Archive for February, 2009

It’s important to finish your projects…

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Have you ever started a project, only to have it interrupted by something, then you come back weeks, sometimes months later, and you don’t want to be bothered with finishing it anymore? Like, your heads not in the right place?

That happened to me a lot last year, every time I got to do something 3d for myself I got interrupted by web freelance or 3d freelance. That’s all good and fine, but, I want to get some cool stuff I can show for my portfolio done!

Here are a few projects I started for myself that I wanted to finish but never had the chance, I figure this blog entry will give me a good kick in the pants to get things going again.

1. A local Texas motocross podcast

When I had the idea I didn’t have a camera and borrowed some footage from 356productions.com, unfortunately the idea could not come to fruition because I didn’t have a camera to go get some footage for myself, but problem solved, I just picked up a canon HV30, hopefully I can get this going!

Heres a pilot clip: http://www.keithdemele.com/clipboard/podcast_test.mp4

2. 3D space battle scene

Originally this started as a contest entry for the 3dbuzz.com Digital artist competition. I didn’t have time to finish it how I would have liked too so I want to pick it up and finish it out. Heres a screen shot.

3. McLaren F1M

I started this one day waiting before class, what you see below is how far I got, not sure if I want to finish this or not, since i started 3 cars I think I may just want to finish one of them so I can move on with the other projects I have in mind…

4. 2006 Camaro Concept car…

This was the first car I ever attempted, I actually spent a ton of time on this, redoing a lot, I got a huge project then just kinda forgot about it, If I pick it up again I think I would just restart it again. I want to do it, its a cool car…

5. A Green Design house.

I am into green architecture and wanted to design an energy efficent house, I got the building modeling done but never progressed further with it.

6. Interior Scene

This is a peice I wanted to get photoreal for the portfilio, again work got in the way, need to do some more modeling and tweaking, but its close…

7. Alpha Romero 158

I started this car because I wanted to learn the whole max NURBS system, I ended up getting side tracked and never really picked it up again, seems like a fun modeling exercise but was never really excited about it.

8. When F14’s attack

This is a project I have longed put off, its part of the 3dbuzz max fundamentals set. I just need to put in the grunt work, I know the drill just have not put in the time, I want to finnish it though.

Some of the scenes I want to work on next are:

A skydiver
A Rockstar guitarist
Another green building exterior
another interior
and a digital short

I don’t know if its just me, but when I finish a project an overwhelming sence of accomplishment takes over me and I just feel good about myself. This is why I feel that it’s important to finish your projects.

Keith

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Hey its 2009…

Friday, February 6th, 2009

So, I have not blogged lately, to busy? You bet! Can’t sleep? Not a wink…

Megadeth-Insomnia

Ahh, so anyway, in my last blog I posted about having to pass a test, well, I failed it, I should have gone out and partied instead of studied I guess, lesson learned. HAHA!

Anyway, as far as school is concerned…over the winter break I dropped out of school, decided to become an artist and go to art school, got denied for a student loan thanks to the damn economy, decided I cant afford art school, and ended up re-enrolling in some classes that I dropped out of in the first place. I am taking art classes and algebra this semester, as well as doing some community service. School sucks, enough said.

So, lets see we are already into February…What have we missed so far, President Obama was inaugurated, and the country I love is now turning into what is called a socialist democracy. Fun stuff. HOLY SHIT WE ARE SCREWED! and there is nothing I can do as a citizen. Obama has almost started a nuclear war in the middle east, he has whored out to the media, he has signed a few acts that are messed up, he has shut down Guantanamo bay (without thinking where he is going to put the fucking terrorists), and he put Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, great…Just who American needs as a political front man (woman?)..Ever see Escape from New York? That will be the US in 20 years at the current rate.

Work, hahaha work. Well since I had like 3 billable hours for the entire year of 2008, I got whored out the the model shop instead of the viz lab, for the whole year just about I have kept busy with billable work making physical models and stuff. Not a bad thing, but I am an arch viz guy, not a model maker. Its hard doing a job that you don’t do, frustrating when you cant seem to do it right. I get to play with freekin lazer beams a lot of the time though, so its not that bad…Hmm did I mention I have passed what I think is like the 4th round of layoffs? Yeah the economy sucks…Work is just a paycheck right now, nothing too exciting to report, lets see how long I can keep it…

On the home front I am up to my eyeballs freelance, in websites and 3d work…6 websites, a video, and a few 3d renderings. NO SLEEP, It sucks. I laid down for a while earlier but cant seem to rest, my mind is just going over way to much right now…I have not had ANY me time all year. I am getting burnt out…My blog popped into my head while I was laying down, so I figured I would get that off my mind for now, anyway….I am going to go try and sleep for an hour, I have to be up at work to do stuff…

Oh yeah, dirtbikes, nope, none of that this year, got 2 hours in last Saturday actually, had a blast…

Big thanks to Aaron for the photo, great colors, nice camera, make me want to get one and start shooting again…

I am going to try and start updating this blog with more technical related articles as well as work in progress posts, because most of my personal projects never get finnished due to other projects and I would like for some people to see the work, anyway, off to bed…er couch in my office….

Until next time…

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