Grimm Tales

[im_thelumberjack]

I have been lurking around these forums for a couple of years now and I thought it was about time that I actually post some of my own work.

I am a recent undergrad from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY receiving my BFA in Computer Graphics and currently in that "fun" phase of looking for work. I have been using Zbrush for about 9 months now.

I figured I would post work from my Senior Project that I completed about 4 months ago but just recently decided to re-render. All models were base meshed in MAYA before heading into Zbrush and were textured using Zapplink.

For the renders I decided not to go with photorealism but more of a stylized hyper-realism

Hopefully in a few years once I evolve more in my art work (and finally purcharse a wacom tablet) I will produce some top row work. Anyways I hope you at least get some enjoyment from these images.


Walter Butterflitch





Kolfina Redhood





Blick (anatomy got a little bit funky when I posed him, probably should have posed him before I went further on it)





Snorrason Tapth-Jerte (also should have posed before working on muscle structure but not as bad as Blick fortunately. Also used to be holding a baby bird in his hand)





The Hag Fruede-Haus




I hope that a few people out there enjoyed the images.

Also if you would like to see a turntable for each one or a brief making of a render (all with cool music!) you can view it at my website:

www.ejohn3d.com

[im_thelumberjack]

Got bored recently and decided I'd work on a hand for fun and I figured it wasn't worth creating a new thread for it



some renders













Some Zbrush images of it using one of the bronze shaders to show some of the detail.






A couple of Wires from inside of MAYA

[Benjw703]

You've got some really good detail going on but your proportions are a bit off. Really try to get that initial shape right before going crazy with the subtleties. Reference!

[im_thelumberjack]

Thanks for the reply. For the proportions are you talking about the characters or the hand, or both.

I have been thinking about completely redoing the characters as I didn't get to put in as much time into them as I would have liked (especially into posing and re-adjusting anatomy afterwards).