Sketchbook: MrBFox

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Hello, figured this would be a good spot for posting bits of 2D and 3D work Im working on, to start heres a model of 343 Guilty Spark from Halo which id been using to practice some LiveBoolean stuff from Michael Pavlovichs Zbrush tutorials (in particular adding bevels to a booleaned mesh.)



And as an example of my 2D work this is a sub design Ive been working on for the current Artstation challenges Prop design category.

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Heres some wip bits from the artstation 'beneath the waves' challenge.
https://www.artstation.com/contests/beneath-the-waves/challenges/31/submissions/23263?sorting=latest_all
 the 5 prop ideas being devloped are :
1. a minisub
2.a diving suit
3. a crab mech
4. a trillodrone (think a trillobite crossed with a roomba)
5. an ancient statue

so far the biggest design challenge has been to make the trillodrone and crab mech not feel like something that should be in the creature design category.

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Trillodrone concept sculpt for the Artstation  challenge 

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concept sculpt of a shrimp alien to help inform the design of some props for the artstation challenge.

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some more concepts for the artstation challenge.

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finalised my submissions for the Artstation challenge
https://www.artstation.com/contests/beneath-the-waves/challenges/31/submissions/23263

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Turkleton the christmas turkey. little expermentation with using nanomesh to add feathers.
 

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Elf Sculpt, with some posing (I usually wait till a character is rigged before doing that, but figured with sculpts I dont intend to take past high poly it would help improve the presentation to have soemthing with with a bit more life to it).

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lev1o

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signed up for the Unity Neon Challenge, Going for a Simon Stalenhag inspired scene, a fuel station in the middle of a highway linking a city/outpost to a space elevator.

wip blockin passes.
The Entry https://connect.unity.com/p/fuel-stop

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Last Model of 2018, wanted to do some Hardsurface practice between Boxing Day and New Years, and Star Wars has been on my mind  a lot recently so decided to make a BB-8 model. Might take him through to Low Poly and Riggin some time in the new year.
current HP render done using Arnold.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YlqWP

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Retopologised and Textured the BB8 model over the past few days, took it into Substance (using masks and genrators as much as possible) and outputed textures that should work with a bunch of applications (Arnold, UE4, Unity etc). current renders doen using Arnold.



model

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/GNDvd

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after BB-8 and the Polycount Environment challenge I wanted to do a character this week, so I opted for a stylized astronaut character, originally tried making him in Zbrush but was having difficulty getting the right control of the forms I wanted so I opted for ye old poly modelling in Maya from Cylinders and spheres, sometimes the simpler approach is the best, most of the time over the past few days was spent getting the major forms and topology of the body, hands and head right, with the astronaut bits being modelled in this evening, might take him through UV, texture and rigging.

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model
wrapped up rigging on this character with the  pose test, might prep him for going up as a rig on Gumroad if anyones interested.
UPDATE: up on Gumroad now: https://gumroad.com/l/nAaZq

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Morning warm up model, based off  a bug from Felix Colgraves animations.

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some 2D animation execises following the animator island list.

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some more 2d bits.

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some environment paintings done after some design studies of Halos forerunner stuff (somehing i might try to do more of for games, artists/ designs I like).

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Rover Drone

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more 2d animation bits

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bit of head modelling today, Prince of Egypt style.

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Stylized Mass effect character, aiming for something similar to the Star Wars Rebels/Cllone Wars style.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/v6ala

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Jake parker robot studies

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lTie-Bomber model ive been working on the past week, finished just in time to join the next Environment challenge.
Render in-engine in Unity

Highpoly

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modelThis months Environment Challenge entry.

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Some Sub-D studies

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towards the end of may I suffered some software issues where maya wouldnt open, spent a week trying different solutions with no success including a clean uninstall of all autodesk products from my machine, decided I would use this as an opportunity to learn new software, so spent a few weeks learning max and loving it so far. the transition has helped reinforce which modelling workflows will translate bewtween software.

some recent stuff ive done with it includes these Overwatch robot head studies.

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Dusting off the old sketchbook thread, in the time since I last posted here, I've moved to blender as my primary 3D program (though I still like doing sculpting in Zbrush and most texturing tasks in Substance). Currently decided to do some low poly interpretations of the mechs from Into the Breach, starting with the Rift Walkers team.

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Zenith Guard from Into the Breach.

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Rusting Hulks

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sub-d alien doodle

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A 2nd take on the Cartoon Alien character, with an attempt at rigging using Rigify.

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Ghost V2, A remake of one my first successful models in Blender 2.8. The original model was mostly an exercise in sub-d modelling with the materials relying mostly on procedurals outside of the eye texture, with the new I wanted to change that now being more familiar with the Blender/Substance pipeline. 
The model was textured across 11 UDIM tiles in Substance and then set up and rendered in Cycles (though they transfer just as well across into Eevee with only some alterations needed for the Lens Shader.)
ArtStation - Ghost V2, Blaine Fox

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some sub-d character practice. Blender/Eevee