Portfolio

Portfolio
EGD415 – Senior Portfolio: Art & Animation
Spring 2011 – Second Semester, Senior Year.



The Senior Portfolio class is exactly what you’d expect it to be. This class helped everyone gather their past projects to tune up and make presentable for a portfolio.

It was also a class every student had to pass in order to graduate. The class requirements consisted of these:
-A website to show off your work
-A Demoreel to present at Senior Show
-Business cards
-A resume
-A list of 20 or more potential employers.

My web development class paid off a lot, seeing as how I created my whole website from scratch. Here’s what it looks like: www.evanburrill.com

I’m pretty sure I handed in everything I should have, so I believe I should be graduating soon.

Job search Ho!

Carnero

Senior Team Project II
EGD410 – Senior Team Project II – Team Jealous Giraffe
Spring 2011 – Second Semester, Senior Year.
Position on the team: Artist



Like I had mentioned before, my original team didn’t get green lit and I had joined up with Team Jealous Giraffe to work on Carnero. The team was a lot bigger than Machina’s, and demanded a lot more work as well. The project had its ups and downs, but I was still able to get portfolio work out of it.

My role on the team was to pump out as many assets as I could, then hand them off to our lead artist to texture. This involved me doing 3 animated enemy robots and several environmental art assets.

Above is a trailer that Bryan and Keith created to be presented at our senior team show.

Team Members:

Producer - Alison Seffels
Lead Designer -Bryan O'Hara
Designer - Cory Livingston
Designer - Tom Triplet
Designer - Craig Ellsworth
Lead Programmer - Steve Beaulieu
Programmer -Chris Cheng
Lead Artist - Keith Tatarczuk
Artist - Eric Nardo
Artist - Me
Sound Artist/Voice Talent - Buzz Ambroseno
Sound Artist - William David John
Sound Artist -Logan Dwight
Quality Assurance - Justin Loomis
Quality Assurance - Chris Ferguson

Maverick N-Strike Nerf gun

Maverick N-Strike Nerf gun
Spring break
Spring 2011, Month of March



I decided to stay in Vermont for spring break instead of going back home to see if I could churn out a good portfolio piece. Not the best way I wanted to spend spring break, but I got something of value out of it.

It was fun project, although it did get agitating. Some of the geometry on the gun is more complex that one would think. It was nice actually owning the gun though, seeing as how I could inspect it with my own eyes when my reference pictures failed me.

This was also a project where I edited a lot of info in the normal map. There were lots of small details in the gun that wouldn’t make sense doing in Maya, so I’d copy and paste certain areas of the normal map and edit them in other sections.

I wanted to see if I could create the gun in a week, but I really only got the high poly and low poly done during that milestone. Whenever I had free time, I’d work on unwrapping, baking, and texturing it to a presentable state. I also time tracked it so I could get a better understanding of how long it takes to model something like that. Hopefully this will allow me to give better time estimates to future employers.

Tau XV8 Crisis Battlesuit

Tau XV8 Crisis Battlesuit
EGD380 – Advanced Seminar: Art & Animation
Spring 2011 – Second Semester, Senior Year.



Like with the first Advanced Seminar class, we could create anything we wanted. I had a Tau Battlesuit figure from the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game that I had an urge to model, and decided on that for my project.

Actually I had planned to create the pilot inside of it as well, unfortunately my lung collapsed twice within two months and it threw off my whole schedule. I had to re-adjust what should be due for our milestones, and decided the suit would be good enough.

I also modeled all of the weapons and accessories that come with the kit, just so I could customize different suits with unique weapon setups.