Some Practice

I sculpted this guy in Zbrush, did the topology in Topogun, Uv'd in Uv Layout and am looking forward to texturing it in Mudbox. Here's the diffuse pass. Now just need the subsurface, gloss, spec and some eyeballs. Updated!

Some Hard Surface

I realize there's not much hard surface on this blog, so here's some. I've always thought the Fulcrum was a sweet looking plane and it's said the thing can be entirely repaired with a hammer!

The Rookery

I thought I'd give architecture a try...This is a big chicken coop, but for dragons...(insert nerd noise).

The Eagle

Terror Bird

Sci-Fi...guy

Another portrait photo-bash. Thought I'd give him a cute little skirt with guns and stuff.

ratboy

Ironically I loathed collage back in school, but in Photoshop it's pretty fun.

Hulaween Votive Candles

Here are a couple illustrations I created for votive candles. They were used in table settings at Bette Midler's Hulaween party for the New York Restoration Project. Not my usual fare, but a lot of fun to make.

Owly

Sometimes you gotta draw an owl.

Never did post this guy-Hey look Velociraptorer toes!

Actually if you're a nerd like I am and pre-"Jurassic Park", you'd say "Hey look Deinonychus toes!".

So I found this old dusty blog in Grandpa's attic!

Here's a shot of a little viking character I've been working on. It's based on a concept from a Disney artist named Corey Loftis, who makes amazing characters.
This is a render from Mental Ray, no Photoshop yet, but truthfully I should be using a game engine like Marmoset to render it anyway as it is a game mesh.

I wasn't attempting to get the pose, but was required to keep him in an "A" shape for production. Kinda squashed him a bit in the process. My version looks like he just stepped off the shuttle to Jupiter.

Hellhound-Free to good home, playful disposition

"Gnasher" by Brom, Sculpt by me

Old Dog...Future Cat

I haven't done much 2D lately, so I thought I'd doodle something up

REDO-This guy was terrible...a product of late night arting. Hopefully this orangy version is a little...okay..er.

Werepotomas?

Being a Werehippo would make for some painful transformation, but probably a pretty fierce creature. Think about it, a Hippo supposedly the most dangerous animal in Africa hidden within some regular person walking amongst us. Said person feels a little funny, breaks a sweat, the clouds roll by to reveal a full moon or maybe a full belly and then bam WereHippo! Run for your lives! Much scarier than a wolf in my opinion.

Look out, BearWolfs!...er, Were Bears!...no shirts can hold them!

Portfolio project #1

I thought I'd try to detail out a previous concept of mine and then try to 3d-ify it.

"7, 1hour sculpts per week" the man said

For my creature class we have to sculpt a 1 hour bust every day of a human mixed with 1 animal that we choose at the beginning of the week. I chose a Sun Bear. Hopefully they all don't end up looking the same in the end, but we'll see. I'm a bit rusty on my zbrushing so don't get your hopes up...keep them small, "maybe the size of a small pony".

Not my model, not my normal map or diffuse map and no it's not me.

But it is my Subsurfacescatter shader...settings.