In Penn’s SIGGRAPH chapter, we’re spending the next few months designing our own little characters in Maya!

I drew a little girl complete with little kid size coat and rubber rain boots:

I don’t really have any idea yet of what kind of adventure she’ll go on. I’ll figure that out as I go along, I suppose. I picked a little kiddo mainly because I love how crazy exaggerated little kids often make their expressions. Just check out the absolutely beautifully animated short Playing with light - Mon ami le robot.

More later!

A few weeks ago I joined a startup founded by a few Penn alums called Venmo! My project at Venmo for the past few weeks has been helping my friend and co-worker, Ayaka Nonaka, with a new app from Venmo called Gifi, which is a Foursquare/Venmo mashup that lets people leave Venmo money at geographic locations. I’ve been working on Gifi’s website and overall look. Here’s some of the artwork I did for Gifi:

I’ve been playing with Maya for the past few months. 3D animation is a direction I’d like to start moving in.

I’m starting to get the hang of lighting things and whatnot, although I still do not know much. I’m taking a 3D modeling course in the fall, hopefully I’ll get much better by then.

Some glasses and strawberries and grapes on a table:

A lot of you guys already know what I’ve been up to for the past few weeks, but for anybody who I haven’t told, here’s a peek: