Maury Ruiz - Sketchbook

[Maury Ruiz]

Hello everyone,

Been a long time since my first post on here... I'm going to start posting more work. I've really been enjoying ZBrush and more so lately as I've been doing more personal concept stuff. I'm sculpting in ZBrush and doing the color, hair, saliva and environments in PhotoChop. Most of the stuff is done around a day or so.

[Etcher]

Great sculpt and image!

[nassosa]

really nice. Could you post a larger final render. it looks awesome.

[SuperHer0]

well-done on the sculpting and the final composition, very nice

[Maury Ruiz]

Here it is a bit larger

[stefanobernardi]

Top row stuff in my opinion!

How much painting in it?
I love the hanging skulls, are they ztools or completely painted?

[CesarDacolJr]

Nice hybrid mix of techniques.
I likes it allot.
Cheers
Cesar Dacol Jr.
Aka, The Voodoo Monkey

[digitalmind]

Great character!Really nice work!

[Maury Ruiz]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. The model is shown in a matcap that I sculpt in, plus a slight rim light added to clearly define the silhouette. Would a darker matcap with a balance value range be better?

stefanobernardi,

The ZBrush model I posted was the only 3D stuff. I did make some base meshes for the teeth in Maya, which were inspired a bit by a Port Jackson Shark's teeth, but my creature's teeth are not as cool as the reference. Everything else was painted in Photoshop. I looked at some reference of bird and cat skulls to get a general feel, then added the teeth as I felt it should be. Hair and environment was painted as well. The lighting of a specific matcap inspired the environment, so I came up with a lighting composition that suggested bottom lighting, and I made a composite of some rim lighting to define the form. I wanted to go to town on the lava more, but I had to finish in a time line I could reproduce on a real production.

Some close ups of the head and arm:

[Mindblade]

Oh wow, this is amazing...its innovative, its well done, its a nice pose, lighting...everything is great :-D
Topnotch

[remcv8]

Your work just blows my mind!!! Very cool!!!

[Maury Ruiz]

Your work just blows my mind!!! Very cool!!!

Woot! Thank you! I'm glad you like the images!

[Maury Ruiz]

Here is a turntable of the "Summoned from the Depths" model.

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Links: http://vimeo.com/30572225

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Link for Close up view: http://vimeo.com/30572459