Some pet projects!

[Brian Anderson]

Hey there,

Zbrush is such a cool piece of software -- i've been working a lot lately and decided it was time to share a bit. :)


Over my career in 3D animation, doing mostly character animation and rigging, i've been able to work on a lot of great projects. All the while I have continued work as a generalist on my own projects, and over the last five years I feel i've really been able to accomplish a lot and some of my test projects created at home have been able to creep onto the company demo reel.

I've taken a bit of time here and there to update the gallery on my web site. It is now complete with almost all of my personal projects from 2001 to 2005. Since I am an animator at heart, all of the characters in the stills below can be seen animated as part of my testing process in the gallery on my site,

http://www.polyoptics.ca (http://www.polyoptics.ca/)



I've used Zbrush to model some of these characters, and just as a nice easy 3D paint tool on others. I can't say enough good things about the software of course, but I will say that as a generalist, it really helps cut down on the number of different apps I have to bounce between. There is bunch of info about the images/animations on my site, but please feel free to post any questions or comments! Thx a lot!

Brian

:D

Edit: I should also add, these are a handfull of images from the site and there is a whole lot more to see there if anyone is bored. :D

cushed.jpg
TEcolourStill.jpg
crushed2.jpg
LBmayaStill.jpg
EMposed.jpg

[x-titan]

I love your projects, great set of work, I like that you're doing something with your models once you make them, in your 10+ years you've amasses a great sence of animation and alot of software skills it seems.

I especially like your models that utilize the model's polygon composition as a premise for their design. I had a similar idea but you beat me to it. Great work :) keep it up and keep us posted.

~Best, X-Titan

[Prospect]

I really like the Frog looking one, all the others are very ideal none the less but that particular one just stands out to me for some reason :) nice work man.

[Brian Anderson]

Thanks a lot guys for the kind words! Making this stuff takes so much time, as we all know :D.


X-Titan, glad you liked those! =] I got pointed in that direction by trying to minimize one of the many steps in the creation process, and keep texturing/UVs super simple heh.. For the same reason I have always liked the looks of toon shading, they both are really simple and still can look ok :D.


Prospect, I have to give credit of the frog design to www.sweatyfrog.com, and in hind sight, I think I could have gotten a lot closer to the 2D version :o but I was trying to complete a longer test piece and didnt have time to linger on modeling :confused: -- I am glad you liked it otherwise tho :D:D

Incase you didnt have time to check the site, here is a link to the animation that goes along with the frog image:
http://www.polyoptics.ca/sfrog.mov

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One of my favs is the gear spider (http://www.polyoptics.ca/GSstill.jpg )
I wish Zbrush2 was around when I was making it, I would have done a really different background, to say the least! :D

Kinda like how my current project would be so different with ZB2.5 ...heheh soon enough I am sure though.

thx again guys:D

[Brian Anderson]

Hey again,

I've been working on short film and finally have a couple of 'work in progress' pics of the main characters to show. Zbrush was used mostly for texturing and some other little things. :D

faces.jpg (javascript:zb_insimg('44352','faces.jpg',1,0))

rigged.jpg (javascript:zb_insimg('44353','rigged.jpg',1,0))

[Jason Belec]

I just love those cows! Is this like 'cow tipping'? ;)

[Brian Anderson]

hehe glad u like them :D

They do look a bit cow like, hehe, they're really not supposed to be any animal, just cartoony creatures ready for space travel! :D:D

[Okssipin]

Great work.

[Jason Belec]

Everyone knows Cows and Space go together man!! Really great concept, my wife just went squishy over the image! ;)

[lemonnado]

Alien Cows from outer space! I vote for cows!
Great stuff! I also like that killer turtle.
Lemo :tu: :tu: :tu:

[Brian Anderson]

Thx guys! :D I was worried the design was not going to work :confused:

Now if only I can get all the animation done :o hehehe

Thx for the comments!!, i'll post some more pics as soon as I can.

[billrobertson42]

Very enjoyable. Thanks.