I’ve been tinkering with digital building blocks. I’ve developed some methods to rapidly do physical simulations on low-resolution variations of these blocks, then program Maya to rapidly replace them with the high-resolution meshes. There is a huge library of very accurate lego models, but they don’t translate well into Maya-usable meshes at this time. My… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
Author Archives: Tony
Artists Dolls
Who says boys don’t play with dolls? For my birthday my parents sent me a pair of wooden artist’s drawing figures. Though I don’t think they knew, I’d been thinking of acquiring some for myself, so it was a really good gift. Also, they make for a very nice, simple digital model. I couldn’t resist… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
Lightsabers!
I went crazy with the glow shaders and made some lightsabers. Most of these were at the request of friends when we were all coming up with lightsaber ideas.… Continue Reading
Teapots!
After searching around and being unable to find a model of the Utah Teapot in Maya format, I decided to build my own from the original dataset. I’ve added a bottom and a rim for the lid to rest on – parts that are famously absent from the original model. They are clearly marked and… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
3-D Pumpkin
For Halloween, and because there’s a local TV commercial with a cheesy 3-d pumpkin on it. I felt challenged to make a better one. I placed the pumpkin off center so this could be used as a desktop wallpaper.… Continue Reading