Some Ideas...

So, the past week has been a mix of rest (yes, sleeping in a bit) and job hunting (linkedin, job boards, company sites etc).  So I haven't don any modeling persay...per-say...per-seiyyy, I dunno anyways.  I've got two ideas nailed down for a second reel and a third for a third reel, though they may crossover.

1 - Miss Universe

This will be a sci-fi beauty pageant contestant/winner based off of Jessica Alba's face (as best as I can duplicate her)

 and philip Straub's celestial queen.

So something spacey and partially glowing but very sci-fi.

My goal with this is to model a female character and feet, both of which will be my first time.  Plus, to do a cool dress with lots of intricate pieces to it.

2 - A Realistic Trogdor

So imagine this but realistic!  I'll be concepting some ideas for this but will take a crocodile/alligator/snake approach to the body, bat wings and a human arm.  The legs will be dragonish but standing upright and the eyes/eyebrows will be on the head not floating.  I also want to take that Trogdor song that was featured on homestarrunner.com and copy that kind of music video idea - so I'll be doing a knight version of Trogdor and some peasants as well as a hut or two.  For the knight I'll use Pete Postlewaite with one of those funny medieval mushroom hair cuts.

3 - Undecided

I'm still thinking something mechanical and possibly cartoony

however....

My other reel idea is to take this picture by Christian Lorenz Scheurer and make the entire thing in 3d - characters (all of them highly detailed) and environment (a bigger and better view of it here http://www.christianlorenzscheurer.com/htmlpages/paintings/hern.html)

I love this guy's concepts and this would be sweet to see in 3d with all the lighting and such done up right - and I wouldn't stop until it was done right.

So, since I haven't started anything officially yet (a partial finger for the Miss Universe) I might try to do this last one first.  I've done lots of charactes (love 'em) but I want to do some environment stuff as well - since I can but haven't really shown it.  So perhaps in rambling on a bit I've come to the decision of doing this first, or at least part of it.  It'll no doubt be a long term project haha.

Later folks, stay tuned!