NeonGoatings

Dominance War V - The Rise of Gods!

2011-03-22T13:26:00.004Z

My thread on GA: http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19705

I won't cross post everything here so check the thread for more blurb. My character is called The Verse Goddess and her power lies in being able to make real anything that has ever been written. I plan on giving her inky summoned beasties and armaments in the final illustration.

Here is what I've posted over on my thread so far (most recent at the bottom):

Tooling about with Sai

2011-02-01T00:27:00.003Z

Playing with some new brushes and shamelessly plagiarising styles at the same time!

One more for today (yesterday?)

2011-01-28T02:29:00.001Z

Not very impressive

2011-01-27T21:26:00.002Z

Trying to speed up my process here. This just shows how much time I spend mucking about with tiny tweaks! I think I still need to simplify how I'm laying down the basic shapes on these faces and not worry about smoothing things out until later stages.

Portrait for a friend

2011-01-26T18:19:00.002Z

Getting a bit faster

2011-01-25T18:07:00.002Z

I'm not sure if the likeness has quite 'clicked' for me with this one but I'm pleased with it nonetheless. Study of a still from a film.

Self portrait, better than the one I did when I was 4 (marginally)

2011-01-23T21:45:00.002Z

Another (not so) quick value study

2011-01-21T22:18:00.006Z

Also from reference. This piece just doesn't do the girl justice, she is so beautiful!

Quick face study, from ref

2011-01-19T18:31:00.004Z

Rusty, very rusty!

Dominance War V mini comp

2011-01-19T17:45:00.005Z

Final Entry:

Some progress bits and pieces:

Comicon 2010 entry

2011-01-18T21:50:00.003Z

Going to start dumping my more recent works on here, this was for the Comicon challenge on Game Artisans.

Final Entry

WIP Pictures

Forgot about this 'un

2009-12-03T11:39:00.002Z

Messed about a little with this guy (known as the 'Leggy Xeno'). Decided I need to do some more techy/hard surface stuff and thought I'd go down the cyborg route with various bits protruding from said Xeno body. I'm not sure about the metal collar flibble, I might stick to vents and hoses and liquid cooling systems (having long legs generates a lot of excess heat). Oh, and possibly an unfeasibly large weapon, which would be directly wired into the body when picked up.

Inspired, for a short while anyway

2009-12-03T00:46:00.002Z

Watched '10,000 BC' today with high hopes of there being some funky sabre-tooth action as is strongly implied by the DVD cover. Seriously, how on earth could the people who made this film think it was a good idea for the overgrown furball to befriend the main chappy and actually defend him? At one point I honestly wouldnt have been surprised if the cat had tilted its head, popped those eyes wide and gone all puss-in-boots on us. Psh!

On the flip side however, 10,000 BC features the very pretty Camilla Belle as a worryingly blue-eyed damsel in distress, which is mostly the reason for this post. I've been picking away at this Peggy character since the last post and not really getting anywhere fast, mostly because I got completely stuck on her face (who knew female faces were so tricky huh!?). Producing a face that was attractive took quite a bit of work, and annoyingly once I had that it looked completely wrong for the character, despite not knowing what kind of face would look right. Cut a long story short, I attempted to steal some of C.Belle's features as somehow she just sparked something off in my head. Of course, the face I've sculpted doesn't actually look anything like her, but that is so not the point.

The topology is causing a few wee problems but I'm not going to bother re-topo'ing the face until I'm ready to do the whole lot. Close-up:

Dungarees and rave hats

2009-11-19T16:54:00.003Z

This is Peggy, the unofficial remake of Nancy (The names are a reference to 'Swallows and Amazons' which was a childhood favourite of mine). The concept is pretty rough at the moment and there are some essential techyflibbles that I need to work out yet but I couldn't control myself and positively lunged into Zbrush. Unfortunately I got a little carried away and forgot that most of her body will in fact be covered. Except for the arms and head of course. The bits I haven't touched yet. Fail.

I may still smoosh the proportions around a bit, we'll see. More to come!

Push those proportions!

2009-09-18T22:14:00.004+01:00

Vaguely inspired by an alien sculpt I did back in my second year at Uni. First image is an attempt at fake subsurface scattering using a tutorial by Xenomorphic (thanks!). Obviously it needs a bit of work still, as does the model itself (the feet for instance, what IS going on there?) but I'm happy with it so far.

...and in this picture you can actually see the guy!

One day I'll get this imageshack thumbnail lark right first time.

Quickie face sculpt

2009-09-16T22:19:00.007+01:00

This fellah is sporting the all new MAN POUT.

PS. What do we think of the wee goaty logo? Does it read as a goat?
PPS. After much faffing about hopefully we now have a compression free image.

Contemplating stone masonry

2009-09-10T20:47:00.004+01:00

This is my excuse for not having done much in the way of 3D work recently. Dont worry, your eyes aren't deceiving you, it actually is a patio, constructed by my fair hands. It'll all look much better when the rest is planted and the earth is pushed right up to the edges.

Sadly in the patio construction process my sun-glasses were greviously injured and later passed away :'(

One sword keeps another in the sheath

2009-09-04T00:59:00.005+01:00

PS. What is with the blogger image compression!? It burns my eyes :(

I promise to tackle the fur within the next 6 months

2009-09-02T01:02:00.005+01:00

Phew! After several aborted paint-over attempts I have finally produced something that isn't quite intolerable. Obviously it is still veeery WsIP (work slowly in progress) but some parts are getting there. The black mass sitting on his shoulders will grow up to be a fine snowy fur cape of sorts when I feel strong enough to paint the damn thing. As he so astutely states, he is actually a good fellow and is in fact one of the royal guards to the Lord of the Karúl; a reclusive yet highly territorial race who dwell on snowy plateaus high up in the mountains. There is more fluff but I won't bore myself by typing it up here.

My inspirations here consisted mainly of the Space Wolves (of Warhammer 40k), most depictions of fantasy dwarfs and my Scottish ancestry of course. A helmet is currently in the works, and will be suitably elite and flashy and may even be feathery. The skull is a maybe; i liked the idea of the royal guards being allowed to wear evidence of their former kills, and this chap obviously killed a massive, sharp-toothed goat at some point in the past (maybe even a neon goat?). Next up is....swords! Long, sharp, shiny and with tiny little wolves sitting on the hilts.

Finally, some of the worse-than-the-above paint-overs. Yay!

Not made out of mud

2009-08-28T23:21:00.002+01:00

Please witness the new topology on the base mesh. I'll have to re-topo again at some point I'm sure but this was just a fast one to even out the p'gons. Despite convincing myself that the face was temporary I'm starting to like the current direction its taking but I'll play around with the head a bit more before settling on a design. Oh, and maybe come up with an actual concept for this guy, I find it sometimes helps.

Grubbing around in the dirt

2009-08-27T22:28:00.004+01:00

I've been digging ditches. With a digger! It's almost sculpting..

I call him wipface

2009-08-27T00:55:00.005+01:00

Just throwing down muscle mass, very rough at the moment. I'll retopo this sucker next as the topology in some areas is downright scandalous (namely the fingers and toes) which is my excuse for not having touched those areas. I plead innocent gov'.

Hitting up the gym, monster style

2009-08-26T20:48:00.002+01:00

Must...sculpt

2009-08-25T19:29:00.003+01:00

Shiny things

2009-08-21T18:52:00.002+01:00

Braiding metal

2009-08-20T19:38:00.005+01:00

Just playing really, but how great is it that I can be learning and enjoying it? Decided that knowing how to make a braided steel tube was essential for my continued existence, and after much trial and error here we are. Sadly my laptop can't handle turbo-smoothing more than a small section so please excuse the length of said tubing.

Oh, and this too. Yep, its a block with a groove and a hole; haven't you just always wanted one?!

Not dead!

2009-08-11T21:20:00.003+01:00

After some time away visiting family in America and several computer related disasters (one very dead external hard drive with all the normal data loss included) I am finally getting back into the way of things. I've taken it upon myself to brush up my hard-body modeling skills (quiet at the back there!) and this is the result so far. A big thanks to the fantastic Grant Warwick for his great hard-surface tutorials!

Somebody stop me!

2009-06-03T00:12:00.001+01:00

Logo

2009-05-31T00:40:00.004+01:00

And there was much joy and celebrating

2009-05-29T16:01:00.002+01:00

No, no, I haven't finished all my project work but I have finally finished these 2 blighters! Home straight now.

Dog Fashion

2009-05-29T02:26:00.002+01:00

Finally, I can sleep!

Now is a bad time to have design issues

2009-05-28T21:54:00.002+01:00

It was all going so well. Ironically I have been undone by the rope and it's silly knots and twists. It just looks rubbish! I'm still pondering the best way to sort the damn thing out. Here's the render anyhow.

Keep moving!

2009-05-28T16:07:00.003+01:00

Name suggestions?

2009-05-27T02:56:00.004+01:00

On display here we can see the height of 'dag fashun'; underbelly lighting. All the rage on the dog walks.

Marmoset renders

2009-05-26T01:07:00.002+01:00

Faster, faster!

2009-05-25T23:57:00.002+01:00

Just the shoes and a bit of specular tweaking to go now.

Battenburgler

2009-05-25T13:48:00.002+01:00

Im not convinced by this t-shirt. Can't help feeling he might be mistaken for a jocky who fancied a career change.

Lacking hair

2009-05-22T19:45:00.002+01:00

A hand in the dark

2009-05-21T00:28:00.003+01:00

D'ya like dags?

2009-05-16T00:08:00.003+01:00

Gripe

2009-05-13T01:00:00.003+01:00

Pah. The last few days have seen me rapidly lose my will to continue 3D modelling and life in general. Who would have thought that one model could spawn so many problems, what great timing. It was all going fine until I reached the point in the process where a low poly mesh is constructed over the high poly sculpture and the normal maps are baked out. The character sculpture is made up of around 20 separate sub-tools (objects) many of which are pretty small but still need to be kept separate (the earring, shoe straps, cap strap etc.). These are the ones which have been causing the problems. For some reason trying to retopologize these has been a complete nightmare. Exhibits A and B:

The ring I still haven't managed to fix and may just have to scrap it. It's so utterly demoralising to spend a day, or many in this case, fighting with the same problem and getting absolutely nowhere. Getting well sick of this.

Those final little bits!

2009-05-06T15:29:00.006+01:00

Possibly not necessary

2009-05-03T23:08:00.003+01:00

This was actually pretty fun to work on. I started with a picture of a gold sovereign and used it as an alpha to get the outlines which I then filled in and worked up by hand. Not quite sure whether this detail is really essential but it's too late now! Incidentally, kudos to 'Sathe' of Zbrushcentral for the gold matcap.

Back in yellow

2009-05-02T00:39:00.005+01:00

It has been far too long since the last update on here, for which I feel moderately guilty but thankfully I at least have a little to show for the time. Having said that it doesn't look like Dazza (or Dave) here has actually moved on much, mainly because I keep catching myself niggling away at silly details (the skin folds on the inside of the hand for instance) which are never going to see the light of day.

On a more positive note the trousers have had their folds completely reworked to look more like how we expect the fabric to appear and the t-shirt has been given the super sharp crease treatment. Readers will also be pleased to note that I finally got around to giving the shoes and cap some loving, both of which I'm pretty pleased with although the shoes were a pixol-pain in the arse.

The most exciting additions to the model have to be the shiny bling bits (well, I'm excited about them anyway). I spent many a night lying awake pondering upon the problem of how to best construct the link bracelet but when I jumped in and had a go today it was effortless and worked a treat. Enough of my self-evaluation drivel, just look at the pictures.

Anyone else getting bored of seeing this bod?

2009-04-05T01:54:00.004+01:00

Pastel blue flavour

2009-04-01T18:49:00.002+01:00

Folds and creases galore!

2009-03-30T20:24:00.003+01:00

Got at least 2 more levels of detail to add to the trousers before I'll be happy with them. The folds need to be tightened up too as at the moment the fabric looks too soft (its supposed to be that lightweight polyster stuff), tricky!

Blocking in them shapes

2009-03-28T22:56:00.003Z

Colour once again

2009-03-25T19:31:00.004Z

I've been playing dress-up with pixel-paper dolls! My fav is clearly the one that looks like a battenburg cake. Its all the rage in the big fashion houses.

Plan on doing a few of these for some different costume designs. Once I have the costume nailed (for this one anyway) I'll start working on attitude and actual character, probably do a few 3D head sketches.

Blargle

2009-03-22T21:56:00.005Z

A little update on my demon lawd.

This is the Zbrush model, heavily WIP and as you can see is currently missing a head. Still working on designs for aforementioned head. Also still to be blocked in are the shoulder mouth, left arm tentacles and weapon. Much tinkering has been done to the design since the original concept sketch, the legs for instance now almost make sense and the right arm is a super smashy claw!

I've also been slowly chipping away at a more detailed concept piece:

2009-03-20T10:01:00.003Z

Quickie update on my Dominance War demon lord. I've started working on a rough Zbrush model but nothing worth showing yet.

Monochrome bad

2009-03-19T00:05:00.005Z

This blog has been seriously lacking colour recently so here are some old sketchbook scans and some forum 'sigs' I did waaay back in high school. Have a good laugh!

Which is it to be?

2009-03-18T23:38:00.008Z

Thought I'd just pop some of my more recent Dominance War work up here, don't want the blog to feel neglected do we now.

I'm currently trying to choose between two possible characters. The first is a whopping great demony lord type chap who oozes death out of every corrupted pore. See below.

Misc. limb bits.

The second character is a Stalker (read assassin/rogue) with a powerful knife which, when the pommel spike is tugged, becomes two knives with a magical cord of near infinite strength created between them.

War!

2009-03-17T12:46:00.002Z

Dominance War IV has begun and is sucking out my soul. Here is my thread on GA http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7701 go forth and cheer!

Pure value

2009-03-15T00:48:00.003Z

Pehhh. This started off as a simple study but rapidly degenerated into a perfectionist mess. It's driving me insane; I can't understand why the likeness isn't more complete, so if there is anyone out there, help me! Incidentally, the pretty lady is Naomi from the TV series 'Skins', which you should watch.

New toy!

2009-03-13T18:33:00.006Z

I've been checking out this natty little piece of software called 'Alchemy' (http://al.chemy.org) in preperation for Dominance War IV (which starts on saturday). It seems perfect for getting interesting shapes slapped down in no time at all. Most of these took 5 mins at most!

Haven't spent much time on this since last post but here's an update anyway:

Finally, a bit of actual work. Don't worry, I'll work on the whole monotonous and grey problem and get some colours on the go. Soon. Honest.

Progress is subjective

2009-03-10T23:21:00.008Z

Just a few wee things I've been having a crack at recently.

This is some very early conceptual splurge for my final Uni project. There are many more of these to come, hopefully better than the ones here. (Kudos to Ryan Kingslien for creating the super-posable model used above)

A value study of the stunning Jessica Alba. Very much work in progress although I won't be finishing it to a high degree as it is just a study.

Hrm, yep, it's Alba again. This one was done pretty snappily so the likeness is, well, pretty much non-existant.

Good lord, a post?

2009-03-03T21:53:00.005Z

Mm. Been a while. Dissertation? Not much more to say about that really.

This wee chap has nothing to do with my Uni project, but I felt the need to break out and do something a little outlandish before getting truly stuck into my project. Additionally it's getting me psyched for Dominance War IV which begins in earnest very soon. So far I've only blocked in the body mass and worked a little on the face, which is probably going to be covered; go figure.

This one is an anaglyph, so get out yon blue and red glasses! It's not a true anaglyph as the two images are taken from the same angle, once I've got myself some glasses I'll have a go at a proper one.

Unrelated to mostly everything

2009-01-19T22:43:00.003Z

Ignoring the fact that we have deadlines creeping (rather quickly) towards us, here is a quick little Birthday card pic for my little bro. It's a birthday sprite wielding brightly coloured birthday magics, obviously.

Not dead!

2009-01-08T14:52:00.003Z

Wow! Blog!

So I'm trying to smush my brain back into work gear after a semi-holiday (I was working throughout christmas, but also not working, if you get me). Here's a possible sneek-peak at the front page of my project presentation. It's a bit busy to use as the base for the rest of the slides and obviously the scale of the bricks is a bit of a problem, hell, that police tape is massive!

Scottish Dooda

2008-12-15T23:11:00.000Z

Clearly some sort of massively mad scots chap, with a stolen french sword.

Scotland is full of punks, for real (Doodled on the DS whilst cooking).

Win some, lose some

2008-12-14T19:17:00.000Z

Just 2 quickies. I think the chump on the left has quite a bit of attitude, looks like he's about to go bottle someone.

Taking a break

2008-12-13T17:31:00.001Z

Decided to take a step back from my project and paint something for the heck of it. Still in the blocking in phase although I tried to put a little emotion into the face. For some annoying reason the head and body don't quite look connected, I can't fathom it, could be due to my mostly undefined light source.

The design is pretty un-inspired but hell, it's fun!

Speedy

2008-12-12T12:50:00.001Z

Not so pleased with this one, but it gets the idea across I guess.

Just finished another, thought I'd stick em in a group. Pretty pleased with the far right, the yellow stripe got a bit fudged but nevermind.

Done. For now.

2008-12-11T23:22:00.000Z

If I spend much longer on this I'll get a right telling off! The shoes took a silly amount of time to get right, and I'm still not sure about them, personally I feel legs should end in a more aesthetically pleasing way than feet.

Got any change pal? Eh!?

2008-12-10T23:45:00.000Z

Sneak preview for project much.

Update:

Quick Studies

2008-12-09T00:27:00.000Z

The girl could have done with more work. Or less.

Poses wahay

2008-12-06T19:02:00.000Z

I managed to get about half-way through the rigging process before freaking and just posing the damn thing. It deforms surprisingly well considering it has yet to be weighted, so be nice and ignore the few creases/artifacts!

It is done

2008-12-02T23:37:00.000Z

Yea, well, it took all day. That's the biggest problem with re-topology; it takes forever and a day to complete and you're left with something that really isn't very impressive.

Meshmess

2008-12-02T01:09:00.000Z

For once, I've actually been enjoying this particular re-topo job and I'm fairly pleased with the edge flow so far.

Here's a wee test render. Put together using 4 different render passes. Thanks to Rafael Grassetti of Zbrushcentral for his great skin SSS material!

Gosh, these are jolly good fun!

2008-11-30T18:45:00.000Z

Rather. Incidentally these are done from reference, sadly.

PS. They look better if you don't enlarge them!
PPS. Added the hulking one on the right, could have done with a little more contrast. The fact that the darks are merely a dark green doesnt help. These are hella fun!

Coupl'a quicks

2008-11-29T23:36:00.000Z

Struck down once again by the evil stomach bug. Damn you stomach bug, damn you! Aside from that, did these 2 super-fast 'life' drawings with my tablet propped up to simulate an easel and enabling me to draw from the shoulder. It's all the rage these days.

Zbrush Refresh

2008-11-28T00:02:00.000Z

Just making sure I haven't forgotten how to use the ol' zeebee. Reworking an old base model, I'm gonna have to re-topo this chap soon, especially around the feet. I hate feet.

Some more tests

2008-11-24T00:17:00.000Z

That bloody four-legged little swine just doesn't want to render nicely. I mean, look at this crap:

Even the nice folks over at Polycount haven't been able to help me with that particular problem and I'm sick of looking at the stupid thing. On a brighter note, here are some pretty renders of another model of mine.

Re-Hash

2008-11-23T02:07:00.001Z

Decided to have another go at messing about with this unfinished chappy. I spent most of today wrestling with the UVs, it's such a time intensive process if something goes even a little wrong. Playing about with rendering and lighting on the other hand is great fun; this is pretty much a standard 'clay' render with a wire render layered on top, yum.

An abundance of skin

2008-11-18T23:23:00.000Z

This poor blog must be feeling sorely neglected, sorry blog! I've been mainly working on research during the last few days, most of which there is, sadly, very little to show for. Still, I managed to find a few spare minutes to put pen to tablet:

These 3 ladies had their poses taken from reference, as it seems to be something I'm really poor at and working to improve. The skin work is also partly referenced, my ability to pick skin tones is, to be frank, crap. Again, working to improve!

These two on the other hand were just for the fun of it :)

'ere, take your time mate!

2008-11-10T18:33:00.000Z

Aye, well, it took a bit longer than it should have to get this one finished up. I was working. On other things. Making money mostly, it's a tiring business. Seriously though, I've been brushing up on rigging and weighting a mesh in Maya and also getting some decent time in on my 'social and cultural research'. Incidentally, I'm not planning on putting any of my ideas up on here, paranoid much.

New study sheet!

2008-11-02T22:45:00.000Z

Adam and I have kinda turned these study sheets into an every-other-day thing, I swear the most time consuming part is finding the pictures to stick into the next one. Here is the palette section of the latest dooda, I actually managed to force this one out without resorting to the colour picker! Having said that, I did check a few of my colours to see how close I managed to get to the original, it's amazingly hard to isolate a colour within a picture as the surroundings trick the eye to no end.

Upon females

2008-10-29T10:56:00.000Z

A small collection of recent female sketches, taken from reference (thanks to Mjranum for the great stock!).

Finished Lite sheet

2008-10-29T10:26:00.000Z

Well, I did my best, but blimey, that egyptian mask was plain nasty. Had to resort to colour picking for much of it I'm afraid, there are just too many small colour variations in there.

New Study Sheet - Lite version!

2008-10-27T23:38:00.000Z

Yes, I know, I'm starting on a new one when I haven't finished the old one, so shoot me! This is the 'lite' version of the study buddy sheet featured earlier, it's a touch more manageable. As before this one was given to me by Adam, so please ignore the er, unique naming of this sheet.

The palette picture here is going to be tricky, especially as I'd like to complete it without cheating and using the eye-dropper. Sadly photoshop seems to be lacking in the colour picking department, why doesn't it feature a colour wheel like Painter? Tsh.

Doodles from life

2008-10-26T19:23:00.000Z

Wow, it's been a while since I've stuck something new up on here! Had a few days out of the loop with a pretty nasty stomach bug but it's all good now, hopefully. These are just some really fast gesture scribbles done out on the street, capturing a still of a figure in motion is tricky, especially when they're looking at you funny.

DS 'Colours' Doodles

2008-10-17T22:28:00.000+01:00

I guess by now most people know about a cool little program for the NDS called 'Colours' which is essentially a bare-bones photoshop/painter to be used on the move. It's taking a bit of getting used to but here are my adventures so far. To see some amazing work produced using Colours have a gander at http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/

These two were done from reference, except for the colour in the second one which was added as an afterthought. I really need to work on my colour stuff.

Quick Action poses

2008-10-17T22:05:00.000+01:00

Just a few little pose scribbles, nothing special. Taken from 'District 13' (the french parkour film) and a pose book. I need to do many, many more of these.

Study buddy sheets

2008-10-15T11:25:00.001+01:00

Paul Richards over at autodestruct put together these natty study sheets which are great fun to do and hone your 2D skills at the same time (a major bonus), so thanks Paul! The idea is to grab a bunch of interesting pictures and stick them on the left hand side of each column, then thrust the sheet upon an unsuspecting friend who will try to fill the blanks in using the correct technique (Masses, palette etc). I think the faster you do it the better, although for me the palette ones proved very taxing, despite cheating and using the eyedropper (baby steps). Both of these came from Adam (yourlocalhero) and not marth or Ada wong as one might be lead to believe.

Oh, these pics are pretty big too.

Er, this one isnt finished yet, as Im sure you can see. I'll get it done, honest!

Inspired by Android!

2008-10-15T10:35:00.000+01:00

I recently watched a great video by Andrew 'Android' Jones of Massive Black studio which went over his workflow and some of the techniques he uses. The following are my attempts to create something in a similar way, purely as an experiment. I wouldnt have the first clue how to actually use these for a concept!

Summer '08 Catchup 3

2008-10-10T17:00:00.001+01:00

Some slightly more recent work here. I've been wanting to try doing low-poly stuff for a while now and finally whipped out a model to texture. The hardest bit about doing a low-poly texture is getting all the seams to line up; having just a few pixels mis-aligned can make a texture look crap. I decided to completely side-step this problem by painting most of the texture using the polypoint feature in Zbrush where you paint directly onto the model, when the texture is a bit more complete i'll move back into photoshop for finishing touches.

Previous to doing the above model I had a mess about on a model provided by a kind member of gameartisans.org. These models are known as 'SDK's (skin development kits) and are great for practising on. I take no credit for the model itself, just the textures.

Summer '08 Catchup 2

2008-10-09T19:50:00.000+01:00

Another little project which needs finishing here. This is an in-the-works human male base model, which I ended up getting a bit carried away with, hence the somewhat pointless detail. Initially this guy was hella muscled and looked plain daft, really I think he's still a bit chunky. Im also aware that there's a bit of funky anatomy going on here, I used a muscle building chart as reference, smart move huh.

This chap here was made using the above base, still needs a lot of work, especially on the legs.

Summer '08 Catchup 1

2008-10-09T18:59:00.000+01:00

So this is some of the work I noodled out during the most recent summer holiday (seems like an age ago). These are all mostly still WIP, who knows when I'll get the time to finish them.

This fellah came about after a little speed modelling session with yourlocalhero (housemate and co-college-er). Initially the challenge was just to create a funky something within an hour, I ended up liking my poly model and threw it into Zbrush.

The topology of the initial poly model was pretty awful so I poured a few hours into re-topologizing this guy which actually worked really well. My workflow is still a bit messy, really I should have done all the detailing first then re-topo'd right at the end, I'll know for next time!

P.S. This one definitely isn't finished, I've hardly touched the high detail stuff yet.

I declare this blog, ACTIVE!

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This is all rather exciting really, my first blog has come to life at last. Dont worry, there is artwork forthcoming, I have a bit of a backlog to sort through! Watch this space.