Posts Categorized: Dry Ink

The final resting place of Sterling Sheehy’s personal projects and works NOT done for hire. Storyboards, paintings, sketchbooks, doodles, animation tests, models and other day dreams.

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Boomerang

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

Boomerang Girl is a film idea I was playing with a few months ago. The basic idea was to do…

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Macau tree

Posted 2011/05/25 by Sterling

Went to Macau this last weekend. I had the iPad with me and made this rough painting of a tree…

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Rainy Day Time-lapse

Posted 2011/05/13 by Sterling

Turned my camera towards the dreary landscape and was rewarded with some interesting footage. The Tola Harbour is well protected…

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Silas gets a game card

Posted 2011/05/13 by Sterling

Just finished painting Silas' memory game card. Here it is fresh out of photoshop.

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Ma On Shan Painting

Posted 2011/05/12 by Sterling

looking out the apartment window in Ma On Shan, over looking Plover Cove Reservoir with Pat Sin leng mountain in…

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Lightning Storm

Posted 2011/05/12 by Sterling

Half sleep waking I mechanically stumbled through the dark and rigger a quick time-lapse setup

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Virginia gets the icon treatment.

Posted 2011/05/12 by Sterling

The wife was the first to get the Icon treatment. She is a harsh critic of these sort of things…

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New Profile Icon

Posted 2011/05/11 by Sterling

in the spirit of updating things created an new profile icon. Nothing out of the ordinary, just the usual suspects,…

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Birthday painting

Posted 2010/12/24 by Sterling

I was caught off guard on my birthday and to my surprise Virginia gave me a brand new Cintiq 12wx.…

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Busted

Posted 2010/12/14 by Sterling

Last night I found myself with the odd bit of free time and so I jumped onto zbrush and made…

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Jungle Painting

Posted 2010/12/04 by Sterling

She wanted something that looked like an old tropical postcard. So first I painted this nice little Costa Rican Landscape…

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Thanksgiving doodle

Posted 2010/11/26 by Sterling

A holiday iPhone painting I made in SketchBook while waiting for the turkey to come out of the oven.

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Snow Day time-lapse

Posted 2010/11/20 by Sterling

Yeah! The first snow of the year.

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Flyboy revisited

Posted 2010/11/20 by Sterling

For the most part I made this in zbrush 4. I retweeked the topology to work better for me in…

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Golden nodes

Posted 2010/11/20 by Sterling

I made this crayon drawing a few fews ago.

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Light Paintings

Posted 2010/09/23 by Sterling

I had my camera, a tripod and a flashlight with me. Just for the fun of it I started playing…

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William DeSeve

Posted 2010/09/06 by Sterling

Seve is a romanticized fellow. The kind of man who has everything together.

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House boat

Posted 2010/09/06 by Sterling

A concept doodle for wakefield's house. I was playing with the idea of it being just a boat.

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The City Gate

Posted 2010/09/01 by Sterling

A rough model of a mountain city I made in Maya late one night last month. I may take it…

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loose iOS paintings

Posted 2010/08/31 by Sterling

A few loose ArtRage images floating around my media library.

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Silas Time

Posted 2010/08/27 by Sterling

The morning rain had stopped and drawing out side on the porch just felt like a good idea. He thought…

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Intruder Alert

Posted 2010/08/26 by Sterling

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USC Cinema

Posted 2010/08/25 by Sterling

Good ‘ol USC film Production. I’m really proud that I went to a film school when you could still call…

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Davey Jones Game Pitch

Posted 2010/08/21 by Sterling

I had an idea for an iphone game about a free diver who has to dive down in search of…

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Gator loop

Posted 2010/08/20 by Sterling

I thought I was going to use it for the loading animation that plays when you click one of the…

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drawing night

Posted 2010/08/18 by Sterling

Looks like it is going to be a good drawing night. I’ve got a couple of beers in the fridge,…

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cypress mountain

Posted 2010/08/17 by Sterling

I woke up at five the other day and went for a hike up at cypress mountain provential park with…

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USC Animation

Posted 2010/06/11 by Sterling

Below is a listing of some of the Animated shorts I made at USC. Most were produced while I was…

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Lazy River Camera Mount

Posted 2010/05/13 by Sterling

Ok, at first this may not seem like it has much to do with animation but here are some sketches…

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Doggy Dog

Posted 2010/05/12 by Sterling

The dog here was modeled in maya and then posed in zbrush using the transpose feature. I made him a…

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Fly Boy

Posted 2010/03/11 by Sterling

I finally broke down and bought Zbrush. All I can say is that it was SOOOoooo worth it! So far…

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Monster pen test

Posted 2009/12/17 by Sterling

Some folks wanted to see a close up of the drawing I made

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Root- Time lapse

Posted 2009/12/17 by Sterling

This is a time lape of me organizing some of the mess which is my home office. I added a…

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Silas Has Balls

Posted 2009/09/12 by Sterling

Motion tracking with Maya Live. Who needs to buy toys when you can just make virtual ones.

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TVPaint walkcycle

Posted 2009/09/11 by Sterling

Recently I bought a copy of TVPaint animation to help me out with my storyboard work. It has a wonderful…

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FAIL: Maya Mental Ray Satellite

Posted 2009/09/10 by Sterling

I took a break from learning maya rigging to try and setup a Mental Ray Satellite on my Playstation 3.…

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I have a long way to go before this model is rigged properly

Posted 2009/08/30 by Sterling

I have been trying to learn how to rig the little monster character I started building and its clear from…

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Rough MonSTER model

Posted 2009/08/19 by Sterling

I recently started to learn how to model characters in Maya. This is something I have been wanting to learn…

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Caustics

Posted 2009/08/15 by Sterling

Another maya rendering experiment, this time with caustics.

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Unearthed- My first Animation

Posted 2009/08/14 by Sterling

Digging though some old miniDV tapes I discovered my first 2d animation, an animated logo for my little production company…

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Jello Cubes

Posted 2009/07/28 by Sterling

This was one of my first attempts at building a sub surface scattering render node in maya. The cubes are…

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Droplet

Posted 2009/07/13 by Sterling

Maya Mental Ray fun. This morning I was playing around with fur for the first time and I thought it…

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Sketchy mountain

Posted 2009/06/22 by Sterling

Nothing special here, just a very quick, rough camera projection test I did while waiting for something in the oven.

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Camera projection tests

Posted 2009/03/24 by Sterling

Recently I have been working on and off on camera projection tests.

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Valley Pan

Posted 2009/02/08 by Sterling

A camera projection test I made in Maya. The goal was to create a 2d/3d hybrid look.

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The Northern Pass

Posted 2008/11/14 by Sterling

One of the reasons I have been trying to learn Maya is so I can make 2.5d backgrounds for my…

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The little CG Hut

Posted 2008/11/06 by Sterling

I have been ripping my brains out trying to learn Maya.

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“Error”

Posted 2008/10/20 by Sterling

Nothing is more frustrating than following a maya tutorial and not having anything work.

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The King and I

Posted 2008/09/02 by Sterling

Below is a small sample of some of the character designs that I explored for the King in the movie…

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Ambient Cinema “ Stillborn”

Posted 2008/08/30 by Sterling

A few years ago I was really excited about ambient cinema. Making films for the purpose of creating atmosphere.

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Danced4

Posted 2008/08/29 by Sterling

An animated motion dance inspired my some of Oskar Fischinger’s early work. I animated this while on the plane down…

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Draw faster

Posted 2008/08/28 by Sterling

We just started drawing... In the beginning I rushed in and overdrew everything.

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Mountains

Posted 2008/07/30 by Sterling

Here is a sketch I did the other day.

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Trimming the Fat

Posted 2008/07/30 by Sterling

Art and the human resource department don't mix. Stick with tradition. Let the artists choose their apprentices.

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And so it begins!

Posted 2008/07/23 by Sterling

This is the first posting to my new wayward blog. I've done a lot of work connected to that name.…