http://moonlitbasement.com/blog Matt Highison, Moonlitbasement Art Blog, Portfolio, with Gallery, Links, Tutorials, and more Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:18:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, today is the big day... I now have a Bachelor of Science in Media Arts and Animation from The Art Institute of California - San Francisco. =) My website server has been acting nuts recently, so it's been hard to properly update the site. However, later I will post some direct ... http://moonlitbasement.com/blog/graduation/ Rendering wireframes in Maya isn’t quite as simple as the “one click” 3D Studio Max method. You can, of course, resort to using a screen capture or the hardware render buffer. I've even tried using the "apply the UV Snapshot as your texture file" method. However, I don’t think ... http://moonlitbasement.com/blog/wireframe-rendering-in-maya-tutorial-part-one/ Well, I've finally given myself a crash course on Wordpress, Flash, and general web development and design. The result is this complete makeover. I'll be fleshing the sections in the coming weeks. I've already got the first of my new flash based galleries running in the 2d section, and the Links ... http://moonlitbasement.com/blog/moonlit-makeover/ I’ve begun the modeling process for my female character. She is still totally a work in progress, but I thought it might be nice to post where I’m at right now. Right now it’s all done with polys in Maya, but I went into Mudbox to throw some ... http://moonlitbasement.com/blog/female-model-work-in-progress/ Some concept sketches below. Two female concepts for a 3D model/texture project I’m working on. Both done in Photoshop, the second one with some city and factory photos composited into the background just to give it a quick feel of what I’m going for. Now onto the ... http://moonlitbasement.com/blog/female-project-concepts/ Well, I’ve finally got to try my hand at the Mudbox Beta, ironically just as the first official 1.0 version is being released. Instead of a combination of dirt and water, what we have here is a combination of a powerful 3d sculpting tool with an intuitive interface ... http://moonlitbasement.com/blog/mud-wrestling/ The new website is finally almost up! I hope you enjoy the new “blog” format. I’ll be focusing not only on uploading my art to the gallery, but on adding tutorials, downloads, and links to our CG community.If you want to help out, please email all problems, ... http://moonlitbasement.com/blog/hatching/