pirate parrot

did some detailing on his hat and his dead parrot.

Pirate wip

Kylo Ren Zbrush Sculpt

I did a quick caricature in zbrush of Kylo Ren aka Adam Driver over the weekend.

Pirate Body Wip

started blocking in his body.  next i'll be detailing it in zbrush.

Pirate head

Did some more sculpting and started polypainting my pirate guy.

More work on the Pirate

colored in his concept and started sculpting his head in zbrush.

Revisiting an old Quake III character i did

Here's a character I did around 13 or 14 years ago as an add on character to Quake III.  I thought it would be cool to redo him now to see how much video game graphics have improved over the years, and also how much I have hopefully too.

The original character

Here are some sketches I did for the new version, I think I've got enough ideas to start modeling.

Cat Lady Finished

Here are some renders of the cat lady.  I sculpted and polypainted it in zbrush, rendered in zbrush, and then touched up the renders in photoshop.

crazy lady wip

Here's a zbrush sculpt based off a sketch of mine.  I usually sculpt messed up looking guys, so i figured i might as well sculpt a messed up looking lady.  Its still just a WIP.

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

Here's another fish guy I drew in ink and then colored with water colors.  Its based on the skull of a red-bellied piranha that I saw in the book Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection.  And speaking of fish, I made a simple game with angler fish for the barfcade game jam for Fantastic Fest, you can check it out here: http://eric-spitler.itch.io/fish-food

Bedlam Kickstarter Bobblehead

I made a Zbrush sculpt for the game Bedlam which is currently on kickstarter.  Go check it out now and give them some money!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skyshinegames/bedlam
When the game is funded the bobble head I sculpted will be created and given to some of the backers.  The concept for the character was done by John Mueller.

Banner Saga Sculpt Update

Did a little more work on this and rendered a turntable.

The Banner Saga Sculpt

I liked the 2d art in the game The Banner Saga so I decided to try and sculpt one of the characters "Gunnulf" in 3d.  Sculpted, textured and rendered in zbrush.

Hello N0de W0rld

There's a new collaborative art project like Substrata, called N0de W0rld.  This time its a cyberpunk theme.  I'm messing around with a preposterous future where some people are simple machines.  your tv is a genetically engineered/3dprinted cyborg-person, your refrigerator is a person, your car, and even your toilet is a person :)  If you do a good job of being a toilet, when you die, your digitized mind is transferred to another cyborg and you are reincarnated.  eventually you can become a person, and then finally you can attain nirvana and become a body-less being in cyberspace or some shit like that.  here's a drawing of toilet-man.

Shootin your mouth off

Here's a zbrush sculpt and polypaint with some touchups in photoshop.  Based off a sketch in my sketchbook.

Fishy Guy

Here's some kind of fish creature I drew in pen and ink, and then tried to color using some old watercolor pencils and watercolor paint.  I forgot how much harder it is to color things in the real world :)  Its based off of the skull of a Gray Triggerfish that I saw in the really cool book called Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection.  For some reason the skull looked like some kind of pompous, royal fish guy.  I might try do a similar drawing of a piranha in the book.

You can flip through the book here.  http://www.amazon.com/Skulls-Exploration-Dudleys-Curious-Collection/dp/1579129129

3 weirdos from sketchbook to zbrush

Here are some guys from my sketchbook that I took into zbrush and sculpted and polypainted.

female head sculpt again

I'm back to working on this again.  I recently started polypainting and adding fibermesh hair to her.  Hopefully its recognizable as Evangeline Lilly, aka Kate from lost.  i'm still planning on creating a couple facial expressions for her too.

Wow thats annoying, they compress the hell out of this image and it removes all the freckles and skin details. :(

updated with a less compressed image

Weekend sketches and sculpts

I did some sketches of some goofy looking people saturday, and then started sculpting some of them sunday.  all of the sculpts are still wip.   not sure how much more time i'll spend on this stuff though.

Jack Elam Zsculpt

I did a quick zbrush sculpt of crazy looking actor Jack Elam.  The hair looked really terrible so I painted over it in photoshop.  Maybe some day i'll go back and fix this up.