Anubis model progress

I've been working on a prop for my team production's animation. It's an Anubis statue, I'm not really proficient in modeling but there's only five of us on the team so we all have to do some modeling. I'm actually a bit surprised that it's overall turning out alright considering how horrendously bad I am at modeling. The backlegs have been giving me issues. I think I may just redo the legs. Hopefully it doesn't come to that though because we're on a pretty tight schedule. Anyway, here's a video of me working on the face it's about 7 minutes long along with some stills.

Anubis model progress from Christa Carpenter on Vimeo.

At this point, if my instructor tells me the backlegs are ok I think I'll take it into Zbrush or Mudbox to do some sculpting.

Light my fire

Another assignment for my 3D visual effects class. We had to do a fire simulation. I think I'll go back and tweek the flame a bit and add more lighting to the torch so it doesn't look so flat. I did this really quick in about 20 minutes or so because I didn't have alot of time the day I was working on it. I haven't turned it in yet so I've still got time to do some noodling about with it!



Also, for my final for my character animation class we have to animate a dance for our chosen rig. I'm gonna do this little 5 second clip I found on youtube. Fun times!

Master copy

My finished master copy of a clip from 9. It was an assignment. As always I'm not completely happy with it. I didn't do the rest of the hand movement at the end and he still looks really stiff but as for the overall finished product I'm ok with it.



Here's the clip I was supposed to copy.

Salesman Pete

My 3D visual effects teacher showed us this awesome animated short the other day. I thought I'd share it. I love the fact that it's so stylized and it has an almost seamless blend of 2D and 3D. Check it out.

Salesman Pete from Salesman Pete on Vimeo.

Storm's a brewin'

An assignment for my 3D visual Effects class. We had to create a storm with lightning. I'm not completely happy with it I couldn't get the rain to look right it looks more like snow. The clouds came out decent and the water as well. The lightning could use some work too though.

futuristic venus of willendorf

So I've been planning some illustrations for my demo reel and my website whenever I get around to making it. I wanted to make some really dramatically different illustrations to show that i don't just draw anime characters. I can do other styles and looks too.

The first one is something of a futuristic piece...I'm not quite sure how to describe it but while I was drawing it Fritz Lang's Metropolis and The Venus of Willendorf kept popping into my head so i guess if you mash those two together you'll get something like this:



It's still in the rough stages I'm still trying to decide what I want to do for the background and I may change the dog statues later on.

Art Mafia logos

The animation club at my school just started up and we needed a logo for future merch like shirts or buttons and such so a group of us were assigned to do some designs. Here are my rough logos



From our roughs the entire club voted which one they liked the best and on my pages they liked the cards they best. I personally really dislike the cards my favorite is the very first one in the top left corner, but anyway the president of the club wanted us to clean up the chosen design for the next meeting and from the cleaned up logos the rest will vote which they like the best. Here's my cleaned up version



And one with my favorite logo...because I wanted that one more lol and also because the blank space was driving me crazy. Maybe it's the joker card of the deck heh.