The Clean Sheet

2012 has passed. I look at ALL of my best works and doings and see what I did and where I need to improve and set my sights for next year.



Make a list of what I need to accomplish for 2013 (for my art):

• Human body: Perfect Female Sculpt and do More male sculpts
• SOMETHING with hardsurfaces i.e. Robotics, Metal
• More HDR work and rendering
• Work on lower ver models
• More drawing.
• Monsters, creatures, 
• Mouths from a Dynamesh Model, so I don't always have a closed mouth on the model.

I did some work over the Christmas break/season and finished Zatanna. I also added 4r5 to my system, the auto save feature is really nice, but I hate how the model disappears for a second when I reengage the software.

 It was fun doing the frill/fabric on the corset.  Her hair was the hardest part, it just didn't look right. But then I looked at the Tpose of Rosa and realized, that it's because the face has nothing to it. No Expression

 So I started posing and was shift through Tumblr, and found a image of Zatanna with a cool pose. The over all pose turned out fine but I realized the most important part and something I need to work on. Is the mouth. I need to find a way to sculpt the inside of the mouth for my models in Zbrush. Usually I do the inside of the mouth when I make a low poly version and texture it that way.

I did some drawing as well. Something I haven't done in a while; it was nice to do something outside of tech land.

 

Quick Update: Finished Dragon / Batman Painted

I got the Chinese Dragon finished, I am really glad the cards we had were blue, they are a nice offset with his red skin. This turned out really well. Adding the smoke was kind of hard but it really helps. I tried doing some depth and focus but it kind of turned into messy blur and really hurt to look at.

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The I finished painting the Batman model. I am in the middle of the doing a quick rig in Softimage to get some poses in.

The concept was done by http://danielaraya.deviantart.com/

 

Young Justice Legacy / Dragon Update

http://www.youngjusticelegacy.com/overview/hero

The Young Justice Legacy website updated. They are showing the character models, I can understand the style and choice in the character design. I wonder how the animation is going to be. I wished they had the characters in an action pose. The relaxed t-pose is great, but I wonder why they didn't have them in a more natural pose then.

I mean lets look at Zatanna (my favorite) and see how she has her hand on her hip. I mean this is an obvious Zatanna pose. Looking at the one in the middle (which I believe is from the Justice League Unlimited series) and the one with Zatanna in the Young Justice First season.


Left to Right From: http://www.youngjusticelegacy.com/overview/hero
http://pawpels.deviantart.com/art/Zatanna-in-Young-Justice-216830666
http://www.comicbooked.com/greg-weisman-talks-young-justice-invasion/

I can't wait to see how the Invasion season is going to turn out. I hope Legend of Korra picks up soon. Young Justice is great, I remember Toonomi and seeing Gundam Wing and Animaniacs, "Young Justice, more than any cartoon I had seen in a long time, harkened back to the Saturday mornings of my childhood, where stories were taken seriously and didn’t “talk down” to its audience." -Sharon Scott


Well off my soap box and onto the podium and too newer and better things.

I have my dragon colored and need to fix the textures on the cards. I need to set the table up to look like he is playing a proper game of cards. I think I will set it up for pinochle and maybe have him play a game with Maria and Hester.


Without Cards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With Cards

 

 

 

 

 

Dragon and Hester update

Adding more to the scene and working on some of the textures.

 The dragon is coming along. Did a quick test and need to work on the lower arms/legs and add more around the tail. I still need to paint and get  the cards modeled to the right size. I am still trying to get the hair to be like fire, smoke mix.