V Ling

2012-01-29T06:51:00.001-05:00

Ship5WIP

2012-01-28T08:30:00.003-05:00

S3Family

2012-01-24T04:34:00.000-05:00

Messing around with chicken guts again.

Riffs

2012-01-20T04:13:00.000-05:00

Valleynator

2012-01-18T06:09:00.000-05:00

These 2 are inspired by Rob Valley. http://youtu.be/I7uFXGJhX80. Can't get enough of his super graphic and dynamic animation style.

Ship2

2012-01-17T06:19:00.000-05:00

Made a simple spaceship in the Homeworld style to practice UV mapping. Painting textures was so much fun, brought me back to my model kit building days. Baking in the lighting really cuts down render time too! I used a background produced by Shi Yao http://raph.com/3dartists/artgallery/imagePage?iid=6793

I Draw car?

2012-01-16T02:51:00.000-05:00

I drew a car.

Brought to you by Matt Marrocco of IDRAWCARS.com Thanks for the sweet book!

Hot Ears

2012-01-11T07:27:00.001-05:00

Started modelling Hot Ears. The "hot ears" might not be very production friendly, so I took it out for now. I really liked that name too :/ ah well.

2012-01-11T04:34:00.005-05:00

yeayeatyea flying tanks...but it's so god dam beautiful

2012-01-11T03:24:00.002-05:00

CDA 2012 Spring Term

2012-01-07T18:05:00.001-05:00

Hi Guys, here's the brochure for Spring term at Concept Design Academy. Come out and learn some Modo!

Hot Ears

2012-01-05T05:53:00.001-05:00

super creme

2011-12-29T05:55:00.001-05:00

Prometheus - Official Trailer [TRUE HD]

2011-12-24T01:51:00.000-05:00

Haven't been this excited for a movie in a while.

2011-12-18T20:19:00.001-05:00

2011-12-13T13:36:00.001-05:00

Teaching at CDA

2011-12-11T16:37:00.001-05:00

Hey blog, It's official I'll be teaching Modo at Concept Design Academy in Pasadena next term. More details soon!http://conceptdesignacad.blogspot.com/

Space Junk 3D behind the scenes

2011-12-10T05:14:00.001-05:00

Hey guys..this is a quick behind the scenes of a science film production I contributed to (space station and space ship collector) starting at 2:25.

It should be out sometime in February

2011-12-07T02:17:00.001-05:00

2011-12-01T01:32:00.001-05:00

2011-11-15T02:49:00.001-05:00

Zoomy mouse

2011-11-08T00:58:00.001-05:00

Zoomy Car

2011-11-06T06:51:00.001-05:00

Bugship model Kit

2011-10-27T01:26:00.002-04:00

Hey blog, time for some news! I'm really excited to be working with Michael Fichtenmayer of Industria Mekanica and FitchenFoo to produce a fancy schmancy model kit of the Bugship! Check out his work if you haven't already, really high quality stuff!

So far it's in the early stages, here's what we've been up to so far.

Made a new interior tonight, I'm scared it might be too delicate, but we'll see.

I'm not done beating this dead horse yet!

Wet Dream

2011-10-26T02:12:00.003-04:00

Vroom

2011-10-23T01:18:00.002-04:00

Safekeeping

2011-10-20T21:43:00.003-04:00

2011-10-13T17:48:00.000-04:00

safekeeping
http://forums.finalgear.com/general-automotive/awesome-thread-automotive-edition-34036/page-404/

2011-10-12T04:36:00.001-04:00

2011-10-11T05:47:00.001-04:00

for safekeeping

2011-10-04T13:43:00.001-04:00

Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs from Kevin Karsch on Vimeo.

2011-09-27T00:38:00.001-04:00

Truly amazing...

Bugship Turtable

2011-09-17T15:46:00.000-04:00

freebie

2011-09-17T01:55:00.003-04:00

high res freebie

2011-09-16T02:03:00.003-04:00

Ok I'm gonna call this finished....it's been loitering around for too long.

Samurai Champloo AMV: Gang Starr - Battle

2011-09-14T06:54:00.000-04:00

Just finished watching Samurai Champloo for the first time. Catching up on TV from the past decade...

It's got an amazing feel to it, the fight scenes are just epic upon epic.

layers

2011-09-09T03:35:00.002-04:00

ccs garage bulletin board?

and...this guy is my hero

TRON: Uprising

2011-09-03T02:32:00.000-04:00

So here's the next project! For the next 5 months I'll be working on the animated TV show Tron: Uprising, designing vehicles and props. I'm really excited by how the show is looking so far, and will probably start having dreams on the grid soon.

Alberto Mielgo is art directing, whose paintings I have been drooling over for years over at his blog.
Charlie Bean is directing, after a little research I found he's been involved with alot of the cartoons I used to watch after school every day like Dexter's lab, Powerpuff girls, Samurai Jack and Ren and Stimpy.
I still can't believe this is really happening. It's truly a dream job nerdgasm.

Thanks for the hookup Annis!

Thank you!

2011-09-02T02:05:00.000-04:00

Here's the super awesome going away gift from the team at Mattel. They stole one of my cars and painted it funky new age colors which I'm still trying to digest. Everyone I worked with except for the lovely engineers in Bangkok signed it too! I was overwhelmed with this gift, although its just a 2.5" piece of metal, it's probably the most sentimental 2.5" piece of metal possible for me. I'll always smile when I look back on the past 7 months working a dream job at Mattel. Thanks all!

It's got super duper microscopic pinstriping on the fuel tank courtesy of Brandon Ozaki!

Busy week

2011-08-25T01:06:00.001-04:00

Hi blog. I usually don't write, but these past few weeks have been crazy. I wrapped up my 7 months at Mattel on friday. I can't believe how many late nights spread over a whole team of designers, planners, engineers, licensors etc goes into into these little pieces of metal. Here's a pic of the line I worked on at the San Diego Comic Con a few months ago. They should be coming out soon. Can you guess who they are?

My buddy Paul did the two big guys on the bottom left, and the lovely Fraser Campbell did the key sketch for Superman which I took through to production.

Package Mock up by Sam

snailbuster test render e

2011-08-07T22:53:00.000-04:00

Snailbuster incubation

2011-08-05T02:57:00.002-04:00

700!

2011-07-31T23:16:00.003-04:00

700 posts. That's almost 1 post every 2 days for the past 4 years. I have no life.

snail buster 3000

2011-07-30T03:16:00.002-04:00

2011-07-28T01:11:00.000-04:00

2011-07-25T23:35:00.001-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va5FP_Dzy3k

next project...

2011-07-25T23:04:00.002-04:00

note to self: the ultimate taco truck

2011-07-21T00:16:00.002-04:00

hoooooooly shittttttttttt

2011-07-17T16:07:00.002-04:00

2011-07-16T18:26:00.001-04:00

Sell out

2011-07-11T23:10:00.001-04:00

Hi all,

The Starship Pimperprises (high res 3566 x 1241 px) are available in print if anyone is interested.

2' wide poster is about $20.
4' wide for $50 if you're feeling frisky.

starship pimperprise

2011-07-09T08:41:00.005-04:00

2011-07-07T23:30:00.001-04:00

Ferrururrr

2011-07-01T01:22:00.002-04:00

2011-06-27T03:26:00.002-04:00

bugship 11 wip

2011-06-26T16:51:00.002-04:00

Added some panel lines with a bump map, plus little details here and there. Once I'm done texturing I think this version will be finished. Next up is rebuilding this for mini scale 3d printing.

2011-06-25T14:54:00.002-04:00

bugship wip 10

2011-06-23T10:58:00.002-04:00

printing

2011-06-22T02:30:00.002-04:00

Turns out this 3d printing business isn't as easy as it seems. My test models failed the pre screening tests because of walls under the minimum thickness limit and messed up normals. I have alot of work ahead of me. Someone give me $1000 so I can print it out in one solid chunk.

On the plus side I found this nifty (and free) program called netfabb that's got alot of really cool features like one click cross sections, automated mesh fixing, mesh reduction, resizing, volume/area calculations and one click wall thickness measurements. Verrry handy.

2011-06-20T23:53:00.001-04:00

2011-06-19T02:08:00.001-04:00

bugship wip 3

2011-06-17T02:37:00.004-04:00

Working on bugship. When it's finished, I'm thinking to sell 3d prints of this model from shapeways.com scaled to about 5" length. Hopefully there is a demand for mini desktop spaceships. Any money from this will go towards making a bigger (maybe 10") version for graduation.

2011-06-14T20:06:00.001-04:00

http://www.protomold.com/

Gestural 3D Printing with a Kinect and RepRap

2011-06-13T01:08:00.000-04:00

bugship crop wip

2011-06-11T23:03:00.001-04:00

2011-06-10T03:09:00.002-04:00

bugship wip

2011-06-05T05:42:00.005-04:00

dodge this

2011-06-01T00:05:00.001-04:00

2011-05-19T02:03:00.003-04:00

durdur

2011-05-18T01:40:00.004-04:00

2011-05-17T03:20:00.003-04:00

Dusty Z

2011-05-14T23:45:00.001-04:00

birdy 2

2011-05-09T02:57:00.000-04:00

This one was inspired by Daniel Chavez' crazy work http://dc-concept.blogspot.com/

2011-05-07T21:54:00.001-04:00

inspired by this song and the show FLCL

sexy frog

2011-04-29T19:39:00.000-04:00

Apparently this is admiral Ackbar's dream machine

qr barcode generator

2011-04-28T03:26:00.000-04:00

http://invx.com/ QR barcode generator, you know those cellphone scanny things.

See if you can read my super secret message.

Purdy neat....this makes me wanna make a business card

Art Center grad show

2011-04-27T00:36:00.000-04:00

A couple things from the grad show. This year's class was seriously kick ass.

2011-04-19T03:55:00.001-04:00

2011-04-17T21:16:00.003-04:00

2011-04-16T02:59:00.002-04:00

recycling station progress

2011-04-14T02:30:00.002-04:00

revisiting the garbage project

2011-04-09T00:36:00.002-04:00

shapeways

2011-04-02T00:45:00.003-04:00

i sooo want to do this..
$1.50 per cubic centimeter, not too bad! Cheaper than at school at least

net dispensers

2011-03-30T03:12:00.000-04:00

Revisiting the garbage ship....I'm ditching the original plan to have a separate "net dispenser" in favor of mashing dispenser and collector together (the silver cylinders are placeholders for dispensers) ...even for a garbage scow it's awkward. Needs remashing. Hmm....

another lightcycle

2011-03-28T03:20:00.002-04:00

For the contest over at sidequesting.com 1.5hrs

arm test Garbage Ship

2011-03-20T18:39:00.002-04:00

Space garbage @ io9

2011-03-05T01:51:00.001-05:00

Thanks to Annalee Newitz of io9.com blog for doing a short writeup on my garbage ship!

Sick at home

2011-02-20T20:39:00.000-05:00

revisiting an old design

Music dump

2011-02-17T22:25:00.001-05:00

This song....We all need it

Bob's your uncle

2011-02-06T22:47:00.002-05:00

Some frozen oatmeal icecubes I made in highschool. wtf to myself.

city walk/union station

2011-01-30T02:12:00.000-05:00

Badass Lego Guns

2011-01-27T23:54:00.001-05:00

paint session

2011-01-26T00:17:00.004-05:00

Goodbye red Z....I'm sure your new owner will have you up to speed in no time.

From home last month

and a neat video/song that it wont let me embed for some reason.

http://www.houseind.com/about/films/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=trailer

Lairport Museum

2011-01-21T00:08:00.001-05:00

Found this neato museum right next door to Mattel. Elvis soundtrack to complete the effect. The best part: Free!

2011-01-18T01:55:00.001-05:00

This just blew me away....

This one too. I love vimeo...

LA

2011-01-15T15:49:00.004-05:00

I'm back in LA for a little while, working at Hotwheels! I can't believe the things that are happening now, I feel so lucky to be here.

completely unrelated, some figures from last year

2010-12-31T07:21:00.001-05:00

2010-12-31T02:30:00.001-05:00

sleep

2010-12-29T04:07:00.002-05:00

Parrappa

2010-12-28T00:07:00.001-05:00

Found these gems at "bongofish"?!?

The Persistence of Rappas

Salvador Dali

Birth of Lara

Sandro Botticelli

And another sketching video.