My favorite angle of the F-14

This is my favorite angle on my F-14.

Bottom view of F-14

Here is the bottom view of the F-14.

My F-14 vs a real F-14 Take 2

Here is another picture with my F-14 and a real one (mine is in the background). I would have placed mine in the front but the real one is too big. I might do it in the near future and see how it comes out.

Top View of F-14

Here is the top view of the F-14.

My F-14 vs a real F-14

Here I have my F-14 (on the top) and a real F-14, there are some small differences between the 2 but overall I think its pretty good.

I'm back ...

Well let’s see, I have not posted anything since June of last year. Needless to say I have been very busy; recently a friend of mine asked why I have not posted anything since last year. And I told him that well I just hadn’t, so after that I decided to post again. What has kept me so busy? Work; I am currently working as a Technical Artist at Midway games in Chicago and due to the amount of work I just have not had much time to work on my modeling much less post anything on my blog. By the way I am not much of a blog posting person to begin with, if you see my older posts they are straight forward and to the point. So I would say this entry will probably be the longest one I have typed and will be for a long time to come. But back to the modeling, even though I have not modeled a lot of things since my last post I did not forget and do want to keep on modeling, and so I did. So being that I love aircraft of all kinds I decided to model and texture as realistically as possible an F-14a Tomcat. I think it came out pretty good although looking back on it I know I could do much better. Honestly looking back at some of the work I previously posted I think I can do much, much, much, much better than what I did. I think that’s how everyone feels about their work, they see older stuff and say “oh no I did that?” and I am not different. But don’t misunderstand me, I am very proud of the work I did and stand by 100% but I can now see all the mistakes and what I could have done better. And I think that’s what its all about, doing something, learning from it and then come back later and do something even better. Well enough blogging (blah, blah, blah). Here is my F-14a Tomcat.

New Project: Environment Scene - Alley

Angle 2 ...

New Project: Environment Scene - Alley

Sorry I have not updated in a while, here are some new pictures of the Alley. I also decided to include the Mustang in this scene.

1968 Mustang Fastback. Work in progress IV: The new paintjob and wheels! More Pics...

Occlusion plus normal ... better shadows ...

1968 Mustang Fastback. Work in progress IV: The new paintjob and wheels! More Pics...

Here are more pics for your pleasure. Enjoy.

1968 Mustang Fastback. Work in progress IV: The new paintjob and wheels! More Pics...

More pics .... I just can't get enough!

1968 Mustang Fastback. Work in progress IV: The new paintjob and wheels!

Hello everyone, here is a new pic with the new paintjob and wheels for my '68 'Stang! Sweet! I have changed the paintjob to black from the original forest green from the "Bullit" Mustang. I love the color black but I might just change it back to the forest green.

Up next for the 'Stang: Baked shadows to incease realism and perhaps a very subtle bump map to give it that "real paint feel. I may put stripes on it, I don't know. Also it has been suggested that I make another version with rust, dirt and body damage. Sounds cool. I hope you like it and comments are always welcomed.

1968 Mustang Fastback. The Process...

One of the toughest parts to model was the wheels. I modeled these after Cragar wheels although they have some features of American Racing wheels.

New Project: Environment Scene - Alley - Session 1

A close up to show detail on the lightpost. Will add wires and textures next.

People whose work I think is really cool.

Surfing through the web I have found many people whose work I think is really cool. Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order). I hope you guys like their work. Enjoy!

1. Hyun Hee Lee
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=466166

2. Jeremy Engleman
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=449040

3. Marek Denko
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=451732

4. Olivier Ponsonnet
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=440280

5. Stefan Morrell
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=399743

6. Kim Hyong Jun
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=255737

New Project: Environment Scene - Alley

I decided to create a new environment scene. I wanted to pick something that had a lot of detail that was also dark and gritty. I did not want to do a clean city street, an alley is dark and hidden, makes it interesting. Here is a picture of an alley in Chicago.

People whose work I think is really cool.

Here is a link to someone whose work I have been keeping an eye on. I hope to one day I can create work as great as this. Enjoy!

Alessandro Baldasseroni

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=461079

-Mando.

1968 Mustang Fastback. Work in progress.

Here is my 1968 Mustang Fastback. It is a work in progress, I modeled it using Maya 7. Comments? Let me know what you think.

- Mando

Old Blog content ...

Ok so I know this is my new blog but since my old blog contained so many images that I cared about but cannot be seen I have decided to move all my old posts to this blog.

For now I cannot retreive all the old images because the goofy drawing is there, but once I can get a hold of them I will update all the posts with the correct images. So for now it will be text only for the old posts.

Once this transfer is complete I will begin to post pictures of my current work in progress. Thank you for your patience.

-Mando.