Fabricana!

So over the last few days for about 10-15 min I had at lunch to attack this guy, Ive made the wrinkles in the fabric/his uniform and adjusted his mug. Here's a little snap shot of what he looks like now! Today I attacked his Torso area and defined the wrinkles in the uniform. A little more tweaking and then back to his face (still no defined plans for his collar yet).

Stay tuned!

Side note!! Long weekend ahead so might be a few days before I post more of this guy. But there maybe some more Tiger updates....weather pending :P

Derp!

Behold! The Alien bust I called Akbar!!! (Because he has eyes like Admiral Akbar from Return of the Jedi).


So this is based of my Alien "Blarp" Painting that I still have to complete. This is a Zbrush sculpt done during my lunch over the last few days for 20 min at a time. Its slowly coming together. I think the base sculpt is almost done. Maybe another lunch or two before I can start detailing it, but I need to retopo it first. My plan is to Retop and dump it into mudbox and finish it off in there. Why mudbox you ask? Because I like it!
I know there are Hardcore Zbrush supporters out there, and that's fine! I just consider it a tool and If one tool can perform a function in a manner I like I will use it, and if it doesn't then i will use another tool to get the task done!
So hate on me if you want, its cool :P

Tiger Add-On!

Still plugging away. Didn't get a chance to work on it for the past 2 weeks, but I did this weekend! I added the fenders (still tweaking the damaged look to them) and refining and adding engine deck components.
The engine deck has a lot of tedious detail that will be added and tweaked over the next few sessions i think.

Also Ill be posting images of my lunch time WIP project. Its based off my character alien painting found here...which too...is a WIP   :P  Derp!

Till then...stay tuned!

Hello Kitty!!!

As promised!

Some more WIP's of the Tiger, work that has been done off and on over the last month (some evenings and weekends). Still quite a bit of work to go and I hope to get all the major components built by the end of the month. But with things at work starting to pick up, I think the upcoming late nights at the office and all the weekend sun we have been getting might slow production down a bit.

But time is a ticking, and this beast needs to transform and roll out!

MIA

So its been over a month since I've last posted. My reason for slacking is....FIFA 12. Last month has been quite busy at EA Canada. I am a part of a large team of artists plugging away on FIFA uniforms and I think in total there are over 1500 in total :P 

Photoshop and I have been spending a few late nights together, but its not as romantic as it sounds.

But because i havent posted anymore WIPS of my TIGER I, doesnt mean I havent been working on it. Quite the opposite! Ill be posting images of my pretty kitty this week, so stay tuned!

Meow Meow!

So here is a look at my Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. E (Tiger 1 E Late). I've been plugging away at this for the last 2 months, and its been slow going. I only get to touch this beast about an hour a day, but so far it has been fun! I haven't made a vehicle in 3D ever!!!! So I decided to tackle something a little more complex than the usual sports car that newbies build when tasked to build a vehicle.

I'm not a car guy, I love tanks!

Built mostly maya and a little XSI here and there (as maya is lacking in the fast poly modeling tools that XSI has). I'm 95% done with the turret and can start moving down to the main hull and tracks. I want to add the spare track links to the side of the turret before i go buck wild on the main hull.

My end goal is to have this bad ass kitty placed in a environment in which it would be most at home in. But so far the environment is in the concept stage and not blocked out.

Sketchy sketch!

So here is a little sketch i started a few months ago and I have been ever so slowly chipping away at it. My Tiger tank model (which i will post shortly) has been eating up my creative time. And when i need a break i pick up my book, pencil and start sketching away. As you can see there are 2 images! The larger one i started about a year or two ago....probably a year...and i was inspired to create a character  that had seen some long and difficult years on the front. And I'm a big fan of the WWII German winter long coats, and had the urge to draw a character in one.I really like the cut of their jibb!

But thats not the sketch I've been chipping away at, no its the other one...to the right. It started off as something else but i guess the other sketch influenced its creation, cause behold...there's another soldier character with a long coat.The back story was along the lines of 'what if'  this guy got shot int the face, removing his mouth and his throat. He survived his injuries and was fortunate enough to live in a world in a time and place where this tech was available. The neck brace is to keep his head up, as the damage sustained from the shell impact too care of supportive neck muscles. It helps to keep throat passages open, and the device that fits in his mouth hole is a  device for communication. Also known as a voice box (very original...i know).

My goal is to finish this sketch within the next week, but in the mean time...back to modeling my killer kitty...PzKpfw VI E!!!

Blarp!

So i started this painting months ago, and still havent gotten time to finish it. I ended up getting my job back at EA CANADA and havent really had time to focus on doing any 2D work since. Instead ive been working on the 3D stuff and have been focusing on punching out a hard surface model (Tiger tank E) and a new environment, in hopes i can scoop up a non character job (just for a change of pace) after my contract at EA CANADA ends.

What inspired me to do this? Well I wanted to sculpt a 3D alien character and needed a design to follow. And for some reason i kept invisioning this bug eyed thing with some juicey lips standing in a bathroom with tiled walls, watching me pee. Dont know why i thought of that but i did so yeah....im weird.

P-Rex now in 3D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So considering this is a WIP blog, where I post my WIP, here is my first WIP shots of P-Rex. The first 3 posts were the 2D platforms/build up for posting this! A 3D P-Rex...woooooooooo. I am still working on my P-Rexy but I have taken a break form it and started working on other things. But i wanted to show some images of where i left off.
Done in maya and Zbrush, im still sculpting this bad boy and hope to get it finished and rigged up to animate. I dont like rigging or animating so im working in collaboration with my good friend Mattias Brunosson (who is an amazing animator and rigger) to complete my vision of P-Rex. Hopefully I can get this baby done by the end of 2011!

P-Rex detail

Im a nut for detail, and painting the skin texture on this was a blast! Yes, drawing/painting skin details and wrinkles is a rollercoaster ride of awesome for me! WoOt!!!