Me as a Cyborg

Haha, sorry if this makes you sick or scared! This is going to be my semester long project in a Maya class I am taking. This is a photo of me that I made to look like a cyborg in photoshop. I had a lot of fun transforming myself. I still need to put in more details in the head coils and the costume details. Will keep you posted as I start to make it in 3D. Good luck keeping you lunch down if you click on the image above, you will get a detail view :)

Updated Projects

What a little black border can do! I worked on a few pieces from last semester and then framed them. Onto my last semester, hoping it will be as good as the last one!!



"The Evil Parade rolls into town"


"The First Meeting"


"Sequel to Moby Dick"


"High Tea with a Giant and a Queen."


"Captain Ahab's Daughter"

BFG Project

Just presented our BFG Project by Roald Dahl in my Visual Development Class. My team worked super hard and it paid off in the end, here are a few pieces I am proud of. Thanks to Nino for giving us this great assignment, across the board everyone in class learned a lot and really engaged wholeheartedly in this project.


This is the moment after the Queen has agreed to help Sophie and BFG capture the Evil Giants. They are sealing the deal with a "tea toast" (hope that isn't impolite or something, thought it would be cool) using teacups of course...A happy, cheerful moment, things are looking up for Sophie.





Sophie Development







The Orphanage

Harrison Bergeron

Currently I am onto new projects but just realized it has been a month since my last post, so decided to post this moment from Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron. It still needs some tweaking but this is the moment right before Harrison and the main Ballerina are both shot by Diana Moon. Intrigued? Read the story if you want to know more, it is a quick read. I will post more from the story soon. Enjoy!

Moby Dick Project

My character Buniq, Captain Ahab's only child. She is from the Aleutian Islands. Her quest is to kill the beast in hopes that her father's ghost will stop haunting her.


This is my final Albino Beast painting. It still needs some work but overall I think it got better. The design is based on a combination of eels yet has a whale's silhouette, echoing the Moby Dick story.


A few of my drawings playing with the shape and personality of the Beast.


This is Buniq's ship. She acquired this ship by marooning the Russian captain. Russian's were notorious for taking advantage of the Aleut people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was an easy task to get the crew mostly of Aleuts to band against the greedy Russian captain.


Another version of the ship.


Ship variations.


Ship variations.


This is the moment after a great battle between Buniq and her crew against the Beast. The Beast has been killed, Buniq is coming to terms with what she has done and if it was really worth it. Also, now that it is over, what else is there for her to live for?


A different color variation of the moment.

Giant Albino Eel

Here is my creature design for our "Moby Dick" story in our BFA Seminar. Our only restrictions were that the animal has to believable (not an alien, from our world, giant and albino. I went through many ideations of animals and finally decided upon an eel since they freak me out yet are so delicious over a small bed of rice. My eel is a combination of many types of eels so it is my own creation yet looks like it belongs in our world. I like the pink one but am also drawn to the yellowish one. Albinos are truly interesting in their coloring. As always any comments are welcome. Danke!

Second Pass for BFA Moby Dick story

I am still struggling with getting the right pose for this character. She basically is a pretty tough women, lives on a boat full of men and is seeking to put a large beast out of commission which she thinks will cease her father's ghost haunting her. She wears this old coat of her father's which she has retrofitted to her climate, the Aleutian Islands, see below for reference. I am trying to simplify my designs, I think my sketch above was really shape conscious compared to my past work but once I started painting it in photoshop I lost track of that simplified goal and it turned pretty mushy. Well back to work. Any comments are welcome :)

First BFA Project

Story is what if Captain Ahab's son grew up to avenge his father. I of course did a girl. This is a really amazing story, I am very excited about it. This is my first pass at the main character, her harpoon and any research.