Friday, June 24, 2011

Thursday, May 12, 2011

California Sea Lion

A drawing of a male California sea lion for the Kansas City Zoo. The KC Zoo has full rights to this image.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Compositing Exercise

This was an assignment for the compositing class. I still don't really know much about Nuke, but it seems pretty cool so far.

Friday, April 29, 2011

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.


Thursday, April 28, 2011

Term 2 and 3 VFS work

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

Term 2 presentation


Term 3 presentation

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

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.