Monday, December 10, 2012

'Spine' update

Sadly, with the recent madness, this little project of mine has fallen by the wayside, but now that my guildwars chick is just about done, i'm looking forward to start chipping away again! 




Friday, December 7, 2012

Scifi Armor Studies

Decided to try something a bit different to wrap my brain around the shape language of some mechy armor sets. Top one is from the splash of the new Bungie game, Destiny.  Next two are my own concoctions after looking at a crapload of armor reference. 





Thursday, December 6, 2012

Poses

Aaah! finally getting around to the fun part.  Though i must say...posing by hand...i dun like it.  


Tuesday, December 4, 2012

GW Final Stretch


Finishing up the hair and tweaking texture overlays.  Then I gotta do some teeth for my rigger/animator friend so he can get some facial anims working.  Hope to be done with her today!  woot!

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Creature Dump!

Wanted to share some of slightly older creatures that I had the pleasure of working on.  Loved both of these, and as it happens, both are based on concepts created by Devon Cady-Lee, who just happens to be on my links bar down on the right.  Check it!



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Friday, November 16, 2012

Robot Rising Art Mega-Dump!

Well, it happened...shows over for the art team at Stomp games. I've been at the studio (including it's previous incarnation, Tencent Boston) for over 3 years, through some great times and some serious turbulence.   I've made incredible friends and been inspired by so many people.  I am also, however, glad to be moving on, as it's high time to get my career back in the direction I had intended for it.

Here's a sampling of what I've been busy on at work for the past year or so.  ...cept maybe for that last guy. What the hell is he doing there?!
















Monday, November 12, 2012

Tiny Face/Skin progress update

Chipping away at the skin and spec, trying to get the right balance between that and the metal.  Tomorrow I need to jump on the hair, as it's the last non-polish thing for me to tackle.  Would love crits if anyone's got em!


Sunday, November 11, 2012

Ermagerd, erts tergshturd!

Oh man...It's taken a while but I am FINALLY in the home stretch.  There's still some furious polish going on, and the hair is clearly MIA, but the end is nigh for this one.


Monday, November 5, 2012

Gettin' closer


So close to done on the bakes!  I doing all I can to keep myself from jumping ahead on the textures, but just a few more errors to iron out on the bakes and its go time.

So, I had to build a new PC this weekend after having mine go on the fritz. Lost me some time, but a perfect excuse to upgrade to a beast of a new rig!

Monday, October 29, 2012

In before the Franken-storm!

Holy damn...I have been staring at this thing way too long.  Here's my latest! Hopefully someone other than me will notice the progress.  Still a few things that need doing on the detail side of things.  On the back-end, the retopo and bakes have been keeping me busy, but are almost ready.  Can't wait to paint!


Also,  a peek at my lunchtime project, which i'm looking forward to wrapping once I get this out.


Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Feels good man!

Aw yeah! Crappy test bakes!  Non-crappy test bakes comin soon...


Monday, October 22, 2012

GW2 Character progress

More of less been wrapped on the high poly pass on this.  Had quite a bit of trail and error on the treatment of the fur, but I've come down on a solutions that works fairly well when baked down.  I've moved on into retopo and baking of the low poly, so should have her ready for final textures soon.  


Tuesday, October 9, 2012

DOTA/MOBA Challenge Giganto process drop

So, this is the other thing I haven't bothered to post here.  A few weeks ago, I initiated an internal art challenge for the studio art group.  We got a bunch of enthusiastic participants, which was awesome to see, and not we're pushing to get things wrapped up before the deadline!  I've been posting progress to share with the guys, so I've got a nice progression showing off my process for creating the character.  



Clearly, it wasn't where I was headed when you look at the final :)
Everyone agreed the spine design was much more interesting, despite being a lot trickier to figure out

Example of the wrong way to 'thumbnail'

Example of the right way to thumbnail, after having Rayph slap me around a bit on my process!


Iso view for game angle silhouette. 

Further concepting in the blockout stage. 

Color Studies and refining the back crest shape. 

Few more shape refinements and just about ready for the final sculpting to begin!

Super excited about this one, cause my good friend and master rigger Christophe Marchal agreed to build an epic rig for this char, which is already blowing my mind.  Now the pressures on to make her badass!

More updates to come.  

Progress

Still churning ahead on this one!  Man, I got hardsurface comin out my ears.  Starting retopo on a few select pieces, but still need another solid pass on detailing on the cloth and fur before I can call the source mesh final.   


Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Lil' Something I've been workin' on

Figured its about time for another female...specially full body female



Here's a quick mesh paintover to show the direction for the sculpt.  Armor design isnt mine, just adapting to my proportions.  


Tuesday, September 11, 2012

DOTA Art challenge

So here's what that face I posted was for.  I got a group together with many of my art colleagues from work to do a collective art jam and design our own character for Dota or League of Legends.  I've been bouncing around ideas a bit, so I thought I'd show what I've got.  As usual for this phase of things, I'm once more stuck on nailing a concept down that I feel I can really commit to, so I need to hit PS a bit tonight to see if I can turn up anything that jumps out at me.  




Sunday, September 9, 2012

Expression study

Workin on a little challenge we set up at work, for which i need a slightly evil/crazy femme fatale, so I thought I'd do a study to try to nail it down.  Noodle city man...expressions aren't easy, but things are makin a bit more sense now.  Will have more from this project to share as things get rolling.  Stay tuned!


Bonus! so... couldn't stop noodling, which means sleep deprivation tomorrow, but I did figure out a pretty sweet way to paint up a mesh in PS.  Tweaked the jawline a bit too, think that works a bit better for her personality.  


Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Handpainted rock fellar.

Good lord!  Sorry for the lull!  Well, my game is free in the world, and while the work is really just beginning there, that means a bit of a breather on the home-front again.

I've actually been chipping away at quite a few personal projects, but my lazy ass apparently cant be bothered to post anything...till now!

Here's one of em, something from a while ago that i've gone back to to polish up a bit (model and texture is mine, but the concept it's based on is not):