Angry Monsters

New Project : Bile Dragon!

2011-12-05T15:11:00.000-08:00

Very quick rough layout of the Bile Dragon, I mean tempered brute, a nasty cross between a salamanda, a komodo dragon and dry retching cardiff lass on a saturday night!

Another 40 mins later...

2011-10-06T00:44:00.000-07:00

Overran a little bit on my speed session but dino has arms and legs now! yay, he still needs toes though!

30minute Dynamesh Dynasaur

2011-10-04T15:03:00.000-07:00

Speed sculpting a new dino using DYNAMESH!!! An awesome new feature of zbrush 4r2

Another 30 mins on the dragon

2011-08-31T15:09:00.000-07:00

Going round in circles on the giant scales on his head but I think I've started getting something near to what I like.

30 min speed sculpt - dragons head

2011-07-03T10:21:00.000-07:00

Started Speed sculpting, pretty rusty but I think I got my envronment sorted out now so hopefully lots more to come in the future

Flappety Flap

2010-11-22T13:58:00.000-08:00

So continuing my seemingly random series of one tenth finished sculpts, I present the beginnings of a wing, bats, dragons, vampires... don't really know at the minute, i was hoping to use it on Spiky but I think it might be a bit too wimpy for that!

Toothy

2010-09-19T14:52:00.000-07:00

Finally got round to spending a bit more time on the dragon, added some teeth and a little more detail to the face and chin.

Lots of work, tiny difference

2010-08-23T15:55:00.000-07:00

So...

After messing about with just the eye for a good few hours i finally got it into the place I want it. I've finesse'd the snout a little bit too.

2010-08-22T15:41:00.000-07:00

Its been a while, just warming up at the mo, had a bit of a dry patch imagination wise but starting to get the juices flowing again with zbrush 4, heres the beginning of a dragons head after 15 mins of roughing out the shape

Dinomation

2010-01-11T12:48:00.001-08:00

Woot, a lovely animation by the marvellously talented animator Alex Godsill bringing my model to life...

Vampire Phase one

2009-09-14T14:44:00.000-07:00

So this is my phase one submission for the vampire challenge, though I ended up going more bat than Count.

Gremlin - Phase 2

2009-08-19T00:36:00.000-07:00

Heres my second 30 mins on the gremlin, spent most of the time pulling it about to some ref I grabbed from the film. Its amazing how much faster u can work with good ref!

Bahamut 2 - Phase 1

2009-08-06T23:41:00.000-07:00

Ooops. I did the dumbest thing you can ever do in zbrush, I quit without saving and lost the old head, so I've redone it. It took a lot longer this time cos I was trying to copy the old one. Not sure I like this one as much but there you go.

Bahamut Phase 1

2009-08-04T15:53:00.001-07:00

Bit off the wall this one, chinese dragon * bahamut?!

Speed Sculpting challenge 2 - Gremlin

2009-08-04T13:57:00.000-07:00

So here is the first 30 min phase of our second speed sculpt challenge a cute ickle gremlin

Speed Sculpting challenge 1 - Zombie/undead

2009-07-20T23:32:00.000-07:00

So the rules are, we get a base mesh and half an hour for phase one, and then we crit each others work, then we get another half an hour and we crit again. So here is my Phase 1 submission:

and here is Phase two after some very useful comments from my friends:

Speed Sculpt 1 - Troll

2009-07-15T14:24:00.000-07:00

Well I'm finally back on the wagon and making art again after my soul draining World of Warcraft experience. Starting small, heres a speed sculpt I did in zbrush in 30 mins.

It's DONE!!!

2009-03-09T03:12:00.000-07:00

Well, as you may have noticed, the updates to my rex has all bt stopped, but thats because a: I've been rigging it and b: I've been puting this together, I finally have an almost up to date version of my showreel, given that the old one was almost 4 years old it was quite fun looking back at all my old stuff, and then editing it out to make space for the shiny and the new. Theres still some old stuff at the end I wanna swap out but didn't get chance this time around but I will once I get back off of my hols.

Hope you like.

Colour Fustrations

2008-12-04T05:15:00.000-08:00

After fighting with mental ray most of the last week I've finally got a displaced model with a basic colour map to show you. Obvously there are still quite a lot of things missing. Teeth and eyes being the obvious omissions, I still need to do a lot more work on the textures, detail the colour map, add specular and adjust the shader.

Displaced

2008-12-01T15:05:00.000-08:00

I've spent the last few days trying to get the low res maya model to displace currectly, in other words so that the maya render loses as little detail as possible and looks as similar as possible to the zbrush model.

I think I've finally nailed the settings in mental ray and here is the result of the test renders.

This is a pretty good moment as it means we can be sure we can get a good render off of the lower res model that I'll be skinning which, in turn, means I can start getting some joints in there as a rig and animating it.

Colours

2008-11-27T08:37:00.000-08:00

So this it the kind of colour scheme I was thinking of, trying desperately to avoid greens and browns.

Its just a quick laydown of colours with no details done but I do quite like it I think I'll keep the eyes a really bright colour so that you can really tell when its looking your way and make the claws and the teeth a really high contrast colour like the charcole on its back so that they stand out too.

Full Facial

2008-11-27T07:27:00.000-08:00

No posts yesterday, couldn't really see due to the evil holiday cold I've picked up, but a little better today so I thought I'd put some detail into the mouth and add a little bit more polish here and there.

Given that the two weeks are almost up I think I better call the model "finished" in the sense that I'm going to stop doing anything else to it. So now I am going to get on with the texturing. You'll notice the teeth aren't done yet but I have a timesaving plan to do a few variations and replace the stand in ones. save me doing all of them individually.

Put your hands up in the air!

2008-11-25T10:21:00.000-08:00

I've been playing about with adding a little more detail to that hands. I've made the claws rough and warn, though might have gona little too far and added some wrinkles where the fingers flex.

Horny

2008-11-24T08:17:00.001-08:00

I've spent a while trying to create a good horn/bony scale brush alpha for zbrush and accidentally created one I liked so much that I felt I had to get it out of my system or would end up overusing it on my final sculpt.

Anyway, this is the result of my comical overuse

Its all in the details

2008-11-24T06:42:00.000-08:00

After a few days off I've started back on the details the back, eyes and legs/arms have had a pass.

Details, details

2008-11-21T08:36:00.000-08:00

I've started throwing some detail on to the model, experimenting with alphas and the stencil brush. Its not looking too bad I think but I want to get it looking a bit more rugged than it looks now and add a bit more character.

Helping hands

2008-11-21T02:52:00.000-08:00

No update yesterday, sorry about that. But I have got the final areas "fleshed out" so to speak so we can move on to the rigging/texturing/heavy detailing stages as from this point on the model is unlikely to change much.

Happy Feet

2008-11-19T11:30:00.000-08:00

Roughing out the masses in the legs and feet. Still no detail yet but I want to push it as far as possible at this LOD before moving up

Picky picky

2008-11-19T04:32:00.000-08:00

Mini-midday update. I've worked a bit more detail into the head and shoulders and a load of little tweeks all over the place.

Baby Steps

2008-11-18T10:33:00.000-08:00

Quick update, finished for today, I started putting in some course muscle and bone features to help give me an idea of how its all going to fit together and spent a little time roughing out the underlying structure of the face.

Preperation is everything

2008-11-18T04:46:00.000-08:00

Well, here I am again. So far I've not had too much time to spend on them, all I've done is prepare the mesh's by creating polymeshes and subtools. Both of which will let me quickly hide and reveal big blocks of the model, enabling me to work on a more focused area and let zbrush run a lot faster. This is what the polygrouped version looks like.

Making senseble groups at this point can really help later on.

The Journey

2008-11-12T15:34:00.000-08:00

After looking through a lot of my old stuff I decided I didn't really want to post anything from it. Instead I thought I's just jump straight into following two projects I've been wanting to do for a while. They are a little bit similar, one subject is a t-rex and the other is a dragon. The initial base models I've done, both created in Maya will both go through a process of detailing, rigging and animation, hopefully producing some nice showrrel work by the end of it.

In the old tradition of Blue Peter, heres two base meshes I made earlier.

The first thing I'm going to start on is getting a cool looking high res model out of ZBrush using these two models as the starting point. Once I've got something worth showing I'll post some pics.

The Rising Sun

2008-11-04T02:02:00.000-08:00

Hello

Not entirely sure how this works or what its going to look like once I post but lets just run with it and see what happens.

I hope to post some of my older work and then get into a habit of posting any new stuff I do. Unfortunately I dont have any stuff here I dont think so you will have to wait a little while to see some of my stuff.

Cheers

Rich