Banished

New character

2008-06-01T18:08:00.000-07:00

Ok, this character is 100% my design. I created him to be the main character in an animation I have planned for the future. I've still gotta bone/rig him, but I'm going to wait until after I get all of the models done up before I even begin to think about that. Click the image for a larger view (1024x768).

Peppermint

2008-04-25T16:07:00.000-07:00

Ok, I'm back to modeling again.

I saw this drawing of a toon girl named Peppermint on http://www.the-blueprints.com/ and just had to model her. This was a great modeling exercise for me as not only did I learn a lot from it, I also now have my own techniques for quick and efficient modeling of mouths and ears ^_^

Lip sync test

2008-03-12T00:32:00.000-07:00

2008-03-09T15:06:00.000-07:00

Got really burnt out working on that locker room, so I decided to do a little toon modeling. Here's the result of about 2 hours worth of work. I turned on silhouette edges, and surface boarders so that the toon lines would show up in the render (didn't feel like cel-shading).

Locker room challenge

2008-02-04T14:28:00.000-08:00

I've entered the latest contest over at spinquad. The challenge is to create a locker room of any sort. The prizes value at around $1,500, so I'm pulling out my A game here. Here is just a couple days work, still have til the end of March to finish ;P

Oh hell yeah!

2008-02-04T14:26:00.000-08:00

Won my first CG texturing challenge ^_^

This is exciting for me because it's actually the first cg challenge I've ever won, out of my six and a half years of learning 3D modeling/animation.

Zbrush 3

2007-11-02T13:52:00.000-07:00

Ok, so now that the Halloween contest is over, I've decided to start learning Zbrush. I have to say, the program is incredibly easy to learn. The picture I have included in this post is a head that I previously modeled in Lightwave, but sculpted using Zbrush. The sculpt didn't take very long, I'd say 30 minutes to an hour (being new to the app, I'm still learning where all the tools are, and what they are).

Scarcity

2007-09-27T15:54:00.001-07:00

My posting on here has been scarce. I've been busy with a lot of things in life, mainly improving my modeling, texturing, lighting, blah blah blah skills. I've entered a mini challenge on http://www.spinquad.com for fun, there's no real prize, just a model to be used in the next big challenge, everybody who enters the challenge gets that model though. The challenge was to model a toolbox and three to ten tools to go inside of it, this image is just a test texture/lighting/render job I did while bored. If you want to see the actual models, go here:
http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19915

The challenge ends on the 30th, I might get some more models done up before then, or not, depending on my mood.

Hello Kitty

2007-09-16T13:33:00.001-07:00

As a modeling exercise to improve my skills, and after much searching,
I decided to model Hello Kitty. This was a very fun character to work on,
and has turned out nicely. In the middle of modeling my version, I found out
about a 3D animation currently in the works, check out their blog, it's very interesting(http://blog.sanriotown.com/3danimation:hellokitty.com). I have to say, I'm finding toon modeling to be very fascinating. :)

Me

2007-01-29T17:02:00.000-08:00

Hello, This is Banished, I also go by another name on computer animation forums; Animasta. I've been teaching myself how to do computer animation since August of 2001. It hasn't been an easy process, but it seems to be working out. On this blog, I will be posting my works; feel free to comment on them.