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3D
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Title:Isis (Series of 8, one shown) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Currently in Progress Description: An Egyptian goddess inspired by a character in my short fiction novel. Will be animated and will probably be the main piece in my demo reel. I have modeled, UV mapped, and textured all on my own. Media: Maya 6.5 3D model Type: Series of JPG images URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title:Everybody Wants to Be a Cat Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Spring 2005, edited 2006 Description: A lip syncing project to the song of our choice in Intro to Computer Aided Animation. The mouth was provided, but I animated the blend shapes. This was very fun to do. Click to download the zip file. It will probably go in my reel eventually. Media: Maya 6.5 animation Type: AVI URL: Click for dowload |
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Title:Snail Chess (Series of 3, one shown) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Fall 2004 Description: A scene depicting two snails playing chess. This was the final project for Intro to Computer Aided Modeling. The snail was an earlier project for texture mapping, and the model was provided. The textures are all mine, as are the chess pieces and board. Media: Maya 6.0 3D model Type: Series of JPG images URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title:NURBS frog Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: November 2004 Description: A NURBS frog created in Maya 6.0. This was a project for my Intro to Computer Aided Modeling course. The mouth needs work, but overall I like it. My first time using NURBS. Media: Maya 6.0 3D model Type: Animated GIF URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Whimsical sculpture Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Summer 2002 Description: Foot high ceramic abstract sculpture. Media: Terra cotta, glaze Type: Animated GIF URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Ceramic Cat Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Summer 2002 Description: Large hollow ceramic cat bank standing about fourteen inches high. Media: Terra cotta, slip glaze Type: Animated GIF URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Animation
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Title: Character walk cycles Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: March 2004 Description: Animations for a small game I created with a group in Digital Production Studio. We used a small game engine that was available online. Media: Photoshop and ImageReady - GIF Type: GIF animations URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Inuyasha animation Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: ??? 2002 Description: Short animation of characters from a show called Inuyasha. There are a lot of frames missing, but it gives the general idea. Media: Photoshop and ImageReady Type: GIF animation URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Cat animation Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Spring 2002 Description: Fairly long animation of a cat jumping and finding a milk bowl. Drawn in pencil. Originally a flipbook. Scanned into the computer. The very end of the animation needs work. Media: Photoshop and ImageReady Type: GIF animation URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Character Design
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Title: Commission comic (4 of 9 pages, one shown) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: January 2006 Description: A 9 page comic commission from someone in Australia. He asked for a comic about a jungle woman being saved from a pit of quicksand by a monkey after she saved it's life in return. Media: Copic liners, Photoshop, and Wacom Type: JPG images URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Commission work (Series of 11, one shown) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Various Description: A series of commissions I have done for various people through eBay and email. Many of these characters are based on the client descriptions alone. I am in constant contact with them to make sure they are happy with the result. Click the next button on each page to view the next image in the series. Media: Various Type: JPG images URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Appropriation of Santa Claus Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Fall 2002 Description: Appropriation assignment with the subject of Santa Claus. In my version he is not merely an old man, but a young elf. Media: Photoshop Type: JPG image URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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2D
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Title: Life Drawing (Series of 6, one shown) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Fall 2005 Description: Charcoal on Reeves cotton paper using smooth shading. Media: Charcoal on Reeves Type: JPG images URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Figure Drawing (Series of 5,one shown) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Fall 2005 Description: Charcoal on sletchbook paper using smooth shading. These images were drawn from handouts the instructor provided us. Media: Charcoal on sketchbook paper Type: JPG images URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Sketchbook Entries(Series of 14, one shown) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Fall 2003 Description: A series of drawings selected from my sketchbook for Drawing: Form and Space. Done with pencils of various hardness. Click the next button on each page to view the next in the series. Media: Pencil in sketchbook Type: JPG images URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Chaos Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Spring 2002 Description: Charcoal drawing depicting chaos as I see it. Media: Charcoal on newsprint Type: JPG image URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Technical
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Title: Bunny FSM Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: November 2004 Description: Third assignment for System Simulation using Processing. Uses the Finte State Machine model to respond to the number of bunnies in the detection area. Java required. Media: Java applet Type: .html, .jar, .pde URL: Click to watch applet. |
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Title: FSM Representation Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: November 2004 Description: Another assignment for System Simulation using Processing. A visual representation of a Finite State machine changing states and executing transitions. The FSM operation code was provided. Java required. Media: Java applet Type: .html, .jar, .pde URL: Click to watch applet. |
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Title: Aspirations Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Ongoing Description: My personal website displaying much of my art and story ideas, coded by hand with notepad and HTML-Kit. Uses CSS, HTML, and PHP. Media: Website Type: html files, JPG images URL: Click to open a new window. |
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Title: Processing Clock Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: October 2004 Description: FIrst assignment for System Simulation using Processing and SimpackJ. Created a real time clock using disrete events and obtained time from computer clock. Java required. Media: Java applet Type: .html, .jar, .pde URL: Click to watch applet. |
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Title: Turning Point Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Fall 2002 Description: Flash website illustrating one big decision or happening that affected the rest of my life. Media: Website/Flash Type: SWF files, GIF images, html files URL: Click for screenshots if offline or Click if online. |
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Photography
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Title: Park City(Series of 2 images) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: January 2005 Description: Photographs from the lovely Park City, Utah. My family and a couple of friends went skiing in Park City over Martin Luther King weekend. I wouldn't mind living there. Taken with an Olympus C-770. No color correction. Borders added in Photoshop. Media: Digital Color Photograph Type: JPG image URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Busch Gardens(Series of 3 images) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: December 2004 Description: Series of Photographs of animals at Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay. I took these to test out my new digital camera, an Olympus C-770. Borders added in Photoshop, but no filter or contrast adjustment was used for color. Media: Digital Color Photograph Type: JPG image URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: Nature vs. Manmade(Series of 4 images) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: Fall 2002 Description: Series of Photographs with a Nature vs. Manmade theme. Media: Black and White Photograph Type: JPG image URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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Title: My Dad as I Will Ever Remember Him(Series of 3 images) Creator: Sandi Elsen Date: November 2002 Description: Series of Photographs of my dad. Mostly for fun. Media: Black and White Photograph Type: JPG image URL: Click for enlarged image and more detailed description |
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