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!

Here’s something I’m working on right now just to take a break from my regular freelance grind

Took a break from school/thesis work to work on the dwarves today. I got into Zbrush with new armor for the warrior and this is where I’m at after 5ish hours of sculpting. 

I posed my high res sculpt of the dwarf rifleman tonight, here it is along with the low poly!

Well… been a crazy couple of days and I haven’t been posting work I’m doing! here is a new low poly of a dwarf rifleman. Made the blunderbuss all this morning! I’ll eventually do a nice high poly pose of the dwarf but now I have to do homework 🙁 

I will write about this later, I’m so exhausted…

Taking a quick break from thesis work because well… it isn’t the most enjoyable thing to me at the moment. That will change once I finish this preliminary work and really get into the meat of the project! Anyways, my first client ever who is the reason I bought Zbrush in the first place asked me to make 5 dwarves for a project.

Here is the base sculpt that will be used in all of the dwarves, each will have a different beard, weapon, and clothes. I started this base mesh yesterday from some sphere, did some retopology and got to sculpting! Now it’s time for some armor…

Cheers! Time to clean and make some valentines dinner for Bridget.

This blog is going to be absolutely filled with thesis work after I actually begin working on it. Right now I’m prepping for my midpoint review where I pitch my idea to some professors on a panel. I’m currently concepting out the characters which for me is always a struggle. Here is a work in progress of the first, I need to take a break from him and move on to the next.