JdMendoza

So this is what we wanna do in our studio

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:25:44 -1000

So this is what we wanna do in our studio

This is an update to my Maya Castle… Added a Topo with...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:18:12 -1000

Castle with Green Wood Topo

Castle with Yellow wood topo

Old Castle

This is an update to my Maya Castle… Added a Topo with Wood grain and an Ocean to simulate Blackwater Bay… Im still working with the lighting effects and hopefully every thing will work out soon.

So this is my recreation of the Red Keep from the Game of...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:24:28 -1000

So this is my recreation of the Red Keep from the Game of Thrones opening screen. I have been playing with animations and rendering in Maya lately. I had forgotten about this preview render I did until I saved a new one but the new ones include topography and ocean for my clockwork castle.

Urban Theatre Retro-ized, taking one of my projects from 3rd...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:16:00 -1000

Urban Theatre Retro-ized, taking one of my projects from 3rd Year Studio and improving the presentation a little bit. Using one of Hogrefe’s tutorials, the goal of the image was to create an isometric image of my building in sketch up… well the Mac Rhino 5 doesn’t support .skp exporting yet :( so I had to make due with a quasi iso-parallel project that rhino sort of gives you. I added a plan of the site and surrounding buildings and overlaid some textures and colors to make it pretty. Cars helped add a bit of life in the 2d plans that made the background.

Day and Night So these two photos are made from a mixture of...

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:31:00 -1000

Day and Night

So these two photos are made from a mixture of Sketchup, Kerkythea, and Photoshop. Since I didn’t think to put all of my guides or line work for my project onto its own layer, I extended the lines via style options in sketch up to re-create the line work. By exporting into the free Kerkythea rendering program (available on Mac too) directly from sketchup, I created a clay model which I later super imposed the line work, colors, and effects that made the image. Inspired by Hogrefe’s blog, this is my first attempt at doing such an image. It can only get better with practice.

This is me playing in Twinmotion. Two hours in without any...

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:34:26 -1000

This is me playing in Twinmotion. Two hours in without any tutorials except how to navigate. Then the program stopped responding…. :( oh well, till next time

This is my world for my Grand Marais Minnesota house on...

Fri, 11 May 2012 23:58:25 -1000

This is my world for my Grand Marais Minnesota house on Greenwood Lake. Using the Unity gaming engine, I tried to load in a 3d Max file unsuccessfully, however I was able to edit the model in unity to an acceptable level. Big lesson learned… CLEAN UP YOUR RHINO MODELS. Also putting things like carpet and interior walls on separate layers would be helpful considering that the materiality of the building applies to objects rather than surfaces. I added background music through the general unity settings (pretty easy), snow FX, smoke, flames, and fog to blur the edges of the world. it also helps cut down on the rigidity of the foliage generated in the distance. I’ll try to link the fileshare link soon, its only 65MB compressed.

Barcelona Fun: This was a practice photo Park had us do before...

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:41:33 -1000

Barcelona Fun: This was a practice photo Park had us do before portfolio. I took it a bit further. I added the texture with a layer mask, vignetted it, burned some shadows, added text about gringos from Barcelona, and added the ghosted scale figures.

My first portfolio…. don’t mind the cover page, its...

Fri, 04 May 2012 14:06:02 -1000

My first portfolio…. don’t mind the cover page, its just a filler, never used on the real one

HEY ARNOLD!!!

Fri, 04 May 2012 14:00:25 -1000

HEY ARNOLD!!!

so i was playing with photoshop and watching tutorials made by...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:15:25 -1000

Playing with layers to form a sketch

Adding grass into a render

so i was playing with photoshop and watching tutorials made by Alex Hogrefe… pretty fun quick stuff… once you get it down at least. Above I have attempted to turn a sketch up model into a sketch type of drawing and the second one is an attempt to add grass.

oh wait… theres the zombies…. can you find them? :)

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:45:56 -1000

oh wait… theres the zombies…. can you find them? :)

Ok so this is my attempt at creating a world in unity. I...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:40:31 -1000

Ok so this is my attempt at creating a world in unity. I imagined a world with fields and mountains for a park visitor center that i designed when i attended UTSA. The world is very large. I created my own trees, worked with skybox in both ways to create one, lens flares, import in 3ds files, grass and water textures. I also used an asset to create a road going through the site. Sorry Tristan… no zombies… yet… was in the process of making them when my computer decided to go all whack. :P

My Garden of Forking Paths was inspired by the ever repeating...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:29:00 -1000

Inside the path

My Garden of Forking Paths was inspired by the ever repeating coil of life. Within the coil are the heart shaped spaces which collide into one another, linking their arteries together and forming the path through life.

My iteration of the Library of Babel, a claustrophobic infinity...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:24:49 -1000

My iteration of the Library of Babel, a claustrophobic infinity of spaces in which people are driven mad by the endless search for the book that hold the secret to life.

yey for reversing the building into concept form!

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:55:47 -1000

yey for reversing the building into concept form!

Photo

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:32:00 -1000

This is my first attempt at a night effect… After watching...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:14:47 -1000

This is my first attempt at a night effect… After watching a Hogrefe video the Palagi posted, I decided to just play around with a render of one of my older projects. Very simple execution really. Adjust hue/sat, levels, copy background, new layer (fill yellow, opacity low), and start erasing the top layer down for light to come through… Could have used a mask to subtract out the night scene.

Exercise: Fold It! In this image perspective, I have chosen to...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:58:48 -1000

Exercise: Fold It!

In this image perspective, I have chosen to make a site out of the folded paper in which to place a concept for an antenna relay station.

YEY got the bridge pulled out by editing the layer mask…....

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:02:45 -1000

YEY got the bridge pulled out by editing the layer mask…. painting it out instead of trying to cut out the drum… SO much easier :) thanks Palagi