Betty Who = Best Weekend Ever

This past week I created a piece of fan art as a gift for Betty Who. She is an australian indie/pop artist that is blowing up and is sure to be heard on your radio soon if not already! You may know one of her more popular songs, thus far, "Somebody Loves You"

My boyfriend and I had tickets to do a meet and greet before the show so I got to have her sign a copy of the illustrations for each of us, she was so sweet and humble. You could just tell she truly cared and she even recognized us from previous shows!

We got some swag-tastic posters and VIP cards, and got the biggest warm hugs from each of the laddies I illustrated. Her bassist, Jemila Dunham and keyboardist, Lauren Fuller are two of the sweetest people in the world, we've gotten to know them over the past year or two that we've been following them and we always love staying after to chat with them! They are seriously and truly genuine and talented people! <3

 

Then before she came out on stage she instagrammed the illustration!

And then they slayed the scene!

                  (She sang to Logan for the third time!)

Check out her Upcoming Shows to find one near you!

Materials and Lighting in Maya

Here's that 3D kitchen design with materials and Lighting.

New to Maya

This was my first time working with Maya. I found it a lot easier to work with not really sure why cause its practically the same as 3DsMax. This is my architectural visualization project. A kitchen in which I designed myself.

3D Architectural Visualization from Joey Cheers on Vimeo.

And this is my Organic Project, an original character. Of which I hope to put into a pose before next quarter!

3D Character Model by Joey Cheers (AnimatoJoe) from Joey Cheers on Vimeo.

Then next quarter I am in Materials and Lighting where I will get to give both of these scenes just that.
Also next quarter I'll be taking Acting for Animators, a 2D based class and Traditional Animation Studio which is a two quarter long course of a group project going through all the steps from writing to creating a short of some kind! I'm really looking forward to it! Also! I'll be interning for the Shinebox in Minneapolis! I'm very excited and can't wait to see what experiences come from it!

Thanks for checking me out!

:)

It's Been A While!

Hey guys, here are some of my final composited renders for my first project in my Digital Imaging class. The room itself was Modeled by Dan Wade the 'Haunted Hallway' with objects borrowed from the scene 'Artistry' modeled by Giorigo Luciano. Both offered as resource of 3dRender.com

Here are my shots.

Some shots I had to create for the process of the project where. creating different moods with strictly the lighting and color after everything had textures and materials.

My moods were, cool, warm, and suspenseful. 

My other class is working in Maya (for the first time) So my project is looking great but technical difficulties are making it hard to share it with you. So stay tuned hopefully some troubleshooting will do the trick! :)

Thanks for checking my blog out!

Updates!

I'm on fall break right now from classes but I'm trying to stay busy and creative, nothing major just yet but I've got some personal projects whirling around my head and as well as some possible commission work so that's awesome! Stay tuned to see what comes of that!

 (look familiar?? http://vimeo.com/74217299)

Here's a doodle I did on my iPad today using the app Paper by FiftyThree. It's really awesome! I need to invest in the other pens and brushes to make some really cool digital sketches but just can't quite do it at the moment lol. But if you've got any apps you use to get your creative juices flowin' let me know!

And if you don't already know you can view my work on all of these sites!
animatojoe.com - my professional portfolio site
animatojoe.tumblr.com - more of my artwork
vimeo.com/user16870211animatojoe - my animations
twitter.com/AnimatoJoe - my personal twitter, I also use it to let people know when I've got new work updated and where to find it!



And as always come here for more of a behind the scenes look at what I'm up to! Thanks for checking me and my art out! :)
   

Updated Portfolio Site - And some EXCLUSIVE Insights for my blog followers!

I've just done some updating and organizing on my portfolio site. Now I've got all of my current work all together, so now hopefully with finals fast approaching I can focus and get some nice 3D animations completed to put up on there as well after this quarter is over!

And because my blog is starting to be a little more about the behind the scenes I'll let you in on a little bit of what I've been up to.

In 3D We've created the bouncing ball, added a tail. Then we added feet and legs to that ball with tail. From there we started moving up adding hips, a spine, shoulders, arms, neck and a head, then finally putting a skin over it.

Now we are working on making a character pick up objects, and push or pull them! It's all definitely been a challenge but I'm loving all of the knowledge I'm getting from this class!

But these are exclusives, never before seen other than other students so feel special! Its just a little thanks for checking out my blog!

BUT if you want to...

Go check out my site and see if there's anything you've missed of my work! 

Thanks Everybody!

Family Portrait Illustration

I did this illustration as a gift for my mother's 50th birthday! She loved it and the other members of my family loved seeing themselves as characters! And it fits perfectly on the stairway wall with the rest of the family portraits! :)

View the actual image on My Site!

Thanks for checking it out!