Troll

This week I'll be giving a talk about digital sculpting to people @ the Savanah College of Art and Design.  The  sculpt below is one of the sculpts I'll be showing them how to make.

A little update, some color testing.

New Zbrush UI

I recently changed the way My Zbrush looks and feels you can download my version here:
or make your own by following the steps in the video.

Beauty and the Beast?

Two recent speed sculpts:

Witch Boobies.

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Timelapse here:  The Music is by the Black Keys off the CD El Camino available on itunes, Spotify, and Amazon.

Livestreams from Jan. 5th and 6th.

While on my holiday break, I had a chance to do some livestream sessions.  The results of which can be seen below.  I mixed up a little 2D and 3D, and had a great time with the people who tuned in.

Some photoshop fun from the two sessions.

The model made in the second hour of the Jan. 5th stream, and a turntable of the model below.

To see the streams, go to http://www.livestream.com/pointpusher

Dreamworks, it gets better

I usually use this site to show whatever I'm working on and hopefully chart my progress as an artist.  This post though is so much more important than that. 

When word of people like Tyler Clementi committing suicide hit the news, it made me feel devastated as a parent and a human.  Really though, that kind of thing happens to a LOT of kids we never hear about. 

Knowing I work at a place that feels as terrible as I did about that, well. It's awesome.  Watch this video.

Cluezo inspired bust

This is a head I modeled after a design by the amazing concept artist Sandro Cluezo.

The model was done in Zbrush.

Toon Head sculpt

This was a fun toon head I did after attending day 1 of CTN.  I wanted to check out day 2 and 3, but I'm getting sick and feeling a little run down :-(

Free Download

So, a friend asked if I would mind showing him a model I made a while back, and talk to him about some of the process involved in creating the model and textures.  I uploaded it for him, and figured, why not share it.  It is by no means perfect, but it was fun to make when I made it a while ago.

If you're a Maya user, there is a Maya 2009 .ma file that "should" see all the textures.  Otherwise, you'll have to load the obj file in to your viewer of choice and hook up the textures yourself.  There's also a PSD showing the texture layers I used and a couple of making-of time-lapse movies.

 If you want to download it, go here: 

Custom UI for Zbrush 4.2

A coupe of weeks ago, I uploaded the custom UI I like to use for version 4.2.  Apparently, there was a glitch in the way it was uploaded that caused the license file to reset.  After some testing, I've re-uploaded the UI with new instruction on how to safely load the UI.  If you want to give it a spin, grab it from here:
http://pointpusher.com/prefs/zBrush/  Apologies if you were adversely effected by the last upload.

Moning Monster Sketch

Brink inspired head.

R2 is just... well. Amazing. Not dynameshing it up yet, but loving wax preview! This is a Brink inspired head. I love the character design in this game. A little tribute to it. The music is by a composer named Lalo Schifrin. Check out hi amazing body of work. These songs are from the Soundtrack to the 1968 Steve Mcqueen film Bullit. You can snag the soundtrack on Amazon.

Hulkey

The music is from Kanye West and Talib Kweli on the album The College Drop Out. You can purchase the album here: amazon.com/​College-Dropout-Kanye-West/​dp/​B0001AP12G/​ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1316244407&sr=8-3

late night sketch

Just a fun sketch from tonight. The music is from the albulmSoundbombing III available for purchase here: amazon.com/​Soundbombing-3-Various-Artists/​dp/​B000067CN0/​ref=pd_sim_m_3