Monday, February 23, 2009

Boto Zbrush

Hey all, finally have something to show. First off, I've got my latest project from photoshop class. And secondly, I have something from a program I got just yesterday and am very excited about.

Here's the first:


For this project we were told to find a fairy tale of some kind and create a photoshop image illustrating the tale or a scene from that tale. After searching around for something good, I asked my friend if she knew any fairy tales and the best she could do was refer me to a Brazilian legend about Boto. These Boto are actually a kind of dolphin that were said to live in the rivers of Brazil in this legend and at night they transform into men and go clubbing trying to seduce women. I found the concept so amusing that I had to go with it. The result is my Boto Bond piece above. Enjoy and critique please!

Second:


This is the first experimental product of my fooling around with a program I've known about for a while but just barely got excited about. Zbrush is used by so many professional studios that it makes my artistic mouth drool. I attended a 5+ hour demonstration at a high school half an hour from here at the behest of one of my friends from school, and I have to say it was totally, totally worth it. Two artists from ID Software and one freelancer currently working on Iron Man 2 came to show us a few things about the program. (ID gamers might be glad to know that Doom 4 is in production)

After watching these guys work with this program I knew I had to get my hands on it. It's more of a digital clay sculpting program than it is a 3D modeling program as I understand it, and it's just fun. I got it at it's whopping 40 meg size and started messing around with it. It's quite a lot of fun, even though I don't know what I'm doing and using a tablet is still weird to me. I intend to keep learning this program and creating some fun models for my own amusement and eventually actually paying for the program. (whistles)

As always, enjoy and critique!

8 comments:

Elicia said...

at first, i was like 'what is on that guy's head?' then i read the info and then i could see that it was a dolphin! silly me!

Barb said...

Scary dolphin man...

Jeff said...

you stealer!

that dolphin guy is scaring me.

-dianna, not jeff!

Jeff said...

oh and jeff would be thrilled with the iron man 2 part.

MStevenson said...

Both of those pictures scare me. :)

Jeff said...

yeah, what's up with the scary devil guy?

- not jeff.

D'N'J said...

i just noticed that devil guy looks like he has whiskers.

Bobbie said...

Hey, Ben, you are so cooool. I am excited that you are pumped about this new method of graphics. And also I learned a new scrabble word, behest. I even looked it up so I could have a new word in my vocab. Totally coooool.

As to the first one, Mr. Dolphin Bond, I love it! Go Ben Go. Keep up the good work. You are amazing!

The second one is fun too. I like the line on his lip, like he is real, not a cookie cutter scary guy.