Carson McKay

2009-06-18T17:02:00.000-07:00

Here is my bowl in a candle lit scene

My Lighting Reel

2009-06-11T12:49:00.000-07:00

For those of you who can't view quicktime, here is a compressed version of my Lighting Reel.

One Real One not

2009-06-10T23:00:00.001-07:00

This is the revised digital copy

Just the bowl was replaced in one image. I am trying to get the lighting as close as i can, a work in progress

Bowl Light study

2009-06-09T17:22:00.000-07:00

this is just the first of a light study, I am going to try and match different lighting with my bowl here.

Lit shots from "X-ing"

2009-06-08T13:34:00.000-07:00

Here are a series of shots I lit for X-ing, these are all pretty much the final shot, with some tweaks still needed on the background textures and models, as well as the lack of the final ghost comp, which will add transparency and particle effects.

Some lighting tests

2009-05-03T22:21:00.001-07:00

Some textures

2009-02-12T23:08:00.000-08:00

Lighting Concept

2009-02-12T23:03:00.000-08:00

While trying to figure out some ideas for the film, lighting-wise, i developed this for the approaching vehicle. I did the layout and lighting for this shot.

Extremely busy, but here is something

2009-02-12T22:58:00.001-08:00

I have been too busy working on X-ing to create content for my own benifit, but here is a layout shot i just finished, it is an opener...

HubCap

2008-10-16T14:50:00.001-07:00

I made this with renderman, It needs work, but a fun start

Comet Explode

2008-10-16T09:04:00.000-07:00

Here is a comet exploding I made for a live action student film.

wheel in the sky

2008-05-18T22:48:00.000-07:00

This is a wagon wheel i made for Heart Burned, i built and textured it, yay.

jet fly

2008-04-21T10:55:00.000-07:00

first pass at a flying jet in clouds, a bit rough still

Maya clouds

2008-04-19T09:43:00.000-07:00

Here are some cool clouds I made in maya, flying throught them...they are maya liquids, selfshadowing and lit by real lights yay!

2008-04-16T12:05:00.000-07:00

I made this bear. I might try and rig him up and the whole shabang. We''ll see...

Lower res Download

2008-03-24T07:30:00.000-07:00

The Lower res Download, faster and still good resolution. 5.67 megs

Lower res Reel

Higher Res Reel to download

2008-03-23T22:34:00.001-07:00

Ok I didn't realize they would slap my reel into a flash compressor when uploaded onto this site, so here is a link to where you can download the higher res version and actually see the textures! how novel. The File is 55.2 Megabytes so be prepared to wait if your connection is slow.

Higher res Reel

Ok here is the reel, version 1

2008-03-23T21:53:00.000-07:00

Here is my reel finally, now that the software stopped crashing while trying to render the video. This a decent res version, I might post an even higher res one after this. Enjoy

Overview-
The Monster Guy was done completely by yours truly from design to animation to render. The entire thing was done with Maya and maya's renderer.

The stairs I did the texture and lit it, but in the "in context" shot I did just the texture. It is all procedural except a baked out occlusion map to assign rust.

The baseball was all me, Just showing off a renderman shader.

The Rocket was maya Particles, all maya textures, rendered in Maya

The clouds are from playing with a maya fluids tutorial and trying to make them move, rendered in maya

The Ghost effect was exploration of Maya fluids beyond the tutorials, changing things up to get effects I wanted.

Yeah that is basically it.

First Post

2008-03-21T02:32:00.001-07:00

Ok, I now have this blog up and running, well mostly walking...or crawling...perhaps barley even moving.... but it is up. I should have my Reel posted on here as soon as I can get it all rendered out.

In the meantime, here is an old experiment with dynamic simulations. Just a bunch of impacts etc. I had a much higher res model but it would not render, hence the purple block man.