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Senior Film

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I was advised that my film should definitely see the light of day. :)  This final render is thanks to the 3D teachers in my department. Without them, this would never be possible.

Senior Film Rough Cut

Senior Film Rough Cut 

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This is a rough cut for my senior film. I will be adding a bomb drop and a nuclear explosion this weekend, and it will all be compiled in Nuke so I can get some more experience with that. Some scenes with their textures missing or just messed up are being re-rendered right now.

Sound will be added by Monday as well, and I am going to work on that within the next few hours. :)

You'll never take a shower again...

because this hand will take you away to a land of Torture and Madness!

Creepy Hand Video

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;)


Rendered with Mental Ray, made in Maya, match-moved in Syntheyes.

Zombie Girl Sculpt

My Film

Just a screen shot of the poster for my film. Coming soon!

Vulture again

This is the wing, updated. There are so many problems with this (such as the bottom part of the wing, you can see bits and pieces of the feathers on the bottom but not the whole thing). I would like to redo this completely and change my approach, but at the moment I don't have time for that. At least I got the wing to look as I originally intended.

Update

Senior project lighting tests. The girls are rigged and being animated at the moment, where they are fully clothed and texture. Once I put it all together any color correction will be done in post.

ZombieGirl

She doesn't have a real name yet, but she is the counterpart to a previous character. The story for both then, is that chickens and roosters come down with a new type of rabies. It causes them to go crazy and attack all those in sight. Unfortunately, when they attack humans, they contract this disease. Thus, it becomes an obscure zombie apocalypse that involves chickens, roosters, and humans. And possibly other animals. She is fairly decent with knives to protect herself, but she really enjoys explosives. I liked her with big poofy pigtails, but I thought it'd be neat to put her hair in a bun with pins that are bones, referencing the skull and crossbones. So maybe she'll just get bored and put her hair in different styles. :D I like that. The hooks on her arm are there so she can pull the pin on the grenades if one hand is also fighting off zombies or crazy chickens with her machete.

The figure with the bird skull helmet is a character I had come up with awhile ago. He used to have a farm with chickens. Now it's left bare and empty due to the breakout.

Both characters need proper names.

Update on Vulture

Some things I need to redo: wings.

V-V-Vulture!

These things are HUGE. I bet some have grown big enough to be mistaken for the Thunderbird. Seeing turkey vultures up close and hearing their wings flap at take-off (and from quite a distance), I can understand why. It's frightening, bizarre, and amazing at the same time.

Also, talons belonging to big birds like these vultures and bigger owls can pierce right through your hand. Just one of those things I don't think about first. I should keep this in mind if I come across a turkey vulture again.


P.S. This is work in progress. I want the feathers to be individual meshes as well, so they can stick off the body and wings. This will bring the wings to their full, proper size.

Gretel Progress

 This is Gretel SO FAR. She's not done. I like her hair though. It wasn't as difficult to do as I thought it would be. And a recap of her sketches...

Peeps for breakfast! (not really)

It's adorable.

Ref:

Source: http://kurashiba.blogspot.com/

Hand - IT WILL TEAR YOUR SOUL APART.

I found these creepy hands and decided to step it up a notch. :)
http://tasastock.deviantart.com/gallery/27167460?offset=24#/d31kjdu

Expression

I can't mimic this expression in real life. Can you?
This was super hard. (I think this is a good disgust face.)
http://basistka.deviantart.com/art/Facial-Expression-142523929

More sketches...

 Gru is very...not trusting of ladies, at least that's what I get from his reaction when he pinky promises Agnes at the ballet studio.

FYI: I can't take drawing anymore cuteness. It's burning a hole in my brain.
Double FYI: The images won't stop bursting in my skull. This is kind of a color test, along with her inventing...weird stuff that I can't think of a logical purpose for at the moment. Her hair is going to be black fading to white for sure though. I think someone should ban me from this movie before I go super crazy with this.

Quick Sculpts and Despicable Me

Despicable Me

These are the concept sketches I did for my character Gretel, along with the research. She is german, spunky, more of a hightech criminal than a 'hold up the bank' type, and pretty ditzy. Unlike Gru, she is more apt to show her emotions. She hears about Gru's amazing feat of stealing the moon, and wanting to know his secrets she decides to befriend him. While frequently visiting him, she becomes close to the girls and finds herself putting off her task more often so she can play with them. She shares a love of unicorns with Agnes, an interest in gross things with Edith, and a desire to learn just like Margo. Gru however, remains skeptical of her at first, but seeing how the girls enjoy her company, he begins to as well.

Here are two sculpts I did quickly, within two hours for the first, and about an hour for the second. I attempted an expression on the second. Still needs more work.

http://twiggxstock.deviantart.com/art/Bewildered-134198881

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Megan Shaw

42076 Baintree Circle

Northville Mi, 48168

Cell: 734-679-8771

Email: cadaverous.doll@gmail.com

Education
     • BFA in 3D Graphics, College for Creative Studies; Detroit, MI May 2011
Skills
    • Can work on own or with team
    • Takes initiative to perform tasks
Computer:
    • ProTools
    • Syntheyes
    • Nuke
    • Zbrush
    • Maya
    • Modeling
    • Texturing
    • Rigging and Animation
 Adobe
    • Illustrator
    • Photoshop
    • Dreamweaver
    • Fireworks
    • Premier
    • After Effects


Employment    • Cashier, Office Depot. Northville, MI 48168 May 2008 - Present
    • Cashier and Stock, Consignment Outlet. Livonia, MI 48154 May 2007-August 2007






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Hands and stuff

STuffs

Awesome Sucker octopus!

I wanted to do something that was flowy and kinda delicate looking. This reminded me of poofy dresses from back in the day so I thought I'd sculpt this guy, but add more layers of its fins to look like those insanely layered victorian dresses or something. MAYBE. maybe. The way the skin is along the tentacles also reminded me of bat wings, and I love bats. :D

Ears! (And a head)

Ears :D I had fun. I got bored with the human ears though.

And undersea creatures. I like my nuclear jelly fish, the squid inspired by the dumbo octopus and nefertiti, and the stingray / sunfish mixture.
First head in zbrush. He has HUGE ears. He reminds me of batboy.