When an artist begins to model things, usually he ends up staring at his pencil and a blank piece of paper for awhile. As a result of that, I’ve done some examination of my pencil. From examination comes the urge to model this pencil. Among other things, this pencil has faithfully taken through me my… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Artwork
Dice Rendering
I decided to try modelling a ‘complete’ set of rpg gaming dice. I have fun making everything the right size, and bevelling out the edges. This is a rendering of the whole group of dice together. I think the part I like best about the dice models is that I made the materials so well.… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
Automatic Maps
The Spring semester of 2005 I was involved in a contest to design and implement a program that used the unique data infrastructure of the Siebel Center for Computer Science to provide some service to the department community. I chose to use the touch-panel information panels around the building to provide mapping and directory information… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
LEGO Modelling
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
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