Environment Designs

These are some ideas for the environment for my modeling project. Trying to get the style of the space and the mood fleshed out a little better.

Term 2 and 3 VFS work

Here are my presentations from term 2 and term 3 at VFS

Term 2 presentation


Term 3 presentation

Term 1 Assignments

I'm finally posting the rest of my assignments from my first term at VFS.

This is a composite of most of my character design assignments. I'm gradually getting better at designing human characters, I think.

These drawings are from the visual storytelling class - one linear composition and one circular one. I was on some kind of rampaging monster kick during that one.

These drawings were to show characters in environments with a sense of depth.

This was for an assignment where we read a couple of pages from a book and then illustrated the scene with three tones.

Happy and sad compositions.

Analogous and complimentary color compositions.

The following videos are of the superhero assignment in my modeling class. We chose a superhero from a list of DC animated series model sheets, then modeled and rigged that character.

Laura Ambrosiano - Batman Turntable from VFS Modeling on Vimeo.

3d89laura Batman Motion Test from VFS Modeling on Vimeo.

Some VFS Assignments - Compositions and Celebrity Head Sculpt

What do zombies and Bill Hader's head have in common? Nothing really other than the fact that they were both VFS assignments.

As an introduction to Zbrush our first modeling assignment was to sculpt a celebrity's head from a sphere. I chose Bill Hader because I thought he had an interesting face with really funny expressions. Once I got used to the wonky camera controls, I really enjoyed Zbrush. Since this is sculpted from a sphere, the topology is pretty gross. It'll be neat to start importing geometry from Maya.




The zombies are from an assignment where we drew the same scene in sedate, alert, and dynamic compositions. It was close to Halloween so the teacher gave the project a Halloween theme.

Random Raptor

I was messing around in Maya one day and just impulsively started modeling a dinosaur head. Eventually it became an entire dinosaur. There's still a fair amount of refining to do on this guy I think, but I think the model is getting close to being done. Since he was something I just started impulsively for the sake of modeling practice, I don't have any particular project in mind for him. I guess I'll just keep messing with him, try to build a rig, and just see how things go.


Yeah, I know everyone and their dog makes velociraptors in Maya, but mine will be the cutest!

Terror Birds and an Angry Tiger

I sketched this terror bird the other day and liked it, so I scanned and put some color down on him. I should do a finished drawing of him at some point.


I saw this photograph and I really liked the expression, so I did a drawing based on it. Then I played around with some acrylic inks and colored pencil.

Some fluffy animals

I went through a couple sketchbooks and scanned the drawings that I liked. Here's a compilation of some of those drawings.
This drawing was requested by my friend Martin. Apparently my friend Caitlyn was telling him about how her family's cat freaks out whenever their puppy pokes her with his nose.