New Addition to My Portfolio! -- Rendered POES 18,19 Satellite

I recently rendered an old model that I created during my internship last year at the IRC.

The low-poly model is the POES 18,19 satellite from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission.

I rendered it in Mental Ray:
- using the blin materials and an aluminum foil source photo for the foil textures
-using the bulletin_bdsf_mirror shader for the instruments
-using specular and normal maps for the Thermal Cylinders
-using the MR Sun and Sky [(no) Background] render option

Summer 2013 Internship --- New Addition to Modeling Portfolio!

For my modeling portfolio, I finally added images of the houses I worked on during my internship.

During this past summer I worked at the IRC (Imaging Research Center) to model historic Baltimore houses for a virtual exhibit about the War of 1812. The exhibit is soon to be put on display by a Maryland historic society.

I modeled them in Maya and based their scale off of the exact measurements from maps and architectural schematics. This project was a lot of fun because of the history involved!  Learning about the significance of each area in Baltimore and the respective houses was fascinating.

In the future, I might decided to texture the buildings and add an environment.

November 1st -- 2D Animation

"November 1st" is a short animation that I created. It follows a boy walking through his neighborhood until something catches his eye.

The boy's cycles were animated on pencil and paper. The character was inked and colored in Photoshop and Illustrator.

The backgrounds were images that consisted of houses, trees, and a street that were modeled in Maya, and a far background matte that was painted in Photoshop.

The foreground elements (pumpkin bag and candy) were created in Illustrator and Photoshop.

 All of the background and foreground elements were then composited in After Effects.

Landscape--Grasslands

This is a mountain range environment cross-section I created by modeling it entirely in Maya and applying textures that were manipulated in Photoshop. I then applied a bump map onto it.