Andy's Art Blog

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2009-06-14T06:18:00.000-07:00

This is the latest project that I just finished up on, the work was created for First Act, Inc. a musical instrument company. Really having a great time doing this project. The art direction came from client and I created all the characters in Maya and then use ZBrush for detailing some parts, such as the creasing on the clothes and also for painting most of the texture. Some of the characters are rigged and posed in Maya and some are posed in ZBrush using Transpose tool. The final result of the characters are rendered without music instrument as because it will be mount with real instruments for in-store signage purpose. Enjoy!

Here are some wireframe shots from viewport, more wireframe coming soon!

General Lynx

2009-03-18T05:13:00.000-07:00

So here is my latest work. I was having this idea for creating a high poly character where the style is a combination from Hong Kong comic style and Western comic style. I try to visualize it through the eyebrows, facial structure and face scar then give it a realistic skin shading looks. The base mesh was built up in maya and sculpted in zbrush. I use mayaHair and mayaFur for the hair, eyebrows and whiskers. The skin is using mentalRay fast skin shader. All the face texture was hand painted done in zbrush and photoshop.

Teddy

2009-02-15T18:40:00.000-08:00

Here is a low poly work that I did recently. The mesh got 3240 tris with 1024 texture maps (color, specular and normal). All meshes was modeled in Maya and textured with ZBrush and PhotoShop.

Commander Red Foxx

2008-12-05T05:16:00.000-08:00

Just finished this new character. The idea was to create a low poly game character for next generation console. The base mesh was created in Maya and then sculpted in ZBrush. All textures was started with polypaint in ZBrush and then edited in PhotoShop. The character has 6.068 poly and the gun is 520 poly with 2k maps.

The Face

2008-11-16T07:12:00.000-08:00

Spent my free time doing this guy. Started from a basic poly mesh in Maya and then bring it in to ZBrush for further detailing process.

Wrestler

2008-11-11T01:40:00.000-08:00

This guy is a veteran wrestler but never win any championship yet. Base mesh created in Maya, sculpted in ZBrush. Texture with ZBrush and PhotoShop.

Below are some hires mesh in ZBrush. I extract the details as normal map and export all the level one mesh back to Maya and render with mentalRay.

My 2D/3D Sketches

2008-09-21T13:45:00.000-07:00

Some quick sketches that i did in zbrush during my free time. All model was sculpted from 3d sphere in zbrush.

This model below was created with zsphere from zbrush. Spent about 2 hours on it.

And this is some pencil sketches from my sketchbook, sorry about the blurry pictures and the shadow distortion because i took the pictures with my digital camera.

W . I . P

2008-09-21T13:33:00.000-07:00

Another character that still in working progress. For this charcater all base mesh was done in maya and then bring into zbrush for sculpting and detailing. I improvised on the left arm and the boots from the early concept design during the modeling process and i'm quite happy with the new version. Now need to work on the engravings on the armor and after that gotta rebuild the body into an organized topology.

The Warrior Rabbit

2008-09-18T21:02:00.000-07:00

Inspired by Usagi Yojimbo here comes the warrior rabbit. Base mesh from Maya and sculpted in ZBrush. The final version below is a low poly model with normal map and diffuse map applied and render with mentalRay.

From Maya viewport.

This are the diffuse and normal map with 2k size.

Below are all the hires mesh in ZBrush.

I paint all the textures in ZBrush with polypaint.