Da-na-na-na-na-na-na....Screech-Bat!

 

It's another weird animal for my Zbrush trophy wall! A 5 eyed screech-bat. All the better to see you with, heh. 

Great Horned Swamp Snoob

The great horned swamp snoob has the shortest hunting season of any game animal. Only allowed to hunt them on April 1st ;P I hear they taste like chicken. Or fish. Or venison. Hehe. This was a quick one, wanted to do something for April fools :) Maybe I will make myself a whole trophy wall of weird Zbrush heads like this :D Tomorrow is Wondercon! I wonder if Pixologic will have an exhibit this year? I hope so!

Zbrush weekend warrior-Kaa

Did some Zbrushing over the weekend! In the Zbrush forums an artist posted this amazing series of dragons, and it got me wanting to do something scaly. Here is the results of playing with the scales brush, and also messed about with Tpose. She's a cobra-centurion. Her name is Kaa, and like Napolean Dynamite, a gang once tried to recruit her for her bowstaff skills :P

Home is where the heart is

"Home is where the heart is" in this case...literally! Whether it be an actual physical space where one feels content, or something more abstract, everyone has a "happy place." This started out a bit less....icky,  but now that I think about it, it seems right this way. Staying under a blanket eating dry cereal watching Harry Potter marathons on a rainy day in your PJ's ain't pretty, but it feels like home to me :)
Also, I think I may have come up with a technique candidate for making zombie flesh in Zbrush :P

Itsy Emo Spider

 Here he is, ready to update his facebook status with sad emo song lyrics and sit in his web all day blogging about all things miserable :P I plan to pose him sitting and leaning over a little laptop or perhaps a journal so right now he's in an intermediate pose that reflects those plans. What about some little combat boots for his stripey legs? :P  I'm thinking a forelock of hair with a burgundy streak might finish off the look. You know, like the ones the kids outside Hot Topic are bumping into walls with, cause they have no depth perception...what with one eye being completely covered...or in this case two.
  I have no idea if there actually is a band called "Ded Spyders." If not... then dibs on the name and logo, haha!

Zbrush is so good at rendering realtime detail I can't believe my dinosaur PC is holding up under the weight of all the subtools in this model. This is a screengrab of the BPR...I'd like to try the multipass technique but when a simple BPR screengrab gives results like this it's almost like instant gratification. It would be fun to give the new Zapplink a test run to compare a mentalray/maya render with spec and displacement though.
  I really need to move on from 8 legged things, first a pig-squid, and now this spider guy, heh.

Pig Squid?

Playing with Zspheres and messing about in Zbrush. It's a pig-squid-crab thing? Perhaps a source of bacon flavored calamari?

Snowpocalypse 2011: Zombie Yeti Edition

He shambles through the drifts at night, in search of frosty BRAAAIIIINS! This is for all my friends under the blanket of snow covering half the country. Especially my friend Becky, who challenged me to draw a zombie yeti in the first place. As suggested, his official name is Gwee :) This was a real brain buster, painting all that white on white. hopefully the yeti isn't invisible, LOL.