Buzzer

I have decided to work on a few fun 3d models in any spare time I have.
This is one of the ideas I have started with.

It is the mechanical robot wasp a.k.a "Buzzer" from classic Sonic the Hedgehog game for Sega.

Currently this is the Highpoly model of around 30,000 polygons which I intend to texture and bake onto a lower poly model. I have been working from various concept art (see below) and making a few creative decisions along the way for what works best.

"Buzzer" by phantom-fox on Sketchfab

I started this model with a few objectives in mind:
1. I want the model to be made specifically for sketchfab.
2. To keep in mind a simple looped animation and possible ambient sounds or music.
3. I want it to be a low poly model with baked maps from the higher poly model to add extra details.
4. To keep it fun and fresh
5. To texture it with a certain amount of realism using substance painter.

What makes sketchfab great is that I am able to "Re-Upload" a model everytime I have made changes to the model keeping the settings the same as the previous version (such as metalness, glossinesss and post processing ect) and I can see how it is looking in realtime which has helped me to decide what works and what doesn't. This will also help when I start to add the color maps ect..

I am currently in the process of texturing and baking the highpoly model details on to a lower poly model of about 12.000 polygons. Below are the concept artwork which I have been working from.

Snowfall (Geisha)

Been working on this painting for a while, jumping back and forth from different projects.

But got the time to work on it and get it finished.
This painting went through a lot of changes but I got it to where I am happy with it.
I was a little torn between 2 ideas for this.

Above are few work in progress images. The initial sketches showed the idea of her walking through a street in Gion but after painting in a rough idea of the colors I wasnt really happy with it and so I decided to go with the mysterious setting instead :)

Katana (Suicide Squad) painting

Did a quick study painting of Katana from the Suicide Squad.
Half way through I thought I would try a little experiment and so I painted each hair strand seperatley on different layers to animate it for a fun little gif later on.


Katana

Painting Steps

Blackened Eyes

The eyeballs were painted on a seperate layers too to be able to paint in the black eye transformation later on. I plan on creating a few animated gifs sometime in the future with some sort of story for it. So this was just a little test run for that.

Katana, Tatsu Yamashiro

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Needed a short change in scenery from my current 3D model project so I went and painted Japanese singer  Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

Final Image

Here is a Gif of the painting in progress. Show some sense in all the madness ^_^
Click the images to enlarge for a better view.

GIF Progress Animation

The Hulk

I always like to have something else to inbetween modeling stuff so I decided to work on a Hulk painting.
Mark Rufalo is the perfect actor for the Hulk so been wanting to paint the hulk and banner for a while now.
Heres some progress shots so far. Working on finishing a few other things atm so this will be done inbetween it all. ^_^

 

 

 

Finished piece

 

 

Age Of Ultron Painting

Been working on this Ultron painting and finally got time to get it finished.
Below are some work in progress shots of the painting,

Sumi-e

Carrying on with the Sumi-e paintings, which I will continue to do for the next week or so.
Here are a few of the paintings I have been doing.

 

 

More to come..........

Bamboo Painting

A Painting of bamboo in a traditional Japanese Sumi ink style.

 

This is the first in a series of similar paintings I will be doing in traditional inks and also some in digital and a few as a mixed media.

 

 

Quiet Painting

A painting of Quiet from the upcoming Metal Gear Solid game.
Sometimes you just gotta go paint something ^_^

Here is a little Gif of the painting in Progress :)

Geisha Sketches

 

Victoria Everglot Model

A digital model of Victoria Everglot from the movie "A Corpse Bride"
I may model the full body, for now im concentrating on the face.
Currently in the process of creating a rig for facial animation. stay tuned for a video when its done :)

 

 

 

Making a start on the face rig for Victoria. I made the controllers first to avoid running into any problems along the way and also the controllers act as a visual check list for all the needed morph targets.