Face Expressions

Yeah Yeah I know it's been awhile again. All you guys been seeing is artwork and no 3D. Well thats cuz we not trying to present any 3d till its like super awesome. Alright well school is about to start next month so there WILL and HAS to be updates more often. Pre-Viz is complete, we have the whole story and visual down and its broad and closed enough for tweaks. (look out for that pre-viz which should be posted very soon) Marla is modeled, UV'ed and in the middle of rigging-ness thanks to Miss Jessenia and our fellow rigger/modeler Christian. So below are some more awesomeness from Brian who did these expressions sheets for guess what? Blend Shapes. VITAL art pieces for getting to know Marla better and for production. As you can see Marla is growing up. This was her final stages and the final approved look for her. Incredible stuff by Brian. Jessenia and I are very grateful for his work and help. Please visit his blog. Incredible artist and incredible person. Cheers.

creepy crawlers!

Oh yes here we go some nice silhouette designs for the bugs in the forest environment and for the main luciernaga. (go translate that from spanish if you really want to know what that is) The first designs come from our fellow modeler David Chen. Second one comes from Christian Haniszewski, one of our modeler/riggers of the group. And the last ones are mine. We have more finalized version but you'll just have to wait for those.

Also if you may have noticed as more names are mention we will be posting their blogs up so you can check out their work. Give credit where credit is due.

Here we go again

Yes yes I know, no recent updates. Well good news..theres one now. lol Models are coming in and I got to take a sneak peek at the Marla model. OoOOh man! This should be rigging month and more environmental modeling stuff. We are hard at work and we cannot show no 3D-ness just yet. Until then I will humor you with some color studies I've been cooking up. These are vital in any production to set the mood and feel you want for your film. It helps during texturing and lighting/compositing later on. Also keeps me on my toes being there will be tons of Matte Painting going on. Enjoy!

Ps. Jessenia is working on a sexy new banner for the blog as you may have noticed, title changed from LECHE to LUCIERNAGA. If you ponder what that is, go to dictionary translate from Spanish to English.. hush hush.. SPOILER? Also some nice bug designs coming soon. watch out for those!

A Proper Intro to Miss Jessenia Nauta

I came to realization that my fellow thesis partner was never formerly introduced in the blog! After many countless nights of guilt I decided that when she will be introduced, it will be with a bang. So here it is, a flower design I made earlier in the year that I handed over to her to "pimp" it out. Clearly she did not disappoint and with my tiny -2 cents she smacks the world with this. A style sheet that represents the colors and beauty that we are hoping to achieve. Mucho love to Jessenia!! ENJOY!

Design/ Modeling/ Texturing/ Lighting/ Rendering - Jesse
Compositing/ FX/ Layout and Composition - Jessenia

lets play dress up!

So authorization from Jessenia was needed for this post, and I got it. The awesome clothing concepts she designed for Marla. Incredible stuff. Thats 2 posts in one day...Oh snap!

It's worth mentioning that after her sketches we realized that Marla needed to look a bit older compared to Brian's sketches. So these sketches are closer to Marla's final proportions.

where you taking me?

So I know its been a while but do not go sleeping on us just yet. Jessenia and I have tons of goodies for all of you. At the moment she is helping out on the presentation of some environment props I model/textured/lit and composited; so look out for those soon. Also some clothing concepts for Marla that Jessenia cooked up are being laid out for presentation at the moment. I'd like to post up some environment sketches I've been working on. The first 2 are all digital and the last one I did some marker/pen sketches and then brought them into photoshop for some quick value and light studies. Enjoy!

More finalizing characters

So once again B-Rye attacks with some awesome work for me. i am beginning a first pass at the modeling of the character, at least a general base to see a feel for her, I will post that soon but until then, enjoy some more B-rye concept art work. Make sure to check him out at ( http://brianjartworks.blogspot.com/ )

MUCHO LOVE BRIAN!

Character Designs

I am generally focusing on environmental design, color and lighting, texturing and framing for my thesis, so I have one of my closes friends (http://brianjartworks.blogspot.com/) helping me out with the character designs for my thesis and of course he did not let me down. Here are the first pass at the 3 characters for my piece. I know..3 characters. There is a massive team in the works but still I know its a lot. There is still more development to make but here they are.


The current name for my main character (compliments to Brian) is "Marla".

The Project Begins

So here I am setting up the first of many posts for my final thesis project. I wanted to start things out with a bang so i provided for my first glimpse into my thesis; some colorscripts! Here are some of the palettes I've been messing with for one of the environments. Pretty? Once i get to some satisfaction with my animatic/pre-viz I will post. So enjoy, follow the blog and pray for me! The Leche Project begins!

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