Syfy Bumper

So in my 3D Visual Fx class, I had to recreate a bumper in 3D, using the techniques we've learned. It took me quite a while, but I managed to replicate a Syfy bumper. I couldn't snag the original audio, so I grabbed a free track from newgrounds.com

The most time consuming element of this project was bending all the sides of all the letters and getting them to open up like they do in the original.

Anyhow, enjoy!

-Chad-

Spider-Man Zbrush midterm

It's everyone's favorite wall-crawler! This was done for my zbrush midterm, and I had quite a few problems. I'm a big fan of Spider-man, and I wanted to try him out in zbrush. The big challenge I had with this was getting his pose! Zbrush's transpose tool can be a bit tricky at first, and I had to mess with it for a good while before I could get it looking right. I also didn't like the webbing in his costume looked, and I found out later that it was problems with my mesh. Go figure. To add that on top of things, the 'make movie' function in zbrush wasn't working correctly! I couldn't see Spidey when I did that! So I had to rotate him by hand.



Anyhow, enjoy!

-Chad-

*Spiderman is owned by Marvel and created by Stan Lee*

Character Design: The Lioness

This lovely lady is code-named: The Lioness. She's the leader of a mysterious gang called 'The Lion's Den.' She's beautiful, classy, and extremely deadly. With a legion of demonic hitmen at her disposal, she's definitely not someone to mess with.

I like studying women's fashion to use it within my character design. I based her dress off of a design I saw, and figured that since she's a character that walks the line between very good and very evil, her dress should represent her duplicitous nature.

Her lion emblem is a classic old English design, which not only entails royalty, but strength as well. It signifies her postion within the Lion's Den gang.

The splotches in the background are from these free brushes I found on Deviantart. Unfortunately I can't remember who they came from, but if anyone recognizes them, please tell me, and I'll definitely give credit.


Anyhow, enjoy!

-Chad-

Character Design: Red Knight

So I've been working on this Studio Project of mine for a good long while. It's about this character who calls himself, 'The Red Knight.'

He's a detective, but he deals with pretty unusual cases. His latest case is concerning the mysterious disappearance of his sister.

Where did she go? Who took her, and why? Questions...questions...

Hopefully, once I complete my animation, you'll get to find out!

His design is mainly based off some fashion catalogs that I looked into. His hair is very styled, which I didn't intend for, but it came out anyway. I suppose he's just a very naturally good looking dude.

His armband came out of something of my own life. I felt that I was starting to develop problems in my wrist, so I started wearing arm bands, and it worked its way into the animation.

The splotches in the background are from these free brushes I found on Deviantart. Unfortunately I can't remember who they came from, but if anyone recognizes them, please tell me, and I'll definitely give credit.

Anyhow, enjoy!

-Chad-

Self Portrait

Looks like it's gonna be a string of updates, seeing as I'm pretty overdue with this blog.

My school, NEIA, has a Siggraph Chapter, and they were looking for the animation kids to send in self portraits of themselves done in their own respective styles.

So here's mine.

Usually on facebook, I put in little doodles of myself in a 'chibi' style. People got more used to that than seeing my ACTUAL drawing style. So I decided to do one in both styles. I'm a fan of weird perspective shots, so I drew myself reaching towards the camera.

The background texture I got was a free one off of bittboxx.com, which is a wonderful site to get free textures for stuff like this.

Anyhow, enjoy!

-Chad-

TMNT Mikey's Droppin in

Hey everybody! This is the first official posting of my artblog! I'm going to be mainly using this to show off artwork that I've completed.

To start things off, I'm posting a picture I did of my favorite ninja turtle, Michelangelo! I was always a fan of the Turtle Blimp, and there didn't seem to be enough fanart of it. So I took it upon myself to draw one for my Zbrush class, as a reference.

I got inspired by a picture of Spider-Man, and it took off from there. I realize now that there's some errors in his anatomy (like his arm, eek!) and the perspective of the blimp, but I kind of like the pose, even if it's incorrect.

Anyhow, enjoy!

-Chad-

*Michelangelo and TMNT are properties of Mirage Studios and created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird*