Pirate Bot

Sky — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:55:30 +0000

One of my 2012 goals is to focus on characters in my personal art. Here is the first one of 2012. Based on a drawing that was given to me as a gift from a past co-worker and good friend of mine, Jeremy Vanhoozer. Check out his awesome blog The Paper Robot!

Goodbye Sleep

Sky — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:25:57 +0000

I’m very happy to announce the latest addition to my family. Baby Cael Showed up on Wednesday Nov 30th at 8:19pm weighing 6 lbs 7 oz and 18 1/2 inches. He’s a little guy and a week early. But everyone is doing great and we are already home! Going to take it easy for the next few days and steal sleep when I can.

Jack-O-Lantern

Sky — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:02:25 +0000

Here is a pumpkin for a lowpoly holloween contest at the lowpoly workshop.
I had a lot of fun working on this one.

In another bit of news, I’ve got a new stone and wood tutorial on the way. Learned a lot since making the originals and want to update them a bit.

Finished Comicon Challenge 2011

Sky — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:33:25 +0000

Here is my finished WW1 Ghost Rider for the comicon Challenge over at Game Artisans. I barely finished it up on time!

The flames are actually 3D planes around the head. I hid them on the wireframe image below so it wouldn’t obscure the face. Looking back I should have included them, oh well. Too late now.

I’m happy with the way it turned out. I wish I didn’t have to rush the flames and the pose. Started on those with 45 minutes left. But overall I’m pleased. I had to figure out the whole baking process and it was a huge learning experience and a ton of fun.

Thanks for checking it out!

WW1 Ghost Rider Test Bake

Sky — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:44:55 +0000

Here is the first test bake of my WW1 Ghost rider. I’m pretty happy with the way it came out. Especially being the first test. Right now the low Poly is sitting around 13,00 tris. The contest limit is 14,000, so I’ve got some room to play with. I’ll tweak some poly’s, re-bake, then onto textures!

WW1 Ghost Rider – High Poly

Sky — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:44:46 +0000

Larger Image

With time quickly running out I had to get the high poly done and finished. Now I need to build the low-poly, UV map, and texture it.

Ghost Rider, or Ghost Pilot?

Sky — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:56:22 +0000

Bit of an update. Fleshing out some ideas more. Have a ton to do still.

Cyclops

Sky — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:03:11 +0000

Downloaded the demo of 3D coat. Here is a quickie to help me learn the program.

Ghost Rider Update and other goodies.

Sky — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:34:11 +0000

Started working on Ghost Rider in zbrush. Since I mostly do low-poly environment art at work I’m a bit out of practice with zbrush. Had to go back and watch some tutorials.

While watching/listening to those tutorials I cranked out this little low-poly cyclops guy. I’d like to take him into 3d coat to try out their poly paint tools.

And here is a third character I’ve been working on this week, something for a game idea I had. Used the base mesh I created for the Ghost Rider.

Lots going on and so little time!

Comicon Challenge 2011 – WW1 Ace Ghost Rider

Sky — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:15:49 +0000

A couple of weeks ago the Comicon Challenge 2011 started. You can read more about it here. Comicon Challenge 2011

I figured I’d participate. It’s nice to mix things up a bit with a character that’s more than a speed sculpt. And even though I mostly do environments at work, I still enjoy doing characters. I chose Ghost Rider as a flying ace in WW1.

To start things off I put together a reference sheet of images that help set the design and mood of the character. I really wanted to go with something that’s a mix of the Red Baron and the traditional Ghost Rider.

Then I modeled out a quick base mesh to get a good start on the basic proportions.

And here are some progress shots.

Just about ready to take into zbrush!