Twig Turn Around

Hello!~ I wanted to share a 360 degree turn around of my character Twig, who is the character in the animation I am currently producing. 

Concept Painting

I've been working on an animated short, but I have never shared some of my concept art. I think it is about time I share a little.

This particular painting is a concept environment for the animation. 

Hello Twig

Hello!~ Today I introduce you to my current model in progress of my character named Twig!

Still need to work on a few kinks but overall, Twig is looking good, in my opinion. Next onward to rigging and textures. 

Larger than Life size Drawing

Last school year, I took a drawing anatomy studies class. One of out assignments was to draw a lifesize "self portrait" using skeletal structures and muscles as well as one of the opposite gender. Here was my result: 

Just to give you an idea of the size of this drawing, here is a photo of me next to it for size comparison.

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Character Practice WIP

School started back up last week, which means lots of new work being produced and working on an animated short. Over the summer I began a character model for practice based off of the bat character I used for my lip-sync animation from last year(as seen on my portfolio page) and these sketches: 

The model itself if still very much a work in progress, but in my spare time I hope to get a complete model, rigged up and textured. :)

Japanese Garden Renders

Here is a few renders for my 3D Japanese garden landscape.  (I posted the concept painting for this scene a few posts back).  A few things still need to be worked on, such as lighting/shadows, etc. Overall I was pleased for it being my first landscape made in Maya.

Nighttime in the Garden

Daytime garden.

And because I kind of loved my little garden statue, here is my textures for it:

Lilipad Textures

League of Legends Fanart

Recently I painted up for League of Legends fanart of their character Lulu. This was a fun painting to do. 

League of Legends Fanart Painting

Lulu the fae Sorceress from the game League of Legends. 

3D Japanese garden

Recently, I have started working on making an entire 3D scene/environment of a Japanese garden concept I researched and created. 

This was my finished concept painting for my garden:

I am excited to create more objects and  this scene in its 3D glory. I hope I can learn and teach myself a lot while carryout this project and look more into things such as paint effects in maya, strengthen my modelling skills, create interesting and strong textures, and explore more advanced and new lighting techniques.
I'll be uploading some of my 3D models I have so far soon!

Welcome!

Hello!
Welcome to my little portfolio site. My name is Joelle Riccobono and I am an artist currently enrolled at University of Central FL majoring in computer animation.
I made this blog as a way for me to showcase my work and document what I've been working on and will work on in the future.

Thanks for stopping by!