Blowing in the breeze

December 20th, 2008 by Adam McMahon

Anybody want to color this one? She really is crying out for color, but I'm kinda losing interest in it myself. E-mail me if you are interested at "contact @ AdamMcMahon.com" (minus the spaces) if you are interested and I'll send you the clean photoshop file.

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Horton Hears a Who! on DVD

December 9th, 2008 by Adam McMahon

Horton Hears a Who! comes out on DVD today! Hooray…. I mean, Who-ray!

Check it out when you can. This is the first feature length animated film I had the pleasure to work on. The design team at Blue Sky created some amazing artwork that I was able to take part in bringing to three dimensions as a modeler.

Also…

if you haven't seen it, a new trailer for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was released a couple of weeks back. You can view it, and the previous teaser over at Apple's website. Click the link below

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/iceagedawnofthedinosaurs/

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Mine!

December 9th, 2008 by Adam McMahon

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Old Works in Progress

December 6th, 2008 by Adam McMahon

I was digging through some of my old files and I found a few gems that were showing some signs of progress. Why I stopped working on them I can't remember, but now that I'm seeing them again…. maybe I'll go back and finish a few. These are all 3d models, all based on another artist's designs.

The Genie from Disney's Aladdin. This was based off a maquette I found a picture of at http://www.mousetreasures.org/maquettes/genie.shtml. I wish I could see the maquette or at least more pictures from different angles because I remember the facial scture being difficult to figure out. Especially the smile on his left of his nose.

The Tazmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes. Based on this terrific sculpture. I wish I knew the artist behind these sculpture as he really does a great job of translating these 2d characters into three dimensions. See more of his sculpture at http://www.cartoonstore.net/ These two models were done in a time when I was really studying how to bring the appealing designs of 2d cartoons into 3d. During that time I also modeled Scrooge McDuck, also sculpted by this guy, that I posted about earlier. You can see it here http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2007/06/20/scrooge-mcduck/

The next two characters are based on Tony DiTerlizzi's illustrations of Mary Howitt's The Spider and the Fly

I was trying a different approach with the eyes by modeling them shut. I honestly can't remember my thoughts behind it now though. Hmmmm. I think it had to do with how the geometry of the eyelids flowed into the area that would make up the crow's feet in a smile. Oh, I remember that I modeled him smiling because that was such an integral expression for him that I needed to be certain that his geometry would allow it in a nice looking way. After I got this expression working I would have to go back and sculpt the face back to a "default pose" using the same geo though.

And here you can see the sculpted hair look I was starting to work on for the spider.

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Color for the Mad Scientist and his creation

November 23rd, 2008 by Adam McMahon

I couldn't resist coloring them in.

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Color for the Mad Scientist and his creation