almost done!

i finally got access into the school's computer lab. just finished painting weights on the body. now to do the blend shapes for the face, connect it to the facial rig controls, then im done with this one. so close!

re-rigging

re-rigging my mesh. halfway through.

rigging.
is.
hard.

that is all.

body

stopped again by the limitation of my computer. i can't get any further, maya is chugging along on my home computer. so far, 2 days to model the body, one day for the head, another for the rest of the body. one day dedicated to uv mapping and messing around with textures. and one last day with building a simple rig. it was here where i was forced to stop because navigating around the viewport was way too slow for me.

head_01

this one is just far too frustrating to continue on. maya, zbrush, and photoshop consistently crashed on me as i worked on this. i really need to work on a better and faster computer. i figured i might as well move onto my next head model, seems like i'm not going to be finishing this one.

summer stuffs

i plan on doing bigger models, character models, scenes, etc, and zbrush sculpting. i will try to do these smaller models as i go, but i can't guarantee that.

for my lil bro

perfume

my girlfriend suggested that i model out one of her perfumes bottles. she gave me this one and i thought to myself, shouldn't be too bad. this model ended up to be a lot harder than expected. the hair of the model took around 2 hours to do. i needed to bake out a displacement map through zbrush. modeling took around 3 hours. texturing and lighting took a whole days worth of work (my computer chugged while test rendering). i'm really glad i did this though. gathering reference was fun. it was also interesting to find out that this particular perfume bottle had the most complicated shape to it.

broken hearts club

big big BIG shout out to The Associates, Dean "stkee" Ramos and Maxwell Corleone feat Andrew "Hitman" Heitman, and design by Kamva.
http://www.getassociated.net/wordpress/
http://www.fernando.kamva.com/

i love this design for the Associate's hip hop album "Broken Hearts Club."

(DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.getrightmusic.com/2011/03/15/mixtape-the-associates-friends-broken-hearts-club/)

i'm really interested with the simplicity of the design. very sleek, very attractive. plus, the music on that album is just great. please give this a listen. the faceting on the blood drop is intentional. i wanted to add a bit of spice to my take on this, so i've given the blood drop a diamond-like feel to it.