Sydney Australia Temple

Santiago Chile Temple

Salt Lake Temple Water and Light

This is a short video render of light and water I made earlier this year.

Buenos Aires Argentina Temple

Taipei Taiwan TEmple

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Taipei Taiwan Temple

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Manilla Phillipines Temple

Frankfurt Germany Temple

Lima Peru Temple

Motion Storyboard

In Perpetuum

This one was for my Motion Picture Essentials class.  I was the Cinematographer, And This Edit is my own.  I played quite a bit with sound and color balancing, plus there is my first attempt to use after effects to apply some 3d effects to this movie.

City Hall and Ruby Hollow Valley in Black and White

This City hall model was made by a classmate of mine for the same production as my mill and bank. The Textures were made by me.

This terrain is a chunk of Monument valley, adjusted to meet our needs for this upcoming production, copied and rotated 90 degrees.

Milling About and Making Bank.

I have been very busy in Pipeline and rendering class. This is a class in which we work through a project or two and learn the way to work as a team to accomplish a 3d project. We are working on a fun project right now that requires an old west town. In black and white even, that's how old west it is. My assignments are rather numerous. I am Technical Director, am in charge of gathering the props and placing them into the town, am building the terrain, am in charge of prop management, am co writing the animatic with Three others, am co team lead for surfacing (textures), am blog coadministrator and am a modeler. This is in a class of 30 people. Most people have one job, some of us more. This is what I get for having a work ethic. Thanks Dad.

Anyway, besides the terrain, here are my 2 buildings from town, the Old Mill and The Bank.

"Watcha got there is a classic right-hand overshot counterclockwise bucketed water mill capable of speeds in excess of 10 RPMs. Yep, she's a buet'."
-Ol' Crusty

The Bank is what we call a "Hero Building", meaning it will be the immediate backdrop in certain shots, and therefore has very high detail.

StoryBoarding

These are the story board frames I was assigned for a class project. They are the opening scenes from a story titled "The True Story of Hansel and Gretal"

Panorama Series, Part 0?

So, I have been going through pictures, and I find that I have been taking pictures with the apparent thought of making panoramas longer than I have actually known how to take panorama pictures. So here are a few I did and just combined.

This is the Smith family farm, south of Palmyra New York.

Here are two of San Diego.

And Here is Twin Falls Idaho.

Panorama Series 11

I forgot! We took these last month, so , some more pretty pictures for you to see! (I had a rootcanal retreat Tuesday. I'm on pain killers and anti biotics. I may be a little loopy.

Panorama Series 10

More Panoramic Pictures, This time from Arizona. Click for Larger.

Gila Valley

Snowflake Arizona

This is where the recently finalized Phoenix Arizona Temple will be located.

Twin Falls Idaho Temple

Redlands TEmple

Vernal Utah Temple

Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple (As Dedicated)

Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple (Current)

Ogden Utah 2013

Three

Well, If you have not checked out the spaceship walk through, it is now to late.

There is a reason for this.

I present to you,
"Three".


As promised, this is the bigger, religious themed File I promised. Three is an almost complete, highly detailed walk through of the Ogden Temple. Navigation works the same as the last file, with one difference. In the upper left corner is the Time Machine. With the click of a button you can go from 1993, when the spire was still Orange, to 2003 when the grounds and the spire underwent major renovation. With one more button click, you can go to 2013 to see the grounds as they will appear after the recently announced full remodel.

If you have not already installed the Unity Web Player, you can find it here.

A couple words of advice. This file is huge. 60+Mb huge. It does take about a minute to begin, watch the loader. Be patient. Also, You may want to refrain from falling off the edge of the earth. There is no recovery from it but to reload the page.

Please comment and tell me what you think.

Izapa, Mexico

Back when I presented this project:


To my Digital Design class, there was a Proffesor working at the back of the room who saw it and went nuts. He asked more questions about the project than my classmates did. A couple of weeks later this Proffesor, Dennis Lisonbee, approached me about a short documentary he was working on with a BYU Proffesor about some ruins in Mexico. Garth Norman has made a life's study around Izapa Mexico. There is significant evidence that the Mayan Calendars were all refined and organised here. This place has special alignments, places where 3 or more monuments and mounds line up with various zeniths, equinoxes and seasonal events. I have spent much of my spare time over the last 4 months reproducing this place in detail, right down to the topography for use in a short documentary.

I know know more than I ever thought I would about Mayan/Olmec cultures. There is a potential that through this short documentary I could get more similar work. I really like this Digital Archeology thing. Following are a few of my renders from this project that I use with permission.

Stela 8, 9 and 10 on the front of mound 30

Stela 5, the "Tree of Life" Stela

Stela 5 detail, upper portion of the "Tree of Life"

Zenith Sunrise

Central Alignment (left) and Plaza B (right)

Here is the Documentary.

As of today, you can now see the Izapa movie I did all the 3D work for recently!