Cakes (for fun)

Lately I have been making a lot of cakes, each one slightly more elaborate than the last.
I started simply enough with decorative animal cakes.

Things began to heat up with the cake of the pyramids.

The big deal cake of the year was the marzipan dissection frog cake for a biology teacher friend's birthday.

Around here, the hero animal is the hedgehog. I don't have an explanation of this but it resulted in this life size hedgehog cake for Juliette's birthday.

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.