Welcome To Iva In Gear http://www.ivaingear.com Iva Johnson's Portfolio Site Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:24:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc My latest 3D model: The Arch Superhero http://www.ivaingear.com/2010/11/my-latest-3d-model-the-arch-superhero/ http://www.ivaingear.com/2010/11/my-latest-3d-model-the-arch-superhero/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:12:22 +0000 ivandrago http://www.ivaingear.com/?p=170 I’m creating this guy using a tutorial from Digital Tutors. The concept is to make this guy very stylized. He’s got hard, sharp body lines in the style of a Pixar character. It’s still very rough. I hope to find time to really throw some detail on him soon.
I decided to go a different route from the tutorials face. Here's the entire body. I've got to add more detail everywhere before I start to paint the UVs.

]]> http://www.ivaingear.com/2010/11/my-latest-3d-model-the-arch-superhero/feed/ 0 My latest 3D model: severed monster head http://www.ivaingear.com/2010/06/my-latest-3d-model-severed-monster-head/ http://www.ivaingear.com/2010/06/my-latest-3d-model-severed-monster-head/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:50:07 +0000 ivandrago http://www.ivaingear.com/?p=163 MonsterDrawing7_Front MonsterDrawing7_3-4View_Front It’s unfortunate, but I’ve been swamped with so many things that I haven’t had the time to properly finish any of the previous 3D models. This one is no exception. As stated in the title this is a severed monster head. It’s a part of a much larger tutorial project. Of course the instructor on the video does all of this with so much ease it’s actually discouraging to me. I’ll soldier on though.

]]> http://www.ivaingear.com/2010/06/my-latest-3d-model-severed-monster-head/feed/ 0 Steroid Muscle Dude 3D model. http://www.ivaingear.com/2010/01/steroid-muscle-dude-3d-model/ http://www.ivaingear.com/2010/01/steroid-muscle-dude-3d-model/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:25:00 +0000 ivandrago http://www.ivaingear.com/?p=142 I’m at a stand still on my “Starving African Man” 3D model. I’m currently waiting to get my Wacom tablet back to do the final detailing. Using a mouse is simply frustrating. So I started on another base model. This is a few hours of work. I really need that Wacom tablet!

Front View

Side View

]]> http://www.ivaingear.com/2010/01/steroid-muscle-dude-3d-model/feed/ 0 Starving African man: Early Stages http://www.ivaingear.com/2009/12/starving-african-man-early-stages/ http://www.ivaingear.com/2009/12/starving-african-man-early-stages/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:54:49 +0000 ivandrago http://www.ivaingear.com/?p=129 I’ve worked very sparsely on this 3D model over the last week or so. Currently the character looks like a rather health middle aged man, but I’m in the process of adding extra ugly to him. Zbrush is awesome! I’m using the “ZBrush Character Creation” tutorial that I recently bought. It’s a PDF, so it’s taking me a little longer to follow along. I’ve always had trouble shaping the lips, and I got frustrated. I stopped working on it for a few days. african_man_front african_man_angle

]]> http://www.ivaingear.com/2009/12/starving-african-man-early-stages/feed/ 0 Backup 2.0 http://www.ivaingear.com/2009/12/backup-2-0/ http://www.ivaingear.com/2009/12/backup-2-0/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:25:06 +0000 ivandrago http://www.ivaingear.com/?p=127 I’m pretty sure that I posted my experience on backing up my WordPress based web site. For some reason, it didn’t seem to show up here. Maybe I posted it in another forum. Oh well.

The backup experience was fairly easy. At first I tried using a program called “wpBackup”, but it proved to be too complicted for the task. I had installed it about two months ago. Just recently I installed the much better “WP-DBManager”. This program is simplicity itself. Its feature set is very acommidating. It now have the app backup my daTo tabase locally on server, and email me a copy to Gmail account.

As for the other files, I just transfer them back to my laptop every week or two. That’s about it.

]]> http://www.ivaingear.com/2009/12/backup-2-0/feed/ 0 I finally have this under control. http://www.ivaingear.com/2009/09/i-finally-have-this-under-control/ http://www.ivaingear.com/2009/09/i-finally-have-this-under-control/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:56:47 +0000 ivandrago http://www.ivaingear.com/?p=32 Thankfully I seem to be remembering quite a few things that I had forgotten. I think in the next few days I should have complete integration with Dreamweaver, then I’ll really be able to finesse things. Or so I think. We shall see…

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