Ammo shortage!

For all the people following this blog they will have known I have been working on the outside area for the building I created a while ago. I have been working on the texture getting it to tile and its starting to take shape and im just feeling my way round the getting the characteristics in that I like. The whole struggle for jobs at the moment has been a real demoralizing time for me and I am sure others that have been forced into the unknown of unemployment at the current economic state. If work seems a bit slow that is more than likely why. It is however important however to keep optimistic and push through. I thought for the mean time I could work on producing some models at the end of my day for turbo squid to keep me financially going for the mean time. A hour or so at the end of the day to crack out some small models that are easy to model and texture to get a nice outcome. This will few extra props for my portfolio and also varying my workflow to keep me motivated. Heres a quick ammo crate that I have modeled in high poly and also a beginnings of a tree.

Old African Man Sculpt further cont...

further update on sculpting work. I worked a bit more on forming the ears and also skin texture. I've tried a bit more on the skin folds also. I think im done with sculpting now as I want to concentrate on learning to poly painting.

Old African Man Sculpt

To further my learning into Z Brush here's another experiment that I've been doing so far. This sculpt started from a simple base mesh to were it is at the moment. Next step for this is to use Z brush to UVW unwrap, texture and normal map the model on to its lowest sub division level. Least then I will have some experience in organic high poly modelling to start pushing into hard surface modelling such as cars and weaponry.

Moving to Z Brush

After my experiments with sculptress I thought that pushing into a High poly modeller would only help me to develop my Environmental Artist skills. After whipping out my anatomy book I started getting used to the tool set and user interface of a new program. After modelling a base head model in 3ds max of a very simple low poly mesh I took this over to Zbrush to start Sub Dividing and making something of the model. After getting the main human anatomy down in the mesh I started combining human anatomy with a hint of lizard but really this was pretty freestyle at the time but has produced some interesting results so far. Here is where I am so far with my model.