topKnot Bot

A quick maquette done in zbrush.  Just had the urge to do a cyborg samurai guy, with a face!  Not an original idea, but enjoyed doing it.  Zbrush is really great to use for quick studies like this, I used Curve tubes and insert sphere/cylinder a lot as you can lay out pipes or individual components really quickly.  It's still really rough but gets the concept across hopefully. Rendered in ZBrush as well with final comp in Photoshop. :)

3D total interview

Well shucks, the really nice peeps over at 3D total asked if it would be sweet to do an interview with me and so over e mail, we chatted about a few things regarding where I came from (where did I come from?), what I kind of do, where I do it and what inspires me.  The result is in the June issue found here

3DCreative: Issue 082

This will be my first interview, and was a little nervous doing it but they did a brilliant job on it.  I sounds smarts... i fhink?  Oh, and just to clear up the intro, I work at WetaWorkshop Design Studio not Weta digital  :)
There's some rad articles on droids, armored beasts and great industry and software based articles, not just me!

Digital Art Masters Vol.7

Hi all,

I'm very fortunate to be featured in this amazing volume of books by 3Dtotal .  If you wish to pre order please follow the link here

Order Digital Art Masters Vol7

It also comes with a neat pack of cards featuring the art from the books!

Dragon Sktech in Photoshop

Taking some time to do a sketch of a friendly dragon.    It's pretty sketchy!  :P

Formal Alien

Another goddam alien!  This artist is extremely limited!

I called him formal because it looks like he's wearing robes, but it could be anything really?  A badly rendered flower?   Done in Zbrush and Photoshop.

holiday spaceman

some fun on the easter break  :)  yet another alien, and thought he looked like he was on vacation with that shirt! 

praise the holy balamah

he is holy... and will save you from your destruction!!

wanted to add something, colourful to this blog. ZBrush and Photoshop.

In the spirit of tribal aliens....and testing Fibremesh...

...I decided to do this guy! I wanted to play around with the new Fibremesh feature in Zbrush and sculpted up this guy to do so. I've always loved the Babirusa boar, which was the inspiration for the growing tusks from his face. The hair was what consumed most of this image, as I'd never used it before, but after a little while, I got used to the settings and was kinda happy with the result, so I thought I'd share. The sculpt took around 1.5 hours and finished the piece in an evening after work with colour etc. But Fibremesh, now learned, looks to be a powerful tool!

Maker of Dreams.

Well, it's been an embarrassingly long time since I last did any personal work. This was a very rushed attempt to get something done yesterday after work to update this blog before the internet kicks me off for loitering! It was a lazy sculpt again, and not intended to be any "concept art"more experimentals of the mental kind. I decided to call him Maker of Dreams, or the Sandman.


I created him using Zbrush and Photoshop.

Zbrush Character Sculpting - Publication

Hi all. Another plug for what looks like will be an awesome book featuring a lot of rad ZBrush work! There'll be a couple of shots of my work in there to bring the tone down, but don't let that put you off ordering a copy! Follow the link for your purchasing needs :)

ZBrush Character Sculpting

Prime- The definitive art collection.

The guy's and gals over at 3Dtotal are putting together an awesome series of books which I'm honoured to be featured in. They are looking for more entries so please, if you have anything you want to submit, click the link below: -

Submission

DemonGirl figure - Limited run for sale :)

Photographs by: Steve Unwin and Simon Godsiff. Paint Job by: Dordi Moen. 3D print by: Ownage. Sculpt and Design: Andrew Baker


Hi everyone.
I have finally got everything sorted with this figure. At the moment, she is travelling with Paul Tobin under White Cloud Worlds to the BLOOOM art festival in Germany. Very excited to see her go! I will be selling this painted version of her there and am also doing a limited run of 15 at the moment. I might do another run of similar numbers if it goes well but that will be it afterwards. So she will be a limited run. Please see the "For Sale" section of the blog for more information, or contact me by e mail if you're interested in purchasing a copy. The copies for sale require assembly, and come in a clear grey resin for you to paint any colour you wish :)

Serenyan Design - New Zbrush test

So last week I received the update for Zbrush. The new features are really incredible this round. I've been using it a lot for work and wanted to do a personal piece testing some features. This was an alien design for a project of mine that I thought I'd use to test out. I sculpted this all from a sphere using Dynamesh, posed using transpose master and final render using the new lightcap features. I did the final layout in Photoshop, but the bulk of the work was Zbrush. Really fast turnaround of a couple of hours with the flexibility of Dynamesh! I'll do some more renders of this character soon! Here's the sculpt so far.

TAO

Here's a piece I've done for the Unscripted Exhibition . I started the concept for this ages ago, but never had the time to finish it. When we were asked for entries for this, I thought it was very appropriate as this fella didn't really belong to anything I was working on. So in essence, he's VERY unscripted. I made the piece feel a little more "painterly"for the printing and it seemed to have payed off. I'll be selling small A4 prints of this guy, and also one large A2 framed piece. I'll show the other pieces I'm exhibiting in a future post once they've been photographed. In the mean time, here is Tao. :)

something, alien.

Some experimentals :)