Graphic Design

Somehow I've been doing a lot of graphic design work lately. Logos, business cards, posters.
*shrug*
I don't mind it. I enjoy anything creative. And I'm starting to get more creative with type.

And now, for your entertainment, I've posted a few below...



business card for Dwayne (in progress)


Logo for my friend Yankee's Hackers on a Bike


Logo for Bastet, my belly dance troupe

Job hunting and penniless.

Since I don't have a job, I've been filling my time with dance projects and personal art projects. I'm part of 4 dance groups right now-- Bastet (my belly dance troupe), Desert Sin for their upcoming and highly anticipated Twitchers show, Estampas Negras (a latin-fusion group), and Billi Shakes (a singer who I'll be a back up dancer for). It's been great trying out all these very different styles of dance.

My website also needs a revamp. I'm currently still using my Pratt website. Bleh. Needs to be brought into this century and placed with a proper web host.

This is what came of my MEL final-- a teapot creator and customizer. I may put the code up later, but it's very very special.

Haunted Church!

So I have an internship with a company called BreakThrough. They're a human rights activist group, and their US office focuses on immigration and due process issues here. I'm making an animation for them based on the Postville, Iowa raid from almost a year ago. Today I'm creating textures for the church, and got this alsome little render:

the haunted church!!!

This is what I actually have thus far, slightly less spooky version. Still a work in progress (clearly) but I'm pleased with how it's coming along:

To Siggraph we go!

I found out recently that I got accepted to be a student volunteer at Siggraph this year. I did the same last year, and it was probably one of the most amazing experiences of that summer. This year it's being held in New Orleans, which is just a day's drive from Austin. I'm very excited.

done and DONE (or almost done)

Good things happening last week. Senior thesisisisis were turned in on Wednesday. Hooray! It feels so good to be done! I'm very pleased with how it turned out. All I can see anymore, though, are all my mistakes. Ack! But I'm gonna go through and fix up some of them by next week when we turn in all our files to our professor. Just a few small animation tweaks for now. I love the way the renders turned out. It's so flat and painterly looking. If time and inspiration are in my future, I'd like to redo the cat's texture and make that more painterly. But I love how the plants and the yarn balls and the bookshelves turned out.
I won't be putting up the complete animation online for a while, but stills are below.

Screening day is this coming Thursday at 6. I'm very excited to see everyone else's finished projects.

I'm taking a MEL scripting class

global proc shootKellyInHead()
{

$cocksGun = "cocks + gun";
$aims = select -tgl "head"; select -tgl "gun"; aimContrain;
$fires = "pulls + trigger + back";

}
shootKellyInHead;