head sculpt

I found this really nice zbrush sculpting tutorial, ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRzSE4_Xipw ) and so this is my attempt into something more realistic looking. I am pretty pleased with the result although I do feel I have a tendency to stretch, squash and exaggerate proportions just a little bit, so not really real proportion wise. Maybe I'll take it out for another spin later on, see if I can tone it down a bit, but for a first attempt and for now - pretty pleased.

and the award goes to...

So "Porcelain" the bachelor project I've worked on has  just won its first award - the student animation category at the "Stoke Your Fires" festival, not exactly the Oscars, but for a student project with a limited audience it is still pretty sweet. Povl is very happy....:)

http://www.stokeyourfires.co.uk/awards-2014/

more kitty Cats

more cats - hand drawn sketches cleaned in Illustrator...

Tank

- a little tank I have been working on. It was intended to be quite simple but suddenly it got fun adding more guns etc., I am thinking about texturing and rigging it - just for the fun of it....but can't decide if it is worth the effort, or I should just get on to other ideas and projects I have floating around in my head....time will tell. 

happy santaClaus and a merry new year

I felt like doing a little holiday illustration, so here he is happy Santa riding Rudolf. Pretty pleased with how it turned out - the only thing might be the colors...working with two monitors, one very bright and vibrant the other a bit more on the dull side....either way HO-HO-HO and a merry new year.

toonyMoose

As I have been working on a moose in zbrush, without any real direction in terms of look, except I knew it should be cartoony in some way. So I drew a little sketch of this guy - most for the fun of it, not exactly sure I want to push the shapes this much....but we'll see.

froggy

As I needed a little break from some of my different 3D projects I have been working on for the last couple of weeks, I dived into my ever trusting pile of random sketches and found this little dude - a fun little procrastination-project, that turned out quite nicely - I really like the pure silhouette, there are some nice shapes in there. The colors are....well I've looked at two different screens I now I've gone blind - on the one the green is insanely green and on the other it looks just about right. So if you find the colors to be off - you are looking at the wrong screen ;)  

dino

So I have finally decided that this little fella is about done.  I wanted to get to know Photoshops pen tool a little better, wanted to see if it offered me other or better options than my usual weapon of choice - Illustrator. The idea was to try for a more painted look, using brushes, paint in some textures and some light. But I did find it very hard to stray from my more flat shapes and well defined areas for light and shadow,  I am certainly no painter, and how this dino ended up all of the work might as well have been in Illustrator - but then again - this was the first attempt so maybe I'll just have to keep trying.
In actual work hours this was not a big undertaking, but deciding that it's actually done - it has taken me quite some time - and if I am ever to move on to other projects I have to stop eventually.
The original sketch is about two years old, made during my bachelor project, and in all that time this little piece of paper has just been lying there in the midst of other amazing ideas ;)

The Notebook

- Adam and Eve getting kicked out of the Garden -

- I have no idea.....-

So the other day I was helping my mother clear out some things for a garage sale, when I stumbled upon some of my old notebooks from school. One of them was from my religions class way way back, (I'm guessing I must have been somewhere around the age 8-11) and it featured these rare gems of sketches I did during class. Obviously we must have learned something about Adam&Eve and Pharaohs and the ancient Egyptians, but where the very funky camels and that half robot-man killer machine comes from - I don't know. Should I however venture a guess I most likely haven't been paying that much attention - and so my mind probably wandered(fancy way of not saying I was bored out of my mind)  

 - The very well known story of the ancient Egyptians killing each other....(?) -

 - Oooo so funky Camels -

 - From the old Norse mythology the tale of the cyborg-killer-robot -

Monsieur Pussycat

I have been doodling on some sketches of cats and squirrels as inspiration for a personal project a friend of mine is currently working on. As most of them is done using the good old pencil and paper - getting them into the computer without access to a scanner is going to be bit of a puzzler, one workaround could be to use my mobile cam and then emailing the images to myself, pretty sure the quality isn't going to be the best....hmmmmm anyways this guy was one of the simplest one - shape wise so I just redid the hole thing in Illustrator, using the sketch as a reference.