Joe Creswell Art

Latest Reel

2011-04-26T20:19:00.000-07:00

http://vimeo.com/23018490

Us Gnomes Environment

2011-04-18T14:14:00.000-07:00

I've been working on paintings for a film idea I had and pitched last year that is called Us Gnomes. Maybe one day I'll work on the film. Who knows. This was a fun painting. I haven't painted in a while.

Pirattes 4

2011-02-11T12:09:00.000-08:00

I lit two shots in this trailer at MPC, London.

Newest Project

2011-02-04T15:31:00.000-08:00

Ok, So I'm back from MPC, London. Finishing school in this June. I really wanted to graduate so I came back. I'm currently working at the CTL at BYU. It's easy and on campus. Rob Allen is my boss and he is the coolest guy. The project we are currently working on is about a scenario where this girl is being stalked by a creepy guy and she goes to the BYU counciling center about it. It's being animated and everything. I've done alot of texturing and setting up shader controls on the characters. The character above is the first test I was doing of our lighting pipeline in mental ray. I put these 3 images to show what depth of field can do to either improve the image or change it some. If your not careful specs that you don't want to be blown out will change when you blur it too much. For example her specs in her eyes became too specular when I used too much blur. She looks a little stoned because of it in the first one. However you can see how blurring it works well for hiding textures of least importance in the back ground such as shown in the bottom image.

International Trailer: "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn...

2010-10-08T03:36:00.000-07:00

This is the new Narnia Trailer, Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Two of my scenes that I lit are in this Trailer.

Starting At MPC

2010-05-10T10:10:00.000-07:00

My adventures at MPC, VFX studio are about to begin soon. I am excited to move to London with my family and get the chance to work on Narnia 3 as a contract job. My title will be Lighting TD. I will be doing lighting and previsualization for shaders and textures in some of the scenes. I'm so stoked for the chance to do what I've always wanted to do. This is going to be amazing.

Figure_Drawing

2010-05-02T19:54:00.000-07:00

Well, I feel it's about time to put up some more figure drawing that I've done. I feel that the thing that I enjoy to do the most in art is figure draw. I miss doing lots of it. I hope that one day I can find an industry job that will let me do lots of figure drawing while I continue the 3d side.

NEWEST DEMO REEL!!!

2010-03-01T14:28:00.000-08:00

http://vimeo.com/9996893

hi, all this is a link to my newest demo reel. Tell me what you think and any critiques you have.

Street Scene for Butchered Meats

2010-02-03T07:36:00.000-08:00

This is a painting I've been working on for our new film, Butchered Meats. I still need to crowd the streets with people. Tell me what you think. It's 1930's Boston, Great Depression period.

Animal Cage

2009-11-04T16:57:00.000-08:00

Alot of people have been asking me to update my blog more. So here's another item I'm working on at work. It's an animal cage It's still not done. Later I post some of the other cool stuff that I've already done at work when I have time. I always except any critiques. So if you have any ideas to "plus" this cage, let me know.

Updated DemoReel

2009-10-27T12:47:00.000-07:00

Please feel free to leave any comments about how it looks. I want to make it better.

Dreamgiver

2009-09-19T11:14:00.001-07:00

This is a guy I'm texturing for the film I'm working on. The top image is a study painting I did to help me figure out generally what i want the end result to be when I'm done texturing it in 3d. I am going to document everything I do so all will know how to do a 3d character with subsurface scattering.

Pens in a Jar

2009-08-06T16:29:00.000-07:00

This Jar was the next 3d project I worked on for the Dreamgiver film. It was a headache! I don't know about you but Glass is CRAZY to pull off right. There is alot to worry about. At the same time, it was fun. My favorite was putting fingure prints on the pencils and marker. The last image shows the glass refracting the tiles in the back. It also reflects, and creates caustic effects. Spent less time on the shadows. Didn't care.

Gunso

2009-07-11T16:31:00.001-07:00

Meet Gunso. It's a used toy robot that I textured for the film.

Baseball Texturing

2009-06-30T23:41:00.000-07:00

These are more textured objects I did in Slim for the film. A baseball and a old rusty baseball card box. The baseball was most interesting as you can tell. I cut it up and took a picture of it, then used the texture for my UV's that I placed on my Baseball. It was fun.

hat

2009-05-25T13:11:00.001-07:00

This is a hat I recently textured in 3D for a film. Done in Renderman.

My Demo Reel Revised

2009-03-30T19:44:00.000-07:00

2009-03-28T19:24:00.000-07:00

Alrighty, here is the latest of a recent project that I have been working on. I Textured, Modeled, UVmapped, and created the shaders for these suckers in Mental Ray. And guess what this project is still not done. I still need to finish texturing his cloths and rigging his body and then I will animate him. The goal is to cover all basic aspecs of 3d. Also if you stay tooned by the end of this week I should put up most of my animations that I've done and my demo reel.

Modeling in 3d

2009-02-25T14:12:00.000-08:00

Alrighty, so a weakness of mine has been modeling. (because it's so technical to me). I'm not much for a technical person but I am trying to be...somewhat. I modeled this character following the Learning Autodesk Maya 2009 tutorial. Next I'm going to rig it and maybe texture it. I haven't decided. Recently I've been doing animations too but have not put them on the blog because I will maybe later.

Textured Oil Barrels

2009-01-28T19:09:00.001-08:00

Right now I'm starting to help with a 3d animated film with the Seniors. I had to texture some oil barrels for the scene. With This texture I used Slim in Renderman for the first time. It was hard at first like every new program you use but I'm starting to get a hang of it.

Texturing the Great Wall

2008-12-23T17:17:00.001-08:00

During Christmas break, a friend, Scott and I decided to start a 3D project. This is some of the project. I won't tell you much else other than he's the modeler and I'm the texture artist. Right now I'm painting bricks on the Great wall. Lots of experimentation involved here, but I'm proud to say that I painted all the bricks you see. Why have I taken on this task. Because I like it.

priest in Danger

2008-12-16T20:08:00.001-08:00

This is my painting final for Sam Neilsons class. It's been a good class I've learned alot. This is a story of a frog priest being robbed by two villans. One of them is an amature. His more experienced partner is annoyed by him.

3-d Snail final

2008-12-09T22:49:00.000-08:00

This is my first bug in 3d. This is my bug final for Brent Adams class.

My first flash animation

2008-12-05T14:31:00.000-08:00

I'm very proud of my first attempt at flash animation.
My boss wanted me to do this for a project at work.
My next goal is to work with symbols and rotate body parts.

2008-12-02T18:57:00.000-08:00

Great Wall of China on drugs

2008-11-11T11:57:00.000-08:00

This a final scene I did for Sam Nielsons class. I tried to do a cooler version of the great wall of China.

Another Storyboard panel for work

2008-10-24T15:22:00.001-07:00

here is another storyboard panel for work. They are checking out some rocks ontop of a cliff looking over the ocean in china. I've been learning how to create sceneries in Sam Nielsons class. I still struggle with creating characters though. In this scene I'm trying several options and positions

Again my first attempt with 3d

2008-10-21T17:26:00.000-07:00

This is my favorite version of the teapot

Teapot final

2008-10-16T17:39:00.000-07:00

ok, I'm not working on it anymore. I'm leaving it alone. it will never be done, but I have to move on to other assignments.

1st Teapot in the works

2008-10-11T17:57:00.000-07:00

Right now I'm working on my teapot in Maya for my first computer 3d project ever. I'm trying to detail it further to make it as realistic and appealing as possible. If you have any suggestions, I would love to know what I could improve on specifically. Thank you.

Yeehaa! Happy Halloween!

2008-10-07T14:17:00.000-07:00

Bill's favorite holiday is Halloween, not just for the trick or treating and haunted houses, but also for the giant ant bull riding at moon light. This is my finished final for a project in Sam Nielsons class.

His pet ant

2008-09-22T16:10:00.000-07:00

After Fred gets high off candy on Halloween night, he escapes his house late at night with his friends to do some ant bull riding. This is done for my concept class with Sam Nielson. I tried to be as dynamic as I could. Next we're going to be painting our characters in photoshop.

Hey boys

2008-09-13T05:30:00.000-07:00

So this is my attempt to add a hue. I forever want to keep fixing it but I'm done with it for now. I need to study light more. Again I've modeled in photoshop Joe Olsens line drawing.

2 minute gesture of Woman in class

2008-09-11T10:22:00.000-07:00

I decided to post this because this has been my favorite gesture I've done. At the time I was trying to get closer to Ryan Woodwards gesture style. Recently I've been less successful at it. I'm putting two versions up. The hard copy and one manipulated in photoshop with a gradient map. Tell me what you think.

Sam Nielson first class project

2008-09-09T14:48:00.000-07:00

This was done for a class project in Sam Nielson's class. This is an image of Joe Olsons. We all had to pick an image and put value, cantrast, and model it 3d.

The Great Wall

2008-08-27T14:46:00.001-07:00

All these images that I've been working on is for a project that I'm doing at my job. There are many panels that I'm working on but these are some of them. The story for the panels is about two kids that end up traveling around the ancient world and learn about it. This is for a high school history course and it also has interactive games with it.

Another alien concept

2008-08-13T15:29:00.001-07:00

hello, my name is joe and i like to drawr me mummy.

Refined Alien teacher

2008-07-23T14:15:00.002-07:00

Computer sketchings

2008-07-07T14:14:00.000-07:00

David Bowie

2008-06-27T15:43:00.000-07:00

Big lipped woman revisited

2008-06-26T15:32:00.000-07:00

Huge Nose Man

2008-06-26T11:25:00.000-07:00

Big lipped woman finished

2008-06-25T12:36:00.000-07:00

My first project at work

2008-06-24T16:07:00.000-07:00

The Swimmer

2008-05-31T10:34:00.000-07:00

4x7 foot high school painting, acrylic

Suzie and her Pet Groomit

2008-05-31T10:33:00.000-07:00

Kathryn Creswell

2008-05-31T10:31:00.000-07:00

This is my lovely wife

Dorothy and her daughter

2008-05-31T10:30:00.000-07:00

Robot Man

2008-05-31T10:29:00.000-07:00

Wilson Phalarope

2008-05-31T10:27:00.000-07:00

The Ultimate Trick or Treater

2008-05-31T10:24:00.000-07:00

Maffia

2008-05-31T10:23:00.000-07:00

I created this out of my head using reference

Show me the way Priest Man

2008-05-31T10:20:00.000-07:00

The man

2008-05-31T10:19:00.001-07:00

Yankee

2008-05-31T10:18:00.000-07:00

Rachel Creswell

2008-05-31T10:16:00.000-07:00

My mother as a child

Lyn Creswell

2008-05-31T10:10:00.000-07:00

Flower sack

2008-02-16T12:59:00.000-08:00