14. October 2008 by Zach.

Http://ZacharyRussell.com

It is up and running! It no longer forwards you to my blog. There is a gallery and everything now up on my site, and four different formats to download my resume in!

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11. October 2008 by Zach.

Doing a little practice. I know I want to add a grass texture to the grey floor, and maybe try some flowers or something? It is all practice practice practice either way!

ADDED: October 14th. I put some grass on the ground and totally reworked the cart. I may try some rocks and boulders and things like that to put around? I do not know. 1634 tri’s for the whole scene, and 1 1024×1024 color and normal maps.

The original cart concept.

Added the hay.

Original fence.

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13. September 2008 by Zach.

Here are a couple of drawings from my class. These first two were done in about 7-10 minutes, and the third was done in about 20. All of the drawings are on 18×24. I laid out very few markings with a 2h then started with charcoal pencils. After the pencils I would use vine/willow charcoal to get even more depth and values.

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9. September 2008 by Zach.

I am going to update this entry as I add more and more to this scene. This is something I have been working on, and I add to it little by little. Practice, is what this amounts to. I duplicated the walls, and floor to make the scene a little bigger. Also quickly modeled some lights to see what kind of effect it would bring. I feel like I need to double the amount of those types of lights to get the place lit correctly. I may try the area lights instead? Here it is, current as of Sept 9th. (Sept 11th)I added the air ducts, and some bill boards. I will probably texture the billboards tomorrow, it is only 3:40 in the morning

Scrapped this and moving onto to something else. I do not like the direction this is going…Some of the textures seem off(like the columns look like the need to be in a tomb or something), I may keep some of the props and use them later though

Third time

An update

The beginning

I will update periodically.

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6. September 2008 by Zach.

Well, last night was very interesting. I made an ass of myself to the CEO and President, Randy Pitchford, met a nice guy on a balcony, Jim, and had a bottle of water! It was so crazy walking around this party last night.  I am trying to get an entry level job and seeing all these people I watch on youtube, and get interviewed in magazines I read.  Well anyways here are my photos/videos from last night. My cell phone took crappy audio, so you might turn it down lol.

 If you want to read more about my adventures click here.

First photos

BIA HH                         Randy                      Samba de Amigo

I tried embedding the videos and it messed up my frames. I will post links. The Borderlands is the trailer that has been out. The Alien video though I had not scene. It was someone walking up to the face hugger egg, and it hatches, as the person describes what he is seeing, the face hugger jumps at the person. LOOKED SOOOO GOOD!

Aliens Colonial Marines

Borderlands

Until next time.

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4. September 2008 by Zach.

Taking drawing three with Ms. Windrow at Eastfield college. She told me in conversation the other day, someone from Id was taking her drawing class just because they had never taken a formal art class. They had to drop because crunch time came and he had no time for the class…Here is some of my gesture drawings. Time ranging from 30 seconds to 10 minutes. 18×24 sketch pad.

I may upload others later.

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23. August 2008 by Zach.

For some reason while I was reading and trolling the interwebs trying to learn about these mysterious “Next gen Maps” it kind of just made sense. This is what I just rendered out using mental ray. I do not remember all of the options, but I did get a diffuse map and normal on these models and they do not look like what I have done before. I have used bump maps and they looked atrocious! I feel good for the first time about my modeling, and to look at what I was putting out days ago is strange.

I think I am done with these pieces.

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23. August 2008 by Zach.

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22. August 2008 by Zach.

I can not sleep, so I get up and model? hrm…

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21. August 2008 by Zach.

Me and my wife went out fishing, with my uncle. I look a little crazed?

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