Another update…

I made changes to the lighting and the bikini top. I may try to switch it back. We’ll see.

June 21, 2025.

July 2, 2025.

New Wrinkles to Old Pieces…

December 11, 2024 is when this image was created after a wholesale remodeling and re-posing. The background was re-done and the two lions were re-positioned.

June 21, 2025, the background was again remodeled, but the main character was re-posed and reshaped around the shoulders, bustline and the hips. Also, earrings were added, and the clothes were given new blue material to complement the brown colors throughout the image. I even gave a brown highlight in the strands of hair. And the overhead area lighting was shifted from the right side of the frame to the left, matching the highlight of the horizon. A lot of changes were made in this piece.

Walk cycle study

Here is me trying to brush up on my non-existent walk cycle skills. I should have had this down to a science years ago, but I didn’t practice.

I decided to change another piece.

I’m using the Human Generator Add-on for Blender to see if I could pose a more realistic look of the “Leo” piece. I rendered several different versions of this pose before I decided on something new.

With this render, I removed the blue fade of the sky because it was giving me pixelation issues in my image editing program. Side note: the shoulders and the face were both to awkward looking to continue.

Here, I changed the pose slightly to give a more regal appearance. I Also altered the position of the sun texture to give the halo behind the model, and I changed the texture of the sand a few times (but wasn’t sold completely).

With this final render, I saturated the colors to help the image pop. And after relying on BlenderKit this past week for the sand dune texture, I decided to create my own procedural material for the waves. (This is the image I’ll stick with for now).

Das EFX

Caricature artist Andre Leroy Davis has asked me to create a few animated quick shots based on his previous work. This is one I managed to finish.

Deleted scenes

These are a handful of scenes I created to include in my concept trailer for “They Came For Brooklyn”. But the clips were either dropped from the actual story, or they slowed pace of the trailer. Anyway, I didn’t want to simply hide them from the rest of the world. So, here they are.

Since I'm in a posting mood...

Typically, I’m either creating or recreating something between projects, just to see the result. Some stuff are worthy of sharing, and some not so much. Here is something I modeled and animated, to see if I could. I guess it came out okay.

A New Version

This is the more cinematic version of the trailer. It also uses music that’s pre-licensed and shouldn’t give me a hard time on YouTube. My next step is to seriously begin writing. For me, connecting all these scenes will be the hard part.