Again, master work
I’m what you’d call a N double-o B as Zbrush goes, so don’t mind me asking how would one go about creating the brain, and what technique did you use?
I tried various methods, tutorials, but without a guide on the brain, I’m just lost in the sea of different techniques and never happy 
Thanks,
a fan
congrats on the top row man. well deserved
would love to see some more duke nukem stuff.
what happened to your blog page mark??
i would gess it was taken down ;]
Nice sculpt…though I agree about the slightly odd proportions. I think it’d be fun to see a dark Duke…one dirtied up and rugged.
I’d be interested in a behind the scenes at 3DRealms. This DNF news is amazing. Has any other game spent 10 years in development and had nothing to show for it? What an absolute failure. I don’t know if it was incompetent management, lazy team leaders, or what it was…but this is a monumental EPIC FAIL. Probably the biggest in video game history. Games of that magnitude are pumped out in 1.5-2 years when using a different engine. This is 10 years and nothing.
As I understand, the game was first started roughly before 10 years, and around 2000 there was a beta version, which means that they needed artists as our mark here to do the characters and whatnot. Who knows how many times the concept and the engine have been changed AFTER the creation process, and the people creating had to be payed. I can see how it went out of business.
That later part of that article is rumored to be a joke though.
Cool characters - very nice renders :D
Hey Mark. Awesome models. Sorry to hear bout 3drealms. I was looking forward to shooting some pigs. ah well. Good luck with the job hunt. If you haven’t been offered already. Best of luck.
Great work!
Octabrain =
Although Octobran does look awsome, i’m actually more interested in that Podgirl, can you share your texturing techniques on the skin? That looks awsome.
i read that and i was like. WHAT??? i was unsure if it was true, but it sounded like it was written in a truthful way, but too unreal. so i was like i dont know if i can believe that.
“The link above sends you to the appropriately dated version of “The Chair Story”. This is a post I made on the SomethingAwful.com forums late in 2007 when prodded for more detailed information on why Duke Nukem Forever was taking so long. In the context of the original posting it was intended to be an obvious story where the reader would be drawn in, but by the end realize that it was a (hopefully entertaining) fabrication.”
Wow so much leaked stuff!!! This is too cool. Im just kidding. But awsome works non the less.
anyways all the work here is awesome the octabrain is great, my favorite is the podgirl something about it just looks better. and the duke is the least favorite but only because he’s so clean, granted it was said that that was the way they wanted him to look. everything is amazing though
Hey Mark, nice work! I worked at 3DR for 3 1/2 years but left right after you started, so I don’t know if you remember me. Glad to finally see some of the great art that was made since. Your Octabrain kicks ass! (much better than my version from 5 years ago ).
3DR closing is crappy news, but you won’t have any trouble finding a good gig with work like that.
I’ll see if I can dig up some DNF zbrush work to post too.
I thought Octobrain was your design, now that I know it isn’t I could think of huge amount of things that would’ve worked better, ah well…good work still 
To Marks:
actually, Blizzard Cinematics was where I started…