Digital Sculpting In Zbrush

Metal and wood texture painted in Zbrush.

Figure Drawing Class #5

9/27/19

New female model this week. Focus on hands and feet.

Composition Drew Struzan

This week we looked at different types of composition through Drew Struzan's movie posters. I found that the Hellboy II: The Golden Army poster I chose to replicate fit three different classic composition layouts.

Struzan's original image:

1) Rule of Thirds, 2) Triangle or Pyramid, 3) Cross:

Process:

Final:

Walk Cycle First Pass

Basic Lighting & Materials

We were tasked to light two rooms and one hallway of a provided, unlit Unreal Engine interior scene and import at one asset from another asset pack into each room and assign it a unique material instance from a parent material we also had to create.

Digital Sculpting In Zbrush P1

Painted in metal texturing in Zbrush

Figure Drawing Class #4

9/20/19

Today we focused on the front and back muscles of the upper leg.

Drew Struzan Reference Board

Frank Frazetta Value Assignment

9/20/19

Bouncing Ball Animation Second Pass

9/17/19

Perforce & Engine Basics

9/16/19
The assignment was to build an aesthetically pleasing scene in Unreal Engine using at least 10 imported assets from asset packs. I used assets from the asset packs: NaturePackage, BumpingPub, and mountain_landscape.

Proxy Model Cannon UV's and Up-Res

Figure Drawing Class #3

9/13/19

This week we reviewed the skeleton:

And we also learned about the front, side, and back muscles of the torso:

I had never seen the serratus anterior muscle before, so it was really interesting to see it on a muscular model.

Basic Shapes Brian Froud

Character Silhouette Assignment

Original Brian Froud Character Design:

Eight additional silhouettes based on the above character design:

Bouncing Ball Animation First Pass

9/10/19
Bouncing Ball Animation First Pass

Cannon Proxy Model

9/9/19

Cannon / Grass / Ground Proxy Models in Maya shown in wire frame mode:























Cannon / Grass / Ground Proxy Models imported into Unreal Engine:

Figure Drawing Class #2

9/6/19

Same model as first class. Front, back, and side view of skull studies.

I tried to focus more on the interior parts of the skull such as the zygomatic arch instead of the outline.
I did not really draw the skull last class and my drawings felt better after this class.

2D Brian Froud Reference Board

Syd Mead Basic Shapes Assignment

I started with Syd Mead's original artwork:


























Then blocked it out into some simple shapes, mostly squares:

Then I did some color blocking and some detailing and added a drop shadow:

Then I did more coloring and smudged the different shades together and added more detailing: