revisited...

So I revisited a few old scenes I created a while back. I wanted to try out Maya's fur as well as test out some new displacement methods....

Mudbox sketch

a rainy saturday mudbox sculpt...

Heya fellas, my wonderful wife has put together a website for me.

www.chriswelchart.com

At this stage it'll serve as my "online portfolio", and this blog will be for posting sketches, progress, thoughts, etc. I hope to pick it up the blogging and posting again real soon.

Another medical animation.....

Here's the animation for that screen shot I posted a week or so ago. It's still not finished completely, and super tight deadlines have really prevented me from going all out, but I thought I'd post it anyway. Cheers

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DEMO REEL March 2008!!!

My Demo Reel!! I'm so excited I've finally been able to compile this! Note that the file is about 32 mb and has sound. I always hate sacrificing image and video quality for a super small file, so that's why it's still a bit big. This is a culmination of work from the company I'm at, group projects from BYU and the classes I'm taking right now, and personal work. You'll need QuickTime to view it.

http://www.et.byu.edu/~cew48/DemoReelChrisWelch08.mov

Armadillo environment concept

Environment design for the film...

Armadillo Character Concepts....

Here are some armadillo character concepts for the film. Concepts only!

UPDATE (Mar 10): The Director has decided! We're going with the two sketches here for our final "Deliah" design and final "Roxy" design.

Old Stuff #2

Here are some old boards I did for one of Kelly's classes about 2 years ago.

Old Stuff

It's been too long since I've posted. I've rummaged through some old stuff and found another medical-type illustration I did.

Thymidine Kinase Type 1 Immunostain: An Early and Accurate Diagnostic for Cancer

Alrighty, here's the entire TK1 Animation. Just click the picture below, and it might take a minute to load up.



Keep in mind that this is a super-compressed version and that because of that, the color is all out of whack. I apologize, but it beats waiting for a uncompressed 2.5 GB avi to dowload to your computer. If the pictire doesn't work as a link, try copy and pasting this to your web nav bar, or just click it:

http://www.et.byu.edu/~cew48/tk1.mov

This animation took me about 3 months to complete, and it was a blast. It's a combination of Maya, AfterEffects, Photoshop, RealFlow, Final Cut Apps, and Soundtrack Pro. The shaders were written by me also, as well as a few MEL scripts to get the desired effects. I wolud definetly say that if I was to do it again, I would change tons of things, but I learned so much from it and loved doing it all.

Enjoy!!

ps-here are some more screen shots. These are uncompressed and represent the actual color of the animation.

#2!!

Here's the second medical illustration for Ryans class. I decided to do it in the same style, just a slightly different subject. I wanted to place emphasis on the tension in the muscles.

Medical illustration

Recent work.

medical TK1 animation

This is a screen shot from my medical animation I've been working on for the past few months...

gorilla

3D final assignment

This was my final for our first semester of Maya.

Animals assignment.

I didn't like the slug thing so much, but I thought I'd post it anyway for some critiques.

Silluoette excersise

This was a fun excersise. We started with the silluoette and worked our ways backward till we were able to render out the final drawing.

Sketchbook 2

Here's one more page...

Some Sketchbook pages

Here's some figurative sketches and sketches from life.

Cook Character

Yet another design for Ryan Woodwards character design class.