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     My portfolio is arranged by project for independent work and by class/topic for academic study.

 
:: portfolio ::
 
:: independent work ::
:: virginia beach ::

This animation was originally produced for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in 2003 as part of a presentation on construction of the Virginia Beach Convention Center.

:: View Virginia Beach page. ->

:: short film ::

A gallery of mp4 encoded quicktime movies from a short piece of animation I'm currently working on, 'Expansion and Contraction.'

:: View 'Expansion and Contraction' page. ->

:: pencil test ::

A lip-sync pencil test I did as an undergrad with Mometo and Monkey, two characters I created. Sound for the clip was taken from They Might Be Giants' "Whistling in the Dark" off the Flood album.

:: View 'Mometo and Monkey' pencil test. ->

:: flash ::
I am Flash MX Certified and have done freelance work with Flash for the past two years. Most of this work is on an intranet or no longer available. Here are a few examples of my work:
:: academic work ::
:: gallery ::

A gallery of images and movie clips from work done for class projects. Images were rendered from various ray-tracing and Renderman compliant packages. Movie clips were rendered from Lightwave as Quicktime mp4 encoded.

:: View gallery page. ->

:: ray tracing ::

My ray-tracing application features reflection, refraction, and implements the Phong illumination model.

:: View the ray tracing page. ->

:: OpenGL ::

My work with OpenGL included efficient mesh management, Phong shading, texture and light mapping.

:: View the OpenGL page. ->

:: Renderman ::

Using 3Delight, I created a number of scenes and shaders.

:: View the Renderman page. ->

:: animation ::

My study of animation techniques includes keyframe animation, parametric curve interpolation and physical simulation.

:: View the animation page. ->

:: visualization ::

A fractal visualization program was my final project for this class in visualization.

:: View the visualization page. ->

:: scripting ::

I've worked with MAXScript to build a hand animation system for sign language as well as a variety of other plug-ins.

:: View the scripting page. ->

all content copyright © 2004-2005 jeff young
'Mometo and Monkey' name and characters copyright © 1996-2005 jeff young
martian character design copyright © 1996-2005 jeff young