Posts from the ‘Portfolio’ Category

Yesterday a friend asked me if I could make a quick tool that would show or hide objects with the prefix ‘COL_’ in Max. Being that I had never worked in MaxScript beyond a simple ‘hello world’ level, I told him sure, give me half an hour. This script was the result. Download Script here. [...]

For my thesis I had to do a lot of normal and AO map baking.  I noticed I lost a lot of time basically just setting up meshes and exporting them, and changing settings in xNormal.  I wanted to create a way to quickly bake a normal/AO map with xNormal without ever leaving Maya.  The [...]

While I was working on my thesis, I had to do a lot of simulations in Maya that I baked out to skeletal meshes and animation for import to UDK.  Along the way I started piecing together some tools and improvements to this process, and afterwards I assembled them into a more cohesive tool.  Most [...]

Python for Maya script that constrains a bind skeleton to the selected control skeleton heirarchy

Aftershock, my thesis, is set in 1906. As a horror period piece, i wanted to get a sepia-tone look to the piece, as well as a bit of film grain. Valve’s Left 4 Dead blog post about filmic effects gave me some ideas about how to apply film grain in an appealing way. I also [...]

One of my professors was interested in a rig to allow students to quickly create camera shots that felt natural to movie viewers. My solution to this was to build a virtual camera boom/crane setup in Maya, and to use this as a rig for constraining and controlling camera movement. Download the code here. Get [...]

A python script that keeps incremental saves and maintains a mirrored backup folder, as well as a directory for recently deleted material

This is a creature used in my Thesis project, AfterShock. I started out wanting to create a sort of hybrid, awkward, ungainly creature.  I eventually drew on inspiration from traditional depictions of Nyarlathotep, using pieced-together parts of different animals to create something strange and unearthly.

Other elements involved with the thesis that you can see elsewhere in my portfolio: Aftershock post process (Shaders) Nyarlathotep (Modeling, Texturing, and Rigging)

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