Well.. It’s Sunday yet again! Will it be a productive one? It better be! My docket of things to do  for today seems to keep growing. Testing things, Preparing for upcoming projects, Thesis work (in my dreams) and the never ending chore of Laundry will be taking up most of my day.

Today has been a bit of a bust as far as art goes! I’m waiting on go ahead’s from some clients and  I  couldn’t be less interested in my classes at the moment. Normally I’m striving to get A’s each week but something is just.. off right now. There are a lot of HUGE changes on the horizon for myself and my girlfriend maybe that’s the reason. Or maybe it’s just gorgeous outside and I wanna be on my bike all the time. The possibilities are endless as to why I’m not focused on school work I suppose.

I’ve started on my thesis, the first piece is the architect which is my.. nerdy/techy character. I sculpted his torso musculature for a client who wanted a generic, decently fit good-looking male! Sneaky eh? So now that’s partially done. I think I might work on that a bit more this week and finish his face which had to be changed due to.. him looking hung over and slightly like a cave man! Oops. I also made some changes to my portfolio and need to finish rendering out a few more pieces. Cheers!

I’m in the process of working on a whole heap of different projects right now. I like it that way! It makes me focus and not game as much which is always a good thing. I did this sculpt today for one of my clients, I need to texture and rig it after adding some clothes tomorrow or tonight as well. It came out pretty well, I’m really liking where my sculpting skills are going right now.

Today I finished my alchemist dwarf. It’s the last in the series and it gave me the hardest time out of any! It happened during a time of turmoil for my computer and my school career so that might have contributed to the issues I had.

His colors were giving me issues, there was a lot I wanted to get on there and a lot the client wanted to see on him. After going back and forth 100 times on colors I decided on the black/green/red. I think it might be too many colors but I’m not sure about a solution to that. His vials really only work when they are bright green. The biggest thing I wanted was for them to read as poisonous or explosive vials. Anyways, here are the final renders of him.

The final dwarf is the most challenging so far. He isn’t a warrior, he isn’t a hunter, he doesn’t have a gun or daggers or anything. He’s an alchemist! What does an alchemist wear? What does his personality feel like? I’m not really sure to be honest. I’ve been concepting for 2 days now to find the right balance of style vs. practicality and I’m finally getting close to a final design. Here’s him inside of Zbrush so far.

I’ve been suggested to make his hair crazier. And I might change his mustache a tad.. Not changing much else!

Well, for the 4th dwarf things are going very smoothly. I woke up at 1am yesterday accidentally and was inspired to really put some hours into this character. I finished his polypaint, extracted his maps and then even did all my tweaks and paint overs for the low poly. It came out great and the only thing I’m disappointed about is how I failed at posing the Zbrush model last night. I’ll get my revenge though and pose it in some bad ass way.

Around 5am after completing the low poly assassin, a friend messaged me asking what my workflow was so I gave him a rundown of how I work by creating this dagger, which is the assassin’s weapon. 

Here’s where the detail for this sculpt is ending up, nothing too crazy but it matches the other dwarves. It’s time to make some weapons now, just a couple of daggers I think… Cheers!!

I decided to take my mind off of my thesis presentation looming over my head and started on the next dwarf for the series of 5 I am creating for a client. I made all of his armor today and began sculpting it, I think I’ll finish it tomorrow, keeping things simple, and stylish like the other dwarves. More updates to come.

I know I haven’t posted work in a long time, it’s been a long journey working on a really complicated, very important presentation I’m giving on Thursday. After I’m done I’ll be starting a 20 month EPIC thesis project and the work I’m going to be producing is the best I’ve ever done.

After Thursday I’m also going to be updating my portfolio posts on freelance websites and starting on some new work for clients. Gotta get posting again! And to start making art, not powerpoints!

I’ve been hard at work on my masters thesis proposal to get approval for my thesis idea so I haven’t posted anything in quite some time. I’m finally done and extremely pleased with the result. It’s a 20 month project to create 3 incredibly detailed characters and I’ll be blogging the entire time and creating videos to help any 3D artists out there that want to learn little tips and tricks I use for things.

Oh, and I’m upgrading my PC because I want to push Zbrush to 60 mil polygons, OH YEAHHHHHH. Should be here today?! Hope I can get it all up and running in under 10 hours, I have homework due Sunday. Yikes!