Umiko - Current Project

Currently im working a new character called Umiko this was going to be my entry for a low poly compation on 3DTotal.com. I started this character a bit late into the compatition and was not able to finish it in time it is currently a W.I.P. I have recently come up against some issues and want to post my progress here. I currently working through a pipeline for this character that i found on Game Artist: http://www.game-artist.net/forums/vbarticles.php?do=article&articleid=53. Ben Clark is a god in my eyes for creating this walkthrough it does not go into full detail as this tutorial presumes you have a good understanding of the tools in use. I have currently created the low - poly mesh imported it into Zbrush and detailed it yo to around about 11 million poly's also i have reimported the mesh back to Maya and UV mapped the character and armor. The current stage im at is creating the Normal map and ambient map from maya using the Transfer Sampler (or Surface Sampler) in pre Maya8. I will Soon post some images here with an overview of that you see.

Hi guys here is the latest project im working on. I love stargate and decided to model one of the jaffa's head armor. This character is coyote god Anubis hope you like the progress i have made.

Snake/Man MMO concept

Hi guys this is a first concept render for me in photoshop.
This is a concept for a mmo comp on 3DTOTAL. I hope to
finish this character for the mmo comp if not ill finish it in
hipoly. More to come and i havent forgotten about the snail.
That character is to cool to forget.

Stylised Snail Concept

Hi Guys this is my latest concept of a new comp on 3DTotal its called Stylised Snail and i just thought taht this would be a cool W.I.P for me. I hope to finish this snail as well. Keep your eye on this page for updates.

Would you believe it the week that i really wanted to start working on some projects my bloody graphics card F***es up pain in the rear end but thats not going to stop me im sure ill find some way of getting these started.

NEW COMP

There are three main sites in my life and these are Conceptart.org / 3DTotal.com and CGtalk.com. At least every day i go on to these sites about 20 times they are the three best sites i know. These sites are full of great artist's with amazing and fresh ideas. Every day there is something new and different happening on each site this might be new images or even new competitions starting. I have entered a few of these but never reall felt that my stuff was good enough to put in. I have realized now my self that, that is just stupid that only way that someone is going to see your work and give you feed back on it is by posting your progress. I am currently going to enter 2 competitions on 3DTotal.com and i hope to finish these as well on time and also compleated. So all i can say really at this moment is watch this space and check out the web sites.

www.3dtotal.com
www.conceptart.org
www.cgtalk.com
www.polycount.com (Great site for low poly competitions)

First post

Welcome to my blog first time i have ever created something like this feels a bit strange writting about my self on a page that no one will probably ever look at. Saying that i hope that people do look at this page a like my work. Im not the greatest of drawers im the world but i feel that my 3D models reflect how much time and effort that i put in to my models. I hope to keep this page up to date with images of my WIP's and comps that i have entered. Anybody that does look at this blog welcome and thanks for taking the time to look around.