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.

Satellites at the IRC

So as I mentioned in this post, I acquired a 3D modeling internship at the UMBC Imaging Research Center (IRC). The project that I participated in was a joint effort between IRC and NASA (the Goddard Space Flight Center facility in particular). I made low-poly previsualizations based on the satellites from the NASA Global Precipitation Meausurement (GPM) mission.

I modeled them in Maya and in the next few months they will be textured and rendered by my supervisor, Ryan Zuber.

By the end of the summer they will be part of a short animation on display at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

For scale and detail references, I used publicly available art renderings, schematics, and photographs such as the ones below:

https://directory.eoportal.org/image/image_gallery?img_id=189545&t=1338557852321

http://www.spaceflight101.com/uploads/6/4/0/6/6406961/2481265.jpg?455

http://www.spacemankind.com/images/ms/20091019-dmsp-hr.jpg

New Projects and Internships

Wow! Quite a bit has happened since I last updated:

1) Unfortunately, my game "Conduit" was not chosen to be continued past its prototyping. Despite this, working on the prototype was an excellent experience that provided me with the opportunity to learn level design/editing in Maya and arranging level assets in the Unity game engine.

Instead...I will now be an 3D artist/level designer for the game "Detached", a third-person, action role playing game. "Detached" follows a zombie that awakens in a post-apocalyptic world in which mythical creatures run amok. As your body parts rot off, you must replace them with the appendages of your enemies!

2) Since mid-February, I have been hired as a part-time 3D Artist Intern for UMBC's Imaging Research Center. I am very excited about the work I am doing with them and I am looking forward towards the final product; an informative animation that I will elaborate on once the project is complete.

3) The World War II special effects project, that was a collaboration with a Cinematic Arts student, has been canceled due to the student had problems with acquiring the props and locations for their film and the time constraints that were placed on their project.

4) Due to conflicting commitments, I can no longer continue to be a game artist for KleptoClockers in the Game Developers Club.

 
Here is some of the work-in-progress from "Detached"