This is the my new ad banner. It was suppose to be completely different but I have been learning, finally, how to use the BPR presets in ZB 4 and let me tell you I am impressed. There are so many functions to explore in this area of Zbrush alone. I will hopefully post more details once I get my head round them. Needless to say I am as always impressed by the scale and depth of Zbrush. Maybe it is the 8th wonder of the world.

An interview I did for the game Hedone

Here is a recent interview I did for Acony Games. It gives an insight into the pipeline used to produce a weapon for an online first person shooter.

"For me the best stage has to be the high resolution modeling step. Why? Because it is the hardest step, but with the reward of seeing the weapon look as realistic as it can, for a virtual weapon." - true story.

http://hedone.tv/blog/item/175-developer-diary-3-more-weapons

Sketching around

Just messing around earlier tonight with free software Alchemy and Gimp, who needs photoshop anyway :D

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