Updated Reel

As Always

It would seem that I'm not very good at this whole blogging thing. I just feel like its a journal and in all honesty I was never good at keeping journals in school. Regardless here are a couple of images I have worked on most recently, I'm not going to say what they were for, only that they were commissioned.

Fonts

A few Font variations to see what is prefered

Just needs a shadow

Pretty much as the title reads, This design can be considered done with a ground shadow, provided the client wants one. Here it is up to now.

V002

Designs

One of possibly a few logo concepts
for a member on BGG.....

Hope he likes it.

Here is a small model that I'm working on as a larger collaboration for the new dominance war, just the base WIP right now.

Poly Reduction

So last little while I have been doing some low poly work for an independant game company, Man Its hard to work on a model for less than a thousand tri's. I originally had this model up around 1100 or so but I managed to knock it back to about 700 tri's. I have to rework the textures since the reduction and I still want to take it into Zbrush.
I just wonder where am I going to get the time to get everything done that I want to. Any how here it is.

Cintiq Fever

So the last post mentioned me working towards a Cintiq, well......Hellz ya! Even though the wife was none to thrilled about getting one I managed to convince her, of course I'm also not allowed to make any purchases for the next ten years. If you ask me its worth it.

Now here are a few gaming pieces that I have come up with for a Mod of a particular Boardgame that I truly enjoy. Oh yea and I have been bidding on getting some freelance work to offset my up and coming addition to the family, here's hoping. Also once I get more illustrations done I will be posting them here.

Hope you like em.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Its off to work I go.

Well the title isn't completely true, I have actually been at my new job for about 3 weeks now. Its good stuff and I quite enjoy it here. For those who don't know where here is, its Sohovfx in Toronto. I'm doing much the same as my last place of employ and I do enjoy it.
So here's the thing, with all day doing 3D stuff I have of late (actually the last month or two) been hankering to get more 2d stuff underway. It seems that i always migrate back to my roots. I'm currently doing some small side stuff for a friend and trying to land more work for myself that will pay some coin...Y you ask, well as it is I'm working to get my hands on a cintiq...the wife doesn't think its important but as most people know, if your not in the industry you just don't understand.
Anyways I hope to have some stuff to post (provided my buddy is cool with it) of at least some development sketches. I'm also itching to get my own creation back under way. Its called ToTem. I can't recall if I have ever posted about it but I have had this story in me that wants to come out, I pitched it years ago at another company and we did some concepting and story fleshing but it seems to have died off on their end, so I feel its up to me to get the ball rolling with it again.
Well as per usual, I hope to have some stuff to post soon. Till then.

Ciao

DA Comrade

Been busy as heel at work and there is very little time left for my own stuff. I did manage however to get thtese two images done for a possible illustration gig for board game art. Man that would be cool to get it. I hope my perspective client likes them, well here they are, enjoy.

2d o rama

Here are some images I have lying around, some are BG's done for an independant game being made(not all images are finalized) and some are jsut doodles and my own concept ideas. Hope you like.

L8r

Of God and Games

So this actually has nothing to do with god but rather I have become a bit of a gaming addict again. I have so much stuff thats needs to get done I guess I get overwhelmed and kind of shut down a bit. Its a constant struggle to not play any games. The ones I have been playing (and curse the companies that made them so addictive.) are Company of Hero's skirmish mode for my WWII fix, Fallout 3 DLC (good news here is all the DLC have been completed and I finished them all) and for some reason I have gone naustalgic for some classic games like magic the gatherings shandalar, some old WWII games like panzergeneral 3D. Anyways, I'm getting mad at myself for the self indulgance and now I have to buckle back down If I want to get work somewhere. So that being said I'm going to post some new images of where I'm up to with my Model.

Suit UP!!

Ok not so much a suit as it is me just sitting in my office in my gitch...Hahahah, not really , there is no gitch....Blah. Anyhow after taking sometime away from the 3D realm I'm back to work on stuff. I was whoafully dissapointed about a missed job opportunity a while back but hey thats the nature of the beasrt right. Anyways here is a small update on my current (current as in this year)model that I'm working on. Its more of what is shown below.

Zbrush o Rama

Here are a few updates of some of the Model assets that are being worked on, Its coming together and I'm liking the Z....Only wish now would to own a Cintique rather than my 4x5 wacom.....

Arm Update

Here is the torso with the arms being worked on, still much much more to go. You can follow my progress on the 3dtotal site here
anyhow here is an update if you, like me, are too lazy to click more than need be.

Armor Time

So I have been working on the armor for the new model that as you can plainly see I have been working on. So far its fairly low rez, nothing much in the way of bevels or anything. I will up rez it later, I plan to take into Zbrush and do some hard surface (or at least attempt to) sculpting to see how well I can get it to come out. I also want to explore using spec maps and other texturing maps to get more bang for my buck, I also feel its good to know how to do them properly. ANy how here is the progress thus far.

Right back at it

So with only a small delay (recover time) I'm back to the model I was starting b4 the4 dominance war. I did the head for it yesterday and I tried a new way of modeling it. I think it cam out pretty good and although its a longer modeling process (or maybe not considering the box modeling method had me restarting about 5 times) I used poly planes and did many....MANY.....edge extrusions. Anyhow here are the results, first the head on its own and then I attached it to the original torso I have done.

Dominance War IV.......Crunch Time is Over

Well It was hard going and I learned alot over the last little while about my work process and where it can be improved.
I also got the hang of a few new apps that are pretty major for the gaming industry, infact they are pretty standard now for most of the industry and its good to know. One of them being Zbrush, the other is the normal mapping genius of an app Xnormal.
I'm not likely going to even place in the top 50, there are some incredible pieces that have been produced by people. I am however very happy with the results considering my expertise level going into this comp. So here are the final Images (not in any particular order)

Text Flavor

Beauty Shot

Presentation Shot

Concept Shot

Construction Shot

Baainling

Well been working away on my entry for the Forum wide Dominance War IV, I finally decided on the name and so this post is its name sake. Here is the link to my working forum that gets plenty of updates...Actually here are the posts for the other guys from 3dtotal also ( I would have put up just mine here but the forum is having issues right now and I can't get on to it.)

http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/dw/4/view_entries/index_3dtotal_both.html