Real Monsters: Anxiety, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Depression

Artwork by Toby Allen

This is a small project I did a while ago. I needed to improve my creature and stylized sculpting and ran into these “Real Monsters” by Toby Allen (http://zestydoesthings.tumblr.com). And asked if I could model them, and he agreed to allow me to model them and I am glad that they ahve turned out so well.

So I modeled out some of the real monsters.

 All of these guys were done in Zbrush with Dynamesh and render in Zbrush for the compositied images as well.

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Artwork by Toby Allen

 I had a fun time modeling him and sculpting his face. I had planned on using chameleon skin texture but it seemed to bland and thought the fish/snake scales add a more dynamic look.

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Artwork by Toby Allen

I have been improving my compositing and render skills and enjoyed comping these guys on my computer and on to me. I did all of the models in Zbrush and I plan to have them printed as soon as I can find a good service.

Emotional Assault

Djinn Finished

I posed the hands, fixed the paint, touched up the body, feet and hands and lined up the hair pieces.

The background turned out okay, the ground and two rocks I modeled and the environment is the HDR image I found online and used for my lights in Zbrush.

I didn't do a lot of work on Friday, I was uploading some of my work to CGhub and sending out resumes to the four winds and wait. I went to see Wreck-It Ralph with the family. I loved the short at the beginning; it made me want to do some storyboards and actually animate something. The movie is for a generation of gamers and it was really well done. Anyone who knows: up up down down left right b a start by heart will enjoy, I keep trying to see how many games character I could find.  

Clockwork Man, Rosa, HDR work

I have done a TON of things and they have all turned out really well so far.

First: I finished my submission for the Train your Brain Contest and my Clockwork Man turned out really well. I have been work on this concept for so long and I feel that I have final gotten it down.

"Where does this piece go?" The Clockwork Man does not know where the turn key goes, the head or the heart. 2 of the most important pieces to the being a person are both missing one piece. So, where does the last piece go?



 

So I built him in Zbrush and Softimage, rigged and posed in Soft. Lighting, texture and color were done in Zbrush. I like him and I am really glad it turned out well. Even better than I had thought it would. I was planning on this one being a Hardsurafe study but it turned into more of an anatomy study. 

Second: I have revisited Rosa. I look back at my old model and really, really hate myself for it but this time I got her down.

 

I still have a few odds and ends to add, but so far so good. I am work with Spotlight to texture and paint and I do not know how I lived without it. I want to make her "wet" so I am messing with modeling water on her skin. I want that out of the shower kind of wet and I really haven't tried anything like that in Zbrush before so I think it will be fun.



 

Third: I am trying more HDR work and what not. I want to do something with Faeris and I haven't found images online that I could use for good lighting that I like.

This isn't great, so I need to go hunting for some free HDR images and panoramas which isn't as easy as it sounds.

 

 

 

 

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/

 

Update

Wednesday is my birthday and we are going to Vegas on Thursday for my 21st and will be sadly, returning on the following Tuesday. I have been really busy with family and projects. Dad's birthday last weekend, we went to see the Liechtenstein at the Art Institute, not really my thing but it was nice to see some of the other works.

 These are some of my favorites in Renaissance area. Seeing these got me in the mood to do some sketches and I thought I would do some body sculpting in Zbrush and get my oil paints out again and do some painting.

 

I have been touching this in between other projects, I am gonna practice and do more human body sculpting. I am juggling drawing characters and redoing my storyboard to make into a quick animatic.

 

Speaking of sculpting I started the Chinese dragon for the game of cards. I bought a Christmas ordainment for HDR images to use as lighting. I revisited the Kiss to have something to practice taking HDR shots with. I don't have a big fancy camera just used a small Sony camera.

It turned out nicely for the first test run. I don't think I will use the area in front of the mirror any time soon. If I do I think I need to do it in the day time so I won't need the head lights that wash everything out. I used Softimage to place them and the HDR shot to light them. I touched it up in Photoshop to add some grain and more shadows.

 

 

I finished Maria as well, and got the low model built and sent off to Michael Bryant to rig. When I get her back I will have all my materials for my new reel.



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