Sketchbook: CONKi

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Long story short, I graduated college four years ago, made a wrong turn career wise, and have been heavily slacking in the art department for the past 3 years. So the point here is, I got a lot of rust that needs to be shaken off, edges that need sharpening, and other metaphors meaning I need to get gooder at art again if I am to have a chance in the industry when I'm free from current obligations. To that extent, criticism is very much welcome.

And lastly, to start things off (an oxymoron if I ever heard one...) here's a golem character I've been dabbling around with for a while I want to eventually make into a 3D model.

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Spent some time over the weekend diving back into modeling and texturing and attempting to learn the ins and outs of Blender. Came up with this set of steampunk-ish goggles. Still kinda meh, but happy enough to be trying my hand at 3D stuffs again.

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Just taking a little trip in the way back machine, looking at stuff I did when I was more fresh out of college and I remembered how to art good. Hopefully it'll help jog my memory or push me back into it. As always, comments and critiques are welcome.

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Did some modeling of that golem dude. Still got some work to do on him, but figured I'd post up some progress.

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Cheap Lego knock-off, anyone?

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Started re-learning how to make a rig and skin a mesh. Kinda miss 3Ds Max now...
Anyway, still a WIP. Got a little bored after a whole day of rigging, hence the pose.

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Penguin!

WIP

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Don't mind me, just testing. Namely Blender sculpting, Unreal splines and displacement+tessellation, ya know, learning some cool stuff I've missed out on.

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WIP of a firey temple with a froggy motif...Why frogs? Because fire frog several posts up.

Shopping List:
-Better Fires
-Spec and Normal everything
-Redo Wall Textures (those be old... I think I painted them, but can't remember it's been so long.)
-Improve lava
-Stuff
-Cowbell

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Yep, still doing the same thing-a-ling

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Still chuggy-chug-chugging along.
Started dabling around with lighting(still got plenty to learn there), revamped the lava pool(not yet happy with it), and redid a few textures(meh).


Oh yeah, also threw together a second chamber for more fiery goodness

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Another project I've been working on to get comfortable with 3D tools and such.

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Retried a few things here and there, threw some details around, and decided on steel-toe sandals rather than normal ones as in the original drawing(because safety).  Think I've got the overall detail to a point where I'm fairly happy/not terribly disappoined with.  Think it's about time I move past the sculpting.