K-Walt

I'm a pilot . . .

2011-01-10T21:28:00.003-07:00

I had the great opportunity to do some contract work with Rain, helping them with some 3D work on their first game, Hess Jet!

I did all the 3D work (modeling, shading, lighting) on the 3 levels (desert, snow, island). I'd put up more screenshots, but it's free to play on Facebook and on iPhone/iPad. Go check it out!

Play Hess Jet on Facebook!

Download the Hess Jet App from iTunes!

Updated Demo Reel

2010-07-12T09:16:00.003-06:00

So now that Toy Story 3 is out, I was finally (and legally) able to update my demo reel with work I did on the game while at Avalanche Studios earlier this year. Enjoy!

Eenie Meanie

2010-04-03T12:29:00.002-06:00

My grandpa Walton originally made this ceramic mask, known to us grandkids as "Eenie Meanie." I took a bunch of reference and recreated it in Maya as a tribute to him.

Disney Princess

2010-02-18T23:32:00.005-07:00

The theme right now on the Avalanche Art Blog is "Disney Princesses." This was my take on it.

Papa Steve

2009-11-10T23:04:00.000-07:00

It's been a while . . .

2009-08-07T19:15:00.007-06:00

So, it's been forever since I've updated this thing. Right now I have an internship at Disney Interactive Studios up in SLC, and so nothing I make there can be put up on the web until the game's finished, which is a bummer. So this morning I found out we have figure drawing sessions every Friday and decided to join in.

Wow, it's been forever since I've drawn anything . . .

Head model progress...

2009-03-24T00:36:00.003-06:00

Well, according to my sister, these are "very scary." I apologize in advance.

Remind me never to shave my head or go bald. I have a very weird shaped head.

Demo Reel Part Two!

2009-03-12T08:33:00.005-06:00

Well, I've updated my demo reel again!

To download, right-click here.

Occlusion Pass

2009-02-11T09:14:00.002-07:00

Things just look so much better with occlusion...

Land Cruiser

2009-01-31T11:59:00.003-07:00

So I'm just about done with the Land Cruiser model for our upcoming short film (although the more I work on it, the more details I want to add!) So here are a few screen grabs thus far. I still need to finish the undercarriage and add a rollbar.

More stuff!

2009-01-08T15:35:00.005-07:00

Here's some of the work from the class I took this last semester from Sam 's class. I learned a ton about color, value and saturation (among tons of other things). So here are some projects we did, I'd like to still come back and clean them up some day . . .

Aw, bucket!

2008-10-24T23:17:00.002-06:00

So, I'm taking my first stab at a RenderMan shader for our new movie. We had a big push tonight; we took models that had already been done and put shaders on them. My good friend Carson helped me out a ton on this one.

X-ing Concept Art

2008-09-19T15:37:00.003-06:00

So our movie (now titled "X-ing") needed some concept art. I don't consider myself quite a concept artist per se, but here's my attempt:

Sir Brian Kohrman suggested I "tone down" the blown out lights, aand make a few other changes:

Space Pooch

2008-09-17T00:54:00.005-06:00

Disclaimer: I did NOT do the original drawing for this painting, Jessica Borutski did. Giving credit where credit is due!

So this semester, I'm taking a digital painting class from Sam Nielson, and it's awesome. He's awesome, have you seen his blog? He makes it look so easy . . . The first project he had us do was to pick one of a few line drawings he had from some very talented artists and render it out in 3D, and then mess with the color/saturation. I would like to come back to this later, but this is what I have right now.

Last one

2008-06-27T12:01:00.000-06:00

2008-06-24T15:57:00.001-06:00

2008-06-18T13:06:00.006-06:00

Another painting I did for work. Not my fave.
Not a big fan of the painting, either.

Go for it Mr. Peterson, YES!

2008-06-12T20:28:00.003-06:00

Demo Reel Remix

2008-06-10T15:54:00.004-06:00

I've updated my demo reel, slowing down some of the rotations that previously were a little fast, and adding a few things from the senior film we're working on and also a few scenes I helped animate on BYU's Lion & the Mouse.

Click on an image below to view the movie:

640 x 480 Quicktime 21.1 MB

320 x 240 Quicktime 9.8 MB

Green man, dude!

2008-06-05T18:56:00.007-06:00

Today I fell in love with my Wacom tablet . . . Sir Brian Kohrman helped me learn the ways of the pen, so for my first one I decided to do a monochrome, color to follow . . .

rockin' it

2008-05-06T14:29:00.005-06:00

This is really simple and I'm almost embarrassed to put it up, but here's something quick I made for work . . .

demo reel (part uno)

2008-04-21T14:13:00.004-06:00

Well, I still have a lot of stuff I'd like to put on here, so here is my demo reel (in progress), I know a lot of it will look familiar, but I have some more stuff from our senior film that I want to get textured and rendered out . . . hopefully soon?

In the meantime, enjoy!

640 x 480 Demo Reel (QuickTime, 20.6 mb)
320 x 240 Demo Reel (QuickTime, 5.8 mb)

And now for something completely different . . .

2008-04-01T17:21:00.005-06:00

Well, it's been a while since I've posted anything, so I thought I'd put up this logo I made the other day for my friend's upcoming website. I used to be in graphic design, and it was fun to use Illustrator again

Dino bones

2008-02-26T15:15:00.001-07:00

Something I've been working on at work . . .

Won't you be my neighbor?

2007-12-20T11:57:00.000-07:00

Some neighbors I created for Ryan's character design class. I had been looking at a lot of Steven Silver's stuff, (and I think I gave that lady a Joe Olson chin). I was going for shape and silhouette. I'm nowhere near where I'd like to be, but I'm glad I'm just starting to break free of my mold.

I also think that a lot of the time, the final drawings don't have the energy of the original sketches (there's just something about that blue pencil!)

Model Progress

2007-12-20T11:23:00.000-07:00

Still working on this guy!

Geek Patrol

2007-12-14T08:50:00.001-07:00

Still trying to "break away" from my typical style of drawing. Line weight is fun, so is drawing an 80 year old nerd going on a date.

Piece of garbage . . . can

2007-12-14T08:35:00.001-07:00

Another work in progress, I modeled and shaded the fake trash can in this picture, it was really nice to have rendered out each separate layer and then composited the whole thing.

Casas

2007-12-14T08:21:00.001-07:00

Wow, it's been about a month since I've uploaded anything. Well, this is a stab at a 101 Dalmatians-esque drawing, the first I've tried, I want to do more. The hard thing about these is putting the color outside the lines without making it look sloppy. It's still pretty cookie-cutter, I'm going to keep messing with it.

Therapist Cat

2007-11-14T13:57:00.000-07:00

Therapist cat is not amused . . .

On Campus Sketches

2007-11-07T09:17:00.001-07:00

Bear Costume

2007-11-07T09:05:00.000-07:00

So in Joe's class we were supposed to take an old design we did and do some life studies so we could re-vamp it and then add a Halloween theme.

Focal point by . . .

2007-10-19T16:47:00.000-06:00

I decided to revisit a project I did in Joe Olson's class.

Silhouette study

2007-10-19T16:20:00.000-06:00

In Ryan Woodward's class, he had us do this project where you start with the shape of the silhouette first, then you block in negative shapes, then come up with the final design. Not my best work, but a valuable lesson nevertheless.

"Hard-working. Alpha male. Jackhammer."

2007-10-18T13:53:00.000-06:00

Billy's Balloons Trailer

2007-10-18T13:46:00.001-06:00

A project I made last year. Pretty lame, but still fun. People on YouTube seem to like it, anyway.

First attempt . . .

2007-10-18T13:32:00.000-06:00

So, I've been avoiding making a blog for some time, but I figured it's about time I get over my embarrassment of having my stuff "out there," so here we go:

I'm really excietd about this 3D class I'm taking, where we get to take a model all the way from concept design and modeling to texutring and final animation. Here's my concept sketch:

The front & side views:

and the model thus far:

We'll see how this works out!