Hey Guys,

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Have fun watching me struggle with new social media 8D

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Keep Calm & Thesis On

There are times when I just don't want to do school work....so I made this for my class; 16 zombies heading off to reading week:

ROM winter2014

Today we went to the ROM.

Much education was had.

Seriously: we got to see the ornithology archives. Mmmmm the delicious smell of a thousand dead bird bodies. Many thanks and kudos to Mark Peck for showing us around!

Low poly

More low poly fun in C4D.

Typewriter Teaser

Teaser for an infographic:

It's Saturday

If I fail fourth year it will be because I'm drawing on eggs instead of doing real work.
Happy Saturday guys!

Coral: a 3D experience

What's that? You're in fourth year? How come you fell off the face of the planet?
Sorry guys.

Here's some untextured coral that I modelled in first semester. It was mostly an experiment in low-poly modelling and finding out efficient ways to duplicate shapes in C4D. Altogether, it was both a fun and mind numbing experience, especially with those sea fans (big, beautiful, pain in the butts). I also managed to crash a couple computers with this project (after all what is 3D modelling if it doesn't involve frying a computer...or 10).

And also included is the final product of the project which was a web app designed to educate users on the choices we make which, both positively and negatively, affect coral reefs around the world.

Best: Seeing the final product and watching the reef come together. Modelling each of those structures and looking up the different types of coral definitely made me appreciate mother nature more. These dying works of art. Speaking of art, check out the crochet reef project! It's beautiful, and nerdy.

Worst: Computers crashing, all the time, forever. Oh you didn't save that last three hours of work? Well....now you know for next time don't you? [happens every time]

Designers changing lives!

Genius. Love it.

Hypenotic

Woooh, just finished the first day of my work term at Hypenotic!
Best start with an encouraging note from the last intern and a coffee. I feel incredibly blessed to have this opportunity at such a great place.

Drawing People??

What's that? Drawing people with skin and clothes and everything? Shock.
Boy was I rusty. But here are some layouts with the sketches I liked best. The idea was to create some sort of relationship or narrative between the characters but I'll leave that to your imagination.
I went for a sort of dark and mysterious layout for the first one. I gotta say, the scratchy, bold, collage [somewhat Dadaist] style was a great push for me. I enjoyed getting into it immensely.
In contrast, the second layout has a light, romantic feeling. For some reason the models really liked poses with their chins tipped up so I played around with the mood of that for the second layout. Lovers from different centuries? Haha.

Best: The models we worked with were amazing! They all gave such striking, dramatic poses and were such stars about wearing uncomfortable costumes and wigs. I really enjoyed listening to fitting movie ost's while I drew. It doesn't get better than listening to POTC ost while drawing a pirate.
Worst: Having to suck up how rusty I was and just dive into it. You know, those first warm up sketches when you end up with a page full of crap and you just have to tell yourself to keep at it because in 20 minutes, better things will be landing on the page [just me?]

12x12

Hey guys,

So all the third year illustration students at Sheridan got a 12" x 12" board to do anything they wanted with. The boards will be on display together as an amalgamation of 3rd year insanity creative prowess. When deciding what to do with my board, I tried to combine several things that I care about: Scientific/medical illustration, typography, and coffee, as well as connecting people's random thoughts. Detailed explanation and final photos are coming soon. For now, here's a sneak peek of what I did:



Q: My friend walked in on me working on this and said, "I'm no longer surprised to see you drawing dead things." haha, made me laugh.

The Human Body

Warning: May contain traces of nakedness .


Here's an old piece that I just realized I never put up. You may have come across it on my portfolio site.



Best: I love the human body! Discovering new things and drawing them is always fun. Even the most mundane things like where is the gallbladder and what's the texture of the pancreas are interesting.

Worst: Figuring out origins and insertions. Henry Gray and Frank Netter were my best friends for the duration of this project.

Harvest2o

Revisiting mr. namib beetle! These are products for harvesting and filtering water based on various animal techniques/physiology.
Namib Beetle - harvesting water through fog condensation
Shark Skin - Bacteria resistant
Lotus leaf texture - Dirt resistant
Aquaporins - filters for water molecules

Lack of clean/drinkable water is slowly becoming a huge problem in the world and it's something to look into protecting. After all, we'll never not need clean water. This hypothetical system looks at natural solutions for the water shortage problem. The Harvest Hut has the dual capacity to collect water in dry climates as well as rainy seasons and is made for quick assembly and disassembly. 


 

Also check out The HydroPack at Ready Set Drop. This great innovation is being used to make a difference in majority world countries where it is really needed. Kudos HTI!

+ Here's an inspiring talk on Biomimicry by Janine Benyus, courtesy of TEDtalks:

Take Off

Here is the final product of the plane model . I figured I might as well milk that Boeing model and render it from a bunch of different angles. And then I got this great idea to work with it in 3D at the print level as well. So I did that second part just for kicks, it was fun. And this project totally made me want to fly a plane [better in my head than in reality I suspect].

[reboiled] Eggs

I recently pulled up the egg timer project from fall and tried rendering it in C4D. [It was modelled in Sketchup and rendered in Kerkythea before]. I have to say, now that I actually know C4D, I cannot believe I tried to make that thing in Sketchup. Anyway, this was pretty fun just exploring file transfers [I used Colladae because I don't have sketchup pro, although obj would probably have worked better] and seeing the difference between the quality of C4D and Kerkythea.
Results!

Flight in progress

Hello Folks,

Here's a quick update on a project I'm working on. The idea is to take a set of existing blueprints and render/paint a 3d image from them. I chose a Boeing F4B4 (P12) because flight is such a fun topic and there's something about those old, colourful, somewhat unreliable airplanes that I really enjoy. So here are some process images. Final renders sooooon!

Ahaha I accidentally left in this backwall that I just noticed, is casting a weird shadow on the bottom-right plane. It looks like there's some insanely huge monument that it's flying past.

Landscape Painting

Trying to digital paint a landscape. I have never stared so hard at rocks before. I have a new respect for concept artists! I used the Isle of Skye for reference. Such a beautiful place! I'd love to go one day.

!deas Gallery Proposal - OSC

Here's a project proposal for the !dea Gallery at the Ontario Science Centre. The project was a collaboration between Jessy Chung and I. I felt really blessed to have had such an amazing partner to work with. We kept the design aspects consistent through constant communication and that really kept the project on its feet.
The in depth explanation of different elements is in there but basically, the exhibition was designed to explain to the public, what scientific illustration is. We tied together the themes, timelines, and subject matter with DNA. We felt that this would be appropriate because scientific illustration deals with the natural world and life sciences and DNA is common to all living things. Overall, we tried to make use of the many screens in the space and address the issue of interaction with viewers of different ages.

BEST: The best part of the project was definitely having someone to hash out ideas with and build on top of existing ideas to make them better.

WORST: I can't say there was anything that I didn't love about this project except for the timeline. We had to complete it in a pretty tight time frame considering that it was a group of two. That was a little bit stressful but it definitely made it an unforgettable learning experience.

Business Cards [arrived]

They're here! They actually came within a week of the order but I was in the midst of chaos at school so I hadn't had time to post them up. So overall I am very pleased with how these turned out. 
- The material [regular, I didn't think it was a good investment at this point to go for the more expensive cardstock] is very good, sturdy and not too thin. You can read the details of their card stock here 
- The photo I took looks blurry because, unfortunately, I left my camera in Oakville so I'm stuck using my phone. However, the printing itself is actually came out very crisp. If your images are vector based, be sure to save and upload to moo as pdf's not jpegs.
- I loved that the rounded corners did not cost a ton extra. Double-sided, rounded cornered cards are upwards of $24 dollars for 50.
- I also appreciate that their paper is sourced from sustainable forests and the packaging is 100% recyclable.
- The customer service was also amazing. Moo sends updates when things have been sent to the printer and when they are being shipped.
- All in all, these came out great, and it was fast. Thumbs up all around.

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Upright Piano [cutaway]

The piano is done!!! Screw you gradients, bane of my existence.

Best: Watching the parts fall into place and seeing some dimension appear as the texture and gradients were added. Also, I have to say, I am really loving those red arrows in the bottom right diagram.

Worst: Adding the texture and gradients.