Mini Portfolio

My name is Russell Alindogan (as you've probably already read at the top of this blog) and I am in the Animation/Illustration program at SJSU. It is my senior year in the program, and my senior year in college for that matter, and I am very nervous but extremely excited to finish my college career with a bang. Currently I am hoping to go into 3D surfacing and modeling in the future, or possibly go the route of visual development. While I can't name a specific studio I would like to work for, my aims are to fall anywhere within the video games industry. With video games being a huge hobby of mine, I can't wait to be able to lend my hand to a project in the future that millions of people over the world will be able to play and experience.

Although 2D animation is not the field I am going for, I had the opportunity to take more than a few 2d animation courses in the Animation/Illustration program. This is the final animation I did for David Chai's 115 animation class:

This next video is of a personal project I worked on over the 2013 winter break. Our goal was to make a "self-portrait" in any way we wanted to. I chose "Street Fighter 4" as my theme and took the character Dhalsim and painted it as if I were in the game. This is a quick sped up video of my process from mostly start to finish.

Next is one of the many digital paintings I did over this past summer as practice. I was inspired by the "vitrual plein air" group on facebook, people who take a still image from google earth and then take a few hours or so to paint it, as if doing a plein air but on a digital medium.

Lastly, here is a Flare Gun project from my first 3D modling class last year.

First Post!

Here is my first post for the course!

I have taken a physics class class way back in high school, and mostly enjoyed it for the hands on experiments, though not so much for the calculations. That being said, I'm excited for the kinds of things we will be touching on this semester in the class, to be able to use that knowledge in my future work as an artist, and definitely will also be looking forward to the lab demos.

Let's have some fun!