Common Art Week 1 - Use of Basic Shapes

 

These are my 3 creature designs for a circle, square, and triangle - I drew them left to right, and my style changed quite a bit by the time I got to the third one, so I considered re-doing the frog creature, but the new one didn't look quite right so I stuck with the original.  I tried a lot of new things with this assignment in terms of brushes, lines and shading, and overall style, so it looks very different from anything I've ever drawn which is pretty neat.

Animation Week 1 - Moving Objects in Maya

 

A soccer ball becomes sentient and rockets into the sky, startling the resident chair ^_^

[ball and chair models/rigs are not mine]

3D Art Week 1 - Rendering Basic Shapes

I was working on these renders at home, and Maya crashed twice when the grayscale render was almost complete, each time after nearly 6 hours of rendering.  Luckily, the third time was indeed the charm, and the other images were able to render a lot faster (for some reason.)  I played around with modifying the Arnold preset textures for the 2nd and 3rd images, and I really like how they turned out!