Kaplan Demo Reel Spring 2010

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Check it out. My Demo Reel submission for Portfolio Prep Spring 2010. Give me some critiques!

Back to the Basics

Landscape painting has been a long time passion of mine. I recently had the opportunity to revisit this part of my life in Kevin Anderson's Rapid Visualization class at The Art Institute of Las Vegas. I normally result to digital work using Coral X to save time as a result of pursuing an animation degree but this was a "flex your muscle" project meant to show off the traditional skills we have been building over the past seven weeks; so, I decided to push myself to be a better artist and practice my brush skills. The reference was from a photo I took while on vacation in San Diego. The Harbor served as a perfect contrast for where new meets old. I am planning on doing another location for the class final, possibly a Lake Tahoe piece.

Revenge of the Balls

My Visual Effects Piece from the end of 2009. I am currently doing a revamp for my portfolio!

PORTFOLIO ROUGH DRAFT

This is my Rough Draft Portfolio that I got put together a few days before the turn in is due for my Portfolio Preparation class. I have come a long ways since I started animating. Let me know what you like, what you don't like, why you feel this way, and what would you take out? Thanks for the help!

Infomatic

This was the model I made for my character modeling class. I was the only person to do a non-organic model. I thought that was cool but we dueled our characters in a tournament and