Waylon Dobson

Reel breakdown
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Televison commercials
All work done in Maya

Xbox.  Modeled and helped design pinball roller coaster carriage, modeled and uv mapped pinball machine elements, lo res and high res versions.

Champs  Modeled and uv mapped shoes and watch for walking character.

Sears  Arranged Chicago skyline with a combination of pre existing buildings and new and rebuilt ones; modeled sailboat, harbor, the draw bridges, placed architectural elements along the camera path. 

Meet Dave
Finger Blaster modeled for the movie.  Created to collapse and rotate.  For CIS Hollywood.

Video Game Creatures

Whitemoon Dreams , Los Angeles.
Characters for video game in development

Turtle
This was the second creature Greg Smith designed, and following his concepts, I modeled  the base mesh, game mesh, UV mapped the creature, and rendered normal, color and specular maps.  Work done with Maya, ZBrush, Photoshop, Topogun, Xnormal.

First turntable animation reveals color, normal, and spec maps on mesh,  Second turntable-normal map only,
Third turntable, normal map and contour rendering, revealing game mesh.

Bull
Working with the concept art of  Greg Smith, we collaborated on the development of the creature’s look, based on his design.  I then modeled  the base mesh, game mesh, UV mapped the creature, and rendered normal, color and specular maps.  Work done with Maya, ZBrush, Photoshop, Topogun, Xnormal.

 First turntable animation reveals color, normal, and spec maps on mesh,  Second turntable-normal map only,
Third turntable, normal map and contour rendering, revealing game mesh.

Personal Work

Conquistador
Modeled in Maya, ZBrush, textured in Photoshop.  Rendered  in Maya 

Minotaur
Modeled using ZBrush, Maya, Photoshop.  Displacement maps for body made in ZBrush, textures for shorts and weights made in Photoshop.

Navy Truck
Modeled and rendered in Maya, Bump maps made Photoshop.

Grinling Gibbon.
  Model of the Modena Panel,by the artist Grinling Gibbons 1686.

Leon Cathedral.
Modeled and rendered based from a photograph of the Cathedral.