started modelling a toilet. YES

for a personal project. Here's the first test render of a quick chrome texture i made just to see if the geometry was disruptive in the reflections.

final fruitbowl... for now

and this is the render i finished for the semester. still a little flat in lighting but it'll have to do right now.

take it easy,
Mike

exercise in texturing

Ahoy, I've been doing my first assignment in learning texturing and here's a quick render from working a bit on the cherries.

So far it's been pretty fun.

Mike

downtown

heya. here's something that's been keeping me busy this past week amongst learning as much as I can in maya. A quick concept for a city for a story I've been writing is all it is.

SkyNavy aeroship

Desert Hoppers

I've been having quite a few things on my mind these days, and my imagination has been bearing some pleasant epiphanies.
I've taken some old photos of the Canadian Ram from the web, and i've superimposed my own impressions for the browncoat hopper. The engines are now under the sponson, and the landing struts are actually encasing the lower half of the engines. the actual gear is somewhere in between the engine and the main hull, and would extend when the engines are deployed in flight configuration away from the hull.

Desert Hoppers

After consulting with Mike for some ideas and his impressions, I've made the following refinements and added a figure and some colour. It's not final, but it's looking good in its own right I think.. made the cockpit bigger. added a few more decals.


I was walking about today and for some reason I started thinking about Firefly, and how Alan Tudyk had imagined perhaps Wash was a Browncoat transport pilot that got shot down and became a POW at the outset of the war. I have also been reading up on this link about famous canadian military vehicles over the past century, as well as tales of the Chinese soldiers during the dynasty and cold-war eras.
And that's all I'm going to say about what I have got in mind..