Steampunk Android

I textured this found 3D model of an android/robot using mia_material x in Mental Ray. I wanted to give her a steampunk style so I focused on some oxidized copper and brass textures along with a cracked-glaze porcelain with rust stains. 

I found the model here. I UV'd it and fixed some of the facial geometry to make it easier to texture.

RenderMan Jack-In-The-Box

For this project we had to use Pixar's PRMan and RenderMan Studio to render a model of a jack-in-the-box with the theme; Fools and their money are soon parted.

I am responsible for all assets, including texturing, modeling and lighting. Rendered with RenderMan. These are my final renders. For the technical breakdown, click here.

WIP Jack-in-the-Box

Reference

Demo Reel 2013 - Reina Elizondo

Reina Elizondo

http://www.behance.net/reinaelizondo

Organic Texture: Frog!

Slimy Frog - by Reina Elizondo

Dead Frog - by Reina Elizondo

This was textured in Maya. I used a combination of the SSS fast skin (for the frog) and Blinn (for everything else including the eyes).

I painted a base texture in Mari; I used this project as an excuse to start learning it. Unfortunately, time crunches meant I had to finish the details of the textures through Photoshop. The frog textures, were entirely painted in Mari and Photoshop. The lily pad and eye textures were composited in Photoshop from various web references. (The most recognizable of which was this lovely dead lily pad.

The model was from 3DVIA.com by Matku. Although it came without eyes.

What I found most challenging was the way the SSS shader effected displacement maps.  I'm happiest with the slimy look of the live frog.

Frog Breakdown

My frog texture break down and animated camera.

See still frames for more information.

Lighting Match Breakdown

A project on matching to life.

Double Rainboom: It's out! Spoilers, Rough Backgrounds

Double Rainboom is a not-for-profit fan-made collaborative animation by students at my school and people all over the world. Directed by Zachary Rich. 

Before it came out, I couldn't post two of these rough backgrounds because they have spoiler hints. So, here are the three rough backgrounds I worked on in 2012. (If you haven't seen it yet go to http://www.doublerainboom.com/watch.html)

 I had a lot of help from Jourdan Lasko to get the look down for Ponyville. She was the lead for the MLPFiM backgrounds. She also taught me how to draw in Flash, since I hadn't touched it for years.

Megan Phillips, the background lead for the Townsville scenes, told me they wound up having to simplify this. She said, "basically, it's too good". PPG had a lot more of a quick and dirty style, so they could get their episodes out. PPG was traditionally animated.

This was the last one I did for the animation. They had many artists and had most of the planned backgrounds assigned by the time I finished it. 

All in all I had simple one point perspective backgrounds, but I felt like it helped me a lot having such detailed feedback during this process. I've learned a lot from this team.

Lighting: Match to Life

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REINA ELIZONDO­

               Cell: 801-502-6414                      Email: relizo21@student.scad.edu

Portfolio: http://www.behance.net/reinaelizondo

 Blog: reinasbraincanvas.blogspot.com

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Skills:

Painting | Adobe CS: Esp. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign | Maya, Moderate Nuke, Basic Mari, 

Moderate 3DsMax, Moderate Flash | Basic HTML, Basic JavaScript | Sony Vegas,

Mixed Media, Fine Arts | Problem Solving, Working in Teams, Facilitating

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Education:

Savannah College of Art and Design: 2011 – Present VSFX Illustration Collaboration on Student Animations		Utah Valley University: 2006 – 2011 AAS – Digital Communications Technology      Graphics Computer Applications      Multimedia       2D Design        Fine Art
	Hunter High School: Graduated 2006

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Collaborations:

Student Animated Film: Double Rainboom             (2D Completed Spring 2013)

Director: Zachary Rich               Film Website: http://www.doublerainboom.com/

Contribution: 3 rough backgrounds in Flash

     Student Animated Film: Ducky                               (3D In Progress)

Director: Daniela A Astudillo     http://danielaastudillo.com/ 

Contribution: I completed 3.5 backgrounds

     Student Animated Film: Tenth Life                          (2D In Progress)

Director: Charlene Fenton           http://charfenton.com

Contribution: 1 rough background

     Student Animated Film: Complement Me             (2D, Pt.1 Completed Sp. 2012, Pt.2 In Progress)

Director: Kathryn Nicolas           Film Website: http://vimeo.com/43047980

Contribution: coloring 10 backgrounds, 2.5 scenes ink and paint in ToonBoom Animator

     Student Animated Film: Play Room                                    (3D Completed Sp. 2012)

Director: Erica Lopez                  Film Website:

           http://www.behance.net/gallery/Playroom-(3D-Collaborative-Short-Film)/5624193

Contribution: I worked on concept art, 8 objects textured in Photoshop 3D, and 2 matte paintings

     Student Animated Film: Starmaker                                     (2D Completed Sp. 2012)

Director: Jenny Plyler                 Film Website: http://thestarmakerfilm.blogspot.com/

Contribution: I worked on 6 rough backgrounds

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Employment:

August 4, 2012 SIGGRAPH Student Volunteer - Directed Attendees, Hand Out Badges, Booth Assistant

February 24, 2012 SCAD Career Fair Volunteer - Booth Assistant

October 2009 – October 2009 HR File Room - Managing and Imaging HR Employee Files.

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Hobbies: Painting; Digital, Oil, Acrylic, Skiing, Reading, Writing, and Karaoke

Rough Background

This was a rough shaded background for another collaborative animation. I was given a very rough sketch from the story board and access to pictures of a clay model of the rock formation. The squiggles are suggested light ray lines for the sun that is back-lighting it.

Rough Background

Another rough background for a collaborative animation.

Another Rough Background

This is a dutch angle background: I was given the rough outline below and asked to play with it and shade it. I skewed and resized the tree shapes, enhanced them, and added foreground elements to draw the eye towards the action from the storyboards. This was for another collaborative animation.

Illustration Assignment - Lymric

Music Appreciation - by Reina Elizondo

This was for an assignment to choose from some limericks and illustrate one of them. I chose 'There was an old man with a flute' by Edward Lear. This was done with pen and ink washes on watercolor paper.

Illustration Assignment: Illustrate a Song

Hotel California - by Reina Elizondo

I chose to illustrate the song 'Hotel California' by the Eagles. I wanted the feminine form to be made out of both the desert and chaos, to represent the desolation and to touch on the references to drugs and addiction in the song. To me the woman in the song is a representation of temptation and a lure to darker urges. In my picture the zipper of the woman's dress is a car on the 'long desert highway' and it's revealing chaos underneath.

Illustration: Reach Out and Touch Someone

Reach Out - Skin Hunger

Revised Illustration

An illustration of the excerpt  :

Cynthia Rylant. The Islander. (DK, 1998.) 

I was a boy when I met the mermaid, and, of course, no one believed me. It didn’t matter. I was a solitary boy — lonely, actually — and had long given up on anyone understanding what I said or how I felt. I had lived with my grandfather for three years, and he was a kind and gentle man, but he could not see into a boy’s world and so could not do much more than love me.

Illustration: Losing All Hope Was Freedom

Illustration Assignment: Cover for The New Yorker

 I wanted this to be a statement on left behind dreams.

Edit: I've recently seen a commercial that is totally rocking this theme since I posted this...coincidence? Looks at follower #s...I guess so, lol.

Revised Illustration

This was intended to illustrate the idiom 'Cock and Bull Story'; in other words an unbelievable story.

Watercolor and some ink.

I wanted to make the face in the foreground telling the story and so I made the dragon and flames coming from it's mouth. I associate 'unbelievable' with fantasy (ergo a dragon) and fantasy with purples and violets. Of couse dragons have fire so I got a good warm vs. cool going with the flames and the dragon. I'm aware I need to strengthen contrast in value and saturation.

I used salt sprinkled into the washes to get the background texture and I absolutely love the effect. It makes me want to experiment with more textures that way.

This is the revised version.