Author: Kyria

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No matter what I did, the blood wouldn’t become reflective. Other things were reflective but the blood simply refused!

If you know some way to fix this, let me know!

This is Jingles the cat.

He is incredibly late due to several files being corrupted and lost by Maya, coupled with my incredible lack of skill and inability to reliably move models between Maya and ZBrush, meaning the colors on him now are individually selected faces with different materials, done entirely in Maya.

Despite sinking probably 9 or so hours into this project, he is merely Blinn material. I also can’t render him well, as it seems every time I try to introduce light into the scene, something gets corrupted. Thankfully, I learned that Maya can be told to incrementally save projects, so whenever this happened I had a backup to work off of.

If anyone can remedy the lighting problem/teach me how to add a more fur-like texture (without losing the coloring I’ve already done) please, please let me know.

On the other hand, I am very pleased with how his mouth and ear detail came out.

This is Jingles, the killer cat – complete with blood on her front paws. I also drew the victim.

 

This took an unbearably long time due to my own inexperience, issues with Maya, and my inability to get this to render. But alas, here it is:

It is difficult to see, but my six items are:

• Bed with Pillow and Mattress
• Ball of Yarn
• Rug with blood and pawprints
• Desk with glass of water
• Window with curtain-bar and shades
• Open door

The rendering is pretty awful, so the viewer is unable to see many details, such as indents in the door and support-boards underneath the desk.

You wake with an uneasy feeling.

Turning your head to the left, you spot a small, bloody body on the floor.

You survey it for a while. It does not breathe.

Small bloody footprints lead to and from it, almost as if it was left on your rug on purpose.

Almost as if it were a gift.

You look for other clues. The cup of water on your desk is significantly more empty than you thought it was yesterday.

A ball of yarn from your knitting kit has suspiciously become unraveled on the floor.

The blankets on your bed have taken on an unusual shape, almost as if something had joined you there last night…

Suddenly, a shadow creeps in from the doorway.

 

 

Jingles.

Here is my robot. I am brand new to Maya so it is very simple, even though it took me nearly 2 hours to make. I tried and tried to render it so the black-colored items had shadows (like they do in the render window) but no matter what, when I save it to JPG they are pitch black 🙁

For my image I wanted to showcase my interest in computer science and game design. Using double exposure, I placed a photo of a landscape I adore (I use that exact photo for a background, actually) into my head. I placed a photo of some random code in the background to try to give the illusion that upon crossing over my head, it becomes the landscape. To further this illusion i used another image to make it seem like the code is becoming pixelated and taking shape around my head. Then I added a border of clouds to complement the clouds within the landscape as well as shroud over the code, perhaps to symbolize that I am not very good at coding just yet.

Images Used:

Clouds – https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cvn5vkgUEAM32lL.jpg

Pixel pattern – https://s3.amazonaws.com/spoonflower/public/design_thumbnails/0317/6851/rrRainbow_Pixel_Pattern_shop_preview.png

Landscape – http://wallpul.info/i/2016/12/wallpapers-wallpaper-4k-4k-wallpapers-6-hd-wallpapers-ultra-hd-wallpapers-computer-backgrounds.jpg

Code – http://canacopegdl.com/images/code/code-15.jpg

Entropy:

Obesity:

Escape:

This is my lovely cat Whiskers – I was very inspired by the WPAP Portrait examples given, and tried to recreate some of the effects with a non-human subject. This is the result:

The most difficult part for me (by far) was getting the blocks of colors to look nice and compliment each other. I know absolutely nothing of color theory so I ended up sampling a bunch of colors from a couple WPAP portraits I liked and using those in my own work of art.

This is the source photo. I know her claws are extended, but she is actually attempting to grab my sister’s hand (she is the one taking the photo for me) in order to coerce additional petting. Her right eye is cloudy because she is blind in that eye.