Almost half way!

Almost ready for Zbrush! I still have to stylize Myu and overall I am about 1000 polys over budget. But I will optimize later.

Making Progress...

So I've been working on my entry to the Dominance war. I think that I may revisit the color palette of my concept. It's very... brown and I definitely want to infuse color into it.

Otherwise moving along onto details. Then I'll model his familiar "Myu" :)

Zbrush... complete...

At least if I hope to finish this by Monday. I would love to spend more time on this and really finesse the details... but I really want to finish this.

More progress!

Man this is fun. I don't know if I'll be able to finish it time, but I'm going to try my best.

Getting close to finishing the basic design. From there it will be detailing dents, scratches and dings.

Progress...

Man creating hard surfaces in zbrush is.... hard.

The Drums of War!

Ok so the DOMINANCE WAR has started!!!!


Dominance War Site

So I am going to be "trying" to complete it. Finally I have attempted this since the contests inception three years ago.

So I am going to put my tutorial work on hold, and dive head first into the zbrush waters!

So here is my latest tutorial..... actually really good practice for the mini challenge.

I didn't model the teeth. They were included in a supplement file.

Well wish me luck and I'll be posting progress here hopefully!.

Finally..

Ok finally finished with the face exercise! Loads of issues with it and I could spend lots of time adjusting anatomy. Especially on the neck and ear. But it's time for me to move on!
The full progression...

Skin Tag!

More progress, didn't have the energy to go all the way tonight, I still have to add the neck and ears...

MAH-SHLES!!!

So the next step in the tutorial was to add the basic facial muscle system to the skull I had made previously. I have to say I AM LOVING Zbrush right now. Very intuitive and fun.


Next step, adding the skin!

Added teeth

Went in and added the teeth

This zbrush thing is pretty fun!

I want your skuuulllss, I need your skuuuullls!

More Zbrush work. This time a skull. Obviously missing teeth, but like I said I'm working from a tutorial book and the next step is to add the facial muscles. So therefore there is no need to add the teeth. I started with just a sphere, and built up the shapes.

Junk!

Because I don't create any new art (non professional that is) I thought I'd put up some stuff that didn't make it into Battle of the Bands.


This was a quick pre-vis model I did to establish mood and scale for a Train Graveyard level (one day I will work on a game that has one!) based on one of my concepts.



Before we came up with the insane asylum idea for the goth band we were going to go with the tried and true gothic cathedral idea. The model never made it past this point in the process, but I was pretty happy with how it was progressing.

Due to time constrictions I "kit bashed" (i.e. stole from) an old model I had made that had some gothic windows. I was actually able to salvage some of this model though and use it in Hongs Castle Ballroom.

Putting on the Ritz

Ok so here is the last batch of artwork I will be posting for Battle of the Bands. There is actualy more I have but I don't have the paitence to render it out

So basicly it bears saying again, this is the most pride I've ever had for a project regardless of what critics, or people in general say.

The work I've posted here shows a lot of growth in me as an artist and it also shows the process a game goes through in it's development. If that means something to you I hope you got something out of these last few posts.

So without futher adu here is the last of my Battle of the Bands art...

Battle of the Bands art dump 4

More Art! The Heavy Metal Band Sinisister was a company favorite. One of the first bands brought to completion. I got to come up with the devil character as well as name him Von Steel!

A homage to my favorite band Type O Negative (the lead singer is Peter Steele) Von Steel is probably my favorite character in the game.





I created this concept for the witch Lucretia, which was then taken to final by my art Lead Thomas. You can see that concept in the magazine spread a few posts down.