I am not sure what to call it, but at least I began saving these random doodles done during a video call with my parents, or while watching a movie on the other monitor or just waiting for a food to get done cooking. I reckon I won’t be posting all of those, but here are the first two for the start, labeled Entry0001 and Entry0002.
I’m seriously tempted to start doing this kind of stuff in Flash, since a second issue of FogZine is way overdue.
Here’s more stuff from last week and a half – I promise to keep going until I’m able to do my own concepts, and then some! Drawing is a very nice break from 3D.
Some women studies from the weekend:
While watching CSI, I snapped screenshots of some guys and drew them, while continuing with the episode on the other monitor – not to say I watched those episodes, but at least I’ve listened…
And some more guys from the movies (Vanishing Point, Odd Man Out):
And finally, some doodles with no reference:
Here’s the deal: I pick the name and then use image search to give me some pictures, I pick one and draw it. So far, I’ve got 4 Georges done:
Here are a few other sketches I did this week:
This guy has a body too… well, sort of partial for now.
I thought it was interesting to see how it all came to this, so I loaded my WIP files one by one and snapped the image of each, and then arranged them chronologically into this little movie:
It all started from zSpheres as one piece, then down the road I resurfaced it and chopped it up intu multiple meshes, and also added more pieces, such as epaulets and belts. The model went through a lot of proportion changes, and from cartoony to realistic. Medium low res models are then assembled in Maya, and the detail is brought back with displacement map. Some test renders should pop in here soonish.
I reckon it’s time to post something, because it’s been a while, and it would be a shame if the occasional visitor of this site thinks that I am a lazy bum, which of course I am not guilty of! So here are the two heads that I promised in the title:
This second head also comes with a timelapse of its creation, here’s YouTube flick:
There is more in the works, but at present it is not in quite presentable state, as I am still in the process of learning to do proper software redering, but some screenies are due to pop up on this page… soonish, I hope.
There’s a long road ahead, but I think I’m off to a decent start.
More is to come and I’m pretty glad I’m back to doing some 3D in my spare time. Surprisingly, I don’t get tired of it after 40+ hours of doing it at work. It feels good to have all the resolution I want to make a good render and don’t have to watch my textures get crunched down to 256².
Fooling around with my 40D and all the LEDs in the dark:
Here’s the sketch I did last night for the CGTalk daily sketch forum. The theme was The Tourist and time limit for it was 45 minutes.
On a side note, I changed the theme for the FogLog today and I’m liking it much better now. The old black and orange theme got… well – old, so I had the urge to change things around. This theme is created by Pink & Yellow Media. I changed a few things around: added the display of custom fields and the corresponding styles in the main stylesheet, removed the display of child pages, added link to portfolio and made it so that the fogmann.com redirects to FogLog – no need for that splash page with links to everything that is already here. I also sized down a lot of the images that were larger than the width of content box so that they don’t overlap the sidebar menu if they appear on the top of the page. Cool thing is that the new version of Lightbox2 now automatically pops up when there is a link to an image from an image embedded in post, so I don’t have to manually add lightbox tags to images – SWEET!
I might change this theme further and add some graphics and color, but for now I’ll leave it as is. I hope you’ll like the new look.
