Roller Derby Character

Whilst watching the Blues Brothers I was messing around in zbrush and before I knew it there was a complete female roller derby female looking back at me!?!

It's by no means complete but I may continue it another day,

to be continued...

The Fairground Man - Creating the scene

Everything is starting to come together now. I'm in the middle of texturing and building items for the scene but also playing around with lighting. As a character artist, building scenery doesn't come as naturally to me but it's just a matter of using different techniques.

Speed Sculpt - Inspired by METAL

Just a quick sculpt I decided to do whilst listening to a metal radio show on DemonFM hosted by my friend Dan Barrett. Took about an hour and a half was remeshed from a sphere and that cog thingy (that I can't be bothered to reopen the program for the name) and I was playing around with the clay build up brush which is my new favourite!

The Fairground Man - Black Rose

Added a rose and reworked the collar on the jacket...

The Fairground Man - You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes

Added the eyes in. Really changed the feel of it altogether! About done with the sculpting now I think, may retopologise it so I can texture and render it out properly...we'll see how it goes!

The Fairground Man - A tilt of the hat

Not quite sure why I decided to work on this feeling as tired as I do but....I did anyway! Not that it's bad, I'm very pleased with how this is going. I tweaked the hat a bit so it wasn't so straight and added the bow tie from the concept. More work on this after a sleep I reckon!

The Fairground Man - A touch of colour

started a bit of sculpting to get some features in and added a base colour just to give a better idea. This is by no means the final colour or texture work though. Oh yeah and he needs some eyes (oops!)

The Fairground Man

Today I start a new project. Only going to be a short one but I really hope to work on my texturing skills with this one.
The concept is by the very talented Kieron Edwards who I met whilst working at From Dusk to Dawn magazine. Whilst browsing his work I really clicked with this character he created.

I think it's the combination of the creepy character and the top hat that I really connected with and knew I had to model it. Kieron was very kind and said I could not only model this but any of his work (that will keep me busy!) and so I have begun.

I made a very simple base mesh which I will export and start sculpting on. 

I think it will remain as a sculpt only but as previously mentioned I will really strive to make some good textures.

Comicon 2011 - Knight Punisher

Well that's it for this year, I've finished! I'm really pleased with the outcome and while I don't expect to win by any means (as there are some incredible entries!) I feel that this is my best piece of work yet!

Comicon 2011 - Pedestal

Just a quick update. Made a pedestal today. In hindsight I should have left myself more time to make it though that's another lesson learned.

So it's my last real chance to get this done tomorrow. Luckily I don't have work until 6 so I should hopefully have time to finish. Just got to get the pose sorted out and then render out some images to put my final pages together. More tomorrow!