Brand new fall semester here we go!!! These are my first assignment for my storyboarding class. The baby has a loaded diaper. :)

Demo Reel

I have been meaning to post my most recent demo reel for a while. This is the one I used to apply for graduate school. I have done quite a bit of work since then, but I can't post it until the game is published. Below is the shot breakdown, and the reel.

Jesse O'Brien demo reel 9/2/2010 from Jesse O'Brien on Vimeo.

Hey all, I just got back from my three week freelance gig out near Seattle. I was doing architectural previsualization for a building project. School started up yesterday, it looks like it's going to be a packed semester!!

Well, this is my final assignment for the class. I drew it with Wolff's Carbon pencils, which I have come to really enjoy using. It took me a bunch of hours, but I didn't really keep track.

This class was fun, and it really pushed me a lot. Figure drawing has never been one of my strong suits.

It may be a while before I post again, I am off to Seattle tomorrow for a whirlwind freelance gig.

Hey all, this is what I did for module fourteen. The assignment was to create three different characters out of one model. In my first drawing I attempted to just draw the model as I saw him. The second I made him fat, the last emaciated.

This is my assignment for module thirteen. I was going for a female James Bond kind of look. The purpose of the assignment was to place a figure in a composition. I had her peeking out from behind cover. I put lots of negative space all around her, to show danger and uncertainty, her peering out into the void.

I did the drawing in just under an hour, but obviously I could have used more time to finish it. I still struggle with getting charcoal to do what I want quickly.

Windows 7 God Mode

I recently built a new computer, and I loaded Windows 7 onto it. Over the past few months I have been tinkering with it, to get the settings to where I want them to be.

One very cool thing I came across recently is Windows 7 God Mode. While this mode does not provide you with infinite health or even infinite ammo, it is still pretty cool.

In order to access it, create a new folder anywhere, and name it:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

This immediately changes the icon to a groovy little flatscreen panel thingy, and changes the name of the folder to GodMode. This really works. GodMode is a one stop shop to pretty much every setting you can adjust in Windows 7. It's awesome, even though I am still out of ammo.

I found this info here:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/windows_7_%E2%80%9Cgod_mode%E2%80%9D_has_all_controls