Also did some preliminary tests for sculpting hair on my anatomy sculpture. I used the muscle & snake brushes in 3d Coat to achieve it. I think its gonna work out! Just need to tidy things up. I’ll finally have my final renders done this week!

Oblivion [Theater]

Saw this in the theater earlier today, was too late for IMAX However, still a very beautiful film. The desolate vistas were very moving and in quite the opposite direction, the tech/UI had superb design. The overall story was good too, there were some holes and “?” moments. The pacing was good too. I won’t talk about the story for spoiler purposes

Getting back to the designs, the ship, main base and space base designs were very slick, I do like the fact that it wasn’t a darker/brooding look. But had a clean, modern and elegant look. The UI design was very very slick. It looked futuristic and usable. Didn’t seem to unbelievably sci-fi. The film really inspired me to do some sci-fi art work!

Evangelion 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo [Blu ray JP]

Visually: on par with the other 2 films. Story: shades of WTH moments as in the last 2 episodes from the original TV series. I really was lost for much of the film, it did have some interesting unveils, but it really felt like an info episode more than anything else. 2.22 is still by far my favorite. I’ll stay optimistic about Evangelion Final whenever that is out.

The movie itself didn’t have too much going on in terms of sub plots. It mostly stuck with Shinji, who at times can be quite annoying.

Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人) [JP TV]

Started watching this based of a recommendation by my friend Tosh at CAPCOM Japan. So far it’s been quite good. The overall concept is giant ‘humans’ are eating humans. The regular humans have created giant walls to act as barriers but those defenses are failing. The humans also have this very cool locomotion device called 3D gear. It’s a way of propelling themselves into the sky to strike the one weak point the giant humans have, the back of the neck.

I’m all caught up with the 5 episodes out. The anime is based off a very successful  manga.

Game of Thrones [TV]

Just about to watch Episode 06 tonight. It’s been very good as usual this season.

Playoff Hockey [TV]

Turned off the TV minutes ago… watched the Canucks go down 3-0 in the series VS the Sharks….

I did a bunch of thumbnail art, character design & level layout. We had loads and loads of scribbles, but I’ll just post a few samples of what we came up with. Below is all the work I did, I’ll get Symytry to post his work on his blog.

I’ve seen super skilled people make prototypes of games over a weekend, for us it was just an exercise in fun.

Next I’ve added hair to the Oro sculpt. Just rendering is next, I’ll spend some time wrapping it up this week. I’ve also got just a tad bit of touch ups to the anatomy study. I’ll focus on that this weekend and put on my mental ray hat for the remainder of the month.

Did some more work on the human anatomy study as well, just hair to go. I think I’ll use 3d coat to do that as well. I took a look at the pecs and found that they had too much volume for the otherwise lean, muscular guy.

After all that is good to go, I’ll work on the sorcerer/wizard model & concept.

The paintover was done over the bust in Zbrush below.

Overall, it’s been a super busy few months. Home life and work have been keeping me occupied. However, I’d like to keep posts of what games I’ve been playing. First up, Fire Emblem on 3DS. I’ve put in over 20 hrs so far, and its excellent. I’ve picked up lots of games on PC recently as well. Kentucky Route Zero, Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3. On the PS3 side, Tomb Raider and Dishonored. Haven’t had too much time with those titles yet. I’m also still playing Mario Kart Wii lol. I think next up will be Bioshock or Dishonored… maybe even Crysis 3 to push my 680GTX around a bit

I’ve pretty much finished all the marked areas in red now. I just have to do the hair strands, then render.

Next is an old work that I did, it’s Oro from Street Fighter III, one of my all time favorite games After doing the human study above, I decided to clean up the model. I ended up making some pretty big changes, for the better I think.

As you can see, major changes to the face and basic anatomical structure. I ended up changing the pose too. Next is further progress.

And finally where I’m at. I have just the hair to do now… then render in mental ray.

The 3rd project is a wizard, that I will fully light, texture and render in Mental Ray. It’s still needs loads of work, I’ll post a WIP soon. Below is just a fun study I did that slowly turned into Hellboy + 10 yrs.