design_caste

Revamped…again

matt — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:06:18 +0000

I can’t imagine any real people check this site, but I can’t blame anyone considering this is my first new post of 2010 and it contains no new content. I have a several step plan that is aimed at reorganizing my career and I suppose my life as a whole. One of those key points is to redesign this site to fit it more into the archetype I originally intended. The key word in this is integration; integration with a functioning gallery, be it hosted here or through a service like flickr, integration with my social network through my facebook (so I can annoy my family and friends with all my little art related ramblings), integration between my [numerous] other sites such as mattwanimation.com, mattwvis.com, and the soon to be born dcaste.bigcartel.com. I’m going to rebuild this site from the ground up, hopefully not at the cost of my old posts, to help deliver content in a way that is both easy for me and convenient for anyone that will choose to read.

The goal of this site has always been to deliver my thoughts and ideas about art along with my artwork itself. I have multiple art sites, but they are all very focused, as they should be, as they are there to get me jobs. They are my professional extensions. This is a bit of my catch-all. It’s lived up to that position thus far, but in a wholly unorganized and unappealing way. I have a few sites that I’m going to attempt to launch all at once, with content already in place. It will be a bit of a harrowing task, but for this to be successful, this is how it will have to happen.

Though, again, I’m probably speaking only to myself, I’m going to disable comments on this post until I update my wordpress and put something in place to stop the insane stream of spam I get from this site.

Hugs and kisses.

house in the burbs and a bitchin suv

matt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:55:57 +0000

is how i’m never gonna wind up

and pt. 2…

more crappy undead

I think his happiness is a bit feigned

was workin on this for a painting, but I never finish anything

self portrait with my bird. actually just some random tiny scribbles to round this off.

I feel now I’ve lost you to health and good cheer

matt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:17:01 +0000

Got a bunch of sketches to rattle off

pt. 1

Sea turtle that may have suffered complications at birth

No idea, think his name is Jean

Zombie; my subject matter is neither atypical nor original.

Definitive light sources, psh, who needs em.

Behind every great man is a good ~~woman~~ partially-realized cycloptic squid.

more tomorrow…

Which one of us has the PHD

matt — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:56:32 +0000

I want a pacer

matt — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:33:39 +0000

Tried out throwin my little skull in max and doin a wax Mental Ray render.

mud skull

matt — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:02:08 +0000

little cartoon skull done in mudbox. never really got into a sculpting app before. I see some overall shapes that need improvement but I think that will come in time as I become more comfortable with the tools. I was having the most difficulties separating forms such as the brow from the main sphere of the skull; that transition is still much softer than I’d like.

Corporate Shackles

matt — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:16:09 +0000

Started a new job in New Jersey, no more driving to Delaware everyday, not that I didn’t LOVE it.

They have me doing visuals for airport security training demos at present.

Airport Check Point and Screening Area

Some Equipment

This was my first project done with mental ray rendering engine. lots of pros and cons compared to Vray. hard to make a true assessment since it’s been upgraded so much the new versions of 3dsmax, which we unfortunately don’t have quite yet.

Star

matt — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:31:35 +0000

Quick pencil sketch of my dog that wouldn’t stop staring at me last night.

matt — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:06:44 +0000

The camera matches I had to do. The dusk shot was taken at like 2 pm, but looked so awful since it’s a dirty alley I tried to use some colors to happy it up.

Inquirer

matt — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:32:05 +0000

Popping back and forth between living on a couch in Philly and staying in NJ is greatly cutting into my productivity. On top of that I’ve been working 13-15 hour days this week. So I don’t have anything very interesting but I can show off some of my stuff from work the last few days since it’s an existing conditions building. There’s a lot of playing with color and non photo-realistic techniques to get the feel the client wanted.