Gephoria

The Barrels from last week

I'm loving these cannons threw some color on the naval cannon and saw how it looked, i think i'd better unwrap it to make it look the best and/or re-model the naval cannon's wooden frame due to errors I see with the mesh. Chamfering loops didn't work for me this time. 

Below are my basic models/shapes for the staff of apocalypse i modeled and next to it you can see the "pre smoothed" model that the basic shape came from, threw a UVW cyl map on it during unwrap it turned out fine i just cannot seem to locate the texture for this one at the moment. 

Today I just worked on another quick update for the cannons of my life to punch through the barrier that is society into a 3d artist position somewhere at some company.  Recently focusing on more on attention to detail and everything else, I think; NO, I know I will make it in the Computer Graphics Society today.  Everything I have learned came together in my head a year or so ago and I am learning and harnessing new tools.  I’ve been learning both in 3D computer world and in real life. 

 

Here's the Cannon Update!

For the last couple days I have been modeling weird cannons out of boredom. I also started a couple 3D Sketchbook threads on a couple cg websites. The addresses are as fallen at the bottom of this post. 

 

If you were curious about what they looked like here it is. 

I'm finding out that my 2D skills are sadly under par. Either that or I just plain cannot concentrate whilst drawing. Either way I am keeping busy and finding new things to model and find passions in. I really find myself looking forward to the new starcraft 2 game coming out later this year. I am sadly disappointed that Blizzard announced that Starcraft II will not have a LAN (Local Area Network) option included with it. This leads me to believe that blizzard will put either a fee on the game (let's pray not) or they are sick of third party clients and trying to eliminate them by eliminating the options they utilize. Either way this makes me unsure of purchasing starcraft II. I'd rather go back to playing World of Warcraft!

 

As Promised here are your links. 

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=5966981#post5966981

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/sketchbooks/10358-gephoria-s-boredom-cannon.html#post97377

Thinking about today in many ways, the way I just out of nowhere noticed that the Earthshaker Character in DOTA (Very successful custom map for Warcraft III), has the letter S or number 2 I can’t decide which it is and a smiley face on the little log he carries. Thinking about that it leads me to believe that blizzard artists threw in small details everywhere you can and cannot see. I’m going to start paying attention to the faces more and more I think as a result of this.

I have to admit DOTA is probably the best thing about Warcraft III. Just based on the fact that it’s spawned networks of attention, it’s a relatively simple game like Tetris built on a larger platform yes, but yet it’s so complex at the same time. In my personal and humble opinion viper and Necrolyte are vastly overpowered now because of Viper’s slow and Necrolyte’s ignorance to damage well I hate playing against them both. Viper gets vanguard early game it’s hard to deal with him he can double kill easily and possibly kill your whole team if you are terrible enough.

Well I am utilizing all of my free time to perfecct my demo reel.  working on some new models and really just keeping up with the speed of technology, as impressive or unimpressive as that may sound.  So other than that i am planning a trip to California later this year.  The most i can do otherwise is just work work work til then.  Add more lines to the resume and after that land the job of a lifetime in a failing economy.  Dream jobs consist of Blizzard, Pixar, and Google. I feel bad this is a short update but other than that I pledge to myself to update this blog more often.  Still have it set up in contribute so I will begin to utilize that and harness it's energy whatever it may be.  Chow I hope to hear from you later. 

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Brent Jorgenson wrote:

Bad week ends with an Idea

Well, if I ever run out of gas I’ll be surprised.  I am modeling numerous amounts of office furniture mainly chairs for our architectural demo to a private company.  The team we are working with doesn’t care much for my team, although I have no power over this.  I put blame on our team organization mainly and the way we have teams and tasks divided up is not working.  I harped this for the first few weeks and that I’d gladly step up and take initiative to become a leader in this project.  Thing is our leader was elected by popular vote and I ran a close second place.  His communication with the other team he has stated as bad and I know his communication with the team he’s leading could be better.  If worse comes to worse I can easily animate all these chairs doing wacky things, make a chair game, where chairs have to kill other chairs to become the best.  Swivel chairs have mobility, flimsy chairs have flexibility, sturdy chairs will have neither of those 2 but do have durability.  Just an idea I guess. 

                  This last week has been an episode.  Started out with me getting over a cold, a weekend full of homework that I still wasn’t finished with yet, a flat tire on the car, computer is acting up like it’s not getting power half the time and that is just to name the start of the week.  Gladly I’m surviving it as it comes at me.  Maybe I am just dodging assignments luckily but most of what has been asked of me is completed.  I still need one power point for tonight.  Hopefully I’ll have a new tire on my car by tomorrow and pick up some extra hours at the library. 

                  My contest entry submission is due next week I got to kick myself to finish it, but I don’t have time to kick myself until t omorrow.  This is a subaverage life in america I think, we are forced to work harder and longer, and well some of us “americans” have more to show for it, some of the others just have plain bad luck and get sued or in frequent car accidents. 

                  That’s my rant for now, I’ll catch you all later if anybody even reads these let me know I’m getting dismotivated to post stuff.