Luke's Blog

It's been quite some time since I've posted anything up on my blog and that would be for the reason of needing to complete my demo reel...but now that I've done that I can post some of the pieces up. I hope you like them....please leave a comment if you want.














Living Room - original taken from a magazine


Lounge Design done by me. I think it's quite classy looking

To those of you who are either keeping tabs on my blog or just happen to stumble across it. The Ho-Masubi project has been put on hold. It was taking too long and I have to have to complete models done in three months and well that wasn't going to happen at the rate I was going.

So instead after talking to two of my instructors, we figured that since I want to be an environment artist, that I should be looking towards interiors and exteriors of place that exist or via my own thing...(more so from a picture). I'll be posting some of the work up soon. Otherwise...please check out: http://cato3d.foumer.com

This is my latest model that will be appearing on my demo reel when I finish my schooling. This is Ho-Masubi - he's a nekomata(fork tailed cat)....it's apart of Japanese folklore and when I had done my research on it, I thought that I should model out one the way I thought that it would look. Well I did a lot of sketching trying to develop the right style and so this is what I came up with. I hope you all like what you see.

Comment and Critiques are welcomed

It's been a little while since I've posted my progress on this current environment, and well that would be due to that it's crunch time at my school and final projects are due really really soon. But as for the model....I've done all the texturing, modeled rocks, blades of grass and I've been working on the path that I would have the camera follow. I used some volume effects in XSI to create the clouds. I'm really happy with the look of this. I hope you all like what you see.

I've finished the
modeling portion
of this environment
and have been working
on some of the unwrapping
so that I can start to
texture it. So in keeping
with a cartoony feel,
I've been looking at
reference picture from
Viva Pinata and
Worms(video game).
I'm really impressed that
I'm this far along in this assignment.
I've got a week to get the textures completely done, so I've got to really push myself to get it done.

I started this environment about a week ago. I've based this up on a Japanese garden and placed in three cliff tops with a giant magical tree. The texturing will hopefully be done this week since it has to be done by December 6th. I'm going to have a cartoon feel to it and I've been looking at references of the internet for it. Any comments or critiques would be great.

Just to let those of you know who have either stumbled onto my blog site or actually know about it, sorry I haven't really updated in awhile. I will hopefully post some new material very soon