Guardian

Image made with Maya, Zbrush, Mental Ray. I started this as a head sculpt/sketch from a sphere in Zbrush, but then added the torso... then the lower limbs... then decided it needed a background... then some bugs.. then some smoke.Since I didn't start with a design, I just poked at it from time to time over the past couple months. So I guess the image evolved over time, but I'm happy with where it ended up. The final image is 4500x8000 to be printed at 30"x54".

Fume

Same guy as below... it was tough settling on an angle to work on him from. I'm still not even sure if this was the right choice, but time to walk away from it. I shot a bunch of photos of smoke specifically for this image that I comped in Photoshop... and now I am a big fan of smoke photos. They're purty.

Ember

So I recently started shooting friends/models with the initial intention of finding interesting poses/lighting to use as reference/inspiration for my 2D + 3D stuff. I've been taking photos and tweaking them in photoshop to create possible directions for a 3D image. In the process, however, I've found that I kinda like how some of them turned out on their own, without the need to become just 'reference'. I thought I'd post one of them in here just to share what I've been doing...

Study

Render test of the aforementioned sculpt that has since evolved a little in zbrush. I definitely need to do something more interesting with him than this... :/

Whisper

Happy New Year to all... Here's a quick photoshop study of a new zbrush sculpt. Still playing around with it so I'll probably have other images with this guy as he progresses.

Trin

Another new guy... this was made for fun, but also as 'homework' for a new class I'm teaching at Gnomon. It is a ten week class where every two weeks we make a new character or creature. The first assignment was to make a portrait or bust. Unfortunately I was only able to spend a couple days on him, but he's done for now. Time to move onto the next one...

Jester Tutorial

So I've just spent the last couple weeks putting together an incredibly thorough tutorial on the making of Jester. Over 18 hours long! A lot of work went into it as I really wanted people to be able to understand every single step in Jester's creation. There is a lot of technical stuff in here that should help people out. :) THE MAKING OF 'JESTER'

'Jester'

Here's a new guy called 'Jester'. He's a plaything for kids. :) This is based on an old sketch of mine (in the 2D trad section) that I always wanted to make in 3D. I spent a bit of time on this one, making 2k-4k textures for everything with the intention of being able to make a big print. Maybe... But at least I know he will hold up to an 8k render. Of course, I need more RAM if I want to pull that off. Perhaps it is time to get a 64bit machine... hmm. Anyhow, he is done for now... need to take a break from it to get some perspective. (and opinions).

Posted in 3Dartwork.

09.05.07 - well hey!... jester got plugged at Zbrushcentral.com 09.10.07 - cool! Jester just got a CGchoice award at cgtalk.

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