Last week I've mentioned about this special SubD modeling technique and promised to write a brief tutorial, so here it is. In a nutshell: Create a low-polygon model and set all the edges that you need to be sharp and crisp to be at 1.0 crease value. To be in greater control of the surface you can also assign weights to the…
Hey guys, the character in the slide below was used as an example in a short lecture I did a while ago. I'm blogging about it here: http://bit.ly/11zEc0t (there is video , but unfortunately the lecture is presented in Bulgarian). This character is in prototype stage, I'll post the finished one hopefully soon. It will be…
@selvesteHE, thanks :) @duncan,appreciated ! Very happy to hear my art inspires other peopl, definitely makes me want to sculpt and paint more. Cheers mate ! Alismuffin, thank you buddy ! :) Here is something new: Youve might remember few different shots of him from my character design lecture (a link to the video can be…
" if you are interested in this kind of stuff. Think about it for a second, the great masters lived in an era where they actually invented all the techniques and elaborate methods of depicting nature, they didn't study anatomy from books , they conducted autopsies and observed the real thing !" So when do we get to see the…
I decided to do several more weird dragon designs, because I was not satisfied with the first batch and wanted to explore more this theme. This below is a butterfly dragon (but probably "bat" suits him better). It came out as an experiment. I wanted to explore a new technique involving 3d modeling for generating…
"Sculpt and Design Creatures part 1" is out! https://gumroad.com/cgzen Hey guys, I did few free tutorials a while ago about Zbrush and decided to release my first paid one on gumroad.This time with English voice over! Although the theme is overexposed and there are hundreds of creature related tuts out there, I hope the…