Bryan Ray, Visual Effects Artist

April 1, 2010

Advanced Compositing Final

This is the shot I turned in for Advanced Compositing. It still needs quite a bit of work, including swapping the flying robot for two or three walking humanoid ones, major work on the shadows, changing out the background buildings for a futuristic cityscape, and a little tweaking of this and that.

The footage was generously provided by Colin Cooper and Rob Petersen in exchange for my work on the VFX. Hopefully once I get this shot in the can, all the rest of the shots they need will be comparatively easier. At the very least, I won’t have to do any more modeling at that point.

December 18, 2009

Motion Tracking example

Geometry tracking with PFTrack. Modelling and texturing quickly done in Maya & Photoshop, and the compositing in Nuke.

This is only half of the final project, but the other half isn’t really worth showing off.

June 27, 2009

An Arabian City

Yet another environmental drawing from Perspective & Proportion. For this one, the assignment was to illustrate a particular period in history using the architecture as the primary clue about what time period the image describes. I wasn’t terribly happy with the characters in this one, but I very much enjoyed drawing the mosque. The minarets and domes of Islamic architecture are so beautiful. It was a delight just to look at the reference photos.

Pencil on cold-press illustration board.

An Arabian City during the Crusades

An Arabian City during the Crusades

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