John Sorci Art

Luxo Lamp Animation

2010-06-25T12:15:00.001-05:00

This assignment was done back in my Intro To 3D class, which I took a year ago (Summer 2009). It was the first time I had gotten to use Autodesk Maya for modeling, texturing, lighting, and animating. The project was to create a child's bedroom, and model a Luxo Lamp, and then animate the lamp inside the bedroom. I had a lot of fun with this project, getting to learn the program and all. It is quite basic and simple, but for my first time doing any of it, I was pretty happy with the end result.

Bouncing Ball 2D Animation

2010-06-25T11:48:00.001-05:00

This was the first 2D, hand-drawn animated clip I made in school. We had to animate a bouncing ball, and I decided to make a little story out of it. It's very simple, but the project was just to get an idea of working with hand-drawn animation.
This animation was actually done about 6 months ago, so back towards the end of 2009.

Communications Business Plan Design

2010-06-25T11:33:00.000-05:00

In my Principles Of Communications class, our group final was to create a whole business plan and portfolio to "present" to investors. As an Animator, my "position" was Technology and design, so I handled all the hardware/software as well as creating a mock-up design of the business. Our business was a new branch of Starbucks, that was music oriented; where each customer got their own multimedia entertainment device to use.

These images are a rough model of what the store would look like. I created a basic feel of what the store would look like, and what would be inside. I didn't go too detailed and specific with the modeling and texturing, just because we only needed a general concept design to present. All of the modeling, texturing, and lighting were done in Autodesk Maya, and the rendering was done in Mental Ray.

I may decide to go back into it at a later time, to add more detail and clean it up a bit and make it more professional looking.

Boom (3D Character Model)

2010-06-25T11:22:00.002-05:00

This was my final character model for my Modeling 1 class. We had to fully create a whole model of a character, and I chose to make one based off of myself. Everything was created from the ground up in Autodesk Maya. Everything was modeled using polygons, and the clothes are a separate layer from the character.

Photoshop Work

2010-06-23T15:05:00.001-05:00

These are a few self portraits I took of myself and played around with in Photoshop. I really enjoy doing photography, and then doing a lot of tweaking in Photoshop. The program is so deep, and there's so much I still don't know about it, so I try to take any time that I can and just play around and teach myself new things. All of these pictures were taken with my Nikon D3000, and edited in Adobe Photoshop.

Meteor Shower

2010-06-22T13:13:00.001-05:00

My Animation 1 Performance Final. I've had this idea for an animation since I heard this song, so I was really excited to get to create this. The song is Meteor Shower, by Owl City. I used Autodesk Maya for everything, and MentalRay for the rendering, and Adobe After Effects for compositing. Hope you enjoy! I sure did making it.

Phone Call

2010-05-22T23:44:00.009-05:00

This was a brief animation for my "Animation 1 Performance" class. We had to do a scene with a character talking on the phone. Everything was done in Autodesk Maya.

School Environment

2010-05-05T21:47:00.005-05:00

The final renders from my School Environment created for my Modeling class. I really enjoyed working on this project, and I hope to continually add more to it as time goes on.

Texture & Lighting

2010-04-28T16:18:00.004-05:00

These are a couple assignments from my Texture & Lighting class. We had to texture the goggles, and then we had to take a 3D shape, and map it onto a 2D image so that it matches.

School Model

2010-04-28T15:26:00.006-05:00

This is a rough model of a school for my modeling class. I used Autodesk Maya, and everything was created with Polygons. I textured and lit the scene as well, and rendered it using Mental Ray. I am currently expanding on the it, and I'll update soon with those add ons.

Character Design

2009-12-01T14:43:00.003-06:00

For my Digital Imaging class we had to create a character and color it. I chose to do an interpretation of myself, and I used a hard edgy style with the drawing as well as shading.

Excuse Me Sir!?

2009-06-09T21:56:00.002-05:00

This is a video that I made for my Environmental Science class. We had to make a video about recycling. I applied the skills I've learned in my Intro. to Video class (compliments to the lovely Jason Ho). We only had a time frame of about 3 hours, so it's not my highest quality work, but it was really fun to do and I think it turned out pretty good. Hope you enjoy and spread it around!

2009-06-03T14:03:00.003-05:00

Here's a few renders of a project that I did in Computer Applications. The assignment was to create a 3D house of our choice. I thought it would be exciting to recreate the living room of the Griffins house on Family Guy. I think it turned out pretty good and accurate. There were a few things I left out of their house, but that was due to the time-frame we had to work on it.

2009-06-03T13:59:00.002-05:00

This was my cover/title page for my portfolio in Advanced Drawing. It has my contact information as well. The character on it I drew quite a long time ago (it's also my logo picture for the blog) and it was kinda my self portrait at the time, and it's stuck with me since then.

5 Styles

2009-06-03T13:54:00.003-05:00

This was a project for my Advanced Drawing class. The assignment was to draw in 5 different cartoon styles that you like, and to put yourself into the drawing. So we had to create drawings of ourselves in 5 different styles. My 5 choices were, respectively: La Sonadora, Ninja Turtles, Garfield, Avatar, Flapjack.