Lizzie

I posted a new blog entry on the Robot site today for our latest theme, "monsters". This was my take on an old Tom Savini character from the Tales From the Darkside series called "Lizzie". I was planning on posing her and doing a bunch of other stuff but I'm getting sick of looking at her......can't imagine why.

Ninja vs. Robot

Our site at Robot has recently changed with some of my work on the front page. This guy evolved from a cute little bot to a towering alien invader. I can neither confirm nor deny if this is related to what we're doing at Robot. You'll just have to wait and see.

I modeled this dude in Max and took him into zbrush for some little details, decimated him, brought him back into max and modeled some simple buildings and highway overpasses. Everything else is photoshop. Hope you guys dig it!

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Speed Sculptin'

Finally got some zbrush time today. I started with my Medusa bust and turned it into this creature after about 3 hours. Just getting warmed up for a big monster project I'd like to start tomorrow.

William W.I.P.

Made some progress over the last couple days on this dude. I think he was looking too old before so I made him look younger and finished up his hair. I also explored an evil smile pose. I hope to have other emotions sculpted eventually.

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Trailer Hood Redesign

So about 4 years ago me and one of my good friends had this idea for a graphic novel that never got any further than a few character descriptions and some rough sketches. It was called 'TrailerHood' and one of the characters that I came up with was a little boy named, 'William Pumkin'. He was the only one I took to completion (see old drawings at the top) and I even created a maquette of him. I recently started going back to these characters and I'm wanting to make them all in zbrush and then someday pose them all for a big group render.

What inspired me to revisit this guy was a movie my wife and I watched called, 'Son of Rambow'. The bully in the movie totally reminded me of William so I took a picture of him from the movie and using liquify in photoshop, reshaped and painted over him into what I envisioned for the character.
So this is where I'm at after just a couple of hours. I'm still adding the hair pieces, (which takes forever) and then I have a bunch of expressions that I want to post as soon as I finish the teeth. Hope you guys dig it.

RAWWWRRR!!

Our latest theme for the Robot blog was 'saturday morning cartoons' so I thought it would be fun to make a Panthro bust. I started with my hulk torso, pushing and pulling so that his proportions weren't so hulkish (although his hands are still SUPER huge). I built all his gear and spikes from basic primitive shapes and by extracting sections from the torso. I didn’t want to redesign him but there were certain things I didn’t like about the original that I wanted to adjust like the spikes on his gear. They were really thin and flimsy looking in the cartoon so I bulked them up and shortened them. The other thing was his nose. In the cartoon they have very human-looking noses but I thought it would be cooler to make his nose more cat-like. I found a thundercats font for the base which was convenient. Hope you guys dig it!

From "1s and 0s" to "on my desk"

Well after a couple months of anticipation, the folks over at Ownage finished my print of Dr. Root! It came out to be 13" from the top of his hand to the bottom of the base. I could not be happier with how it turned out. It's in transit and I should have it on my desk this week. I am so amazed at how much detail they were able to get out of the sculpt and how well they did with the paint job! Ownage rules!

Not much progress on Hulk. I got distracted with another small project. We're doing a "Saturday morning cartoon" themed project at Robot this month, so I've been working on a 'Panthro' bust from 'Thundercats'. Just need to finish the nunchukka and the base and I'll post some images.