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Fall 2013 Intermediate Modeling

I was very curious to take the intermediate 3D modeling class and see how far I can push it in this class. I actually found it quite fun to take and actually learned a lot new tricks thanks to instructor Tom Austin, and a few classmates like Tony McKee, Michael Wu and Jared Mills.

There were only two assignments in this class because of how much time is required to complete for each. My first assignment in the class was to my own head. To start, I needed to photograph orthographic views of myself for reference.

The next step was to determine the rhythms of my facial features to help shape up the planes on Maya.

This was the first pass of the model.

After almost two months of critiques, smoothing out planes and cleaning up vertices, the model was ready for texturing. I needed to rephotograph myself multiple times and under better lighting. From the photographs I composed a single texture map on Photoshop.

Add that texture to the model, cleanup the shape more and BAM:

The next assignment was to choose either from Hercules or Megara from the Disney film or create a custom medieval knight. Because of the complex detail Megara required and because not too many students in the class chose Megara, I wanted to challenge myself and see if I can complete a 3D Megara model. We were given a model sheet to work off from, and after another two months this is how I did: 

Spring 2013

These are my assignments for ANI 118 (Advanced 3D Animation)


"I Love You"

The audio is taken from Pulp Fiction.

"The Angry Comedian"

The only requirement for this assignment is to use a very short sound clip from any Coen Brothers film. The selected line is O Brother Where Art Thou.

"Mixed Messages"

The audio is from 3rd Rock from the Sun.

Fall 2012

This is my final animation for my ANI 115 class.

I decided to make a fun fictional story about my little niece, Mikayla, for this project.

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The next two videos are from my ANI 116 (3D Animation) class. The first one is from a group project. This video is the first of four scenes of the final project depicting a man slowly transforming into a bird.

The next video is an individual project. The purpose is to study the body mechanics from a published dance routine and attempt to recreate the dance as accurate as possible. The choreography and music is based on the opening sequence from the movie Kung Fu Hustle (2004).

I made sketches to study the choreography and apply this to the animation.

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These stop-motion videos are for my Physics of Animation class. More of my work are in my class blog. http://melvincunanan123.blogspot.com/

Spring 2012

From ANI 51A (beginning 3D modeling class)

The following is my final project. The item I selected to model is a Film Measuring Machine.

A turnaround of the object.

From ANI 114 (beginning 2D animation)

The BFA Portfolio Submission

These are materials that I have submitted to the San Jose State University Animation/Illustration Program for Fall 2011.