Some love for GTA V

Run Run Run

I've been doing a lot of animation at work this year, but was starting to miss the good old-fashioned frame-by-frame style. I started this on a whim and just ran with it basically (ha) :) In case you're not familiar with these characters, they're from BBC Sherlock which is a great show, its on netflix, and you should watch it :P

made in Flash CS6, and Swivel

(click "vimeo" for larger version)

Computer Girl

Just felt like doodling something cute :)

Balloon

The other day, I saw the antithesis to happy cupcake man-- sad balloon girl :c

FX animations

Julian and I signed up for Adam Phillip's special FX course a little while ago, which has been awesome. I would totally recommend checking it out: http://bitey.com/2010/08/bca-fx/

Got pulled away by real world business, but must get back into it again. Here are some things I did already, though :)

Shrimp!

 

Daily drawing prompt from our sketch blog at work — shrimp! Yum :)

Happy Cupcake Man

It's been a while since I've painted anything. I saw a guy like this on my way to work one day and it made me happy for some reason :)

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter :) More Frenden brushes cause they're fun and pretty!
You can find them here if you're interested:
http://frenden.myshopify.com/products/photoshop_pencil_and_inking_brushes

Mrow.

One of my new coworkers at PopCap clued us all in to these awesome >> Frenden Brush << tool presets for Photoshop :) So I made this silly monster doodle to try them out. Definitely worth the small price tag.

More Sketches

A couple more things :)

old shaman man

magic flame girl

sketchy robot guy

pirate with an eating disorder

A Lazy Lizard

Daily drawing

A gnome with a bad habit

Another daily 'speed-painting' type thing from work

Daily Sketches

I've been doing these daily random drawing prompt sketches with my awesome coworkers at PopCap for the past couple of weeks :) Usually spend between 15-30 mins on them.

Breakfast Food with Personality

Bling Bling Monster

Draw Yourself

Favorite Things

Old West

Paranoid Snowman

Sentimental Robot

Things that Shouldn't Fly (but are)

Update!

Haven't really been very active on here for quite some time now, but here are some renders of projects I've finished in the past 4 months or so!

a modelling exercise of a pencil sharpener. 

Maya 2012

Farmer character model with updated textures from my cinematic team project. 

Maya 2012, Zbrush 4 R3, XNormal

An alien gun prop from our cinematic team project

Maya 2012, Zbrush 4 R3, XNormal

the popcorn bag from our cinematic team project

Maya 2012, Zbrush 4 R3, XNormal

the farmer's gun from our cinematic team project

Maya 2012

architectural study in Zbrush (based on The Arch of Septimius Severus)

Zbrush 4 R3

Character model based on Chrono Trigger character, Robo.

Maya 2012, Zbrush 4 R3, XNormal

Red Riding Hood

I made this character about a year ago. I was pretty happy with how it turned out looking in as a low poly character, but I wanted to work a bit more on a high poly version, so I took what work I had done and brought her back to Zbrush for an update.

This is basically what I started with

hair process

Making a bow insert brush

Corset process 

 Boots process

Gloves process

  Pose research and planning.

(screenshots from youtube videos)

Posing with Transpose Master in Zbrush with Zsphere rig.

Final lighting and render from Zbrush

Turntable coming soon! Suggestions welcome :] Thanks for looking! 

Me gustaría poner la espalda en baja poligonización

Cow Girl

I created this character about 8 months ago, but never really got as far with it as I had wanted to. I've learned a few more things since making her, and the newest Zbrush release brought a few new sculpting possibilites as well, so I decided I'd like to revamp her.

This was how the character started out. The high poly sculpt had a few issues, so it only really looked good from a distance.

Here's some process work on that hat, just as example of what kind details I was reworking.

Finally, the model was lit, rendered and adjusted with BPR filters. 

It was fun to revisit this! Turntable coming soon :] Suggestions are welcome in the meantime! Thanks for looking :]

Charlie Chaplin

Here's a bust of Charlie Chaplin that I've been working on :]

For this project, I really wanted to do a portrait of a famous person so that I could see how true to the original likeness I could get. Zbrush 4 R2 had also just come out and I wanted to see how much I could accomplish working strictly within Zbrush. So everything was created and rendered in Zbrush.

 I started him by dynameshing a Zsphere head and shoulders rig that I made, and then used reference images  to begin sculpting. Hat, mustache and hair are all separate subtools but made from dynamesh as well. 

This is the the model and all of the elements blocked out with dynamesh.

I added "color" with poly paint and started retopologizing certain elements using Zbrush's retopology tools.

 The retopologized meshes were unwrapped with UVmaster and then noisemaker was used with the UV setting to apply detail to the clothing elements.

A bit more refinement work was done, then lit with LightCaps and rendered with Zbrush's BPR. Post-process adjustments with BPR filters in Zbrush.

 I'd still like to keep working on this model and make him as accurate as possible, so suggestions are welcome! Thanks for looking :]