And thats the way the cookie crumbles.

Read it.

3D Turntable – Charlie, the Robot

This post is in reference to my 3D model of Charlie in Maya 2014. I then out him into a turntable.

Reflection Pass

Shadow Pass

Diffuse Pass

Ambient Occlusion Pass

Direct Irradiance Pass

Specular Pass

Chrome Bacll

Master Pas

Shadow

The final rendered video was edited on Adobe After Effects with some addition of match grain.

Texturing Charlie the Robot

After modelling a basic Charlie, I began texturing him. The initial textures were really harsh and and had to be re-done. These are the images of the renders.

Initial head texture

initial track textures

initial chest texture

initial body textures

initial wheel bar texture

initial full body texture

re-modeled eye sockets

re-textured chest

re textured tracks

After finalising the textures for the model. I began messing around with the lighting.

‘CHILD’S PLAY’ KINETIC TEXT DEV POST

A month ago I finished working on a kinetic text animation for my friend’s(‘YONG BUDDHA’) song Child’s Play. I listened to the song and genuinely loved it. Just as I decided to make a kinetic text animation for the song, my friend messaged me, asking if I could do a kinetic text animation for the song. And so I did.

My initial work for the animation, was looking for the “perfect” font. And so these were the fonts I looked into using for the animation:

The font I chose in the end to use in the animation was ‘Kozuka Gothic Pr0n’

I’ll show you the rest of the development process but I never recorded them…. So… Here’s the final video…

You can listen to a snippet and purchase his song on bandcamp on the following link:

http://yongbuddha.bandcamp.com/

WORKING ON SOME 3D – TBC

For a class in college, we were asked to create 3D objects on Maya to animate for a pre-viz and comp class. I wanted to make a 3D model of the Kingdom Key keyblade. I had no references towards working on the 3D object other than my personal knowledge of this fictional object… and the one picture I used as a reference. From my own knowledge and the picture reference I acquired through google search, the image below is what I was able to achieve.

After realising that I had no references, I started working on a different 3D model. The model I chose was Charlie. You know Charlie right? No? Well, if you don’t, you can check out this link:

https://marklunadesigner.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/human-after-all-art-development-ggj2013-teamhumanafterall/

Feeling that I have enough, references (ahem sketches) of Charlie, I decided to work on Charlie instead.

ITLG Young Innovators 2014 – Introduction

This post is to show my process on how I helped developing a 3 minute kinetic/motion graphic animation under a strict deadline (6 days).

There were 2 of us working on this project:
– Mark Luna [me] – Motion Graphics
– Ben Murphy – Illustrations > (click here to see Ben’s work)

I started production on the animation on tuesday afternoon, and finished on wedesday midnight; then I began finalising the video on thursday.

Processes:

– Structuring an appropriate story in an hour or two.
– Coming up with a storyboard in an hour or two, or three.
– Listing all the assets necessary for the animation in an hour.
– Creating/collecting all the assets on the assets list before wednesday morning.
– Developing an extremely rough version of the video by wednesday midnight.
– Finilising the video with the selected audio by thursday.

Right after I finished storyboarding the introduction, I picked out the music. The song is called “Graves” by a band called ‘The Color and Sound’.

This was the result.

Weak Attempt at Redemption

I’ve been on and off with this whole digital art thing for a while now. Lately I’ve been trying to get back into that creative mindset. I recently sat a repeat exam for college; that one exam determines whether I progress further into 2nd year, repeat the entire first year, come back in the 2nd semester to repeat that one subject or drop out.  Needless to say I had to rid my head of worries. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now so the image below is a “cartoonized” image of my main character on DC Universe Online, BanditKidKing. The original image was quite pixelated so I apologize if this looks crap.