Hey everyone!

Haven't posted a blog in a long while so thought I'd check in with you guys and show you what I've been cooking up!

One of the projects I've been working on is individual busts for the main team of Star Fox! I've been sculpting this project exclusively for my Twitch audience on stream so they can watch the progression from beginning to end. You are free to join in on the fun on my Twitch Channel

We've been creating sculpts based on this awesome concept by the amazing Jake Parker (Artstation / Website)

We started this project 2 weeks ago sculpting Fox. After about 2 or 3 streams this is where we are with him. Still needs a bit of polishing but he's almost done!

To keep things interesting I decided to work on a different member each week. They all still need some polishing and a final render but thought it would be more fun for people to watch something different. So the next week I worked on Falco!

And yesterday we started work on Peppy

All of these guys are definitely still WIP but I've very happy with how far they've come so far. Excited to get these polished up. Also very excited to work on my personal favorite, Slippy Toad :)

Hope you all enjoy!

-George
  

Hey everyone,

I'm participating in the Retrogasm 2018 contest and the character I am working on is Viewtiful Joe :) Here is some WIP shots of him as he has progressed so far

Current Version:

WIP leading up to this so far:

Still much more to come on this guy :)

Since my last blog update on Kim, I haven't made any major changes but lots of small little changes to help push the likeness a bit further along

The two main things I did were add some skin details such as crows feet and pores. I also went back and totally redid the lips thanks to a critique from a friend of mine. Most notable of all though, I gave the head a bit of a tilt and rotated her eyes to give her a little bit of character.

After looking at this a bit longer, I noticed one thing she was missing were eyelashes so I made a real simple mesh to put in for that. From this point, I also updated her clothes and fleshed them out a bit more.

I also ended up revisiting the pose and considered the character. Kim is a real strong character in the show and I thought the head tilted down might not convey that too well. Instead, I decided to tilt the head up and move the eyes to look more into the distance rather than at the camera. 

I feel this has more power to it than the previous pose and it also looks better from multiple angles

There are still a few things left I want to finalize including some finer detail on the eyebrows, fleshing out her undershirt a bit more and tweaking the lighting and material for the finer render. I think I've come to the conclusion that a warmer dominant color scheme works better for this piece than a cooler one

Hey everyone!

I'm super excited about Artstations new blog feature and decided I'm gonna start consolidating some WIP shots to show you guys how my projects are coming along. I thought for this first post I'd share a project I'm having a lot of fun with. I'm making Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy 7. For right now I'm focusing on getting him looking cool but once that's done I'm going to start engineering him for print and make a small little statue of him.

This was the most recent untextured render I posted on here recently. It was a Keyshot render with a 3-4 point light set up that I really enjoy. The textured version will have a different lighting set up.

Since I've posted this I've made a number of modifications to Cloud.

The biggest update is that I finalized the model of his sword and textured it as well!

The model was done 99% in Zbrush with only a couple of small components and UV fixes I handled in Max. The design on the sword was done entirely with ZBrush's Live Booleans, one of my favorite new features in 4R8. Also, because I don't really focus exclusively on game art and prefer to focus more on the 3D Printing side of things, I did some really dirty UV Master unwrapping for most of the sword. Normally I would use Polypainting but for this project I wanted an excuse to use some Substance Painter so the model needed UVs.

I rendered out Color IDs from Polypaint in Zbrush and then used the Color ID to masked out different areas of the sword. I also did some touch up painting in areas that need it. Once I finished, I exported from Susbtance Painter with the "Keyshot" preset because I also wanted to try and see how PBR works with Keyshot as it's something I've never done before. I found this super handy Substance Painter documentation that shows you how to set up PBR Materials in Keyshot.

https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/display/SPDOC/Keyshot

After updating it (and doing some texturing work when I got tired of messing with strands)  here's how it looks:

The last update I have for you guys is some small changes that make a huge difference. I revisited Cloud's eyes and face. The face I only made some small subtle changes on, however I completely redid the eyes because I didn't like how I had done them initially. Finally here is the current version of Cloud's face. I think the eyes pop a lot more now.