with them below. I'll probably share the HDRI's as well. Just ask for them.