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Made a freighter ship in Maya! I imagine it as a tanker transport that slots the big cylinders into a big ol wall and twists during flight to be more aerodynamic! The big pole that extends is a docking lead, like the ones space capsules use to align when docking. The twisting dynamic was inspired by the B-wing from Star Wars. Took me about 2 days to make! (The size restriction on tumblr gifs is abysmally small)

Finished painting my new skateboard! I love Bobtail Squids so I decided to repaint this still from a @noaasanctuaries expedition video. It took about 8 hours in total, including sanding, priming, painting, sealing, and reassembling. I’m very proud of how this came out, so I Iook forward to doing this again in the future!

Overall, it was a very painful but fun project to do and it has gotten some good remarks from my friends amd family, so I’m more than content. The only problem is that this thing is 1:1 scale to myself and quite heavy, so putting it somewhere out of the way is difficult.

I went into Autodesk Maya and modeled a low-poly lava lamp. I then renddered it out as a vector image. I took that and threw it into a projecting software called MadMapper, which is basically a low level Adobe Aftereffects made specifically for projectors and LED displays. I took the vector, and animated the lines to change color and shake with the music. For the background, I placed a big square of a preset effects material, placed another on top of it in a different color, then cut out a bunch of lines so you could see the other image underneath. This is being projected onto a large garage door, so the lines are synced up with the grating of the door. The lavalamp effects and the movie were done much the same way, just cut away the parts of the image you don’t need.

I can’t wait to put these up on my wall!

I also forgot to put up this! Its the painting I made before the space coral. I’m very proud of this one. I feel that the flicks of black paint worked well to express the tiny holes that cover the coral. I’m also very happy with the depth in this painting, though it could be improved by pushing the shadows a bit harder.

Three more of my paintings from my first painting class. We mostly did stilllifes, which gave me plenty of opportunity to work on my representation of light and shadow.

We had to make a themed spaceship in modeling class for our final project. I decided to base mine on Hess trucks, which I've been collecting since I was little.

A selection of my best work from my figure drawing class I took this semester. I found working with light and shadows to be very entertaining.