Arlington Cruz Animation And Art Blog

Assorted character illustrations and designs

2011-05-11T11:24:00.000-07:00

Took a quick temporary detour from my current projects to practice on more diversity on my character designs. Also went back and fixed line art for original alternate costume model for my short

Character Design Tpose for modeling 03-11-2011 Original And Alternate costumes

2011-03-11T20:27:00.000-08:00

Back views feel a bit too wide.Looking can make corrections during modeling stage.

Kids Games Animatic Version 1 Sound Version

2011-02-18T23:48:00.001-08:00

Sound Added. Still need Voices and some music. Next are Character Models.

Kids Games Animatic Version 1 Sound version. from arlingtoncruz on Vimeo.

Experiment (child's play) Storyboards part 4 continued

2010-12-19T11:13:00.000-08:00

Completed storyboards. Still need more corrections, but will see what works and what doesn't regarding, pacing, composition,etc during animatic.

Arlington Cruz Demo Reel 2010

2010-10-13T23:06:00.000-07:00

No Sound for now still working on fixing a couple of more things

Arlington Cruz Animation Animatic Reel 2010 from arlingtoncruz on Vimeo.

Maya Low poly game character rotation

2010-10-12T20:00:00.000-07:00

Camera rotation with wireframe view of previous character model project.

Maya Living Room Wireframe and final camera

2010-10-12T19:51:00.000-07:00

Camera view of my old project for modeling texturing in Maya.

female figure drawing studies 08-09-2010

2010-08-09T00:03:00.000-07:00

Female Figure drawing studies.

Experiment Storyboards part 4

2010-08-08T23:59:00.001-07:00

I scratched original Idea for story on previous storyboard posts and started over this time Setting was replaced for an airship instead of scrapyard as well as other story changes. more pages and story narration coming up sometime this month.

Rough run Cycle part01

2010-08-08T23:23:00.001-07:00

Started working on a run cycle. Still need to make adjustments.

Flash Character Design part 3

2010-05-21T01:06:00.001-07:00

Still playing with this. Hope to use as a prototype for the future. Haven't been able to dedicate as much time as I would want to on my own personal projects.

Low poly Game Character Final

2010-04-17T20:43:00.001-07:00

Not quite pleased with final version, but got to move on and work on other things.
Maps used: Color, Bump, Specularity, Incandescence and Transparency for hair.

Flash Character Design Quickie Part 2

2010-04-14T23:46:00.001-07:00

This is a first draft character design I am working on. (part 01 was this other Demon monster thing I did a couple of months back) Final Design may change once I make more corrections.

Also have not forgotten about 3d low poly model,which is on my to do list.

Low poly Game Character Day 5

2010-02-14T23:20:00.000-08:00

Completed texturing. Now working on the other maps (transparency for hair,diffuse and bump) , some more tweaking and final lighting.

Low Poly game character progress Day 04

2010-02-11T21:39:00.000-08:00

I have been going on and off on this project. Also was stuck on some UV sets and other texturing issues. My friend Lisa helped me out a lot on fixing these problems as well as a lot of pointers and advice. Thanks very much Lisa! and feel free to check out her blog:
http://artoflisamarie.blogspot.com/

Also thanks to the folks at creative cow Maya Forum who gave me some advice as well. For now I have only worked on the face. Aiming to complete texturing by the end of this month.

Low Poly Game Character Day 3

2009-12-14T01:51:00.000-08:00

Done with UV's on 2 separate 1024 maps.
made some more corrections on model, now moving to final Texturing.

Low Poly Game Character Day 2

2009-12-06T19:24:00.000-08:00

Completed Hands, feet, props,and normal angles. Next is uv mapping. This is from the old Gnomon Tutorial Body modeling for games.

Low Poly Game Character Day 1

2009-12-03T22:40:00.000-08:00

Started model from another tutorial. Still need to add hands feet, gadgets and refine.

DT Female Android Part2

2009-10-28T00:08:00.000-07:00

Here is the textured Female Android. had some trouble with shaders. The folks at Creative Cow Maya forums were kind enough to point me to the source of the problem. I will leave this as is for the moment in order to tackle other things I have been wanting to do.

Female Android Model From DT part1

2009-10-24T16:09:00.001-07:00

This is an old Tutorial I have been working on from Digital Tutors. The original tutorial doesn't have very feminine hips so I took my freedom on that, as well as the original reference model face . Will be adding some tweaks as well as some of my own parts to it.

Interior Room Day 06 Final

2009-10-13T23:40:00.000-07:00

Here is my final Piece. Still my Lighting and Bump maps could be better, but It's time to move on and work on something new. I added another messy version , and in no way it is meant as a realistic serious attempt. but more like a playful approach. That's enough excuses. I look forward to do better in the future.

Interior Room Day 5 Lighting start

2009-09-15T22:58:00.000-07:00

This has really been a project going on and off . Just started adding lights and still need to add more touches to the texturing...

Demon Guy something update 3

2009-09-03T01:00:00.000-07:00

While I continue with my maya Room, I added the back and side views using original sketch for that weird mutant something guy...

Interior Room Day 4 Texturing start

2009-08-19T00:07:00.000-07:00

Uv mapping took a bit longer than I had expected. Started first pass at texturing floor and walls. I might change the final colors, then Furniture and Final lights.

Character designs for Animation part 2

2009-07-31T00:48:00.000-07:00

Finished building in Flash first view. Still need to draw side and rear view. Yes I agree pose looks silly..

Character designs for Animation part 1

2009-07-30T00:11:00.000-07:00

My Friend Suggested to do a series of Characters and prepare them for animation as an exercise to keep polishing my skills. Here is part 1 of some Demon Alien Mutant Something that I came up with.

quickie Cloud background practice

2009-07-11T17:11:00.001-07:00

Experimental cloud painting in photoshop.

Interior Room Modeling Day 3

2009-07-09T23:31:00.000-07:00

Finished modeling, Now Need to get started with UV mapping and texturing. Next post will be fully textured surfaces, and final Will be completed Lighting piece.

Interior room modeling Day2

2009-07-05T22:32:00.001-07:00

For the second part, I worked on the couch, side table and 2 chairs. For day 3 I hope to aim on finalizing and tweaking details, add more small parts and tackle texturing. (that is if I manage to keep up with the tutorial. And this tut is from "Simply maya Interior Room" in case you are wondering...

Basic Poly modeling Practice Day1

2009-06-30T00:48:00.000-07:00

I am Going over some old modeling tutorials. Decided to try out this interior room to brush up the basics for now. Still got a lot of other things to update...In the meantime, here is the first render,vector and wire screens...

Background Practice Quickie

2009-06-27T00:22:00.001-07:00

Here is a quick background I was experimenting on, still have a lot of issues to correct here. Haven't practiced painting backgrounds in quite a while .... Hope to update more often...

Experiment Film Quickie storyboards part3

2009-03-10T00:48:00.000-07:00

Currently I have had this project on hiatus due to my schedule, But I am tired of leaving things unfinished, even if it is little by little I need to complete something and not follow the Post graduation curse of some students never making their own short films after graduation ...

Female figure drawing January February

2009-03-10T00:30:00.000-07:00

The past couple of months have been really hectic ones (not that it is a bad thing the way the economy is going at the moment) Here are more female figure drawings from various locations and yes I do need more variety on my life drawings...

Figure Drawing Sessions December 2008

2008-12-27T22:41:00.000-08:00

Figure drawing done in Different locations. December has been quite a busy month, and I have finally gotten to post these. Drawing is really like the stock market, still working on fixing my many crashes...

Experiment Film Storyboards part 2

2008-12-01T01:05:00.001-08:00

Figure Drawing 11-29-08

2008-11-29T18:55:00.000-08:00

Experiment Fim storyboards

2008-11-22T00:16:00.000-08:00

FadeIn... and truck into Dark interior Lab Scene

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2008-11-11T21:18:00.001-08:00

Weekly Figure drawing 10-25-08

2008-10-25T20:33:00.000-07:00

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2008-10-25T01:24:00.001-07:00

Illustrator Robot Coloring Update

2008-10-24T03:41:00.000-07:00

I am not 100% satisfied with my final Piece because of the fact that many shapes make this a busy design. I had originally created this female robot design a few years back , and now I see that I need to simplify more if this were ever traditionally animated. I have always liked detail. However, one must first design things with the least amount of shapes possible before moving to the next stage. I hope that on my next design I can manage to overcome my reluctance to simplicity.

Illustrator Practice. Work in Progress

2008-10-15T04:53:00.000-07:00

This is an old robot design of mine. It is pretty retro 90's and it's based on a comic I had been working on for ages. I used this drawing to familiarize myself better with illustrator. I still got plenty of work to do with the inking and adjusting of shapes. As well as adding shadows and highlights.

Female Figure study

2008-10-15T04:45:00.001-07:00

Done with Blue Col erase pencil, markers and a brush pen.

Different body types

2008-10-15T04:26:00.000-07:00

Different models of various weights and sizes.

Seated female figure drawings

2008-10-15T04:08:00.000-07:00

The 5 minute poses are the hardest poses for me to do because you have to draw as fast as when you do gestures, but at the same time elaborate more on the subject.

Some Gesture drawings

2008-10-15T03:58:00.000-07:00

These 2 minute gestures aren't quite my latest, but I missed posting last week so better late than never.

2 Female bust Studies

2008-10-07T00:43:00.001-07:00

Seated female Ink and pencil

2008-10-06T02:57:00.001-07:00

Weekly Life Drawings

2008-10-03T00:46:00.000-07:00

I will be using this blog mostly to practice on my Weekly Life drawings, But I will be adding other type of illustrations to keep track on my progress...