Making of My Son Marcus

“Hello everyone, Since 3 years I create backgrounds and architectural images. I wanted to work on human model and my son was the perfect subject…”

Making of Suraagh Rasaan

“I am preparing this tutorial to give a brief rundown on the character that I modeled, textured and rendered using Zbrush. This was a personal project and the aim was to get familiarize with Zbrush and explore its various aspects.”

Mesh Extraction in ZBrush

Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Modeling, Offsite, Videos, ZBrush
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“In these 3 video tutorials you will understand how to create a new geometry from the existing geometry using the mesh extraction in ZBrush. These tutorials created by the Pixologic (makers of ZBrush) for the 3D community, so everyone can easily go at advanced level in ZBrush and extract the full potential of the ZBrush. As always you can also download the files in flv format for later viewing.”

Pigeon: Impossible – Part 4

Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Animation / Rigging, Articles, Offsite, Softimage XSI
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“Director/Animator Lucas Martell has started a video podcast covering the creation of his short film Pigeon: Impossible. Although the software used for the short was XSI, the podcasts are focused on CG techniques that should work in any 3D package. For more information about the film, please visit www.pigeonimpossible.com.”

Making of Princess of Madness

“My original concept was to create a female clown, but I changed my mind later and so the original concept and the result are totally different. When I was in the process of creating this image, new ideas came into my mind and these shaped the final image.”

Anatomy of a picture

Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Offsite, Painting / Drawing, Photoshop
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“In each step will be another layer in the order they were set up, from bottom to top. That’s not the order that I did them, but just a way to present it. Sometimes it looks strange… remember that to paint some layers, I viewed the layers above them, painting underneath.”

Painting Clothes

Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Offsite, Painting / Drawing, Photoshop
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“In painting the folds in cloth, it helps to have reference if you need it. Keep a folder near your computer of reference material. Or take a look at a few books out there that specialize in helping the artist draw cloth.”

Making of Happiness is a Blue Bird

Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Offsite, Painting / Drawing, Photoshop
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“Happiness is a Blue Bird that one afternoon settled on our warm palm and left us something like a trace of a lost paradise that never was reached by anyone and that everyone dream with at some moment, sleeping or in wakefulness”.”

Making of Wake up Baby

Written June 18th, 2008
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“This is the part that I consider as most important in the process of creating an image.These are the first sketches and different variations of the same idea. I indepentantly developed each character design, and take the same dedication for each individual characters personality….”

“Making of “Do you want to play with me?”

Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Offsite, Painting / Drawing, Photoshop
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“The first thing here, is to choose the right colour scheme. This will depend on a lot of things, like for instance the mood or the story that you wish to tell… I wanted to do something really colourful and warm, so for the character I choose some very saturated orange, mixed with yellow and pink, the background will be colder…..”

Making of Jade Fox

Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Offsite, Painting / Drawing, Photoshop
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“Deep under the surface of a long forgotten place.. the steps, the stoneplates of the floor are broken and the inscriptions on the signs are long gone and unreadable..”

Making of Lord Fredrickson

Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Offsite, Painting / Drawing, Photoshop
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“Lord George Henry Fredrickson. Mid to late 1800′s. Lord Fredrickson is a Lich hunter & Master of the Occult of some quiet acclaim in certain discerning circles. By nature he is a reserved man, brutally intelligent, quick in thought and often in action, but never reckless….”

Making of The Park

Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Offsite, Painting / Drawing, Photoshop
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The goal of this tutorial is to give you some insight into my process and to show how you can achieve a believable illustration using color and value as opposed to concentrating on rendering….

Making of Seheiah

Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Offsite, Painting / Drawing, Photoshop
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“In my artwork, I generally try to express a feeling, to tell a story’ Seheiah is a bit different. I had been asked to illustrate August for a publishing firm. So I based my artwork on the idea of a kind of goddess in an antic style. I wanted it to depict a quite “fresh and radiant” feeling, a reminder of a summer morning. Thus I decided to include a wood with a lake above which my goddess would fly….”

Making of Jealour Bodyguard

Written June 18th, 2008
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“Jealous Bodyguard is one of ten pieces for a self promotion project that I am currently compiling called “Companions.” Each image within the book refers to people and animals from an imaginary place focusing on the relationships between the human inhabitants and the local wildlife. “Jealous bodyguard” was created with the idea of an animal used for protection as well as companionship for a young, regal, woman…”

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