Work Work and Reading

I am working on the scene of the post apocalypse character for the CG Hub Challenge. I am toying with using the creature I sculpted. I need to perfect the sand and play with the lighting. I am planning on using this character in my reel when I have the whole scene finished.

Yet another reel piece, I am toying with the environment for Rosa, and I am perfecting my animation as best as I can. And I have revisited the Zbrush model cleaned up the anatomy errors. I have a new pose in mind for her Zbrush model, if I can get it to look right I will used that instead of the one she has now.

I fixed her hands and cleaned the feet up on the this model (this is the old image and pose) I am thinking about putting her in a whole semi-scene like I had her riding the crab from the first concept I had.  

I am putting the Djinn to the side, not because he isn't good or unfinished, I think it would be better to perfect what I have. I am still modeling more characters but I am spending time fine tuning the ones I have. I am rigging the Djinn still and given my animation skills I may ask someone to animate him, if the rig is good enough. I want to show that I can do a little bit of everything, lighting, rigging, animation and some compositing.

Most people would say "don't put it on your really if it isn't great", then when I say "I can animate on a pre-viz/pre production level" they'll ask "why don't you have animation on your reel?" The catch 20-20. Though I am may be over thinking somethings I am still of the opinion it is better to prepare for the worst and pray for the best.  Anyway,

I have a pose of the Deity, I am really proud of how the hands turned out on this. The leg arms and the back ones I really like. I want to get all of those intense feelings into the whole body. A feeling of loss, anger and defeat. I need to do the fibers/fur still and the background but its coming along. I might have this on my reel but I don't know if having him would be a good idea. I am trying to show a variety of characters; I might have him as the creature but I'm not sure yet. 

Also along the same sad, emotional line. I read Batman and Robin #18, and it was inspiring. It is a silent comic, no one said anything and I didn't even notice that till I read it again. I loved this panel because it hurt so much; I never read the issues when Jason died but I saw Under the Red Hood and it was really really sad, and they ended it with Jason saying "This is the greatest day of my life" when he was a young Robin, tore my heart out. This comic just ripped my heart out and turned into the tiny pieces of lint you find in your pockets. I also love the panel when Batman is in the shower and his suit is covered in blood and he looks so broken. All I can think about when I read this comic now is "Pity the Grieving man, Fear the Grieving Father"

WIPS

 I did some one day sketch and scuplts.
This is based on the statue of Saint Bartholomew, there is a "skinned" statue of him in Duomo, Milan Cathedra. I tried to do the muscle fibers and thought of the Hermit Tarot card for a base idea.

 This a character I was thinking about making, something with a traditional Japanese theater sense.

 I wanted to combine a Jellyfish and an Octopus, I need to redo the paint what not. I made the blue area of her body see through. I need to make some fish to put in her still.






I am working on some animation and more HDR scenes. Like Hester's death and doing something with Rosa and the Djinn. I am going to attempt to make the Djinn do some kick boxing or something. I just need to go refrence hunting to find the best video to use. I think I might make a Green Lantern character in the animated series style; sense that won't be around. I was thinking about the woman from the indigo tribe. I need to sit and figure out how to make her glow, it would be a good challenge and add to my stylized modeling set. And I have some idea for Hush in the Beware the Batman style.   

Human body Sculpt 2

So I have been drawing a lot and I got inspired to do a human sculpt again.

 These are a mix of people watching, TV, the Internet and pictures I took at the Art Institute.

 

So I looked up an old drawing I had done and started work off of that.

This is better than the last one I started, there is a lot I have to do but I don't think its that bad for a starting point.

Along with drawing, I looked at one of those random word generators.  I used this one http://www.seventhsanctum.com/ for a creature idea and got
"This mysterious being is the incarnation of living peoples misery. It looks like an eagle bent into the form of a cobra. It's coffee colored skin is covered in oozing openings."

I am still working on the model and I plan on coloring the sketch and home to have this done along with the human sculpt.

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.



Low
 

The Kiss

 This is from a drawing I started in High School. It did not go anywhere but I am looking at some old work and trying to get my own creativity moving again.

 I may animate this in my own time and hopefully have it done right and in the way I hope. This is my favorite shot. I feel that I really showed there emotions without any fleshy bits. ------------------>

Sleepy Sheep

The last sheep humans count before they fall asleep. Depending on which hand it lands on when it hops the fence will determine if that person has a restful sleep or a night of horrors.

 Concept/Sketches

 The Zbrush model

Zbrush practice and fun

  This is a model I worked on in my Hi-Poly Class. Are teach gave us a base head to work with and see what are creativity does.   The hardest part about this model was making the hair not look like the cloth.

I am still working on textures and making sure the base mesh and the UV's work well together.

I worked on these two statues for a composting shot, we had the idea of having the sweet one turn into something demonic and evil.