Jeepers. I didn't think it had been a whole season since I put anything in this blog. Well here goes: I just started semester 3 of my MFA so I will have some more work soon. Here are a few images from last semester:

These are some of the sculptures from my figure modeling class. No new 3D or animation stuff this round. I needed to get a few graduate studies courses out of the way first. Actually I lied, here is some 3D stuff. The concept here was to create a vocabulary journal for a post-colonial studies class. My treatment of the project was to create a pseudo-game that used images of other games and toys to represent the meanings of the words. The game box was designed in illustrator and game pieces or cards were printed images of 3D models I made in Maya and textured in Photoshop or Fireworks. I printed all the parts out and glued them to various cardboard bits for the final project.

Boat Progress and SIGGRAPH

Here are some images of the boat in progress. The bottom is on and we are doing the rails in these images.

I have decided to glass all of the seams just to add longevity to the hull, plus my joints aren't perfect.


Big news, I will be going to SIGGRAPH in LA next week and will post a ton of info from the conference here, when I get back.
Happy Boating

Post Script:
Here are a few WIP still shots from my latest Anim project.

Boat Building Underway.

We have begun the boat. You can see the finished boat image (what we are trying to acomplish) in the previous post. The first picture is Xander, Jules and Dad lofting her lines.




I've skipped a bit here but mostly just me swearing and remaking parts. We've got the basics tacked together. There are some distinct spatial difficulties to be encountered here, such as cutting the transom frames and translating the marks of a 2d drawing onto a 3d object, cutting and assembling the parts and realizing you have made two identical parts rather than mirror images as the actual boat would require. We have had to go back and re-make several pieces. But most of the difficult parts are done. Now what's left are the thwarts or seats as those unfamiliar with skiff-building lingo may know them as. The mast and boom might be a little tricky as well. So far we have put about 10 hours into it and expect about 20 more, before we paint and rig it.

"There is nothing so worth while as simply messing about in boats" (I'm sure I have miss quoted that phrase from Wind in the Willows)

For those who are interested here are some tech specs:
LOA = 12'
LAW = 11'
WO = 5'

Materials:
Essentially this has become a lumberyard skiff, since I don't live near a marine supply so gunwales are 1/4 mahogany ply, bottom and Transom is 3/8 pine ply, frames are pine and the thwarts will be red cedar. There is a smattering of white oak such as the stem and the keel.


I will continue to update this post as we go. We are so totally stoked by the progress and expect to see in in the water by the end of July.