the MADRE show

My troupe, Bastet, had a Belly Dance for Change event for MADRE. I designed the flyer and post card above. This was a fun project. I used bright, bold colors like the MADRE website.
It was a great show. Scott Wilson performed, and Kelly Ann danced to him. Bobby played his bazzouki, Ray Ray recited some poetry, and Pacita danced.

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

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: