work by David Golden
Finally the proto-roof is basically done. This structure was the most intensive work so far on the project. It has around 4,000 individual elements, most of which were placed manually one by one to fit the curve and for slight variation. All I have left on it is a tiny bit of texture tweaking and some minor embellishments maybe. No wonder these things are so heavy in real life and have a tricky way of crushing the buildings they adorn.
Various renders of messing with the panel doors for the About Wing Chun building involving hand-painted bump maps and textures.
Some fun renders of the textured center gate with some light source tweaking, and a little bloom.
Got the moon gate in this one, which will have ivy growing on it later, and a wall intersection and an entrance door. Note that the ground texture is just a simple repeating texture for testing purposes, it’s only there to provide the renderer with a photographic color range for bounced light transfer. The real ground will be done later.
These show tenative textures for the left stair grouping. I tried a variety of brick tectures on the stair-walls of different groups, but will probably standardize them in the end. The colorful grid texture that will appear in many of these renders is used for reference in laying out UVs for texture placement, and signifies an object that has not yet been textured. In this case, it’s a giant incense burner thing which will be sculpted by hand in another program to get a high level of detail.
Some test-renders of the “About Wing Chun” Building. I’ve changed the model a lot since the beginning, getting progressively more accurate and detailed. The roof will most likely be the next finished part, after which I will be able to mix and match parts to quickly construct the other buildings.
Completely customized Myspace page for the movie Cartel Crackdown. At the time when I did this, Myspace was even more of a nightmare to customize, and you had to lay everything out over top of the regular myspace info. The flash header on this animates in a loop and has an integrated custom video player for playing the movie trailer. Visit the Cartel Crackdown Myspace
This was a project for a movie called “Cartel Crackdown”. The director, Steven Carino, provided almost all the graphics, and I put them all together with animation into a Flash site. Added some little shiny effects and gun sounds and animation. The site is supposed to have a feel that’s almost like a videogame menu.
Also created voting form which tallies live votes from visitors to the site, possibly effecting the ending of the movie. Visit CartelCrackdown.com
This was a project for which I was sub-contracted to take the logo of Monterey Wine Services and turn it into various themed animations which would demonstrate the different sections of the site. I was sent the storyboards and then created the guy in 3d, rigged him with a skeleton and skin, and used a vector render to turn the 3d into flat color 2d animations. Visit Monterey Wine Services Site
Just a few random website header graphics done for various things.
