Hermit Crab Ready For Texturing!

My hermit crab is ready for texturing and lighting and rendering! I'm going with Mudbox for texture painting for sure. I'm still not entirely sure how I'm going to get all the prickly parts of the legs done... I'll probably just do a displacement map or something.

Hermit Crab Progress

I'm working on a hermit crab in 3D Modeling class! The shell was really hard to make... I wound up making a small segment, duplicating special it, and then stitching all the segments together by hand. :p So... the crab itself is only some legs right now. I have a lot of work to do on this still... sigh.

I'm thinking about trying Mudbox for texturing this thing. The UVs on the shell aren't pretty, and I don't want to spend a gazillion hours unwrapping those UVs.... o_0

More later.

Puddle! Redux

Ana suggested a few changes. Much credit to her, the painting looks much much better now:




I also played with giving the girl goggles of some sort and a snorkel, but I'm not sure this idea works so well.

Puddle!

I felt like painting (in Photoshop) today. I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out. :)

Little Kiddo

In Penn's SIGGRAPH chapter, we're spending the next few months designing our own little characters in Maya!

I drew a little girl complete with little kid size coat and rubber rain boots:



I don't really have any idea yet of what kind of adventure she'll go on. I'll figure that out as I go along, I suppose. I picked a little kiddo mainly because I love how crazy exaggerated little kids often make their expressions. Just check out the absolutely beautifully animated short Playing with light - Mon ami le robot.

More later!

likimmun.

Ana Kim, Sarah Mun, and I are starting a joint daily photoblog! Each day all three of us upload a photo to the site. We're supposed to try to post recently taken photos, but tapping into our older shots is okay too as long as the shot being posted hasn't been published before. The site is running on a modified version of the Omjii engine.

So every day, three photos by the three of us.

I'm really excited. Why don't you take a look?

Bonus: This is the photo we used for the site teaser:



It's one of my dad's old lenses. :)