Bret McNee

Monthly Inspiration – September

By Bret Wednesday September 1, 2010

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I do not have time to do a daily inspiration like some blogs. But I like the concept. I have decided that once a month I will post a blog post on inspiration.

I will collect one image for every day in the month and make a large post out of it. So this post will have 30 images for 30 days in September.

I tend to be a bit of an image collector on the internet, and now I can share some of my stash with you.

Please click on a thumbnail to view the full image if you fancy it. (Make sure to click the “continue reading” to see the images.)

Enjoy.

Mech Rig in Progress

By Bret Tuesday August 31, 2010

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Hey guys,

So I just wanted to get a quick post out tonight. In our Maya class we started a project where we have to add a skeleton to a mech model and make it move. So basically in industry terms, we are rigging a model.

In this post I am going to just show you a small amount of the progress. I wanted to show you my concept art, the model that I did in XSI, and a little bit of the skeleton layout for the rig from Maya.

When my mech is done, I plan on posting you guys a little YouTube video of what my rig can do. So until then, here is what I have done so far.

If you are navigating from my homepage, please click continue reading to view the images. Thanks.

Punk Rock Girl

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Hey guys, quick update today. I am continuing to practice my models. I just did this Punk Rock girl over the past three days. I am including these three images in a gallery at the end of this post, click the thumbnails to enlarge them. Enjoy. No special story today, just a practice model.

Mr. Mud Face

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Hey guys. Quick update today, I just wanted to share with you “Mr. Mud Face.” This guy was a model done by my teacher. My job was to texture him, rig him, hook up a proper displacement map. I am also showing you a practice soldier bust I did… It is no where near finished, [...]

Demo Reel Proposal

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Hey guys. Super quick update today. Here at Think Tank, the second semester students gave our demo reel presentations to the owners of the school for approval. Our class ended up with four character modelers, four environment modelers, one visual fx student, and three animators. Can you guess which route I took? That’s right, character [...]

Pie Boy Studios and Other News

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Hey guys. I just wanted to share some fun news with you today. First off school… Two days ago I officially pitched my demo reel to the owners of Think Tank and my class mates. I had to declare my target profession, and for me it was a no brainer: modeling. I also had to [...]