New Works

I haven been doing some odd work and projects and these works are things I have had done for a while or in my spare time

Here is the Pirate Zbrush model posed and fixed. I wanted to have a powerfully bored poses.

I worked on some more of my zodiac characters; people names astrology and so on. This is my own character I workedThis is the Zbrush model, I wanted to incorperate a holy man element.

I had a hard time fixing the texture maps on the low model to get the fibers and threads to look right.

 Did a qucik envoirment model, for some more practice. I modeled the arcs and stairs in Softimage and sculpted the rock in Zbrush.
 I wanted to have a mountain/cathedral; this is also based on the Hemit Tarot card, an old man at the top of a mounain. I painted the mountains and sky in the background in photoshop after I render it

This Dion; he is a taurus, he rules earth and the neck. Chinese zodiac is a wood sheep. I wanted to have his body look like a desert and earth; the sheep skull and cracks on the body. I wanted to have a tree/rock elements in the back arms and the in the legs, tree bark chips on the fingers.

 

 So when I was young I wanted to make my own action figures. So my mom gave me an tube of toilet paper and told me to make my action figure from that. I used markers, glue, chopsticks, construstion paper and notebook paper to make him and it wasn't the most amazing thing but it was my own. It taught me that even if it isn't the most amazing thing yet; it was my own, something I can say I made with my own two hands and to be proud of it.

It also says my family were cheap #$%^ers and dirt poor,

ANYWAY, I am planning on rigging and animating this little guy for one of my side projects and get it in a live enviorment and have some fun animation

I tested the lighting for the model and am working on the envoirment 

  http://fydbac.deviantart.com/art/hatchling-17-87-gifted-359739234

I worked on another of *fydbac's hatchlings: Snake. I really like the fabric arms/hands. I think it would be really cool to animate a fight scene with this one.

I did some Marvel Fanart, I want to make a realistic character. I went with Wiccan sense I enjoy magic and the design was simple. I am working with multiple Zbrush Materials and texture maps to sculpt the outfit. I tried to find as many leather images I could find for different parts of the outfit.

Wiccan is a reality warper and his magic is blue; so I think of it as a kind of spark of life/flames of creation. So I wanted to combine fire and eletricity.

I did some test in Zbrush but it turned out to be more water like than fire. His cape remindes me of Vincent Valentine from FFVII.

These are some really helpful websites I have been looking at while I work.

http://artist-refs.tumblr.com/

http://www.cgtextures.com/

 

fydbac's Adoptable

I am continuing my work with someone else's design. I am working with other people art to show I can work with someone else concept and practice with single angled artwork. I am up to 2 models,  I would like to do 1 more.

I need to pick something that I wouldn't normally do and something that I wouldn't like to do. I know how that sounds but it isn't how I mean it. I need have someone else pick something, work on something that I have no real say in. I would like to have a robotic character, machine and so on. I really need to work on the hard surface machine and tech. Maybe something that I can use fibermesh and robotic.

Last time I work with Daniel Araya's Batman JLA design:
http://danielaraya.deviantart.com/art/JLA-CG-Concepts-Batman-180836600
http://djwiley.blogspot.com/2012/10/batman.html

 Now I am working with *fydbac's Adoptable Creatures. 

http://fydbac.deviantart.com/gallery/5687042?offset=48

He designs the "eggs" and then "hatches" them. I really like the idea of doing to designs on the eggs and building up to the character. His style is really amazing, everything feels soft and warm. I hoped to give that same feeling in the model.

I choose to work with his first Adoptable Creature: Faeris.

http://fydbac.deviantart.com/art/Adoptable-01-01-301701101

 I chose this one for a couple of reasons. I haven't done anything with fur in a long time and wanted to sculpt some fur. It was one of the first adoptable fydbac designed. I also had some experience with monkeys when I was working on Rosa's Squirrel Monkey.


I started with the dynamesh sphere and sculpted in Zbrush and the next day I added the paint. I had some difficulty with the face. Like DanielAraya's Batman the single view made things a little hard but the challenge is what I needed to make sure I improve. Painting this character was really fun too, I loved doing the fading and pink strokes on the fur.


Faeris Naked  Tpose

This was faster than Batman because it did not have so many parts (the armor, cape, belt). The clothes were easy to pose and move to the naked model, plus I wasn't planning on this character doing anything to dynamic.  Sculpting the fur was hard because I forgot that the fur would have to bend with the model on the shoulder and neck. Hence some of the harsh stretching in on the fur on the shoulder.

 Posing to match the reference was difficult, I could not get the head to turn and tilt as well and the tail was difficult to bend. I should mention I did not make a low model version and have to pose in Zbrush manually (masking and moving).

Compare

I posed him as best I could to the artwork and came up with this final design. I will try and do some environment work and maybe place him in a temple/forest setting. I have tiny details to work on and when I get to the lower model I can make some tweaks.

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I plan on working on this some more and hope to have a better look alike later. I need to revisit my other projects and need to improve them.

I was planning on doing fibermesh for the hair instead of sculpting the hair. I have a lot I need to work on. I have a drawing I want to work on but I feel like turning it into an oil painting.

My reel is in limbo for the moment. My rigger had some tech issues and I need to wait for my character to come back. Worst case I may replace the spot on the the reel with my Chinese dragon to so that I can model and composite a character into an environment.