First Attempt With ZBrush...

Post graduating my college course, I have been trying to up-skill and flesh out my bony showreel by doing courses, tutorials and workshops. To this end I have broken open the Gnomon Workshop DVD-ROM on ZBrush I've been saving!

This was the result of Lectures 1 and 2 on the disc.

Satisfying this Craving!

Animated trailer for E.F Morris' book - "Craving"


This is a trailer for the vampire novel, "Craving", by young adults author, E.F Morris. I made this using a combination of Cinema 4D and Adobe Premiere Pro, both of which I have really grown to like.

Cat... in progress!

Make no mistake about it, I am not gods gift to character modelling on any 3D platform. I may be able to draw them, design them, possibly even sculpt them in some physical form, but when it comes to modelling them in the great world of Cinema 4D then its like trying to throw a pot wearing boxing gloves and sunglasses!

But perhaps the problem is that I'm wokring towards becoming an animator not a model maker, still its very hard to animate with out something to... well, animate!! So in an effort to keep my hand in here's my latest character model.

This cat (just incase you couldn't work it out) was crafted in Cinema 4D by my own fair hand. I went for a stylized look with cartoon feel to it. Soon I hope to animate the little digital fuzzball but first, with the models real life counter part sat purring on my lap, I am going to journey in to the mirky world of rigging and add a digital armature of bones and joints to the model or as the unfortunate 3D lingo would have it to "bone" the character!!

Key to my Heart

Well, since the end of term, and in fact the end of my academic year, have now past taking their deadlines, their stress and their course work with them I can now concentrate on my own projects again! So, no sooner had I turned my end of year assessments in at uni then I got home and turned on Cinema 4D and began... they have a word for people like me, it's "addict"!

And here is the result of my addiction...

This is the followup to the heart picture I posted earlier for the book "Craving". This is the untextured key, which I was quite pleased with, it took a while to get the design for the 'key to the heart but I thought this looked quite good. I've added the key to the banner image with the heart and text. I'm not entirely happy with the texture yet, but I thought I'd mock up the banner with it anyway (see above).

The Heart Of The Matter

Well, I've been asked to 3D up a banner for a friends blog. The banner is to based on the art for her book "Craving". The book's a totally awesome dark fantasy novel, so the art has to be sort of gothic but without being overly macabre or too gruesome, so as to appeal to the more squeamish of the genres clientele as well as those hardened Steven King aficionados who are holidaying in paranormal romance land for awhile!!

Anyway, the concept for this is a locked heart, and this is what I've got so far.

I've tried to keep the shapes simple, the heart's shape for example, is more symbol then anything that would inhabit the human body, and I've been testing out textures to try and make it feel more like something that is living tissue... and hopefully hitting gothic rather then gory! For those of you more interested in the techie side, I'm using my beloved Cinema 4D and each of the textures I've used have a bump map, expect the lock itself which has displacement instead as it just wasn't looking authentic enough without.

Its only a work in progress but still I thought I'd share! If you would like to learn more about Craving then check out the blog here ... http://theredpenofdoom.wordpress.com/

Castle Model With Texture

Since I posted a pic of this in the model stage, I thought I'd add a this picture of it rendered with some scenery and texture. I'm going to use this as a background image in web project. Hopefully the end result should be up soon, but I'll keep you posted.

Shameless Self Promotion #1

This is the result of my university group project...