Zbrush sketch

Paintover

Original ZBrush model

More soon?!?

New Series of Tutorial Videos

I've got a new video series that focus on showing people new techniques in Photoshop and Maya and spreading the love!

Please check them out and give me feedback! You'll notice that they are done very differently--I think I will revert to a less scripted method for the next video. 

Thank you!

Using Symmetry for Concept Art Silhouettes

ctrl+Paint has some awesome tutorials, and the symmetry tutorials reminded me of an awesome Technique I use!

You simply make your silhouette into a smart object, duplicate your silhouette half and flip it, and voila, you have a mirrored object that updates every time you save the smart object!

Neat!

ipad sketchles

The iPad tends to make things look good so I had to add about -25 brightness for this to look right on a regular monitor. 

This was pretty fun to do, because let's face it--any sort of symmetry tool across any program fucking rocks. If there was a single word for "fucking magical" it'd be "fuckgical" or maybe "magucking" and that rightly describes getting to use an active symmetry tool.

I used sketchbook pro for this, which has an amazing brush that sort of looks like this:

And it frickin' rocks! You get a lot of great gradients from this guy, and sharp vs. soft forms are really easy to create. 

Anyway, working more on getting better at the iPad drawing stuff...and just got a real stylus today so hopefully that helps with future stuff!

first shipped title!

Whoo!

Unfortunately it's also the project I got to spend the smallest amount of time on so far, but hey! A wins a win!

I love console games, so hopefully if I keep this up there will be more soon!

I don't really believe in "heroes", but

... every time I discover JK Rowling putting a new way to describe something with a fart on her website I think I love her just a little bit more. That among other things, like her creative writing!

I recently spent some time re-reading all seven Harry Potter books, and man, it's a lot different after you've experienced the story twice. It's really nice.

I feel like when I one day have kids they'll definitely enjoy these books (unless they're assholes--I'll have to make sure they're not). Not the pansy e-books though! (Unless it still has the Mary GrandPre drawings in them. They're a real treat to look forward to every chapter in addition to everything else.)

But there's nothing like curling up to a book that's bigger than you and reading without glasses on!

I spent most of my life writing more than anything else, and now that I've spent a few years doing art, I think I realize I do miss writing quite a lot. So trying to figure out a way to combine them in a video game that I actually like would be fun.

 Anyway, here's a little guy I spent a little bit of time on the other day, trying to mimic this character:

Should probably add color to the model just for practice. 

poopers