Hiddleston is the Corinthian

"You disappoint me, Corinthian... You were my masterpiece, or so I thought. A nightmare created to be the darkness, and the fear of darkness in every human heart. A black mirror, made to reflect everything about itself that humanity will not confront. But look at you." -The Sandman


I've decided to attend the Saturday ZBrush sessions regularly both to help students with it and to improve my own sculpting skills. I'm getting back into that mode where I find sculpting relaxing and fulfilling when I can think of something interesting to sculpt.

This week's theme was "something fo Halloween" so I decided to turn Tom Hiddleston into the Corinthian from The Sandman. If ever this became a real thing, he would be perfect for the part--just look at that smile!

This sculpt took about 4 hours to get to this point including setting up reference and figuring out how to do the teeth. The teeth alone probably took an hour just to try in the shadowbox, figure out it wasn't working, create a base in Maya, and then figure out how to quickly duplicate and warp in ZBrush again. XD

I might finish it next week, or I may start something different. I'd like to take this to completion, but I suppose it depends on how I'm feeling next week. Perhaps I should finish it....

Cheers!

-Anne

I think It's Done

 It's Friday night after a long day of Modeling 1 and Rigging 2 classes, and an ever longer week of canceled opportunities and sad farewells. It's after 5 p.m., well after in fact, and where am I? In the office finishing the last of the critique changes on my lighting scene and polishing off the image with some depth and AO. And you know what? It's the most content I've been in weeks.

Straight from Maya

With Depth and AO in Nuke

I'm going to get a final round of critique to at least know how I could improve the image further, but then I think I'll light something else. (EDIT: GAH! This looks so bright on my monitor at home!)

Up next is an integration project, which is only about an hour into modeling. Hopefully I'll find some time to work on it soon and can have something done for the end of November--sooner if I can manage.

Cheers!

"Success is about doing the small things consistently to improve. There is no other blueprint. People look at the big picture and then look at their life and that's where discouragement happens. Fuck the big picture. Focus on the small things you can control and the big picture will come into focus. If you try to chase greatness you will never catch it because you aren't chasing the right thing. Chase effort. Effort leads to results, chase effort and greatness will start chasing you." -Sparkreason

Here we are again for another small and delayed update. This time I have a two week old sculpt from a Saturday afternoon ZBrush session. This one took probably a couple hours to get to this level as I haven't touched ZBrush in a few months, but it started taking shape with some good critique from Brad Kotris-- now of Nerd Corps.

One thing I've realized is that modeling a character from a game can get very confusing when trying to reference detail from a low poly model with normal maps. Next time perhaps I'll stick with 2D concepts with turnaround or faces.

Cheers!

Guild Wars 2: WIP

It's been another long "break" from posting full of work, events, and some occasional side project time. I still don't have much completed, but here's a preview of what I'm doing with the open art test for a ArenaNet internship.

Most of the modeling is finished, with the exception of a few details that need adjustments on the front, grass cards, and possibly some decal cards if necessary. Fortunately I've still got some polys to play with. The texturing is where most of my attention will be focused in the next couple of days, especially that brick texture and the moss. Yeeeergh it looks rough at the moment. And the placeholder shingles keep telling me I need to take another look at my UVs.

In other words, I'm glad the deadline is in November so I can finish this with care and maybe build some companion houses. Thankfully I've got several pictures from my stay in Quedlinburg, Germany to help keep me inspired. Here's to finishing this by early next week so I can build another.

-Anne