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Ben Mauro Sketchbook

This feels like it was done a lifetime ago, cool to see it finally coming out though! ZBrush for Concept Artists Vol. 2
coming very soon! Keen to see Vol. 3 wrapped up which will be sculpting and illustrating the dual hammerhead looking
creature i did earlier, posing scenes and all that fun stuff. Will think of some other goodies and freebies to include in the last 2
volumes. :slight_smile:

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awesome, thanks for sharing! I totally missed CDW somehow, got to get the first part till this gets released :slight_smile:

Some content i recorded back in 2012 for Vol 3 that i didn’t think was strong enough to include in the DVD so i thought i would release it for free.
Really excited to see Vol 3 all wrapped up where you will be able to see the big creature sculpted and rendered from a sphere.

You can purchase the earlier dvd’s here: http://www.conceptdesignworkshop.com/ben-mauro-zbrush
And Vol 2 can be purchased here: http://www.conceptdesignworkshop.com/ben-mauro-vol-2

You can see more development on the BLUE project here: http://www.artofben.com/Blue

Ok Vol 2 is finally for sale! Thanks or your patience. :slight_smile:

http://www.conceptdesignworkshop.com/ben-mauro-vol-2

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Massive Black workshop demo from Fri, some sort of live action take on PATLABOR, one of my favorite animes… can’t go wrong with old Mamoru Oshii! :slight_smile:

3D blockout in ZBrush + Photoshop paintover. Keen to do a few more shots if i get time, take more time planning/modelling/finishing than i had time to in the demo, would have liked to group all the pieces on the model to get better base material render out of Keyshot to paintover in PS instead of just all grey that i started with here. Everything came down to the wire and ran out of time but was fun stuff regardless, glad everyone had a good time, will figure out a way to get the files to everyone that attended the workshop. Look forward to the next one! :slight_smile:

Finally got around to uploading the layered file, the DL link can be found in the store section of my site. Enjoy!

http://www.artofben.com/Store

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3D Blockout in ZBrush before paintover, rendered in Keyshot.
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Excellent work!

Stunning work man. I’ve got the design tutorials you did on CDW studio’s website and they are great. I was wondering if you plan to do any similar tutorials along the lines of your more futuristic/mech designs. I would love to see somthing like that :+1:

WOW! That really was an eyeful! Can really appreciate the value of PS layers and working it until everything works together. Thanks so much!

2014 resolution number two, collab with friends.

Helping Vaughan flesh out some sort of pit crew for his YUKON racing creature, here was the first crack at some sort humanoid creatures that could operate on the YUKON for repairs and things during a race, will be refining and exploring more ideas as we lock down what these guys might look like with the intent to make some cool little scene that could be a nice little collectible 3D print through HEAVYPOLY Industries later in the year. Email Vaughan if ya’ll are interested in a 3D print at [email protected].

For more badass stuff from Vaughan Ling check out his site:
www.heavypoly.com

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Awesome! Thanks heap for the videos and sharing your workflow! :+1:small_orange_diamond:+1:small_orange_diamond:+1:small_orange_diamond:+1:small_orange_diamond:+1:small_orange_diamond:+1:small_orange_diamond:+1:

cool design! love the patlabor work too.

Another free tutorial video. :slight_smile:

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Nice composition; very atmospheric and complex in terms of details. Like.

Man, you’re good. I really appreciate your tuts.

Thank you.

So like what your an Engineer ? Very Cool work :slight_smile:

Really enjoyed watching how you work, I learned quite a lot from this. Superb result image, new desktop background :slight_smile: Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge :+1:small_orange_diamond:+1:

Cant wait to watch this. Thanks!

Thanks!

http://www.badking.com.au/site/product-category/tutorial-pro-packs/

Foundation primate anatomy/sculpting tutorial i have been putting together with Badking.com is finally live! A great foundation exercise for beginners starting out learning ZBrush or professionals needing to expand their visual library before diving back into imaginary creature designs. As with my other tutorials, all models and layered files are included with purchase. The first week of sales will be offered at a discounted price so get it earlier than later!

While you are learning about and studying these incredible animals you will also be helping take care of them in real life. 15% of sales will be donated to ‘Save the Chimps’ who run a huge sanctuary for chimps who have been part of medical testing, entertainment industries and abandoned pets, these guys take care of 261 chimps helping them have life a good life the rest of their days. You can find out more about the sanctuary here: http://www.savethechimps.org/

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Really cool idea to donate monkey while purchasing the tutorial.