Demo Reel 2011

This demo reel shows some of my work from the last eight years.

I can be reached at donches3 "at" gmail.com

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The music is "Piano Black", by Yoko Kanno, on Cowboy Bebop

Crew Exploration Vehicle

These stills are from a video we (Digital Radiance) produced about five years ago for a proposed spacecraft.

Cells

These cells were for a series of biotech animations.

Modeled in 3ds Max

Wallpaper: DNA

I was taking a break from biotech animations and decided to bang out this wallpaper.

3ds Max and Photoshop.

Wallpaper: Convergent Series

This is a photograph I took in a subway station, then heavily manipulated in Photoshop.

Some Whimsical Houses

These houses were for a weather-based game.

3ds Max and Photoshop.

Pool Hall Game Mockup

I built this scene as part of a billiards game interface mockup.

3ds Max and photoshop.

Geodesic Balloons

I wanted to see if I could light the models to match the lighting conditions in the existing photographs.

(The background photographs were included with 3ds Max)

Cool Accident

I was compositing the various render elements (land, sea, atmosphere, clouds, etc.)  in photoshop,
and I accidentally set one of the atmosphere layers to the 'subtractive' blending mode.

I decided to keep the resulting image.

J7W1 Shinden

The Kyushu Shinden was an experimental fighter the Japanese were building at the end of WWII.

I built this in 3ds Max based on a carefully measured plastic model.
Textured and composited in Photoshop.

Oh, I did the background in TerraGen.  Cool program that.

Hummingbird Drone Mk1

This is a concept drawing I did for a robotic hummingbird.

Scanned, then inked and colored in photoshop.

Let's Get Started

Here are a couple of drawings I did years ago.