Designed, modeled, textured and lit by yours truly. Animated by the fabulous Shahbaazinator.

March 7th, 2010 | Category: 3d, short films, video | Comments (4)

February 20th, 2010 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (6)

+ © owned by Saputo Bakery, Inc.

While I didn’t do the animation here, I did design, model and create this character and background. Igor was a monkey shill for a line Canadian simian shaped muffins.  I thought it’d be fun to put the song “This Hand …is a Mighty Hand” by Hoots and Hellmouth” to it.

Here’s the original packaging. Apparently it’s illegal to market monkey muffins to children under 13, so they had to pull the product from the shelves.

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December 26th, 2009 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (2)

Just playing around with the materials on my glass elephant teapot. Thought I’d share a new render of it. Sharing is good, right?

November 20th, 2009 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (3)

I can’t seem to stop making Frankenstein pigs! Anyway, I decided to model up this guy in 3d. I think he’d make a swell toy.  Click on MORE for some “making of” stuff.

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October 27th, 2009 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (16)

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted any 3d work, so this is what you’ll have to settle for. I took a 3d model I’d made from a few years back and starting playing around with some caustics. I’ve got some more versions of Thor I’ll post here soon. Click MORE for the original sketch and some close ups.

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September 10th, 2009 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (5)

An oldie, but one of my favorite illustrations from back in the VeggieTales days. I created most of that food by actually scannin french toast hot off the pan, the front and sides, and decimating a loaf of french bread and then reassembling it in 3d. Plus my good friend and illustrator extrordiare Jody Nilsen added a little buttony touch.

June 23rd, 2009 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (2)

This fearsome fellow was done for The League of Robots and Monsters.  Click MORE for some sketches and other making of stuff.

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March 26th, 2009 | Category: 3d, illustration, process | Comments (10)

I was just playing around with some rendering stuff (the usual caustics, HDR lighting, etc.) and thought it might be fun to see what a moving glass elephant teapot would look like. At least now I know. That’s the important thing, right?

February 8th, 2009 | Category: 3d, video | Comments (3)

Just cuz, I decided to render out my elephant teapot out of glass and a more simple ceramic. No real reason really, other than I wanted to know how to render glass and simple ceramic better. There’s a nifty little vid of it below.

I started modeling and texturing a 3d elephant to help teach myself some of the new tools in the new version of Maya, and then, my brilliant wife said, hey, you should make that into a teapot. So I did!

December 7th, 2008 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (11)

Just playing around with modeling myself some new glasses. I really need to add some eyeballs everywhere (I always say that).  Make sure you click on the images for some fun time zoomage. Also scroll down for some rotational vid action.

Breadwig Glasses from Bread Wig on Vimeo.

November 25th, 2008 | Category: 3d | Comments (6)

Thought I’d re-light this bad boy. Make him a little more hip. A little more today.

September 18th, 2008 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (7)

Abominable Snowman was the theme for Drawergeeks this week. Where else would a Yeti be more at home than a vintage household magazine?  At least that was my “thinking”.

Lots and lots of making of stuff if’n you click on the “more” link. Click the image for some super yeti-zoom action.

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August 21st, 2008 | Category: 3d, illustration, process | Comments (9)

For the latest Drawer Geeks. Yep, dinosaurs was the topic.  Click it for a bigger version.

Here’s the original sketch. 

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May 16th, 2008 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (11)

Another illustration from the book I just finished up illustrating. We actually went to the wiener dog races last summer in Fort Wayne, and they were a total hoot. Click it for a zoom.

March 8th, 2008 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (6)

 Well here he is. I tried some new shading stuff and it worked out pretty good I think. Click “more” for a lil’ bit of making of spiff.

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February 29th, 2008 | Category: 3d, illustration, process | Comments (9)

I did this for the latest drawergeeks. Hit the “more’ button to see a bunch o’ making of crap.

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February 7th, 2008 | Category: 3d, illustration, process | Comments (16)

in t-shirt form, no less. Yeah,

I know. I’m going to stop the threadless submissions soon. My work’s clearly not a good fit. In the meantime, I had to give this guy a shot.

February 4th, 2008 | Category: 3d, illustration | Comments (7)