minimalism?

i'm not really into the whole castle/fantasy game thing. sorry ben, that's sort of your forte. so, i made a frank lloyd wright inspired house. after drawing it out and then making most of it on the computer, i turned around and saw that other kids had created really cool castles. and that mine looked really simple in comparison.

but then i realized, isn't that sort of the point? frank lloyd wright rejected ornate and frivolous architecture, even though it was beautiful. he celebrated clean lines and functional construction. so really, i fulfilled the goal i began with. it actually took quite a bit of time to make the curves look right and for the balconies to curve and have parts dug out. i really like using the boolean tool. 10% for it's name.

i think i will truly be satisfied with this piece when it has materials. which is this week! i am going to be a great material artist. this i know.


i don't know how to use blogger or html for that matter. the rectangle is off. failing at life right now.

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