Lisa Evans

Friendly Yeti

2012-01-15T15:08:00.000-08:00

Snowflake

2012-01-09T15:38:00.000-08:00

An animated gif inspired by Vesta

2011-12-30T13:22:00.000-08:00

Is Vesta the "Smallest Terrestrial Planet?"

"Vesta was discovered over two hundred years ago but, until Dawn, has been seen only as an indistinct blur and considered little more than a large, rocky body. Now the spacecraft's instruments are revealing the true complexity of this ancient world.

We're seeing enormous mountains, valleys, hills, cliffs, troughs, ridges, craters of all sizes, and plains," says Chris Russell, Dawn principal investigator from UCLA. "Vesta is not a simple ball of rock. This is a world with a rich geochemical history. It has quite a story to tell!"

More 3D Dudes

2011-12-28T03:51:00.000-08:00

3D Modeling, Printing and Painting

2011-12-18T16:41:00.000-08:00

Business Cards for a Friend

2011-12-12T14:06:00.000-08:00

I met Sarah a couple of months ago following a Humanity Plus conference in London. I admire her drive and goals and so it was a pleasure to create an image for her business card.

Hopefully in 2012 we will work together on a children's book :-)

Exhibitions

2011-12-09T16:12:00.000-08:00

I have drawings in two exhibitions this January.

'Further into the Woods' at Gallery Nucleus

From January 7th until January 29th

And I donated this drawing to the Drawing Dreams Foundation art fundraiser, which is taking place at the Society of Illustrators from January 19th.

Nordstrom Holiday Campaign 2011

2011-11-30T03:09:00.000-08:00

Awake

2011-11-23T09:17:00.000-08:00

Dweller on the threshold

2011-11-07T15:53:00.000-08:00

Snowglobe

2011-11-01T11:57:00.000-07:00

50 Words for Snow

2011-10-28T06:03:00.000-07:00

Kate Bush has a new album coming out called 50 Words for Snow. She's one of my favourite musicians so I was super excited to be able to illustrate a feature review of her album for Mojo magazine. The little boy in the picture is Kate's son Bertie. He sings on the album along with Elton John and Stephen Fry. Here's the first song released: Wild Man

A Yeti

2011-10-21T16:51:00.000-07:00

Experimenting with 3D printing

2011-10-12T03:02:00.000-07:00

I modeled my character Star Belly in Maya and then uploaded it to Shapeways.

I chose two materials to experiment with; Detailed and strong and flexible.

The figurine on the left is made out of the detailed material. It has a smoother surface making it easier to paint on. The figurine on the right is made out of the strong and flexible material. It captures more detail but also highlights more flaws. It has a rougher and more porous surface making it harder to work with.

Painting time. I should have purchased more appropriate paints and brushes..

Snape, Star Belly and an owl

I need to do more research into pricing and printing possibilities. I love painting things by hand, but it would also be cool to paint the model digitally in Mudbox and have the 3D printer produce full colour versions. As far as I know printing tonally/coloured gradients isn't available yet.

I'm looking forward to when printing prices come down so I can build my army of Star Bellies. Mwahaha! >:)

Big Daddy/Little Sister Fan Art

2011-09-30T13:49:00.000-07:00

Characters from the game Bioshock.

Story and character development

2011-09-10T15:31:00.000-07:00

Vesta

2011-08-10T14:30:00.000-07:00

An animated gif of the asteroid Vesta

Please click to enlarge.

Animated Stomp Cycle

2011-08-02T04:01:00.000-07:00

I've been modeling some quick low res bots for game assets and made my first animated walk cycle. It's a bit wonky and not totally convincing but it's a step in the right direction.

An Interview with DPI Magazine

2011-08-01T09:11:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of spreads from a recent interview with DPI Magazine in Taiwan.

This is a silly sentence, "Star Belly and the young girl take the crystals to a space geologist and discover the awe and magic of rocks in an unconventional way". I'm not sure what I meant by "unconventional way", but I think an alien space geologist would make an awesome character. I like the idea of someone floating around the universe in a crystal ship, visiting galaxies and collecting rocks. Because rocks have magical powers.

Environment Design

2011-07-13T06:29:00.000-07:00

Low Res Bots in Maya

2011-07-07T03:22:00.000-07:00

Dragon

2011-07-05T12:47:00.001-07:00

Rabbits and Robots

2011-06-29T06:54:00.000-07:00

Recently I've discovered that modelling low polygon assets for games is easy, but keeping the poly count low is hard.

I also spent a few days trying to create a rig for a character I'd previously modeled, but it didn't work and I was unable to locate the source of the problem. So I decided to fix up a different character and re-approach rigging again tomorrow.

Memory Palace Sketches and Models

2011-06-12T09:10:00.000-07:00

I've been using Maya this weekend to help with visualization and perspective.

Back to Maya

2011-06-04T14:27:00.000-07:00