Sep 11 2009

Playmobile Toys Come to Life

I worked on this shot for Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium at  Satellite Studios.  I had to make these little Playmobile guys come to life. It was really fun to work on. This whole shot was done using XSI ( I still have trouble calling it Softimage ). I did all the modeling, texturing, rigging, lighting, tracking and rendering.  This is the full uncropped frame to give you and idea what the original plates were like. Compositing was done by Gregg Lukomski.


Sep 2 2009

Sssssscary Ssssssnake

A test Trevor Harder and I did before I worked on a gazillion shots on “Snakes on a Plane” . Animating snakes gets quite boring after awhile.

All of the snake was actually done in Lightwave.  If any of you have rigged in Lightwave before you know this type of rig was quite the pain. I currently prefer to work with Softimage and have done alot of animating in Maya as well.

Trevor Harder did the lighting, compositing and rendering. I modeled, textured, rigged and animated it.


Aug 24 2009

Sewer Creature – Zbrush models

Fishman-Angle-v01

Fishman-Back-v01

A couple of pics of the Sewer Creature Zbrush model I designed and created.


May 16 2009

Sewer Creature

This is an internal project I worked on at Satellite Studios.  We were testing out some methods and did all the 3D work in XSI (Softimage) and Zbrush.  I’m going to add some hi res stills and some information on the process at a later date.

Shannon Wegner: Supervisor.  Sewer Creature – design, modeling, texturing, rigging and animation.
Trevor Harder:  Director. Supervisor. Compositing. Lighting/Rendering.
James Carver: Environment modeling and texturing.
Trevor Tang: Mouse – modeling, texturing, fur and rigging.  Environment modeling and texturing.
Kyrah Harder: Girl