Red Herring Productions

Phew, so incoming flood kind of. These are some of the visual development pieces along with a texturing test (we now have a really nice shader for things too!). It's a senior project that I'm working on with five other students starting around June.

It first started with the concept of two superheroes on a blind date, but changed to a father-daughter story about acceptance. The blind date one had a lot of cool ideas however there were a lot of story issues to fit into a 2 minute short without any dialogue. Our new plot has gone through a ton of iterations on story as well, however our team has some story telling masterminds in there. There's still even more work to show, so expect to see those soon.

Oh, the high concept is a super villain father expects to inaugurate his daughter into villainary on her 13th birthday. However, things don't go as planned as the daughter is already an aspiring super hero.

Tearaway

So I needed a tearaway/take away illustration for a class and did this in about an hour. It's fun to just do quick stuff like that, but I need to hunker down on polishing more things too.

People Places ... Pygmy Pie

An assignment for an illustration concept art class. First you go to a location (or several) do some good ole drawings and then you throw in a mythological character and then tie in a news event of some kind. So if this were a game of Clue the description would be something like this: Baba Yaga in the garage with a gas hose.

New Perspective Stuff

Another semester, more stuff for the game team.
We started going into a different direction with some of level layouts, including making a sort of hub world as an arcade.
Which means making stuff for an arcade and research!
The posters are designed after the names for the levels and since we needed something graphic quickly, they're made in the style of Tom Whalen's work. Check his stuff out if you haven't, it's fantastic!

Oh, hold on... I need one more chance to stuff the word stuff into this post.
Stuff.

Billy The Boy--More Pieces

Here is some of the title cards for the summer project. Either straight up photoshop or painting over renders.

The "Beauty Shot"

And Color Keys

Some Paintings

Painting flood of some stuff from spring semester. Playing a little bit of catch-up here! There will probably be another spam thread later.
All oil on board..I think 16" x 18" or so.

Summer Projects!

Hey guys, I need to update this thing seriously.
Here's a short that I had to work on over the beginning of Summer. We were given four storyboards to choose from and 6 weeks to do the whole thing. 

I wanted to experiment a little bit in terms of style and push what I could do in Maya.

Here's the final video and below it is the 2D animatic to help break down the animations for myself. 

Billy The Boy from Laura Borgen on Vimeo.

Billy the Boy Animatic from Laura Borgen on Vimeo.