Why saving is important!

Hey everyone! I'ed like to take this time to inform myself and everyone that will listen to me about why saving is important. from Wednesday till now I must have lost 10-20 hours of work due to my own stupidity.
As a result I've missed out on my goal of having the building at least 80% modeled. The silver lining to this is that I relearned a major lesson on saving often and in increments, as well as to turn on that handy auto-save feature in Maya.

On Friday I decided to catch an early showing of Pixar's Brave, and I was really impressed! When it comes to a Pixar movie you know you're going to be getting top dollar entertainment as well as AAA grade CG VFX and animation, but to me Brave went above and beyond expectations. I would highly recommend seeing this movie at least once, and maybe a second time if you wanted to see it in 3D! Brave has replaced UP for me for my favorite Pixar story.

I plan on coming into VCAD this next week a few times, to help out a few of the grads with whatever I can, as well as work on getting you guys a better update for Wednesday. Thank you so much for reading, remember to save often, and go out and watch Brave a few times.

Until next time,
-David J Stelmaschuk

New Project

Hey guys, been working on getting a rough block in for my newest project. It will be based roughly around this picture.

My main goal for this project is to brush up on some dynamic simulation with both a) A Chimney giving off smoke and b) A RealFlow waterfall flowing into a small pool of water.

Some other things I hope to include are:
Animated wind blowing through trees and the swing, maybe even clothes on the wire
Interior of the Cottage. Though I don't think I will include and inner to outer shot to save time
speed mapping. my goal is to have this completed and rendering within 3-5 weeks.

I took a render of my main shot so you can see the very rough block in stage. For Sunday I want to have the cottages exterior finished to about 80% so that I can begin to get a feel for the scene as a whole.

Thanks for reading! I look forward to doing this project, and I will see you on Sunday!

-David J Stelmaschuk

Tuesday Update!

For the first project I've decided to just post weekly updates on what im currently doing. This will get me warmed up for the world of tutorial blogging. My first post will likely be a project overview. This is so that I have a documented case of what my goal is for the project, something that you should do every time you start any kind of project, as well as so you guys have a good idea of what Will be going down for the next few weeks.
Anyways, this was just a quick Tuesday update. Will Have another more informative post tomorrow.

-Thanks for the read comments are apreciated

-David J Stelmaschuk

Hello Everyone!

Hello everyone! My name is David J Stelmaschuk, A recent graduate from the Visual College of Art and Design in Vancouver. This blog will have a mix between tutorials and weekly progression of my personal projects, as well as to show people what i'm currently up to. I hope you enjoy! The first post will include my student demo reel and subsequent posts will be a project that I intend to work through and create various tutorials to help people, and to give them a little insight into my workflow.

Sorry for the quality