Tiffany Chu at Gnomon

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0o2Rw New project! 

Hey! Wrote a small feature for Sketchfab’s Artist spotlight. Take a look :)

belatedly discovered Sketchfab has a turntable option for embeded viewer. I’m a smart cookie.

Hustled over break to make a small diorama for the Blizzard Student Art Contest. Lots of amazing entries. Nothing sculpted, just good old-fashion hand painting :)

In other news...can’t believe demo reel is next term. Time flies

Trying to learn some hand-painting on my own! It was really fun to go back to my illustrative roots. Can’t wait to do more of this hopefully, over break :)

Made an ice-cream material for the Allegorithmic Procedural Material Contest. The flavor parameters are mint or traditional cookies & cream. The most difficult part was getting flaky texture of the cream. It was a good personal project and I learned a lot about Substance Designer through it! https://share.allegorithmic.com/libraries/990

Hey, I think it’s finally done! Learned a lot with this project, given the extra time to work on all the areas that needed attention. Added a cat I scuplted and “furred” quickly in Zbrush, then compted in Nuke with some help. Definitely improved my understanding in all the areas: lighting, Vray, Nuke, and texturing in general.

Here’s my derp face being excited to see some LCS stuff in the lobby area!

Still adding things slowly in my spare time. Trying to decide if I should bake it down into a low-poly games environment!

Some cool news: we had Riot’s lead VFX artist Christina Wun, Jason Keyser, and senior VFX artist Jin Yang (who also teaches the Game VFX class at Gnomon) come to speak at Gnomon for the 2D Skills in 3D VFX — Panel Discussion with Riot Games on Monday. After the panel, I won the raffle prize for a private visit at Riot! Here’s a pic of me with Annie and Tibbers from a previous volunteer event at Riot’s new studio for Liz Cooper Gamers for Good. We were restricted to the main event areas last time so I’m still extremely excited to see the rest of Riot’s new campus and learn more about their VFX team!!

Soldier I was assigned to create in Character Modeling with Mark Dedecker. I feel like I learned a lot on using Zbrush, from my first time doing the creature last term to this project. Just have to remember to UV everything properly in Maya block out before jumping into sculpting. Hope we get to do another character project soon to keep my skills fresh.

A few of my weekly quick head sketches for Character Modeling.

Belated update #3: Tiff visits VRLA (again!) Picked up some cool Leap Motion freebies and tried on a lot of headgear. Seems like many devs are still trying to solve the lag/ motion sickness problem. Highlight was World War Toons by Reload Studios, same demo as in SIGGRAPH but lots of improvements since the first release at the last VRLA. Hoping they will come speak at Gnomon!