William S. Restey

Demo Reel 2011

2010-12-21T20:18:00.000-08:00

Demo Reel 2011 - Billy Restey from Billy Restey on Vimeo.

Recent Work

2010-12-07T17:24:00.001-08:00

HDR from Seattle City Center & 4th Ave

2010-11-22T08:08:00.000-08:00

Color Graded Plate

3D Composite

2010-10-05T00:16:00.000-07:00

Matchmoving

2010-09-08T19:22:00.001-07:00

Child's Play

2010-08-19T00:46:00.001-07:00

Comped Green Screen Footage

2010-08-17T01:44:00.000-07:00

Summer Reel 2010 - New Cut

2010-08-09T00:42:00.001-07:00

HD and FULLSCREEN for best playback.

Requiem for a Robot

2010-08-07T20:23:00.000-07:00

I had a lot of fun with this shot--trying to get some sort of sci-fi style going on. I was inspired by a 5 gum commercial--the gum industry is doin it big!

WIP Shot - footage from Video Co-Pilot

2010-08-03T16:04:00.001-07:00

NEW! Boeing 747 Shot

2010-08-01T10:33:00.000-07:00

It took me most of the day creating this shot, between rendering out 1280 x 720 frames. I was up pretty late.

New Cards

2010-07-14T11:22:00.000-07:00

2010-05-16T23:03:00.000-07:00

2010-05-12T17:16:00.000-07:00

Some WIP's

2010-04-18T21:28:00.000-07:00

2010-04-18T21:27:00.000-07:00

New Lighting - Japanese Stairs

2010-03-29T03:05:00.001-07:00

I gave myself the afternoon to create this shot. I was trying to bring something to
a finished level in a short amount of time, and this is what i came up with.

Student Short Film Done!

2010-03-27T14:46:00.000-07:00

Flights of Fancy from Billy Restey on Vimeo.

Hangar

2010-03-27T12:14:00.000-07:00

Hangar from Billy Restey on Vimeo.

This is a project I was fortunate enough to work on. All the renders are pretty low res. Miles Loth is responsible for all the modeling, texturing, and lighting. I was involved with compositing and editing.

Compositing

2010-03-25T20:36:00.000-07:00

I've spent some time rendering and compositing and this is what I was able to end up with.

SCULPT - SGT

2010-03-19T20:47:00.000-07:00

Speed Paint

2010-03-17T01:47:00.000-07:00

20 min - Speed Paint

Head Base Mesh Sculpt

2010-03-12T20:12:00.000-08:00

I've been working on a base mesh in my spare time and this is my progress on it. I really wanna finish so i can start sculpting some busts.

Room Lighting

2010-03-11T23:45:00.000-08:00

Room Lighting - I just started to rough in textures, bringing some color into the scene. I am planning on modeling a little more too.

Flyer - Freelance

2010-01-31T12:30:00.000-08:00

A quick poster I did for a friend. Turned out it had to be black & white.. woops!
Details, details, details...

Painting

2010-01-22T14:23:00.000-08:00

Inspired by some great films like Casablanca and The Big Sleep, I wanted to paint a black and white face and it ended up being Ingrid Bergman. Not many of my friends can recognize her but she starred in the 40's and acted next to Humphrey Bogart.

Polish, Refine, Polish

2009-12-20T22:22:00.000-08:00

I have been putting some time into my acting scene and this is what I have so far. I'm pretty happy with it. C&C are encouraged!

Creature Turntable

2009-12-10T00:16:00.000-08:00

Creature Design

2009-12-08T23:19:00.001-08:00

Creature Sculpt (Work In Progress)

This is the lowest resolution of the mesh, displaying polygroups in different colors.

This is what I had going for ZSpheres before I created Adaptive Skin.

Now that I have ZBrush 3.5, I probably won't be using this pipeline anymore.

I will continue to post my progress on this piece.

Some Recent Animation

2009-12-06T23:44:00.000-08:00

Playing With Shapes in Alchemy

2009-12-04T00:49:00.000-08:00

I just started using Alchemy and was experimenting with shapes and their interface. The process is quick and it's easy to get your thoughts out onto the canvas with Alchemy's shape drawing tools.

You can get some really cool and aesthetic shapes with the gradient tool with mirror on.

Alchemy is a great tool that should be thrown in every artist's arsenal.
Check out the great Andrew Jones creating some sweet shapes with synthed musical notes.

This one's pretty old. A man sitting next to me at the airport oversaw me working on this piece and offered me a job to redesign the look of his company.

He never contacted me.. but it was satisfying to catch someone's eye and appeal more than sub-standard.

Delerium.

2009-12-02T23:59:00.000-08:00

I finally got my hands on ZBrush 3.5 and have been playing around with ZSpheres II, they're awesome! I created this creature concept to familiarize myself with the new zsketch tools. The sketching brushes are really easy to use; I had a lot of fun.

This is a Crucifiction

2009-11-28T15:05:00.000-08:00

Rough blocking of my first acting scene. It's really exciting to be animating to dialogue, especially John Malkovich, he really accents his speech. I can't wait to finish this piece.

I'm 100% open to critique. I think I overanimated the jaw a bit, I will probably tone it down and make the lips more expressive.

Working with ZBrush and Maya

2009-11-27T18:42:00.000-08:00

I had one week to develop concept for a head sculpt, re-topologize the geometry in ZBrush, unwrap and UV in Maya, and generate a color map, displacement map, and normal map using ZBrush and Photoshop. I had a lot of fun with the process, and I ended up spending about 8 hours on it total.

This is the low poly mesh that was imported as an OBJ from ZBrush to Maya.

Here is a breakdown of the maps. This was my first experience using displacement maps and proved to be a good learning experience. I have to watch it though, my seam from the UV unwrap is pretty messy and you can see it protruding through the mesh.

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Final render of the alien with mental ray.