Sculptvember 2011

Since Inktober ended, I've decided to start a new conquest of sort. I call it SCULPTVEMBER!!!

Basically it's the same as Inktober, but instead of doing an ink drawing every week day, I will do a speed sculpt in zBrush every week day.

Here are my first 2 results the first (30 mins, on left) was just playing around with the new Dynamesh in zBrush, and the second picture (1 hour 10 mins, on right) was from a sketch done by an artist by the name of Luigi Lucarelli, who is fantastic.

I'll try to post my efforts as I go along in this month.

enjoy!

Sharbot Update WIP

Here is where I am at so far with the sharkbot character model. I still have a long ways to go but thought it might be nice to post what I have so far. Enjoy.

Baby Redbeard

This is the first look at little baby boy redbeard. How could it not be a boy?! A friend once told me,"Men make men." And if my giant beard says anything its that I am a man! And so is my boy! Gee!

- redbeard

Goodbye my friend

I'm leaving Seattle today. I've had a great time. Loved school. But I think the only thing I will really miss is my good friend Mr. Bike. We had one last great bike ride together across the shore of the puget sound. I will miss that the most.

But I am going home to my beautiful wife and awkwardly cute dog, and undetermined sex baby.

So goodbye my 2 wheeled friend. and hello my family!

Gas Station

Here is a gas station I modeled and textured in a week.

(notice the hand painted textures and graphics I made myself. Even the face plate for gas prices. The company is Mcfly.... I'm a big fan of back to the future.)

(this is an in-game lighting test)

I modeled it in 3D Studio Max, and textured in photoshop and illustrator. I hand painted all of the rust and textures on the gas station. I also created all the logos and decals myself in illustrator. I even made the design of the gas station myself combining several references.

This is made for an in game asset, the challenge was to make this model under 3000 Tris, I clocked this one in at just under with 2990.

Enjoy.

Radio Active Spiderman

So from that quick spiderman sketch I did a while back I decided to make it into a quick 3d model. I only spent a couple of days on this in my free time. But figured I would post it. I was going for a more lengthy comic book style spidey.

Free time

I had some free time on Thursday so I made the base body for my sharkbot concept.



I know. It has no fins. But those will be covered in his suit.

I would do more but my beautiful wife is in town, so I am devoting all of my time to her because she is amazing! Love my wife mucho

Enjoy.

-Redbeard

Town House

Our last assignment we had to design and build a 3 story townhouse that had to include a little shop as well. It had to be game ready so it had to be under 15,000 tris, and only be 5 or less 1024 maps.

I finished this in about 2 and 1/2 weeks, just under 15,000 tris at about 14,800 and only 4 1024 maps. Here is a quick mental ray render.

Enjoy.

Every animal deserves a warm meal...

Here is a quick concept that I drew up this morning. I will be working on turning this into a 3d model, but I would love some feedback on ideas on how to make this better from the 3 of you that have seen my blog...

Enjoy.

-Redbeard

Brad Bird weekend

This weekend I decided to have a tribute to Brad Bird. The mastermind behind my 2 favorite animated films, The Iron Giant and The Incredibles. I watch both of the films over the weekend... Actually I watched The Incredibles twice. Amazing!
So I have decided that it is my new goal in life to work on a production with Brad Bird. His story lines and ideas are simply genius. The 2 movies mentioned before are the 2 main influences in my life that made me want to be an animator.
That being said, here is a quick 15 min sketch I did of the big man himself. Done with opacity markers, something I have never used before, but am glad to experiment with.



Enjoy.

-Redbeard

The Greatest American heroes

Finally two of America's greatest super heroes join forces. Obama and Spiderman. I think we are all better people because of this comic.



This was given to me at school today. I'm glad they were thinking of me when they saw this.


Enjoy.

-Redbeard

Watercolor.

Sunday nights have become my time to play around with water colors. This is one I did a couple of weeks ago. I've never really done anything with water colors before, but I love playing around with this new medium.



- Redbeard

Quick Concept

I haven't really drawn super heroes lately. I did when I was a kid, and basically it was an internal battle with me always over who was better, superman or spider man. So I guess in this case spidey wins... So here is my quick sketch, i always enjoyed a more lengthy skinny spiderman myself.
This could turn into a quick 3d model as well.

Fun with Sculpty

Before we did the Pops model in 3D, we actually made a clay sculpture of the character. I started only with a ball of tinfoil and built it up from there. It was a lot of fun. Behind the sculpture you can see a picture of the concept art provided by the 3DTA.

Update!

Hello! I know I haven't posted anything in quite a while, so here are a few things I have been doing here in Seattle at the 3DTA.

Here are a few Assets designed for an air ship we were working on. These are low poly models each between 500 - 1200 tris each.

This is the masthead for the ship

Steering wheel and Globe compass

This was a fun 2 day speed character design, Jack Pumpkin Head, based of the Marvel graphic novel "Marvelous Land of OZ".

This is a character named Pops from the 3DTA. This was from an assignment to create a low poly game ready model. (modeled in maya, textured in zbrush and photoshop)

Here is a close up of Pops head that I sculpted.

Anyways, This is what I have been up to. Please feel free to give me some critiques, and I am looking to enter the industry soon and would love some feedback on how I can improve my skills.

Enjoy