Sunken Car

So the goal of this project was to put this car under the ocean for 50 years. Of course, I show it to my Grampa and the first thing he says is, "I don't think this car has been around for 50 years."

lol

figures

This one took me two days to do (would have taken me one if the dear ol' family didn't keep distracting me)

This was a texturing project through and through. The model is the 1976 Chevy Hatch by Pieter Steyn off of Turbo Squid. Background photo taken from istockphoto.com. It was a lot of fun. Did a lot of playing with layered textures and bumps and difuse and transparencies and ambient colors and... well... everything. :-D

So let's start with a brand new car, just off the lot..



Then as we're throwing it into the ocean it's gonna get a few scratches



And it's gonna get rusted and corroded, of course. This is my favorite shot. I love how the light scatters across the hood and the roof.



then green things start to grow on it



And, of course, barnacles and more grossness



and let's see how this beauty looks now



I can't help but feel like my compositing skills could use some room for improvement, but I'm very pleased with how the car turned out. Very gross, very water-logged.

Industrial Light and Magic

Today I visited ILM. I met David Lenihan (who I met at Siggraph) and he showed me around. It was a lot of fun, ILM seems like a, awesome place to work (and I am DEFINETLY gonna be workin on my portfolio to apply there now). There were lots of background paintings on display, some of which were amazing! i loved the Neverland ones. Lots of props from movies and replicas from Star Wars (SO much Star Wars shwag everwhere). We had lunch and talked about movies. It was nice.


I saw clips from their latest movie, Avatar. I'm not so sure about the plot (typical action movie set up with anti-war overtones. Some sort of love-story in the mix), but it looks like the visuals are what's gonna make this one worth seeing