Shuffle your feet

If you've been to the beach on the gulf coast that's what they tell you to do so you don't step on a stingray.

Some old stuff

Going through the hard drive finding old work...illo for the American Bar Association, tribune illo for how to build happiness, another trib one for a new reading room at USF and then a compilation of painter illustrations.

Sailfish with a quick texture and pose

Pose shows the morph targets of the dorsal fin lowered and mouth open. Added a few bones to do a simple bend.

What could this be?

A sailfish! This was fun to model. The only tricky part was the big fin on top. I had to model all the spines in order to fold it all down in a morph target.

Back to marine modeling

Here's the latest, a manta ray. I started out just modeling one side and then mirrored it at different points to check the overall shape. To do the mouth interior I split the model again so it was easier to see inside, then mirrored again and welded all the points. I made two morphs, one opens the mouth and the other the gills.

Magazine cover art

3D piece for the American Bar Association's Probate & Property magazine.

Snook bench

The latest in my hand-painted-home-made furniture. The size is 4' long x 2' high. I copied a real old bench we have in a small hallway. It's perfect for piling shoes on the bottom and backpacks on top.

Sinkhole man

I modeled a fun character recently for Riley Animation Studios in Tampa for a commercial on fixing sinkholes. This shows the base model and then the textured render of the model (texturing done by Kevin Riley)
Here's the link to the finished spot http://vimeo.com/39718233. Thanks for the work Kevin!

infographics

From newspaper glory days when they actually had art departments and environmental reporters.

abstract art?

The Peripheral and Autonomic nervous system (with spinal chord)

Column used for an illustration

This was a chance to model a decent column for a story on the crumbling American dream of owning a house and a car. I put a simple house with a picket fence and a car in the garage on the pedestal and then rendered it with a strong perspective camera angle. The lower pieces of the column were displaced and falling away too. Reminder to self... find actual illustration and post.

Sputnik

More shiny metal.