C Wayne

I have moved

2009-04-24T01:59:00.000-07:00

I have been Making the move to CwThornbrugh from CwayneT... Part of this transition is making a new blog, or moving this one. The new one is currently "under construction," the new blog page is http://CwThornbrugh.blogspot.com

Miniature Shifting

2009-04-23T09:24:00.000-07:00

Here is a photo I took after being inspired by a couple really cool videos and the encouragement of a professor. The picture is supposed to look like a picture of a miniature set, but in fact it's a normal size chair and room. The method is called tilt shift, and here is the link to one of the vids that inspired me.

Trolls is people too

2009-04-21T23:31:00.000-07:00

Here is my latest Drawergeeks... The theme was Trolls

Here are a couple zooms.

As always you can click the images for an even closer look. Feel free to comment.

Try to shade your surface and see what you get

2009-04-21T02:47:00.000-07:00

So this evening I have been working on some new animation techniques and I got super frustrated. I did 22 tutorials that should have made my animating career easier, but I have spent hours and hours trying to get it to work out properly and haven't gotten very far. So to relieve my stress so that I feel like I've accomplished something in the past 9 hours I took a break from animating and tested out a rendering aesthetic I had been wanting to try. The image above is in fact the rendering technique. My professor showed a video to my class a week or so ago and it had a similar look and thats where I got the idea.
So I guess when I get frustrated trying out something new I try out something else new, go figure. Click for a bigger version if you please.

What I've been up to

2009-04-05T22:58:00.000-07:00

Robot-Modeled and textured plus some depth

Poster-Most recent 3D Illustration

James-School newspaper comic

Geoffery-Most recent school newspaper comic

Tiki-Drawergeeks

Dragon-Drawergeeks

Candyland-Most recent Drawergeeks

Sorry I haven't really been keeping all of my fans posted on what I've been doing lately. But here are a bunch of the main things I've done.

Sculpty sculpt sculpt

2009-03-13T14:00:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple pics of a sculpt I am working on. He is being sculpted out of clay and then I am going to make a make a mold out of him so I can make a stop motion puppet. He is still in progress at the moment but he will soon have a right cuff and pants. What I did was sculpt him out of clay without any clothes on then I rolled out some sheets of clay and pressed a burlap texture onto the sheets of clay. I then carefully cut out pieces in a pattern so that I could lay these clay sheets on him like clothes. So underneath his clothes is a man and under the man is... his nucleus. I plan to have two little black dots for eyes and I am not exactly sure what I am going to do for his mouth.

James

2009-03-12T00:37:00.000-07:00

Here is my latest Comic for The Huntingtonian... our School news paper.

Circus

2009-03-09T11:31:00.000-07:00

Here is my concept for my next 3D Illustration. The theme is 11'' by 14'' poster based around circus. All the characters are going to made in 3D and then toon shaded for a look very similar to this. I am still working on the font and what not, but I think it should turn out pretty good. Click on the image for a big version.

Motion Graphics

2009-03-08T09:55:00.000-07:00

Motion Graphics Final Project from Colleen King on Vimeo.
Here is my motion graphics final Colleen and I did last semester. This project was done in After effects... Colleen did the Character design and "set" design in photoshop and I did the animation and lighting in After effects. I think it turned out nicely.

3D Illustration

2009-03-06T11:37:00.000-08:00

This semester I am doing an independent study with 3 of my friends. The independent study is 3D Illustration, we are using Maya and photoshop to create Illustrations. Through the semester we will do 4 different Illustrations each of us will get to pick the theme and a few other perimeters. This one was the first and the theme was Jonah's Folly album art. We had to create album art for a made up band called Jonah's Folly and we had to incorporate a whale. So here is the finished product. Feel free to leave input.
To check out how my friends album art turned out go to each of these sites...
Colleen King -- http://www.colleenking.blogspot.com/
Andrew Watson -- http://awatson88.blogspot.com/
Jimi Bonogofski -- http://jimidoodle.blogspot.com/

Big Day!!!

2009-02-10T16:07:00.000-08:00

So this is Colleen and I. Today was her birthday

I took her out to Forks of the Wabash for a picnic lunch. Before hand I hid a present for her in a tree. This gift was a heart shaped wooden box that I made with a ring in it. I asked her to marry me and she said yes. It has been a great day.

And here is the ring, it's made of Ivory and has a twisted rope design on the top.

Fixed lens

2009-02-08T22:34:00.000-08:00

My room mate Curtis recently got a Digital Canon and a few lenses. The one I love the most is his 50 fixed lens. Colleen and I got to play with it for a while and we both felt like we needed one. But for me having one of these awesome lenses would do no good... for I have no digital camera. But I do love taking photos and love learning about the different aspects of photography. lucky for me my room mate, girlfriend, and mother all have cameras I can use so I can get my fix every once in a while. These are two photos I took one night with this lens, it was a somewhat low lighting situation and his auto focus doesn't work... but with the low aperture the low lighting wasn't a huge factor and actually made the lighting pretty interesting. All the lighting was from incandescent bulbs and such so everything was pretty yellow and warm. The low aperture also allows for a shorter depth of field, which makes me want one even more. One lens I want that most people kinda give me a funny face about is a 12 or so mm lens. I love the fish eye effect and this kind of lens takes real cool landscape photos. Maybe someday.

Bob King

2009-01-16T06:59:00.000-08:00

Sorry I haven't updated in a while... Haven't had much to post about... but I saw this picture that Colleen put on facebook and I loved it. For those of you who don't know who Bob King he is Colleens brothers dog. This dog has a huge personality and I fell for him the moment he crawled into my lap. I have never been a fan of dogs who shed... but this one took the cake.

Athens

2008-12-29T17:00:00.000-08:00

Here's a picture I took of myself this past Summer in Athens Ohio. Colleen and I stayed at a homeless shelter to take photos, and during the day we hung in the "city." This trip is proof that God will put you in situations that you don't want to be in and use you in ways that you don't expect. This trip brought me closer to God than I have ever been, I learned a whole lot and made a bunch of friends that I didn't expect to make.

2008-12-17T00:15:00.000-08:00

Here's a still from Colleen and I's motion graphics midterm. Check it out... click the link to view it.
http://www.vimeo.com/2550945

Motion Graphics Final Project

2008-12-16T22:55:00.000-08:00

Here are some still images from Colleen and I's motion graphics final. This is probably the best project I worked on all semester. You can watch it at http://vimeo.com/2486604

Maybe Tomorrow

2008-11-25T12:23:00.000-08:00

Here's my first try at a comic. Hope you like it!!!!

Owl-a-thon

2008-11-07T15:22:00.000-08:00

Here are my Drawings for the Owl-a-thon, or Owl-off... We started Yesterday and went to 5 o-clock today, Friday. We each were able to do 19, we could have done more if we had more free time do devote to it. I chose to focus on inking textures for most of my owls. And I am aware that it is possible that a few of them look alot like chickens... but don't be fooled, they are indeed Owls. You can see Colleens Owls at colleenking.blogspot.com/

Science building

2008-10-26T22:55:00.000-07:00

This is a test for a project Colleen and I are working on. Not too bad.

Giant Monster

2008-10-24T12:58:00.001-07:00

Here is my drawer geeks for this week, the theme was Giant Monster. Oh... Colleen took over DrawerGeeks Jr, so make sure to check it our and or join it. It's pretty cool!! Click for a bigger one **-/-** http://drawergeeksjr.blogspot.com

Little Guy Update

2008-10-21T01:18:00.000-07:00

Here is a render showing what I did all day today. I retextured the meteor and the earth... This took a while to get it as close to good as it is now. Remember to click to make it bigger if you want, and leave a comment so I know what you think.

Photos

2008-10-16T18:23:00.000-07:00

Here's a few long exposure pictures I took over fall break durring a fire that my father built.

Forest Creature

2008-10-16T11:50:00.000-07:00

Here's another Image I have been working on for a while. Hope you like it.

And here's the original sketch for the Creature.

Little Guy Update

2008-10-15T21:14:00.001-07:00

Here is the most recent image from my 3D computer animation. I've been working on texturing and lighting the past few days. I have also been experimenting with occlusion passes. So far I have lit the entire scene without using lights. Some of you might be wondering how this isn't just black if there are no lights, well what I do is build objects and then make them glow in the scene... in a controlled way.

Here is the image just rendered out without anything fancy. Notice the lack of the "cool" as compared with the final.

Then I do an ambient occlusion pass. An ambient occlusion pass puts a shadow where two objects are close together, or just certain variances in the surface.

Here's another one for the rest of my scene. I did this part of my scene separately so I could have control over the darks in the planets without making my character darker.

Here's the final look again, remember you can click them for a bigger version.

Mother Goose

2008-10-07T21:19:00.001-07:00

Here is my Drawer Geeks Jr entry for Mother Goose.

Three Stringed Heart

2008-10-07T20:38:00.000-07:00

Here's an illustration I did today while I worked.

This is my original drawing.

Here are the color shapes by them selves. I did the muted green background first to set the feel I wanted.

Next I laid some paper texture on top of the color shapes to give them a paper hand made look.

Here I put in the line for the ropes suspending the heart. I also added some text from a Peanuts Book.

And for the final look I put another paper texture over the entire thing and did a slight color adjustment.... So I hope you like the product. Remember you can click the images for a bigger one

duck duck duck

2008-10-02T13:20:00.000-07:00

Here's a duck sketch i did of a... you guessed it... a duck. Remember you can click for a bigger pic.

Little Guy

2008-10-01T18:03:00.000-07:00

Here's my 3D character with some atmosphere. This image was just for fun. You know you can click on all the images for to see a higher quality one.

Aura Man

2008-09-30T22:44:00.000-07:00

This is something I worked on today, I'm working on how I do my edges in this type of illustration. The edges of the brown paper were put together in photoshop from several pieces I scanned.

The Four Weebles

2008-09-29T13:51:00.000-07:00

These four Weebles aren't quite sure how they feel about a camera.

Robot Sketches-Grace and I

2008-09-29T13:45:00.000-07:00

Here are some Robot sketches my sister and I did a while back. I need the broom bot for my dorm room I think.

Little Guy

2008-09-26T22:07:00.000-07:00

This is a render from the 3D project I am working on for Environments class. The animation is about a little creature from space who is riding a meteor and sees the Earth. Once he sees the Earth he jumps off the meteor and starts falling toward earth. Perhaps he will find happiness on Earth.

Grace at the park

2008-09-18T19:43:00.000-07:00

Here's Grace sitting on the park bench with Buddy's little brother Chief. Cute aren't they.

Animation Studio

2008-09-10T14:16:00.000-07:00

This is some concept art for a film that I am making this year with another student. It is a story about a young child who finds that he has a special gift that makes him an outcast. But he is able to find comfort in his relationship with his father.

Henry and the Banshee

2008-09-10T14:02:00.000-07:00

This is an illustration of a boy and a banshee that I would love to turn into either a book, or just a series of short stories accompanied by illustrations.
The boy, whose name is Henry, has this friend which is a Banshee. Henry is the only one who can see him. The Banshee pulls henry around in a wagon, and Henry loves to hang different things from the loop in the Banshees head.
So there is some of what I have in mind for these two.

Why a Blog?

2008-09-09T13:35:00.000-07:00

I, Cevin Thornbrugh, just wanted to give you guys a chance to see whats been happing and what not. I might not post very frequently but I think some kind of update is better than no update. I should upload some art or pics and what not... some photography, animation photos, concept art and possibly some story boards. So to any one interested, Family, enjoy.