Gum Disease

Time has come to crack my creative knuckles and start getting back to my passion, making Monsters.

Oh stop sighing arty types I can hear you. I just want to make monster. Anatomy is great but I need a little break from studying.

Recently I have been engrossed in resurrecting my music career (mid life crisis) because I was becoming to obsessed with trying to be a ZB guru or something. Now I just want to have fun. Oh how the chin scratches will moan but god damn it we artists should be allowed to express ourselves through... monsters :D

Being serious for a second or 2 I did actually use this an an exercise to break appart the anatomy of the face as much as I fealt I could around the jaw.

Basically this unfortunate guy consists of 33% Hippopotamus, 33% Canine and of course Human makes up the rest. Dogs jowls always look disgusting so I thought that would be a great place to start. You know its that look when your dog is asleep and you push its gum up to reveal the teeth, that is the inspiration for the jaw.

Does that even make sense. Oh well hope you all like it anyway.

Comments as always are very welcome.

The Tooth Fairy part 2

The idea was to NOT copy the film version. As I said I prefered the concepts to the film version. This was a 2 part exercise and here is part 2. The idea was to really contrast the 2 expressions one hard and angry and the other soft and almost child like. Anyway hope you enjoy these updates. Here is the second tooth fairy, and yes I know the wings are motion blured and there is no SSS on the wings. Its suppose to be an illustrative approch I just liked it as it was. I will do a second pass in Mental ray but I love these images for now BTW - This is just a Zbrush render with a photoshoped background.

Again here is the turntable for those who are interested

The Tooth Fairy

And here is the reason why I have been so quiet recently. This piece is my favourite so far and I really hope you like it.

I am a big fan of Del Toro's Films and more so of the art in those films.

This is a homage to the Tooth Fairy in Hellboy 2. Beautifully concepted (originally by the great Wayne Barlowe and Francisco Ruiz) I was eager to try reproducing it in Zbrush.

My piece incorporates both the concept artists ideas and is a departure from the cg model used in the film. The Tooth Fairy only shows for a few seconds which I felt was a shame. I wanted a more permanent version so I modelled it.

If you haven't seen the film then see it because it's brilliant for character/ creature ref.

Anyway please let me know what you all think.
Here is the turntable for those who are interested

Its been a while and for that I am sorry

Ok I know I haven't posted for a while but all the work I have been doing recently is under NDA so it didn't leave much room for personal stuff. Still I have taken some time off in order to create new eye candy for my blog.

In my continuation of the age theme 'The Journey of ages'(working down from old to young) I have moved on to Young Man or young Teen. The idea was to produce a boy between the age of 11-15. Hers's the result. I really hope you like it and I don't get anymore question about why my sketches are always hairless :D

As always feel free to comment

The making of Dr House part 1

So A few people asked me to reveal my working process and I was happy to share the information.

So I am posting 3 images to hopefully help spread some light on any areas people are interested in looking at.

To start with the lighting setup. Then the shader and unrendered model. Finally the rendered model close up.










This piece is only partly finished so the settings will change and of course I will do the hair, eyebrows, lashes and hopefully stuble.


Anymore questions thus far please feel free to ask, I won't bite.

Thanks for listening children.