My Character Is Naked No Longer

Hurray for clothes! I'd been waiting for months for SVA to get Marvelous Designer for the computer labs, and two weeks ago they finally did! I spent a half a day playing around to learn the interface, and it's such a great program. Since I already know how to sew and make clothing patterns, it was so easy to make the garments I had imagined! After exporting it from MD, I retopo-ed it using Maya and ZBrush so I can do cloth simulations later on. Next up I have to do sculpt in some clothing details in ZBrush for my normal map and start texturing them. What I have in mind is really cool, I can't wait to show you!

Announcing My New Website, ElanaLederman.com!

So this is unrelated to my thesis, but I just want to plug my new website where you can see all of my work! You can find my demo reel, resume, CG work, fine arts work, and photography all in one great place! Just go to ElanaLederman.com to view my work. Thanks!

Environment Images

So I realized that I never actually posted any images of my environments. The interior models are courtesy of the talented Arnald Andujar, while I have been modeling the outdoors (which is not complete yet and will have a cool overgrown garden). I'm starting the textures this week so pretty soon these will come to life!

Ash Particle Test Render

Just started doing test renders for my ash effect. I think I'm going to copy some geometry on there to add variation, but it's starting to really look like ash. Next I'm going to add volume to my character to make it seem like more than a shell.

Flow Test Render

Here's the first (of many) test renders of my flow effects! I want it to look like a mix between particle fire and liquid gold. I'll definitely have to keep playing around with the colors and the glow, but I think it's pretty cool for the first one!

Adding Wispy Particles

Starting to layer my particle systems! Still a WIP, of course, but getting closer.

More Wrinkles!

I finished the wrinkles on the old woman's face! She's looking nice and ancient now, but not too scary, which is what I was aiming for. Can't wait to start texturing her (and adding hair) to maker her really shine.