reference images

i want to build a modernist house. something a la frank lloyd wright. i collected some images to use as my reference point and i think today i'll work on combining them to make something awesome. here are the images i've found that i like. the only problem is that i would really like to include foliage with these images. i love how flw (oh yeah, abbreviated) uses natural surroundings to build his houses. it's not really the same in the limbo of 3d land. maybe i can continue building this through a few of our assignments.

lofts/extrusions/weird things i've made

this week i've been making some interesting things. how useful they are to my practical (as practical as animating can get) abilities, i'm not sure. however, THEY LOOK COOL.


poorly designed and executed "AG" logo. my initials. i can't get the dimensions right on this. it looks funnnnnny.


this is my favorite of the things i made. it's an extrusion that got sort of tangled up in itself. i really used this exercise to play with materials. this one is just a blinn. but it's nice and transparent.


look at this quality goblet i made with a revolution.


this is a loft. with a shitty material. but i thought it was fun to play and work with textures.


this one is cool but i need to learn lights.

ta da!

atmospheric painting

i made this little atmospheric painting partly in class. i'm sort of obsessed. i had the drawing from this summer, but it looks amazing colored.

skysphere

so, i'm not particularly one for convention. i enjoy most things if they have fifty years of rust and sweat on them. shiny, new plastic sort of weirds me out. this may seem irrelevant, but truthfully, i apply this love of vintage to my art as well. so, when making a sky sphere for this assignment, i knew i had only a few options.

first, i tried to make/take a panorama of my room. it sort of worked but considering i'm doing this at 2 am the night before it's due, i didn't have a lot of time to work with it. (i'm sorry ben, here is the reason why: http://vimeo.com/14790347 five months of hard work. it ended tonight).

so, first attempt failed miserably. BUT, i did use some found images and some lights (i know, i'm ahead of the game) to make this skysphere really work. i used two vintage images, one of las vegas and one of philadelphia. i also found an image online that made a really cool rendered picture. it looks real except the backwards text.

enjoy!

hello again

hi readers,

my name is amelia giller and this is the blog i've been keeping for ben bay's classes at the university of texas. i have a number of blogs which i find sort of embarrassing, but necessary. i have a fashion blog that chronicles street style here in lovely austin, texas. and, i have a newer blog where i post my daily drawings. i guess i truly understand how great blogs are for showing evolution within your portfolio. which is why i'm making this one strictly for visual effects.

i wanted to share some of my work with you, although a similar post can be found a few months back. i've done some great work since then. first, i'm sharing my favorite stop motion piece i've done called "rare bird".




i am also sharing a photo from my fashion blog. you can see more posts here: commonbirds.



here is a photo of some of something i drew recently. you can see my drawing blogs here: ameliorate.



and here is another photo i took of my cousin.


i hope these little snidbits give you a peak into my interests!

still working! i promise

Oops

I forgot to post! But I am working. I have changed my final project. I am doing some animated title sequences for a good friend Stephen. His movie is so cool, it's about a man who wants to straighten his curly mustache for a lady. All live action, all very goofy.

Although there is something pure about doing your own work in college (Ben reminded me of this) it is always interesting to work in groups and have someone be in charge. I've had a few disagreements with the director of the film. He hasn't really liked my work that much, which surprised me. I really like what I have been doing and I have spent a good deal of time on it. Everything I have shown him, however, he has said is a "good start." I finally responded that spending four hours on something is not a start. It's a difficult balance, friendship and working under someone. He hasn't told me if he likes the stuff that I've redone. And, perhaps it is not that I'm doing things wrong but he needs to give me more direction. Anyway, I'm working very hard. Trying to get things done.

Here is about 1/5 of the work I'm doing for him.