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Roy The Warrior

2011-09-18T14:22:00.000-07:00

Hello Everybody, I hope you guys like my latest character. I've learned a lot of things that I will surely be using in the future. Thanks

Butch Knyves

2011-06-18T16:41:00.000-07:00

Well here is my latest guy, Butch Knyves. I basically took my time and did a couple of other studies before I even decided to go ahead with making Knyves. I've learned many new things, I've noticed areas where I feel like I have improved and others where I still need to keep improving on, but that's the story of any artist taking his art seriously I believe. Well Thanks everyone, I'll keep working and hopefully improving.

Pilot - updated

2011-04-08T14:22:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone so here is my latest bust. I really hope you like it.

John Doom Final Comp

2011-03-02T10:27:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody, so my good friend Mouhsine did this environment on his spare time as I worked on this guy and other projects. Finally we were able to put it all together and I think It turned out pretty nice. I hope you like it.

John Doom

2011-02-21T15:40:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody so I finished this bust close to two weeks ago after some off and on time spent on it. It was inspired by a concept from - eWkn - an amazing artist. This was my attempt to try to bring it to live. The concept was quite loose yet so magnificent. Like always I learned a lot from making it and I'll be sure to use this knowledge in future projects. I hope you like it. Thanks a lot.

3d by Eric V And Concept by Adrian Smith

2011-01-12T18:15:00.000-08:00

Hello everybody, so here I went after this magnificent concept by Adrian Smith, amazing Illustrator. It was my first time dealing with the infamous hair and fur modifier in max, and I'm sure as I keep trying it's only going to get better. With this one I picked shapes from both angles from the concept art to best fit the design in 3d. I hope you like it, and any comments or critiques are more than welcome.

New Piece, Dark Blue.

2010-12-10T19:46:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody, here is my latest dude, It was a lot of fun making him and like always I made sure to learn a couple of things that may help me in the future. It is not the craziest design but this time I wanted to try the simple that works. I hope you like it, thanks and have nice day.

Final Update on this character

2010-11-11T21:36:00.000-08:00

So this is the final update on this guy, I have learned quite a bit in the process and I have adopted new ways of approaching a character. It is by no means done, there is of course lots of room for improvements but it has been a phenomenal exercise. Since I'm stopping here, I decided to share it, and take what I have learned to future projects. I really hope everyone likes it, and have a great day everyone.

update on the face

2010-11-10T17:34:00.000-08:00

So here's a little update on the face of this guy, I'm still tweaking him quite a bit as move from the chest piece to head and as I figure out and learn more things. Thanks everyone.

Update on the previous Character

2010-11-04T10:32:00.000-07:00

So I finally was able to get back on this guy And I'm really liking where he is going. I should have more time these upcoming days since I'll be off my morning job. Well I hope you like this update and have a wonderful day everyone.

NEW character bust. W.I.P

2010-10-29T15:43:00.000-07:00

So I started this dude a couple of days ago and and today I have finally a decent W.I.P to share with everybody. The head is just a Temp until I get the final look I really want. Thanks

Update on the Indian character.

2010-10-27T22:43:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone, so I took this head a bit further and spent a couple of days on it.. For me it still just a wip. Since I really want to come back to it and add some nice hairs and adjust more things, but I thought it was decent enough to show for now, because I'm putting it to sleep for some time. Thanks

Anatomy Muscle study

2010-10-14T13:22:00.000-07:00

Well after I printed out a couple of my new pieces to added them to my printed portfolio, I realized that I didn't have an anatomy study. So I quickly went ahead and spent a couple of days on this guy. Still have a ton to learn about anatomy, I believe you never stop learning and understanding anatomy, and you can't never get enough of it. Well I hope you like it.

Another update on this character.

2010-10-09T09:01:00.000-07:00

Here is an older update on this guy, I just never had a chance to put it up.
Textured and rendered in 3ds max, Photoshop, and V-ray.

Native american, test.

2010-10-06T17:25:00.000-07:00

This is the head of my next character, I am still working on it but I just wanted to do a quick test in Vray and I ended up really liking the results. I hope you like it. Thanks

Dragon Knight take

2010-09-16T21:50:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone here is an update on a bust I made based on one of Keun Chul concepts called "Dragon Knight" and here is my take on it. I modeled it in XSI SoftImage, rendered in max with vray. I personally do not call it a done piece, It is just down until I learn a couple of things that will enable me to finish it the way I really want to. Having said I hope you still enjoy it.

Final update on recent bust

2010-07-28T13:27:00.001-07:00

So I took the head of the recent bust I just did inspired by that great concept art and went a little further with it. I put it in max, created some maps, I used vraysss2 which I'm still researching and trying to understand more. The head has turbo smooth on and no displacement maps. I want it something on the creepy side and hopefully I succeed it. Well I hope everyone likes it. Thank you.

New Bust.

2010-07-26T22:29:00.000-07:00

I spent a couple of days on this bust. I could have kept on going pushing the likeness and the details, but since I didn't really have any plans for it I decided it was a enough to show. Did some quick lighting tests, gave it a bit of quality and rendered it.

New Dude W.I.P Marine

2010-07-17T20:56:00.000-07:00

Well It has been a bit over a month since I last posted something, its been a very interesting month for me I've done a lot of research, watched some good tutorials, done lots of trial and error files that are never going to be open again. But like always I managed to sneak some work here and there, and here is a work in progress of one my two new models.

Well this is my very first hard-surface model evah, inspired by they great art of Start Craft. I don't do those guys any justice but I'll get there. I didn't want to copy a model but rather just explore different possibilities. Still lots of things to be tweaked and changed but I hope you like it. Thanks.

Some Updates

2010-06-03T22:48:00.000-07:00

Well I took some time in the past two weeks to do some studies and learn a couple of things, And oh boy did I learn a couple of things. Ill make sure to apply what I just learn to future projects. So much to learn out there and I love getting some of it.

This was done in 3ds mental ray in about 2 and half hours, the basic texturing and lighting and rendering. I needed to get the renders done fast because I was going to print them. This is the head I did based on one of sims sketches.

This one I was trying the sss2 in vray for the first time and rendering with it for the first time. I was not going to show this since I am not pleased with it, But I decided to do so after I decided to move on. Well I texture the clothing in matter of hours since my main focus was the skin. I had a lot of fun and I learned a lot specially with this one, I still got so many things I would like to fix, or wish I would have done differently, but I now know what I need to do for my future Characters. I hope you guys like this W.I.P..

New dude....Low poly..Normal,,Diffuse.Spec

2010-05-13T20:05:00.000-07:00

Concept From Massive Black inc.

New Update on the Monk

2010-04-07T20:28:00.000-07:00

So after some really good suggestions from a couple of people, I was more than happy to add and change a couple of things on the monk.I took ref from jet li, bruce lee, Stepshen Chow and others,I intentionally did not want it to be a portrait of any certain celebrity, that was not my goal. Well hope you guys like it. Thanks.

Monk

2010-04-05T18:36:00.000-07:00

This is my new character I do not know who is the artist who drew the concept. I just found it on one of my refs folder. But if you do know who he is please give him all the credit for the design. It was fun doing my interpretation of this concept into 3d. I hope you like it, Any C&C are always welcome.

Gladiator Warrior

2010-03-19T01:56:00.000-07:00

Well here is another character i was doing whenever i had time. Hope you all like it and like always, any comments or critiques are more than welcome. thank you.

Paintover I like doing.

Different Views

Initial concept from Gods and Heroes.

Creepy head

2010-03-17T03:14:00.000-07:00

I saw this pic in a magazine of one of Aaron Sims sketch i belive for the clash of titan movie and i just wanted to have fun with it and spend some hours sculpting it. I hope you guys like it. I recorded most of the progress so i'll be posting the links soon. C&C are always welcome.

2d

2010-02-28T17:30:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone here is this portrait of a gorgeous baby I finished a couple of days ago and I had been working it on and off due to other projects. I hope you guys like it.

A bit of texture

2010-02-27T15:04:00.000-08:00

A little bit of texture never hurts lol..

Demon Character

2010-02-25T21:12:00.000-08:00

I've been working on this character for almost 4 to 5 days. I'm still tweaking some minor stuff but over all its pretty much done. It's a sketch design by George Guo. I just did my interpretation of it in 3d. I hope you guys and gals like it..

Zsketches

2010-02-22T22:58:00.000-08:00

Some Quick things I've done in the last couple of days and just wanted to share it. Sculpted in zbrush, Base Color apply in zbrush and final comp in photoshop.

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April 27, 2009

2008-12-11T23:16:00.000-08:00

These are images I've been creating here and there on my free time, Comments or critiques are more than welcome. Thank you.

oct 28, 2009

A character I did a little while back

Low-Poly

High-Poly

aug 28th, 2009

FEB 23, 2009

Feb 10, 2009

Dec 16 ,2008

i'm still Thinking

2008-11-25T09:00:00.000-08:00

I'm still thinking if i should put this on my demoreel. i dont know..

Old heads

2008-11-05T14:11:00.000-08:00

Some old stuff Just to keep my blog alive

update on the prince

2008-10-17T00:30:00.000-07:00

well i've been working on finishing some characters for my demoreel and the prince is actually the first one that i'm experimenting with, and i'm really liking it so far, i hope you do too.

thank you

prince update

2008-09-08T21:08:00.000-07:00

just a quick update on the prince. i've been busy with school and my dumb classes lolol.. but here is quick wip image for you to comment and critique. thank you

funsculpture

2008-09-04T20:55:00.000-07:00

a 4 hours sculpt i did today in school. and since i was in school i just couldnt go higher on subdivision. and dont mind the textures, out of the 4 hours the polypainting part was like maybe 10 to 15 minutes lol...

newCharacter

2008-08-29T20:49:00.000-07:00

this concept is from the new prince of persia game... after looking through a whole bunch of concepts and seeing how different they were, i kinda made my on decisions on how to make the new prince. one thing i was for sure though, was that i didnt want to make the same one from the in-game.. well here is a render i did few nights ago.. more to come soon, really soon since i've been sculpting him for quite a few days lol.

update on the girls

2008-08-26T20:08:00.000-07:00

update on the gals statue, a good 40 minutes.

2008-08-22T08:56:00.000-07:00

i always see people doing this and i was like, well let me try..and here it is, not done. This was about 40 to 50 minutes. any comments or critiqs are more than welcome..

2008-08-06T22:52:00.000-07:00

This is a character that i've been working on every now and then. Nowhere near finish but i wanted to show a little bit of him.

ramdom characters

2008-07-23T23:08:00.000-07:00

well here are somethings that i've done and are worth showing lol... they are not even finish but what the hell lol. any comments or critiqs are always more than welcome..