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Science Demo Reel

2010-06-11T04:11:00.002-04:00

A compilation of the work I've done at STEMCELL Technologies. My main roles were concept and script development, and 3D animation.

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Particular Spores

2010-06-05T05:32:00.001-04:00

I started playing around with Trapcode Particular in After Effects today by following Andrew Kramer's tutorial. This could be useful for cool microscopic visualizations.

AR Hippo

2010-06-05T05:21:00.006-04:00

In this piece for Telus, I created all of the 3D assets: model, texture, and animation. It was mainly done in Maya, but the texturing was done in Mudbox. The toughest part was finding the best settings to export to Collada format. The plugin that I used didn't seem to support blendshapes, so the skeleton had to be built to also drive the face gestures. (Luckily, this hippo didn't require complex gestures!) It was a fun little project. Now, must... finish... helmet...

Roles:

Alex Beim - Creative Director

Jay Pozo - Programmer

Daniel Vasquez - 3D Artist

Mark-V in Mudbox

2010-02-18T02:56:00.007-05:00

A few months ago, I started working on a Mark V helmet, off and on. I was quite happy with the shading, but not so much with the texturing. I wanted it to look more heavily used and corroded. So just today I returned to this project and started using Mudbox on the model I had built in Maya to get the finer details. I've always wanted to learn Zbrush, but it seemed that Mudbox was the way to go because of its similarities with Maya's interface. So, I'm learning Mudbox... and it's very fun.

Eire Bodies

2010-02-10T23:49:00.005-05:00

I didn't want to post this without any sound, but I finally got around to it and added a Yann Tiersen track and some sound effects.

Cell division

2009-12-04T00:26:00.008-05:00

I've been working on a cell division animation for STEMCELL. I wrote a MEL script for the cell division algorithm, but ran into some difficulties (as I recently just started learning programming). I couldn't have written the script in time without the help of Mehmet Erer. (Thanks Mehmet!) I'm now in the rendering/compositing stages and felt like posting the work in progess.

Stop motion experiment

2009-10-13T23:06:00.004-04:00

When I went back home to visit the family for 10 days, I made this video with my sister. We did it in a huge rush, so there are a lot of missing elements that were in the original concept. (For example, we wanted buttons sprouting out from the branches.) Although we didn't win, it was worth a shot at winning some cash from Etsy.

My directorial debut

2009-10-13T22:43:00.002-04:00

STEMCELL Technologies wanted a technical video to demonstrate how to correctly pour a cell-separated suspension, so I pitched a concept and ended up directing it. I did the animation in After Effects... nothing fancy there. Thanks to Emily Smith for all her support and good ideas in the art direction!

Some more work

2009-09-10T01:34:00.007-04:00

I haven't posted anything in a while, mainly because I've been busy writing my feature-length film script and shooting for my short documentary.
Anyway, here are some videos I've done at STEMCELL Technologies with Todd Smith. My main roles were the script and concept development, storyboarding, and 3D animation. Todd did the art direction, videography, motion graphics. The still images were done during early compositing stages of the Aldefluor video.

RealFlow simulation

2009-07-14T00:05:00.006-04:00

RealFlow simulation FL01 from Daniel Vasquez on Vimeo.

Since I haven't been working on my website (whatsoever), I figured I should post what I have been doing.
So... yesterday was my first time using RealFlow and I've learned enough to make this simulation today. Lots of fun!

Playing with Processing

2009-05-25T02:15:00.011-04:00

Last week, I went to an excellent one-day workshop for an introduction to Processing, led by Jer Thorpe.
Processing is a fascinating little open-source program for creating images, animation, and interactions.
I finally started tinkering with it more tonight. The Circles one is derived from an example code in the help files; the Scribbles and the Squares sketches are derived from codes that Jer showed us (the "Squares" sketch originally called "Lots of Ants").

New work

2009-05-14T22:50:00.005-04:00

I've been working as a fulltime CG artist at Stemcell Technologies since January. Here's some of the 3D work I've done so far.
Click HERE.

Todd Smith did the live shooting and 2D work.

Short film finished for PSST! Pass It On

2008-11-19T02:17:00.004-05:00

Takeo (the director of Le Pivot in Paris) included me in the production of his short film Alter Ego for the PSST!3 edition. I worked on modeling and UV mapping of the old lady and the drum set. I also rigged the drum set. Check out the final product HERE. Enjoy!

video for Nissan...

2008-01-09T09:49:00.001-05:00

Here is the link to some work in which I was involved. My job was to light/render/composite the 3D car in several live photos. I lit and rendered the car in Maya and composited it in Photoshop. The sequence is really quick, but you can see the images at about 1:48 to 2:10min in the video. Watch it here!

Your Cytoskeleton...

2007-08-06T23:31:00.000-04:00

Using Maya particle dynamics, I made this (very simplified) animation of a polymerizing actin filament. Sorry... no 'treadmilling' here! To learn more about actin, click here.

Our crazy little home...

2007-07-11T13:10:00.000-04:00

I found some great textures of planets (here) and decided to quickly do a little animation of Earth. I've always had a fascination with the universe.

Christmas Vacation (Warning: Explicit language)

2007-07-09T23:09:00.000-04:00

Facial animation to an audio clip from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. (Model and rig provided by Seneca College.)

La la la la...

2007-07-09T22:40:00.001-04:00

My animation of a walking ball. (Model and rig was provided by Seneca College.)

Furry fun!

2007-07-09T21:39:00.000-04:00

This is Oliver London, my friend's cat. The most challenging part, I found, was combing the fur in the right directions. Modeled and surfaced in Maya. Textured in Photoshop.

Character animation

2007-07-09T15:17:00.000-04:00

I animated it and added a scene with lights and textures. The audio clip is from Being John Malkovich. (Model and rig were provided by Seneca College.)

Car Composite

2007-07-05T13:35:00.001-04:00

The car model was provided in class. I did the lighting, texturing, and rendering in Maya. I composited it in Eyeon Fusion to adjust the colour and lighting.

More Drawings

2007-06-30T00:30:00.001-04:00

These are a few of my drawings from Life Drawing class. (1-5 minutes each. Conte on newsprint. 2007)

Some Drawings

2007-06-29T16:18:00.003-04:00

I took a general drawing course during my 3-month stay in Chile last year. My teacher, Hernan Sanchez, had some Marylin Monroe pictures and I drew a couple. Graphite on paper. August, 2006

2007-06-29T16:06:00.000-04:00

Testing my painting skills in Photoshop.

DEMO REEL

2007-06-29T13:15:00.000-04:00

Most of the work is a product of a class assignment, but the cat (Oliver) was a side-project. I was experimenting with Maya's Fur plug-in. There's always something new to learn in Maya! (The background music was written by myself on guitar and cello. My sister, Francie, recorded it and added the drum machine.)

DNA Molecule

2007-06-29T11:06:00.000-04:00

This is a model of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). I used the MEL script "pdbReader" (by Tom Doeden) to import the model from a PDB file to Maya.