2014 was a great year. I had a lot of fun making things with cool people. I backed off of sculpting for a bit to focus on directing and producing some live action short films. A group of friends and I collaborated on a 48 hour festival short film project called “This Boy,” and on two additional shorts called “Voice Memo No. 5” and “Reconnecting.” I’ve learned a lot throughout those little productions and hope to keep creating things in 2015!
I recently did some character development for a friend while I had some downtime. The concept was to show the evolution of a small creature as he grew older and became more capable, while trying to tell something of a story through his features alone.
Hey all, I haven’t posted here in a bit, but I have taken on some small projects in my spare time. I have a longer term project coming up and wanted to begin creating a library of environmental assets and some procedural tools to help me generate assets a bit faster, since I’ll be creating some of the work on my own initially.
Found this recording on my hard drive and never uploaded it to Vimeo, so here it is!
It has been a while, but I’m reviving the Modeling Minute series with a new workflow overview video for 2D Tailoring for 3D Cloth in Marvelous Designer. I’ll follow this up with a Simulation setup tutorial using ZBrush and nCloth in Maya.
I had the pleasure of joining the Artistic Awareness podcast recently to chat about just that, “Awareness,” and what it means to me as a filmmaker. Thanks for watching and be sure to check out the other episodes from the Artistic Awareness crew!
Some more speed sculpts for two new spitsculpt themes. This time, ‘Ice Giant’ and ‘Pokemon!’
Two more speed sculpts for the themes of “Space” and “Kind Faun!”
Just a little 1 hour fan sculpt here for Marvel’s The Ebony Maw, as seen in the “Infinity” storyline, which I just finished reading. This guy is pretty creepy and manipulative in those books and thought he’d make a fun little modeling project. See the rendered version after the jump!–
Some more speed sculpts (about 45 minutes each) for the themes of “The Joker,” “Studio Ghibli,” and “Luigi!”
A couple more speed runs here for two new daily themes! The first is a bust of the man out of time himself, Captain America, for the “Frozen in Time” theme and the second is Zelda’s Link for the “8 Bit Hero” theme. Thanks for checking them out!
Stepping back on this Modeling Minute to review poles, recognizing them on our primitives, and working with alternatives while sculpting.
A new Modeling Minute tutorial on the process of “shrink-wrapping” one mesh to another.
New Modeling Minute: Splintered Wood. A friend shared this handy little tip with me recently. After seeing all of the splintered wood while on the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland, I decided to finally do a Mod Min on it! 🙂
Only one new Modeling Minute this week, but there’s a bit of extra at the end! Thanks for watching.
Two new Modeling Minute videos for the 3D artists out there! Enjoy, and thanks for watching.
I’ve had an itch to make some more tutorials recently and have been considering a more unified format for them. Since we live in an age of immediate gratification, I’m attempting to create some modeling tutorials that give quick tips in 60 seconds or less. They’re super low commitment to watch so hopefully modelers have time to check them out as I post them to Twitter, etc. I’m planning on covering some basics first, then I might get into some more advanced topics. Here’s the first set:
I’ve reached the end of my free time set aside for this character, and I’m generally happy with the results. I’m calling this one complete, though there are some great notes received from various forums that I’ll be keeping in mind for my next projects. Let’s take a look at the final steps from my last blog post here.
