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Gnomon Master Classes

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I recently organized a bunch of super cool master classes that will be running the week of December 12th-19th. I can’t wait to watch them all!! Check them out the Gnomon School site.

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Tags: 3dsmax, compositing, gnomon, lighting, master classes, mattepainting, maya, mental ray, modeling, mudbox, texturing, zbrush

Read more | Comments (9) | December 1st, 2008

Guardian

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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 4500×8000 to be printed at 30″x54″.

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Tags: Guardian, maya, mental ray, sculting, sketch, zbrush

Read more | Comments (5) | August 8th, 2008

Fume

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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.

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Tags: fume, maya, photoshop, smoke, zbrush

Read more | Comments (1) | January 11th, 2008

Study

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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… :/

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Tags: study, zbrush

Read more | Comments (3) | January 4th, 2008

Whisper

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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.

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Tags: photoshop, sculpt, whisper, zbrush

Read more | Comments (1) | January 2nd, 2008

'Jester'

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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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Tags: 3d, jester, sketch, zbrush

Read more | Comments (1) | August 30th, 2007

'Smile'

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Here’s a new unfinished(?) image ‘Smile’… I got to this point after a couple evenings and haven’t had time to get back to it. Its tough to have fun making an image, but then have a week go by with not one second to work on it anymore! So for now, I thought I would post it here. It is based on another one of the sketches below. Maya/Zbrush/Photoshop.