Charley Hodgkins art and animation blog

LAYOUT

2011-12-05T06:36:00.000-08:00

This week Dan asked us to draw a dynamic layout with curvilinearity and a calm layout with angularity.

I thought this was a great idea for an assignment. Cool Dan did it again.

Brain Explosion

2011-11-16T14:41:00.001-08:00

I was messing around with fluids... trying to break them. I took a colorful ramp and fed it into crazy opacity input keys. This came out of that. Jason said it looked like a brain exploding, so thats what it is.

Its fun to try to confuse maya.

When I see an input like "IMPLODE" I throw it negative, just to mess with maya's head. That kind of stuff makes it feel more like doodling to me. Its cool that you can try whatever you want.

photoghs

2011-11-14T09:54:00.001-08:00

maya fluid simulation

48 hour film MUDMANS

2011-11-13T10:54:00.000-08:00

Heres my 48 hour film. The theme was cactus.

swag surfin 11111111111

2011-11-11T16:25:00.000-08:00

Yeah, cause I'm swag surfin'

On the swag tsunami and I'm surfin
But I can't swim, but I'll be runnin' that way all mothafucking day
Yeah, I got the fucking swag flu bro

today is 111111111111111111

hollow inside

2011-11-02T15:26:00.000-07:00

2011-10-24T22:45:00.000-07:00

here is one o my layout assignments.

mailbox

2011-10-20T18:27:00.000-07:00

a few revisions

Steam Goat Billy

2011-10-08T21:28:00.001-07:00

This is a render of the model I am using for a steam boat willy style short Im making for my brother. Hes not rigged yet, but I hope to get that done this weekend so I can start moving this sloppy fool

JUMP assignment

2011-09-24T22:17:00.001-07:00

cut in half

2011-09-10T14:44:00.001-07:00

oh mayas what will we do with you.

The face I made

2011-08-08T17:27:00.000-07:00

I was working on a rig, modeling this surfer brah... when out of the blue the mesh for his body disappeared.

So I was like "wtf?"

I checked the outliner and the geometry was there. I selected it and I could see the vertexes, but there were no faces.

So again I was like "wtf?"

Being a good citizen I restarted maya, saving my changes.

I opened it back up and everything was gone. When I realized that there was no more hope for the surfer brah this is the face I made:

sk-etchbook drawings

2011-08-02T21:50:00.000-07:00

ske-tchbook drawings

2011-07-18T21:07:00.001-07:00

Scan didn't show up well so i messed with the levels. It was drawn on bright pink paper originally.

The above is based on an actual conversation. This dude was like, "Jah dude you get shacked" and the other dude was all like, "Jah dude totally shacked"

I had no idea what they were talking about. So I asked around.

I learned something new.

SHACKED

To be so deep inside the tube of a wave that one is completely enveloped - like being inside a fully enclosed dwelling, or shack.

There is an alternate definition "to get really wasted"

Right on

I've been playing this game called League of Legends

I drew these guys up top based on what I figured the other people playing the game must look like.

bomb suit man

2011-06-07T23:41:00.000-07:00

This is a test I did on my bros computer. Its from a thumbnail sketch of a little guy in a bomb suit like "fatman" from MGS. I modeled and rigged this character. The Xray texture took all night to render on this computer! It was done by using ambient occlusion information as a way to shade the rig. Thanks for looking

P show piece

2011-05-15T15:14:00.000-07:00

This is my piece for the Producers show opening. I was lucky enough to get to composite the whole thing together with jeff. It turned out fantastic. Everyone submitted such cool stuff. I'll post a link to it when its available.

EDIT:
here it is
http://vimeo.com/23833653

GHOSTS HUNTER :the truth

2011-05-03T00:19:00.001-07:00

The mayas cracked open like and egg and this is what came out.

whenever I do animation in maya, something weird happens and I end up making some whacked out version of what I was originally working on. Maya is such a scary place.

Im working on a red cat thing, and a dario-dressed-as-a-porcupine thing

The fire is from the Red Cat thing. Which is a project for Fran's class (not france class) with a red cat and a backpack, a knife and a morgue. messing around with these BOSS computers while I still have them

MONSTER

2011-05-01T15:24:00.000-07:00

All the hard work and sleepless nights are done... for a couple of months maybe. Here is the film that I made this year. Schwas fun to make. I am proud of my classmates. Everyone did such a great job.

Skœtch Bǜk

2011-04-06T15:37:00.000-07:00

some recent random doodles. The guy with the big glasses is my foundations teacher hes one trippy dude.

2011-03-21T22:01:00.000-07:00

goucho

BOB experiment

2011-02-19T23:58:00.001-08:00

Its presidents day weekend. I took a break from films to do something completely off topic

This was my first render from maya. Its also my first rig.

This was rendered with mental-ray [color corrected physical sun]

I did some weird stuff with focal length

well this is uncomfortable

2011-01-26T21:07:00.000-08:00

This drawing can be seen in the main gallery above equally enormous self portraits by Jason, Jacob and Piazza.

Its at least life size, so sorry

48 hour filmsneak

2010-11-10T13:01:00.000-08:00

From me and PIAZZ's 48 hour film. Voice by MIKE PIAZZA

In Jarmony

2010-08-14T16:07:00.001-07:00

Alcoholicos Borrachos

2010-08-14T02:20:00.000-07:00

I drew these winos with a internet doodling tool called harmony using the chrome brush. Its fun,

2010-08-01T23:23:00.000-07:00

figs you're drying

2010-07-23T16:50:00.000-07:00

seesa person

Jonny G is the mastermind behind sinister experimentation involving primates

Finger Drawings

2010-07-22T10:42:00.000-07:00

Dont Worry About It

2010-06-15T09:12:00.000-07:00

Banana Goatee

2010-05-29T16:35:00.001-07:00

My Dad wanted to know how a banana with no arms could walk and what he would look like with a goatee.

BoomStick

2009-10-12T19:22:00.000-07:00

skrewing around with the lunchbox.

2009-08-17T11:30:00.000-07:00

mural

2009-07-17T14:02:00.001-07:00

Fresh Ink

2009-04-28T17:23:00.000-07:00