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#1

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. :slight_smile:

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

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

:smiley:

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. :smiley:

cushed.jpg

Attachments

TEcolourStill.jpg

crushed2.jpg

LBmayaStill.jpg

EMposed.jpg

#2

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 :slight_smile: keep it up and keep us posted.

~Best, X-Titan

#3

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 :slight_smile: nice work man.

#4

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

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! :smiley:

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

thx again guys:D

#5

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(‘44353’,‘rigged.jpg’,1,0))

Attachments

rigged.jpg

#6

I just love those cows! Is this like ‘cow tipping’? :wink:

#7

hehe glad u like them :smiley:

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

#8

Great work.

#9

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

#10

Alien Cows from outer space! I vote for cows!
Great stuff! I also like that killer turtle.
Lemo :+1: :+1: :+1:

#11

Thx guys! :smiley: 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.

#12

Very enjoyable. Thanks.