While I didn't make anything worthwile in Illustrator, I used much of my time to screw around with Photoshop... And, well, I also tried my hand at some manga style drawings. Here we go:
PT 1:
3d stuff:
Ok, this one is just a jet... The basic form was part of a tutorial on low poly modeling (of course, I roundified it so it's no longer low poly, it looks like a toy now.)
Mech-Organus... This one I made entirely with no help... And it's pretty obvious. This was the result of totally screwing around... I called it mech-organus because it's mechanical, but it's alive... It's got a mind of it's own!
Finally my aliens... This was before I finished putting materials on them, so you'll notice my alien guy has no pupils... He should have pupils... Just a small change, but there were also more details in mech-organus and in the terrain. There were two trees (albeit crappy looking trees) and everything moves and there is fog at the end... And mech organus and the jet get in a fight, with mechorganus firing missiles at the jet. I got a perfect grade on it, actually. I loved that class! Too bad I moved... Well, not really, but I wish that class was here at my local college...
These are all stills from my final animation from the class. They don't look that great and the Jet was mostly from a tutorial, but the little aliens were my first experiment with humanoid model... (come on, our classes were only once a week and it was my first semester)
That's why I'm enthusiastic about full sail!
http://www.fullsail.com
that's where I'll be going when I build my credit up enough to get loans that will both pay for tuition and pay my bills (rent, food, insurance) and that will take a while... Probably a couple years... Before I go to full sail, I'm gonna go to Japan... I've got big plans in my future, but they are all dependent on me getting a nice job... Or winning the Lotto, I suppose, but I think you may have to BUY TICKETS to do that (but I can buy candy and oreos! YAY! Come on God, I could really use a mill or so! ^_^)
Yeah, anyone who wants the animation I've only got it in QT format (Sorenson) and it looks like crap because of how low the settings had to be... However it looks much better in motion than it does still (not so with some of my other stuff) So if you still want it I can send it over AIM.
I made some fatal changes to the file after that, and therefore lost my ability to re-render in a much cleaner divx (or a much cleaner QT for that matter)
(more to come later, an example of my modeling that acutally looks sorta pretty despite the mystery second light source casting shadows before I knew how to make only some lights cast shadows and not all of them...)
