Aiman's sketchbook

[huan80]

Heh... I've been watching this one over on the Challenge forum. I love Tremors, and this is a great extrapolation of the concept. Good work.

[womball]

Sweet! I hope this wins something. A cyborg graboid lol! At least it doesn't fly.

[SadamHu]

"You can't get penetration even with an elephant gun"

"Broke into the wrong God damn rec room, didn't ya you bastard!"

"Food for five years, a thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration,
Geiger counter. Bomb shelter! Underground... God damn monsters."


I'm gonna have to get those movies, the first one especially.

[tmalinko]

Ahahaha, I like you big breasted chick fighters! Especially the fact that the smaller breasted one gets totally squished, very symbolic
I think that "big boob trend" dominates not only video games industry, but the entire pop-culture shelf. And all of such female models are bone-skinny, they simply cannot have naturally big breasts as breast is mostly a fatty tissue.
Stylistically I see no problems with big breasted warrior women in video games, but it has become ubiquitous and diminished the variety of female body types we see in games. So the "typical" video game babe looks like a composite of 10 yer old girls's face with (make a selection here) emaciated super-model body or anime-style figure and silicon-inspired knockers... Talk about objectifying women.
In one of my previous jobs for a company building female player-oriented MMO type game I have tried to voice my concerns about the breast size that was designed for our female avatar, alas, my pleas fell on the deaf ears and I was told to stop criticizing "approved" concept art... The game never took off, I wonder why?
Great post, keep it up!

[aiman]

Thanks everyone! I'm glad people remembered Tremors! It was such a classic, glad I'm not the only one nostalgic about it.

SadamHu, lol great quotes man, those made my day. - Just the way michael gross says this one makes me crack up everytime - "Broke into the wrong God damn rec room, didn't ya you bastard!"

tmalinko - I'm glad you liked TKO - Tits Knock Out. I was going for a subversive piece where I leave it to the viewer to decide their opinion on the matter. It was aimed directly at gamers and I think its very easy to read whats going on if you are of this generation. Like you said there is a lot of objectifying of women going on and this was my way of atleast bringing attention to the subject without overkilling it with my point of view. I saw your adriana lima, It looks really good without looking too sexual. Thanks for the compliments.

[aiman]

Jinkies, It's been too long! I'll try to post some of my newer stuff soon.
First, here's where these first images ended up at once I had some time to finish them properly.








Thanks for stopping by.

[Peter Folke]

He, he
Those tits sure are in the way!
Why on earth are they sneaking into computer games? Guess it's to lure male teenage gamers to buy games...
I had a hope that pornography and action games could be separate, but guess Lara Croft made Tomb Raider a success rather than if it was a dude in tight shorts and tank top. (Have marketing wizards thought of the potential of gay gamers? )
Well, everybody is running around saying it's bad to objectify women.
Women are sexual objects of (most)men's desire! Why do people try to deny it?

It's bad taste to use large breasts to sell games, or nude women to sell anything for that matter. But some just want to present their products that way, and they can afford to make it that way.

As a gamer I enjoy when the environment of the game and the things in it are in balance. So I vote for cleansing action games from big tits, -they belong to the porn industry. -Put them in porn games for all I care, just leave them there please

[aiman]

Thanks Peter I don't necessarily think its bad to objectify women, I think there's a place for it. I just don't need it in my games.

Here's some more zbrush stuff I recently reworked.

[aiman]

My latest Zbrush work - A self portrait of myself as a Mughal, surrounded by my 3 dogs, Simba, Balloo and Bagheera. "Royal me with Dogs," until I can come up with a better name

All foreground elements rendered out of zbrush and composited in Photoshop.



Here's a clay render -



And some closeups -

[aiman]

Heres some more red clay views. It was fun to try and sculpt hair.

[aiman]

Blanka Ball! Need I say more...Little fun for CGSphere.com

[mokthemagicman]

Love your Blanka! Are you going to do any more SF4 characters?

[aiman]

Thanks Mok, I'm partial to Gouken, might make him one of these days.


My friend Z came up with this cool concept and I took it to 3D. 2 days All Zbrush and PS. Trying to find my style...

[aiman]

Just got back from Costa Rica and loved the native Borucas masks. Decided to buy one and had a WHOLE 6 HOURS today to sculpt!