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Monday, September 21, 2009

Don't get saucy, I've got my Bovie.


This vector illustration was created for my Surgical Orientation class over the summer. As the title implies, this instrument is called a Bovie, and is used for cauterizing and cutting various tissues. This was done in Illustrator and didn't take too much time at all.

Scorpion-Cactus hybrid?



Another MAYA creation. What is it? I don't know, but it was fun to create!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Lymphedema


Another Advanced Imaging project...I chose to do an image of a woman with lymphedema, and show through transparency, her lymphatic system and the disconnect that is causing her to have lymphedema. Although still in progress, I'm happy with what I've got done already. (The lymphatic system is basically like the 'garbage men' of your body...it gets rid of your cellular waste through a system of channels in your body. When those connections between the channels are broken, the body has no way to get rid of those wastes so the cellular fluid builds up in the person's extremities. In most cases, people with lymphedema have had their lymph nodes removed due to cancer, or radiation therapy and in women, it is most prevalent in the arms after breast cancer surgery. The affected limb becomes swollen, heavy and is prone to infection. Read more about it here, on Wikipedia if you like).

BRANCHES. BRANCHES. Oh my...


Maya class. Create a complex branching network. Ok. Got it. How about a glowing metal pipe system? Cool? Ok, cool. (click to see a larger image)

Alright, so here is the last slide to my mitosis storyboard...nothing too serious, just showing the finishing of cytokinesis (the 2 cells actually dividing). Soon, hopefully by tomorrow, because that's when it's due, I will put up the final composed storyboard, with camera angles and top-down views. Woop!

Monday, September 14, 2009

You dirty scoundrel!

Advanced Graphic Design. Yup. Advanced. Nah...it's just the next (as in the only) graphic design class offered to us second years in BVIS. However, we have the same professor, a Mrs. Donna Hughes, who is one of the most instructive, efficient and passionate professors we have in BVIS. I love her. Anyways, our first assignment was to create any mode of advertising to alert the public of the H1N1 flu virus (a.k.a. the Swine Flu). Obviously, pigs were heavily utilized by many of us...and I am no exception. This would be an ad for the side of a bus. I wish Nathan, a fellow classmate, had a blog/portfolio up, because his billboard was FANTASTIC and I would link to it if I could! Mine is ok.

Wood.

So we had to do some artwork over the summer, just whatever you felt like doing...I went to the Morton Arboretum and was inspired to paint some outdoor scenes, so I did! This has some traditional watercolor underpainting (gasp!) and the rest was done in Photoshop. I wanted a more 'contemporary look' so I left most of the background white, putting in random leaves and such. I actually loved doing this painting because I had to explore to get photos to work off of. Also, Photoshop CS4 is pretty much the bomb, considering I never got too attached to CS3.




Big movement.

So after a long ass hiatus, I am returning to my blog. However, I think I will spare all of you and mostly post up art I am working on. Why? Why the hell not, that's what I say. So to celebrate, I will begin with a post of some storyboard images for an animation on mitosis that I will be creating in the coming month. Considering my class is so creative, I'm sure there will be some pretty amazing animations by the end of the semester. Anyways, study my storyboards and learn the wonderful process that is cell division.








My actual portfolio!

Here is it, check it out!