Sketchbook: Crack Panda

Crack Panda

Hi there,

I'm new to this forum, been more of a viewer than a poster until now...thought I'd start a sketchbook here as other art forums I'm a member of are more 2D based and aren't all that into 3D work, (with the exception of the ZBrush forums!).

Anyway I shall be posting any little bits I'm working on during my free time here. I'm always learning and love improving my skills so any crits/observations are more than welcome.

Thanks for taking time to look.

CP

aaron2

Hey welcome....must say you have good sense of 2D but try your hand in 3D as well...anyways looking forward to see more artwork from you:)

Crack Panda

Hello Aaron2, thanks for the welcome! Did you mean try posting more 2D as well? Because I've only posted in 3D so far!

Here is one I recently re-rendered with some improved lighting...

Crack Panda

Hi there,

I've just begun another 3D project during my spare time. One of my work collegues said 'I know you can do fantasy work but do you ever create anything a bit cute?' I had a little think about this and released its been ages since I drew some more cartoony 'cute' stuff and I haven't ever created a 3D model that I would consider cute, well I have for work but not for my own stuff so I thought I'd give it a go!

I drew up some cartoony concepts for a mobile game ages ago but the game never got released in the end so I thought I would take my old concept art and try to create it in 3D for fun, and some practice!

So here is the old concept work and my start on his head sculpting in ZBrush, so far this is two hours work in total...

Crack Panda

Another half hour on this design.

Crack Panda

Another update on this little guy!!

Crack Panda

New render. I wanted to render this character out again as I didn't quite do him justice the first time around as I didn't know as much about rendering using ZBrush. His name is General Takori. I pictured him being a general of a powerful star fleet. He is out of uniform here though!

Crack Panda

Completed Army dude, just for fun and some practise...

Alismuffin

Great work Id be keen to see more 2D stuff also c:

Crack Panda

Cheers Alismuffin! Well I painted this recently, my version of the new Lara Croft...


And this guy is still a work in progress...

Crack Panda

Another hour spent on this guy.

Crack Panda

Recently at work I was asked to create a low poly version of the Leatherback Kaiju from the film Pacific Rim for a mini game in the PlayStation 3 HOME square. He was to fight against Gipsy Danger. To do this I was given a turntable video of the original Kaiju model and the actual 3D model which was used for the film (which looked beautiful). This was over 7 million polygons, so extremely detailed - too detailed for a video game model, especially one for use in Home! So I took the film model as a reference and built the low poly version from that. I managed to get him down to under 15,000 polys in the end.

He was modelled using a combination of ZBrush and Maya 2013 and I polypainted the textures in ZBrush and finished them off using PhotoShop. He has 2 x 512 colour maps, 2 x 512 Normal Maps and 2 x 256 Specular Maps as he appears very large in the game as in the films.

This version is in his 'T-pose' ready for animating for use in the game. He was rendered using Maya and Mental Ray.

All copyrights for Pacific Rim owned by Warner Bros Pictures, Ledendary Pictures & Sony Computer Entertainment.