more lowish....poly shenanigans

So still toying with this during my non school/work/house/olivia/music time.....rough colors are just temporary to help me visualize what I am looking at

no optimization has been done sitting right a 1200 polys......kinda exspensive but I'll fix that later.....I want to get to texturing this furry little dude... for a style reference here is one of the inspirations

Thats not mine but its crazy cool!!!!!!! Original artist Ange Sarric

Weekend Low poly adventure

So between, new job, new school, new baby, new musical out look,etc....... I have been feeling like art has taken the back burner. So this weekend I intend to try a quick easy low polygon character. It's inspired by the path of 8 challenge on GameArtisans but I am already past the deadline so it will be just for fun. Here is the initial concept doodle from work...going for a hand painted textures chibish style....

---- Rules ---- 1. under 1500 tri's 2. 512x512 texture map 3. no normal maps....but alphas and emissions are ok ok here is modelling end of night 1 250 triangles currently long ways to go

trying to break through a negative slump

Having that yearly impatient feeling which means its time to do some studies and make sure I'm still able to do this stuff first up some digital painting...

Proof of concept with home-made peg bar for traditional animation

So I wanted to post this 4 frame gif as my facebook profile....but facebook is a facist dictatorship so none of that....let me know what you think

Star Frontiers detail and texturing pass

So been working on a lot of high frequency detail lately thought I'd put up some wips

Been slaving over this character lately thought I'd put her up

Mentalist update..... Her hair is a temp place holder been working on costuming. A set of 4 holsters and its on to the Hair lab........duh duh DUUUUUUUUHHHHHHH

Back to it

So I've let this thing sit for too long. Thought I'd get back at this. Here is today's 1 hour sculpt.

daily sculpt alien week

Back to the daily stuff

Been told I should put a final image of these on here so here it is.

Daily Sketch

So day three had some issues with the eyes and the face but here is today's

Daily Sculpt day 2

So here is today's.....not totally happy with it but the timer dinged on me so it was time to move on.....

Daily Sculpt Day#1

So it's time to get back in the habit of sculpting everyday so I've challenged myself in addition to all the other crap I'm doing right now to try and get an hour sculpt time lapse video put up here everyday...I make no guarantees as to quality but at the very least it'll  keep me fresh with zbrush. Here is today's I think he is a 1920's bodybuilder cartoon....

Procedural boredom

So at work and the phone is silent so I'm playing with procedurals.....yes yes I know hand painted is better....however with no tablet I am pretty weak at painting landscapes... so here is a procedural Volturnus. let me know what you think.

Hi detail texturing

No I'm not dead just busy. Here's what I've been working on today getting my textures to look like flesh as opposed to pictures being projected on a mesh. Let me know what you think...oh the ears on the girl on the right are never going to be seen in this project so I'm leaving them for now. I can always go back and detail them out. As always let me know.

Snow-pocalypse catch up

Okay so I realized about the time I turned 25 that this entire week I havent put any progress up here. The majority of the work for the last week has been story boarding and ortho graphic projection but I put together some build ups of things you may or may not have seen yet. Let me know if anything looks particularly good or bad. Like I say some of these are less recent than others.

Quick Death sculpt
Assault Scout Sculpt
Yazirian Head Sculpt

Colors!!...????

So its snowing in DC and the entire town is wigging out. After a walk to Panera I decided I would do some paint overs of the sathar to try to start hacking out a pallette. Let me know if any of these jump out at you. As always click the thumb for a bigger image. Trying to get as snake like as possible. Keep in mind that these are just the bases for me to attach more gear to....I'm realizing I say that in every post.... ANYWAYS let me know what you think.

Sathar Fire Team

Started working on the Sathar nasties today. Support is a heavy weapons guy, thinking big ass minigun hurling nasty green plasma at our intrepid group. Let me know but I think the scales are too similar they don't read as different. They will all three have very different sets of equipment and I'm going to make probably 4 color schemes each for the assault and support guys I only have one wrangler in the storyboards right now so...we will see. As usual if you see something you like or hate let me know. All right, off to practice....

Non-humans

First day of working with the yazirian head. Trying to find a happy medium between what the books have depicted and what looks reasonable.
Let me know what you think, its only one days work so no worries.





Second picture is early Sathar elite, Heavy weapons bad guy I'm thinking needs optics, ammo, misc gear, and a menacing looking weapon of some sort.

The human cast is assembled

So the humans are modelled. I think they look enough like their reference to look good but different enough I dont get in trouble. We will see when I add hair and color. Just need a Yazirian and some bad guys at this point. I'm ahead of schedule for this project which is an awesome feeling. It has to be fully rendered by December so Gonna keep pushing hard. Would really love to have this project continue as fluidly as it has been rolling so far.

Clothe work

So working on the Corporal today, trying to get him in uniform. Got the base layer down now just need clips, battery pack, hair, finished boots, weapons, pockets on the vest, electronic devices, three belts, and goggles. Wow these are gonna be elaborate characters before they are done.
Anyways let me know what you think of the clother work so far. Little nice but have to keep in mind gonna ad some through dynamics and the rig later on. ......yes I know another dude in T pose.....

Guns gonna call it a day

So got the rifle modeled and the two pistols unwrapped, did a little work on the head. Thought I'd log progress for the day.

On a head kick

So getting into some of the nicer texture features in zbrush. missing my Zproject brush pretty bad, but hey its another celeb that no one will recognize lolz. If you do call me and let me know.....Yes I know the lips arent lined up right

New Project under way

Here is a head I'm working on for a personal project. Just put some quick textures on this morning.

and for those who dont like squinting

here are some detail closeups of what i have so far

World meet Marie-Elise. Marie-Elise world....

I've kept this one under my hat for awhile, she's lookin good in her boots and goggles tonight though so thought I would sneak a shot of her. She's got about ten tons of steam-punk gear to be attached yet, but I think the base level is looking pretty good if I do say so myself. The hair is far too ordinary I'm afraid but...... ahh well its a separate sub tool I can always delete it and do whatever tickles my fancy later. Let me know what you think.

Pashtun Taliban update

Okay so here is the final Hi-poly model for the wielder of those guns lolz let me know as usual

Bullets for my guns

Yes I know its silly. But I dont know any other digital artist who doesnt get giddy when they play with particles and physics engines. Finished up textures for the bullets and wanted to make my own silly lord of war shot. Here it let me Know what you think.

update to the priest for those that hadnt seen it yet

So here is the updated hi poly mesh before I retopod him working on textures right now but this is primarily up to show i can in fact model hands if i get my brain out of my way.

On a gun kick think I'll make a pack of them

So i am on a gun kick the last two days i realize but this one is so much fun and so useful I had too. Here it is the British 1897 Lee-Enfield Long rifle .303. If you arent familiar with this rifle you really should research it, it is probably one of the most prollific weapons ever made still in use today very heavily.

INSOMNIA!!!!!!

So I couldn't sleep and I realized I havent modelled a projectile weapon in ages so, to arm my new Taliban models I modelled an AK-47 1.5 hours needs optimized but personally I'm proud of it. Not as accurate as some models I have seen and it needs some surface detail but... hey it 3 AM lolz

Taliban zbrush

So haven't posted for awhile, figured I would put up what I'm working on today.

Freelance Jewish Priest of antiquity

So today was a good day. Finally got some of my turbosquid oriented modelling going. Thought I would share the fruit of the last 2 hours work.

first day of july in DC

First day of July, inlaws are here about to head out for the day figured I would try to get some work done.

Time for a relaxing weekend

So leisurely did some alchemy over lunch, prolly gonna go back to playing Empire:total war though.

Morning Alchemy

So the apartment is cleaned and its time to go to work. Here is the warm up Alchemy from today. Might do some pencil sketches later today or maybe a topology study.

Time for some Alchemy OVERLOAD!!!!!!

Finally got the Black Knight purring again in order to catch up i took about 30 minutes and did some rapid fire alchemy.
If you notice the top three in the middle batch I have started working on a Butandi jungle god called Jengi.

#3

Don't know why but today I'm drawing faces. Let me know what you think... although I am well aware nobody sees this lolz.

Morning Model

So after cranking 6 character models out in like two weeks, I really needed something different so I dug up that old demo of LWCAD.... about 15 minutes in doing the tutorial. I have to say it seems like the most underated plugin for a 3d package I've ever come across.

#2

Doing some random doodles from memories of Lord of the Rings...hmm prolly better dig that up and watch it its been more than a month since I have seen it lolz.

#1 it begins

So here we go, this is going to be an experiment where I will fill a page a day with doodles and scribbles and post them. I cant guarantee anything interesting but hopefully it will be good for a laugh.