Lunchcrunch – A new Video Series!

Hiyo,

So in this post i wanted to draw some attention to  series i am doing dedicated to sketches and experiments on Vimeo/Lunchcrunch. And for those who don’t know Lunchcrunch is an awesome site setup by the great Danny Williams. (who by the way i interviewed for  pretty much 2 hours on my podcast at cgroundup.com).

This first set is dedicated to assyetrical modelling. Something that i think far few modellers do. Not for production but just as an exercise to hone one’s skills. (Which is what i want to do).

 

 

 

 

As I said this is only the first set. Not only will there be more of these short-style sessions but also more lengthier, more in-depth video will also be on the way. I kinda have to since i dont want my vimeo plus account to go to waste :) .

So I hope you like these videos and will post them on Lunchcrunch, Vimeo, Twitter,  probably Zbrush Central and here of course so if you subscribe to one of those outlets then you wont miss any updates that will be coming out.

And to check out all the video i have released, past/present and future, check out my channel at http://vimeo.com/channels/ab3d

Enjoy.

Production worthy assets or sketches?

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Hey people.

Well, as January draws to a close. This month I tend to plan what I want to do with the rest of the year, compared with what i did last year. And I usually I look back at the work I made over the previous year and usually think…. ugh… it wasn’t enough. But for the majority of 2010 I was a little bit happier with myself in the amount of work ive produced (I still could have pushed harder though), the part I felt I had progressed the most was in the anatomical side and workflow for sure.

Right now I feel like im at a bit of a crossroads though. I like to make assests as versatile as possible. Thinking what I might use of them in the future. There are only a few models I have made in the past where it was modeled in-pose or ot designed for further use.

I want to make use of my Houdini license, I want to make use of topogun license etc. But most of  all,  I want to keep using Zbrush to crank out as much content as possible.

Though sometimes being sucked into a project and working on it relentlessly can be tiresome and sometimes you wish you were working on something less precious. Something that you feel happy just walking away from.

I’ve been working to finish the models/projects I have started. And when the time comes when I have everything done, it will all be sketches for a while.  I feel I’ve reached a certain level where a skech model is actually something not to shabby and could be ready to light and render and thats what i want to do more of. Models are my passion but lighting/texturing is definietly my guilty pleasure and definitely a future conquest.

Animation will play a role in this journey, and im sure I have enough assets to keep my busy but if I want something new to move I will try to sketch approach and then move onto the conversion process to turn what was once a bunch of un-organized polys into a useable production worthy unit.

Enjoy the pics, it was from a model I started in 2006 and have now comeback to actually sculpt for a competition over at 3d.sk. I came in 3rd place which is awesome, personally I felt this project highlighted the need for me to get a better grasp of texturing. I think I can map photos well enough but painting and creating textures from scratch is a skill I would love to aquire.

On a side note: I will be working on getting the latest interview up on cgroundup.com as soon as I have a few things completed.

And thankfully, I have just received my new graphics card. Woo hoo. :)

See you

-andrew

GTX 275… Dead!

So it’s been a while but as always i return to where I think my voice counts the most, (albeit the chances are no one will even see thisg at this, but it curbs my enthusiam from posting on forums, letting me mindlessly lurk.)

So it’s the new year…. woo hoo (bit late, i know). But aside from that i guess this post is to lets you know/prepare/look out for a bunch of content im gonna be shoving in your faces this year. I will talk about the personal work i did last year in the next post but right now im sitting on too much stuff right now that it would be sad to keep it to myself.

Unfortunately though i dont feel ready to show anyone since my graphics card (the 2nd hardware failure ive had with this new system) has also started releasing smelly fumes before dying on me. So by the end of this week i will be ordering a better one.  And then let the content begin.

Anything else…. ummm not really, I would just say Subscribe (via RSS), follow me on Twitter or add me on Vimeo because the is alot of stuff that will be coming your way.

-andrew

Update: New card is on the way, i actually missed the pickup yesterday. oh and the Videos page has been updated at the top of the site.