Dom War 5 Mini WIP

edit - Coming Closer..

Blocking in the design for the textures

Dom War 5 Mini WIP

Was very unhappy with my model, so I decided to rework it. I lost 2 days on this and its not too different from the old one - but at least I'm happier.

Dom War 5 Mini WIP

today's progress.

Dom War 5 Mini WIP

Working on the Mini Dominance War 5 challenge. It's old school - 3k tris and no normal maps.

There's a week left.

Comicon 2010 finished

Finished this year's GameArtisans.org Comicon Challenge. It came down to the wire but I got both this and a 2d concept entry done. These are the final images.

If you want to see the full WIP thread it is up Here

Comicon Challenge 2010

This years comicon contest at GameArtisans.org has only a few weeks left. I'm working on a younger version of cyclops, and am planning on mutating him fairly harshly. No more prettyboy.

Getting Set for Printing, pt2

Think this is the pose I'm going to go with. I need to pose the zbrush and then do a polish pass.

Getting set for printing, pt1

I'm working on stetting up my Hunter Character to get him 3d printed. I'm trying to figure out posing now, playing with transpose master in zbrush for the first time.

Frazetta Tribute contest

GA did a minicontest in memory of one of my favorite artists - Frank Frazetta. I met Frank twice visiting his museum, and both he and his wife were unbelievably nice. My painting doesn't hold a candle to any of his works, but it was nice to have the excuse to look through all my books again.

Dominance War 4.5 Finished

Finished up - came down to the wire. Still some things I'd like to tweak, but I'm overall pleased.

Dominance War 4.5 WIP

Low Poly, normals, Started the color map. No spec or gloss yet.

Dominance War 4.5 WIP

Done w/ zbrush.

Dominance War 4.5 WIP

Almost there with the sculpting. Few pieces left then some detail work.

DomWar 4.5 Zbrush WIP

inch by inch...

Dominance War 4.5 Zbrush WIP

yep

Dominance War 4.5 Concepts

Not really enough time to do this, but I'm feeling the need to do something besides work.

Huge Tracts of Land!!!

After seeing Brent do a painting of Christina Hendricks, I couldn't resist trying. Our Mrs. Reynold's is one of my favorite episodes of any show. But I think Brent might have missed some of her more well known features...
About an hour and 45 mins.
Painting Movie

Cyclops Base

Just finished watching Scott Patton's 3d Character Design DVD from gnomon, and felt the need to start another personal project. Didn't want to completely rip off his giant, so I'm trying a cyclops. Did a quick modification of Zbrush's superaverageman, and then spent too long in max tweaking the geometry to get this basemesh.
I realized that this is the first time I've modeled "dangly bits". And by his pose he is quite happy to show them off.

Candyland

Drawing and original colors by Tam, Brent did a colored version too so I thought I had to paint one too... 1 hr on the dot.

CHOW 187 - the Celt

not much to say, was a long weekend to get this done.

anatomy study - skull

Spent an hour each morning working on a skull sculpt.
Here is the breakdown...

Lifedrawing Jan

Missed the first half of the last lifedrawing session- apparently good because there was problems with the heat. I prefer the "longer" poses anyway. 10 and 20 min drawings.

GA Post Apoc-Mutants

GameArtisans.org sculpting mini contest.

Chow 186 part 2

There was a one week extension on this deadline, so I took a couple more hours and cleaned it up to look more like a painting than a colored drawing.

Chow 186

CHaracter Of the Week at conceptart.org.
An alien archeologist comes to earth after we've wiped ourselves out. These are one week little challanges and I had a lot of fun doing it. Hopefully, I will keep it up throughout the coming year.

I built the guy in max quickly to get the turnarounds and the pose. Helped, but not sure if it helped with the speed.

Vermeer Video

I recorded the painting of the Vermeer study I did.




Watch it larger on Vimeo