GDC 2012
March 14th, 2012 | Blog | Grayson | No CommentsHere are a few of my highlights from GDC 2012.
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DC Universe Online
March 15th, 2011 | Art, Portfolio, Work | Grayson | No CommentsOn DCUO I worked as the Outsource Manager as part of the SOE Austin studio. I built the outsource department and a large network of vendors to supply assets for DCUO and several other development teams in addition to managing a large scale insourcing effort.
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PSP Galveston Island Open 2011 – Division 4 RaceTo-2
March 8th, 2011 | Paintball | Grayson | No CommentsSouth West Grind at PSP Galveston Island Open 2011
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Area 51
February 22nd, 2011 | Art, Work | Grayson | No CommentsBack in 2004 I joined the Area 51 project about a year out from shipping where I created animations and ran tech art support on many of the in-game cinemas and key character animations.
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Teapot fluid dynamics test
January 27th, 2011 | Art, Experiment | Grayson | No CommentsDescription: This was a quick fluid test done with 3ds max in 2007.
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Hair dynamics test
January 27th, 2011 | Art, Experiment | Grayson | No CommentsDescription: This was a quick test of short hair dynamics done in 2005.
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Trebuchet dynamics test
January 27th, 2011 | Art, Experiment | Grayson | No CommentsDescription: This was done as part of a CGTalk dynamics challenge back in 2004.
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Diver
January 26th, 2011 | Art, Experiment | Grayson | No CommentsDescription: This experiment was created in 2006 and all started from a very random dream I had about microbes and spaceships.
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Loading screen
January 26th, 2011 | Art, Experiment | Grayson | No CommentsDescription: This started with two spheres that had noise rotations and I added a clamped glowing smoke texture. Then I needed to find a use for this. I thought of an old school 1960′s and 70′s era computer from a Fallout like world. Then a little work in After Effects and some sound mixing and [...]
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It’s got that new website smell!
December 21st, 2010 | Blog | Grayson | No CommentsHi everyone! Welcome to the new site; I’ve finally made the jump to WordPress. The goal was to class it up a little; make it easier to update, add a few new features like better mobile browsing, cleaner video and lightbox integration. And a facebook “like” button might show up in the next few days. [...]
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Blast from the past!
December 17th, 2010 | Blog | Grayson | No CommentsI recently stumbled across some artwork from me thats almost 10 years old. Here is a site that I created when I first learned how to write very basic renderman shaders. Check out my desktop on k10k from 2000, windows 95, AOL, and all…yikes!
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Dreadnaught
December 15th, 2010 | Art, Featured, Portfolio | Grayson | 3 CommentsI’ve always had this Dreadnought on top of my monitor for as long as I can remember, and I was a huge 40k fan back in the day. So when I hit a creative block I just picked this guy up and started modeling. I just kept going and learning along the way. This was my first heavy texturing project as well as my first IK rig.
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Mud Monster
December 15th, 2010 | Art, Portfolio, Work | Grayson | No CommentsThis character was rigged with a combination of character studio for the main body and a few extra bones for the mouth and ship pieces. The animations took about an hour per action, with exception for the walk which took a little longer.
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Fell Beast
December 15th, 2010 | Art, Portfolio, Work | Grayson | No CommentsThis character was rigged with a combination of character studio for the main body and a custom bone set up for the wings. The animations took anywhere from about an two to six hours depending on the complexity of the action.
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Ranger
December 15th, 2010 | Art, Work | Grayson | No CommentsThis character is 1,500 tris, two 512 texture sheets. He is set up for full armor switching; the complete character is 5 separate meshes, to offer tons of variations. The art direction was from a provided concept sketch. The model and texture was completed in three working days.
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Vault
December 13th, 2010 | Art, Portfolio | Grayson | No CommentsZoom Description: This was done in response to the huge GI boom in the 3d community. It was done to test how far I could push Max’s standard tools and poke a little fun at all the people who were using engine’s that took hours sometimes days to render a single frame. It’s not perfect [...]
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Desert
December 13th, 2010 | Art, Portfolio | Grayson | No CommentsThis is a piece where I’m trying to shift away from my usual mechanical subjects. I was also very influenced by several photographers as well as the 3d artist Brian Prince [http://www.bprince.com]. I’m pretty happy with how this turned out, and it definitely was a great learning experience.
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Auto Shotgun
December 13th, 2010 | Art, Portfolio | Grayson | No CommentsThis project was for my Modeling for Game Development class and the assignment was to make a weapon under 500 tris with a 256×256 texture sheet.
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Honey Bee
December 13th, 2010 | Art, Portfolio | Grayson | No CommentsI’ve always had this Dreadnought on top of my monitor for as long as I can remember, and I was a huge 40k fan back in the day. So when I hit a creative block I just picked this guy up and started modeling. I just kept going and learning along the way. This was my first heavy texturing project as well as my first IK rig.
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Saloon
December 13th, 2010 | Art, Portfolio | Grayson | No Comments1840′s western saloon.
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Autodesk Super User Tour | Asia | 2009
May 17th, 2009 | Talks | Grayson | No CommentsTaipei > Hong Kong > Shanghai > Seoul Zoom
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Autodesk Master Class Europe Tour | 2008
July 5th, 2008 | Talks | Grayson | No CommentsParis > London > Stockholm > Frankfurt > Warsaw Date: 2008 July Title: Layers of Control – 3ds master class Zoom
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Autodesk Master Class @ Siggraph 2007
August 7th, 2007 | Talks | Grayson | No CommentsDate: 2007 Augest Title: Advanced animation effects using simple but effective rigs – 3ds master class and Autodesk booth floor show Zoom
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Autodesk Master Class @ GDC 2007
March 12th, 2007 | Talks | Grayson | No CommentsTitle: Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya: Advanced Animation Techniques Score: Overall Score:4.3 Comment excerpt: “The MAX stuff was great.”
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