Concept Sculpt

Getting ready for a possible career as a conept artist and digital sculptor for production, so decided to combine the two and do a concept sculpt.  Something a pre production artist would give to the 3d team as a guide.  Started in the morning when I woke up, and worked on it on and off.  Zbrush and photoshop.

Early Morning Concept Sketch

Was browsing through artist Robh Ruppel's blog who mentions the book "The Power of Less," which talks about having a morning routine to do things you want to do more of.  Reminds me of the phrase "you are what you do."  Utterly simple words, but I think they really hit home.  I'll be alternating between sculpting and painting for these routines.  Heres the first.

I think it reached the 2 hour mark cuz I wasn't concentrating too much.  heheh doesn't help to have two monitors and having a movie play at the 2nd one.

Gnomon Montly Sculpting Contest Entry

My entry for Gnomons montly sculpting contest.  was sculpting away early morning right before the deadline.  Wish I didn't do last minute things so often heheh.  Bout 5 hours of sculpting because I designed it along the way.

My Darkstalkers Entries

Here are my entries for the darkstalkers tribute book.  Morrigan and Demitri.  Nothing spectacular really but crossin my fingers in hoping one of em gets selected.

Polypaint Test

painted up some simple tones just to get the feel of the character.  trying to get the auto uv's in zbrush to work, but things just get messed up in maya.  drivin me nuts so just a zbrush screen cap for now.

Zbrush Head

Heres a quick zbrush head concept sketch.  I found that the more images you use for alpha's the slower your concept sculpting becomes.  So I picked out two generic looking alpha's for quick texturing details.  one is of some wrinkles on a palm, and the other is of some skin pores.  Sculpted from a sphere in about an hour and a half.  Probly faster if it was done from a base head instead.

Gnomon's Monthly Sculpting ContestEntry

Heres my entry for last months sculpting contest over at the gnomon forums.  Managed to get 3rd prize.  Wish I spent more time on it but I learned tons in doing this so its not all that bad I guess, heheh.  Just have to keep working harder on the next contests :)