Happy Halloween

My wife, daughter and I decided to do a little pumpkin carving on sunday night and I wanted to do something different this year. So instead of carving one in the old fashion way, I decided to get a little crazy. Check it out.






































































Yeah, I consider this an epic fail but I had a lot of fun learning how pumpkin reacts to carving. I see why more people don't do this. It is supposed to be the floating zombie spaceman head from a couple posts back. It was a fun learning experience, but now back to the real work. Enjoy.

Sketchdump!

I found a bunch of stuff that I never posted in my old sketchbook. This stuff reaches back about months. Wow, I need to stay on top of things more. Enjoy!

Audrey 2 and a little life drawing

This is my second attempt at Audrey Hepburn. I stretched it a little bit more and I am alot more satisfied with this one. This took me forever because no matter how much I stretched her features, I still had to make sure she stayed semi-pretty. Whew. Anyway I thought i would throw on one of my figure sketches from work also. Enjoy!

Audrey

This is a quick Character Design assignment that I completed tonight. A caricature of a popular celebrity. I chose Audrey Hepburn because that lady had style. She was gorgeous and always had the sweetest hair. But nothing beats the lashes. My wife informs me that she had individual eyelash separator people that actually separated every one of her eyelashes from the others with a needle to give them the full look. Hey, it worked. That is the first thing i think of when Audrey Hepburn comes to mind. I regret not drawing her long ol' cigarette holder, but alas this is life. Enjoy

Oh yeah

This is a piece that I did for Joe olson's class to the theme of "Bunny herders of the endless steppe". What you see is what you get on this one. The bunnies are really big on that there endless steppe. Nuff said. Enjoy!

Sneak Preview

These wont be turned in till tomorrow, so if you are a faithful follower you will get to see them today! These are an assignment that we have spent 3 weeks on. The first week we drew a silhouette of 4 themes, Spaceman, Butler, Female construction worker and Witch. These you will see in the top left corner. The next week we added whiteout to all of them to give them some interesting internal shapes and chose our favorites. These you will see in the bottom left. The final week, we were to render out a character according to those shapes and the big ones on the right are what I came up with. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!



Butler:
















Witch/ Warlock:
















Female Construction Worker:
















Spaceman:

Toy design round 2

I am taking Joe Olson's drawing for animation class this semester. It rocks my socks and I recommend it to everyone who has the chance to take it. This is a toy design after the style of the "Urban Vinyl" genre. Look it up, they're pretty sweet. Anyway if you remember my little gangster dude I drew back a million years ago, that was my first attempt at this assignment. This is my newest attempt, and I'm pretty proud of it. The theme was "devonian or precambrian lifeform". Yeah it looks like the fish has splattered on the ground, but as Brandon, one of my buddies pointed out, it looks like he was laying on the ground with his mouth down and he sneezed with a big "pthbtbtbtbtbt" sound. Yeah I like that better too. Enjoy

Finally a new post!

Hey all, I am back from the summer and working full speed ahead on school and part time for Avalanche (hopefully. still waiting on confirmation). I have been sketching/ designing characters like mad and basically just trying to stay awake during the day. Here is a little taste of my character design class.





This character is a study of rock, and plants. We were supposed to design a character using these elements and this is what I came up with. Pencil, ink and marker.




This guy was created out of a shape. If you look at his outline that was the shape that I sketched, I was supposed to draw 20 shapes, choose one and put a character inside of it. This is what I came up with. Pencil, ink and marker.

More to come! When I get my scanner fixed I will be feeding you with a constant flow of my attempts at good art! Enjoy

More updates

Sorry, still no art going up, just updates from my project. I wish I could be a little bit faster on this one :)







This is alot of fun, but I am learning a whole lot about where I am lacking. Dont worry, most of the terrain is just blocked in shapes and is most definitely not final. The textures are not final either...man I have along way to go.

ENJOY!

Update

Here are a few shots from my current intern project. I am still nailing down the layout of everything. I need to start working on this at home so I can get it done before my end date comes up. Anyway here are a few progress shots, nothing special :) Enjoy

P.S. I promise some more drawings in the near future. It is all a matter of getting a scanner to work.

Project

Hey all! I am still alive, I promise. I have been working at Disney interactive/ Avalanche for a couple weeks now. Here is an example of stuff that I work on. This will not be in a game or anything, this is more of a personal project. It is a work in progress, so It doesnt look amazing yet :) I have alot more sketches to post up here also so give me a little bit. Work at Avalanche has been very educational. I am stoked to learn more from some of the best in the game industry. Wish me luck! Enjoy.

Update: Some lights and a bump map help bring out the 3-dimensionality to it.

Random Update

I haven't posted in a while, so I decided to throw up some of my recent sketchbook stuff. Enjoy.

Final Animation

Yeah its simple, yeah there is no background, but its got the Andy Griffith song man!! Enjoy.


Final from Jesse Larsen on Vimeo.

Dont make a green man angry

Here is a preview of the character for my 3d animation final! I have spent 80+ plus hours on this guy so he better be worth it :) I am having a blast bringing him to life!! Enjoy!

Final for Bible as Lit

I really enjoyed my bible as literature class a lot more than I thought I would. Especially because this is my final project. He let me paint whatever I wanted from the stories that we talked about. Samson is like the superhero of the bible (even though it turns out he wasn't such an amazing guy). This was done in about 12 hours in Corel Painter X on an intuos 3 tablet. Enjoy.
P.S. any suggestions for the background?? I want to change it but here it is for now :)

Facial Reconstruction

I decided that I didn't like the face of my dog model. So I went in and fixed it. Ah the beauty of plasticine. Enjoy.

3d Little Green Mans

This is the model for my final assignment in my 3d animation class. You might recognize him from one of my previous posts. This has taken me a few days, but I have really enjoyed growing by learning how things all go together. I still have a little work to do on the eyes, but you get the idea. Hopefully I'll have the animation up for you in a couple weeks. Enjoy! (Maya 2008)

Basil, Salem, or Spot...or something else

Here is...yeah cant decide on a decent name for him. I did a lot of smoothing and detail work on him for this last pass. I thought he was a bunch of fun. I could really get into this modeling thing :) Enjoy!

Hunchy

My second maquette is coming along nicely. This guy is way heavy, but a lot more sturdy than the girl. I really like the big shapes, but the large surface area makes him really hard to smooth out and make it look just right. I have only spent 2 days on this one so far, and I'm almost done. I'm going to say that I leveled up in efficiency a bit with this second one :) Enjoy.

Finished

Here she is in all her glory. I actually finished at a decent time tonight. This model is done with clay, and I'm proud to claim it as my first attempt ever at sculpting. This was a bunch of fun, and if I ever figure out how to do this without taking so much blasted time, I might just do it for fun sometime :) Enjoy!

Delays

Sorry for the poor quality photo, I was in a hurry to get to school this morning. I really worked on the face last night, it was really bugging me, so I fixed the lips, nose and a little bit more with the eyes. The hair will be my next effort. I WILL finish this tonight!

One Last Step

I spent all night yesterday working on the hands and a few little details here and there. One main change is her bottom eyelids. I mostly flattened them out so I wouldn't keep getting the "she looks like she's wearing glasses her eyelashes are so thick" look. I have to finish out the hair, possibly some more smoothing out of rough edges and I think she will be pretty much done. Enjoy!