A Quick Modeling Demo

A Quick Demo I threw together last night of models I have worked on in the past 3 months

https://vimeo.com/51201904

Jayden Hiatus is Over

Jayden was my college senor film, and was never fully finished. The scope I had back then was a little too big and not defined enough, especially for my very first 3D animation film. So since 2011, I took a break from the project, thought about things to improve, areas where the story and visuals could be strengthen. And now I'm ready to ride the 2nd wind I have for the film.

For the past week I have drawn up new storyboards, and have redesign the dream city to be less ambiguous and abstract. Here is two keyshots: the 1st is of the dream city and the 2nd is of the real word

The next step is for the next one or two weeks to clean up the two main character models in Maya and Zbrush, and add a new more robust curve-based facial rig. The new facial rig will allow for more character performance instead of the limited blendshape only facial setup I was using. Then after that it's onto the pre-viz stage. More is soon to come.

Miami Color Sketches

I usually have my sketchbook on me, I use it to jot down my thoughts or just to capture an idea or visual that I can revisit later. During my time working in Miami, I would sketch while riding the monorail, or on the bus, or at the mall. I recently decided that I wanted to clean up some of this sketches and color them to share. So here are 2 of them, maybe I'll clean up some more later on.

One is on the 119 Route S Bus to the Aventura mall (4th biggest mall in the states, so I had it check it out) The other is at the Aventura mall, I was sketching folks around one of the center the fountains.

MugCrab Work in Progress (part1)

This a project I'm currently working on. The plan is to take this little crab guy that I modeled in Maya and add detail to him in ZBrush. Then, I'll export the normal maps back onto the Maya model. This will be my first time working with ZBrush on a project and the ultimate goal is to use him for a short film I have in mind. Still tune for more progress.

New Site

My new portfolio site is finally done for all to see, it even still has that new site smell.

Check it out: (unless you are already on it of course)
www.whostonyramos.com