new zbrush stuff

This is after the details pass on this model. I'm happy with how it's coming along.

Fodder From My Zbrush Class

This is what I've been working on in my Zbrush Class. It's taught by Cesar Dacol Jr. & he's a great teacher.

Car & Centaur

humpback lizard

pretty much basically exactly what it sounds like.

figure drawings

Alright. Here's some more figure drawings. cominAtcha!

centaur

To make a long story short, my friend is making a bedspread for his girlfriend with an image of him as a centaur playing the pan flute over a waterfall. He asked me to make the image. These are the value sketch, color with contours, & color without.

while watching Blue Planet

I did these drawings.

figure drawing & character drawing

hey kiddos. Here's the latest. I found a figure drawing group down here at the YWCA and was afraid I wouldn't get in, what with being a non-christian guy and all. Contrary to the mission statement of their masculine affiliate you can NOT get yourself clean, have a good meal, OR do whatever you feel. Bummer. Also, this is a drawing of a construction site across from the coffee shop in Redondo I go to. I'm coloring it in right now.

Story Explained

Okay, I know this is against the credo of storyboarders, but for those who require words to compliment their visuals I decided to give a brief wrap up of my snippet of a story I've made.

The Scene: A future where the computer still has yet to exist. Technology still revolves strongly around engineering & steam power. More specifically, the train station in Paris, France. Taxis carry incoming travelers to their destination using mechanical arms and a system of ropes and bars throughout the town, emulating that of a primate jumping from branch to branch of a tree. The sun is setting over the overpopulated metropolis as commuters flood the land, river and air.

A local INVENTOR with visible bandages and scrapes waits for his incoming train back to his home. A middle aged man with an estranged family, obsessive personality, and unbalanced work-play ratio. After realizing he has been reading his paper for a long time now, he looks up to check the time from the clock on the dock where he is waiting. 7:02. His train is late.

As he looks up, his eyes drift towards a beautiful BLONDE WOMAN dressed conspicuously inconspicuous. She is carrying a weathered BRIEFCASE.

FLASHBACK: The BRIEFCASE suddenly triggers a horrible memory of two nights prior. While walking home from meeting a colleague for business and a drink, he finds himself caught up in a celebration that he is unsure of what it is for. As his instincts would generally tell him to avoid crowds he ducks into an alley that has served him as a shortcut quite reliably in the past.

This time however, he is met by a GOON with a sloped forehead, bowler's hat and a DESERT EAGLE. With a heavy chuckle and little remorse, the GOON shoots him in his right shoulder. The pain causes him to drop his BRIEFCASE and the GOON walks off with it, enveloped by the extravaganza taking place in the city's square.

As time passes, he hires an investigator to find his neanderthalic attacker. This leads him to the Jazz club downtown where he sees his BRIEFCASE, the GOON, and a beautiful BLONDE WOMAN enjoying dinner at a table across the way. The GOON nudges the BRIEFCASE to the BLONDE WOMAN with his foot and upon finishing dinner, takes it with her and out the door. On her way out she turns around to look back at her associate. Her face is burned into the INVENTOR's mind forever. What lies in that BRIEFCASE is capable of changing the world in ways no layman could imagine, and in the wrong hands, could very well destroy what civility we have left in our society.

END FLASHBACK


PRESENT: The INVENTOR is already sprinting towards the BLONDE WOMAN, determined to get back what is rightfully his.

Value Passes DONE!!!!

Okay, so I'm not finished with these by a longshot, but at least I am done with this phase of it. I think I will build up two or three of them to a higher level of detail and finish.

one more to go

I liked how this frame turned out. I think I might redo this one and finalize it a bit more after I finish the last frame.

oafy looking creature

2 more to go!

last storyboard

okay, here's the last one. Now I'm gonna go back and do the others. Dang, I thought I was done already. Oh well, no biggie.

another quick one

Another frame? why not?

Next two storyboards

So the value tests are turning out to be awesome! I can't imagine working any other way. I'm probably going to have to go back and do the others that way as well. Since this is steam-noir, I probably could get away with just doing it black and white, but the point of my wanting to do this project was to expand with color as well. Any way, signing off for now. Laters!

change up

okay, so I just read this interview with some asian guy who did some crazy fan art for transformers and he showed his process which starts with rough black and white images. So I think I'm gonna do that before I jump into color. Most of these storyboards kinda look like finger paintings, but I'm liking the black and white approach.

rough of the taxis

This is a rough sketch I did while taking a break from driving down to LA. After a brief sabbatical getting reorganized, I'm back to it.

next two frames

okay, just got the next two frames up.

first two panel color passes

I plan on getting the rest colored much quicker.

my favorite bum

This is a portrait of my favorite bum that hangs out in downtown Santa Cruz looking like this. Seriously, if you see this guy, the glint in his eye (or off of his goggles) tells you that there is no doubt in your mind that whatever that guy has chosen to do with his day, it will involve a squash racket, serious eye protection, and lots of caffeine for energy.

storyboard roughs

okay, so after gathering a ton of reference material, writing a brief snippet of a story, I'm ready to start storyboarding. I just got the roughs done today but so far I'm pretty happy with it. There is a flashback that I haven't properly signified but other than that I'm happy with it. Kind of a steampunk noir type deal.

skateboard

oh yeah. I broke my skateboard the other day, and as part of one of the more brilliant presents I received, I got 5 blank skateboard decks of which I will paint myself as I break them. Kind of sweet. My girlfriend's pretty great I thought.

a quick revision

after talking with my client we came up with a better flyer with more "positive" connotations than oil drilling.

other flyer

I had never really done much graphic design work, but I just finished two flyers for a friend and enjoyed it quite thoroughly. Here's the other one. Enjoi!!!! I even got to make a layer that will correspond to which part of the flyer is shiny and which isn't. OOOOooooo!!!!

My first installment

So after a quick break, I'm back to it and here is what I've been up to recently. The flyer is for a friend of mine who is a DJ named DJ Eko. The portrait and Lizard Mouse were made entirely in photoshop. I was hoping to make some storyboards coming up soon so stay tuned!