kage gets an artblog!

2010-05-14T12:14:00.000-07:00

new site upcoming

2010-02-04T14:05:00.000-08:00

uploading some new stuff... havent gotten enough time lately to update regularly but hey better late than never right?

2010-01-04T09:49:00.000-08:00

Video of my project for school

2009-11-29T23:59:00.000-08:00

new character model mostly just testing out the new features in the third release of zbrush 3.5

2009-11-23T07:12:00.001-08:00

2009-10-28T15:02:00.001-07:00

bridge from a school assignment!

2009-10-15T04:04:00.000-07:00

Just started working in zbrush, finished the shirt!

2009-10-10T07:32:00.001-07:00

keeping up with the basemesh-making, heres the updated concept as well..

2009-10-09T05:59:00.000-07:00

working on my steampunk girl, current progress, and its looking pretty alright timewise!

2009-09-30T14:22:00.000-07:00

mechthumbnails, poses are off like hell but meh

2009-09-30T10:08:00.000-07:00

environment thumbnail for a project in school

2009-09-30T10:06:00.001-07:00

finished highpoly bust

2009-09-28T06:13:00.000-07:00

update on the face, got the basic topology down now (finally, really struggled with this one). gotten all the main features into place, now i just need some extra tweaking, like say, turning this into a woman instead of the manly face you see atm..

2009-09-28T04:33:00.001-07:00

working on a face atm here a rough version

2009-09-21T14:51:00.001-07:00

mech concept

2009-09-19T22:34:00.000-07:00

2009-09-17T00:48:00.001-07:00

just tried out some hardsurface-modelling tools in zbrush, took about an hour, dun rly know what it is, but some sort of powerarmor i guess...

2009-09-16T16:55:00.001-07:00

tried out zbrush 3.5 and i must say, zsphere sketching is the SHIT! 45 minutes

2009-09-16T12:37:00.000-07:00

Tried matchmoving, my first attempt, nothing special, just a small clip from the web in which i placed a 3dobject, an incredibly bad lit sphere :P

2009-09-02T15:02:00.001-07:00

Steamgirl concept #1 is finished!

2009-09-02T07:06:00.000-07:00

new personal piece for a school mini-project, a steampunk girl living alone in an abandoned spacestation, work-in-progress shot..

2009-08-13T11:46:00.000-07:00

keep practising...

2009-08-08T19:47:00.001-07:00

Concept of a female warlock, im getting faster at concepts thank god! this one took about 3 hours

2009-07-08T16:41:00.000-07:00

some anatomysketches, sorry for the lack of updates, ive been busy learning some webdesign so i can eventually make a custom website, complete with a newssection (basically a blog) and a gallery, and ofc the usual website stuff... anyway here we go

2009-06-22T12:40:00.000-07:00

worked a bit on a ship, heres the cockpit part of it so far

2009-06-13T17:07:00.001-07:00

worked on a concept for the mage in sleepers curse, started with low fantasy and then got a little carried away...

2009-05-19T12:09:00.000-07:00

ok, sorry about the crap quality on the last renders, i was tired, i still am, but this time i had the good sense to use the render settings! Hope u like this MUCH bigger and better demonprincess (feel free to zoom in ;))

2009-05-18T19:38:00.000-07:00

YA-FUCKING-HOO!!!

Finished dominance war 4 on time 5 minutes ago! =D the link to my final submissions is:
http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/dw/4/view_entries/finals_1_14061.html

and for those lazy ppl out there, heres the beauty shot and a construction shot.

2009-05-05T04:51:00.001-07:00

Spent the day working on an ingame menu for Sleepers Curse

oh btw: the save and load are identical, with the exception of that when youre in the save-menu it says to save your game, instead of load.... there it is

2009-04-23T06:33:00.000-07:00

Made a Menu for the game sleepers curse, heres the bg for it :3

2009-04-16T10:54:00.000-07:00

got a couple of hours in on her on the train and during lunch... progressing slowly, but its still progress!

2009-04-13T17:39:00.000-07:00

...and a little more...

2009-04-13T14:39:00.000-07:00

kept working on my princess a little

2009-04-11T16:41:00.000-07:00

worked a bit on the dominancewar model :) this girlie is my loveproject that im doing by the side of sleepers curse, mostly just because i can make her the way i want, because its for a fucking awesome competition, and most of all, i can put as much love and time into her as i want :)

im planning on making the bone-armor cover her entire body, so the ass out in the open is just temporary =P

2009-04-10T15:09:00.000-07:00

woot, done alot on this guy, hes just missing some hair now.. tho i think im gonna let that wait till the last week and make like 10 hairstyles, problem solved... well not rly but i couldnt care less atm :P

2009-04-10T08:56:00.000-07:00

aaaaand heres an update, ive been working kinda slow lately with my being sick and all... hopefully im getting better soon tho :) and tomorrow is easter so i wont be updating then...meatballs and eggs! fuck yeah! ;)

2009-04-08T07:27:00.000-07:00

working on the face of the commoner at the moment, heres a wip-shot

2009-04-08T00:19:00.001-07:00

worked a bit on the basemesh, reused pretty much everything from the main character, next step will be doing an ambient occlusion pass..

2009-04-08T00:17:00.000-07:00

did a quick paintoverconcept for the commoner yesterday =)

2009-04-07T07:38:00.000-07:00

ok, finished the mundane Gard shortsword, so now all the weapons the the first iteration of the game are done ( i think... )

anyway, heres a screen (and a screen with a white bg)

2009-04-07T03:45:00.000-07:00

kept on working over lunch, and i got to finish the wooden buckler (with a leather cover and steel details)

2009-04-07T02:38:00.001-07:00

worked a bit on a sword for the game sleepers curse, a game project in school

2009-04-04T13:31:00.000-07:00

I was cutting up some old projects for reuseable meshes, and i found this little girl, and i remembered, i never gave her a proper rendering to show her off, so here it is!

2009-03-23T09:38:00.000-07:00

ok so i decided on a concept (here it is!)

this thing is an effing NIGHTMARE to model btw...

2009-03-21T06:38:00.001-07:00

and heres a silhouetteconcept for a boss for the game, sleepers curse, called holmdahl.

2009-03-19T09:10:00.000-07:00

details on the armor

2009-03-19T03:29:00.000-07:00

fixed the old head back on... didnt really like the new design

2009-03-19T03:17:00.001-07:00

update, this is what happens when im tired and dont rly think about what im doing, was only supposed to make minor changes to sharpen up the image....

2009-03-19T00:33:00.000-07:00

hello again, im doing an allnighter again.... -.- bad idea i know... anwyay, i tried using colors a bit more on this latest concept, i know, i know, but hey, at least im not NOT using any colors =P i was originally doing it in black and white but i figured i needed some colors...

2009-03-18T16:04:00.000-07:00

ok, so ive made a new sheet of concepts based on mine and a few others favourites, these are the three demonprinces/princesses that ive decided to render out and see if you guys like em more or less :P

2009-03-16T20:03:00.000-07:00

so i redid number 4, ive decided to stick with the demonprince class since drawing kickass demon/humans is just way more fun.

im planning on fleshing out all of them except for the first one in the demonprince sheet...

anyway, as i said i kind of rendered #4 and i think she turned out great, my personal favourite so far, i did 4 versions of her, with, and without a demonic helmet, and i also did a quick huechange to see if she would look better with ice as her element.

so what do u think? fire or ice? with or without helmet?

2009-03-16T11:14:00.000-07:00

new conceptsheet

2009-03-16T08:00:00.000-07:00

got some updates, did a few concepts for dominancewar, its starting to lean towards a 6legged demonlord, or a demonprincess, i dont have any concepts of that yet tho =)

2009-03-14T22:05:00.000-07:00

hi everybody! im keeping the sculpts up, i think im gonna go with the GoW-approach to dominancewar, that is, make a sculpt first, play around with it to make sure i like it, and then, only then, take it into maya, redo the topology, uvmap it, normalmap it, and then texture and pose. sounds simple enough....

new sculpt for the day, as usual i dont know what it is, i tried adding some details to it with colors and materials because it looked too plain otherwise, i ended up screwing it up, so i threw this awesome material on it to cover up my little texturing misshap :)

2009-03-13T20:29:00.000-07:00

this is turning into some sort of a sketchbook now, heres a zbrushdoodle again, wow, i rly do these late... =P it turned into a slightly toonish goblin this time, oh yeah, i add the colors in ps for 5 minutes just to see what happens, so the pics arent textured at all, just trying out some quick and dirty ideas

2009-03-12T21:17:00.000-07:00

new zbrushdoodle, im gonna try to make one of these every day, im probably not going to be able to do that for long but, oh well... heres todays sculpt, i have no idea what it is, i just made some shapes and let them take me wherever they were going =P im rly liking this way of making concepts... took me about 1 hour..

2009-03-11T16:56:00.000-07:00

ok, havent done anything in a while, ive been trying to get a hold of a new wacom pen and today i found one, so i celebrated by doing a zbrushsketch from a sphere, hardly feels worth it when u spend so much time searching for forms and trying to get that little part out a bit, it just seems like a weird form from a basemesh in maya would do better for my purposes, guess we all have our own taste, anyway, i had no idea what i wanted to do, somehow i saw a skull somewhere and went with it, i rly have no idea what it is tho, i guess if i wanted to take it a bit further id make it into a torsoarmor or something....

2009-03-06T11:39:00.000-08:00

updates updates, just a few textureadjustments, got the corridor done now, next up, tileable floors for a big bunker room!

2009-03-06T06:09:00.000-08:00

Oh hi, just updating, changed the stripes to babyblue, and i also slapped a ceiling in there... not sure if i should keep it and cover it up with props or just redo it

2009-03-05T20:45:00.000-08:00

keeping at it with the corridor, just missing a ceiling and a couple of doors now.. =)

2009-03-05T15:59:00.000-08:00

ok, started working on a new project on my spare time with a friend at school, first steps had to be taken, so i made a floor for a corridor =P

2009-03-02T11:08:00.000-08:00

ok, kept working on it, managed to get the lava to go into some groves, hes looking better and better... :)

2009-03-01T14:58:00.001-08:00

i actually powered through the evening too, and i took nights advice over at gameartisans, and added some fiery cracks to our dear bobo, not too sure about it, i havent slept tonight so my judgement might be a bit off =P anyways heres a turntable, as usual its rly short :P

2009-03-01T10:38:00.000-08:00

OK IM DONE!

Minicompetition: FINISHED!

I got an awesome tip over at gameartisans, basically saying i should incorporate some self-illumination into the character to make him less.....meh..... so tomorrow, or some day soon, im going to add some cracks revealing lava or something else thats fiery and glowing.

Looking forward to the real war!

2009-03-01T06:22:00.000-08:00

OK, ive been up all night sculpting, now ive been up all day texturing, and i think im ready to call it finished... i havent worked out a presentation for it yet but here is a temporary sheet of 3 views until i get a proper presentation...

2009-02-28T22:34:00.001-08:00

And heres a quick screenshot so u can actually see the details :P

2009-02-28T22:13:00.000-08:00

ok, been up all night trying to find some design that worked for my character (minus 2 hours where i played dota xD) i ended up wingin' it... its not a good thing but hey, zbrush has a way of making stuff happen fast and most of the time u get a pretty cool result... anyways, heres a video of the final high res sculpt for the dominancewar IV minicompetition

Ok so first image...

2009-02-28T16:01:00.000-08:00

Since this is meant to be an artblog, i guess the only right thing to do would be to upload an image.

So i entered the Dominancewar IV minicompetition (www.dominancewar.com) on the gameartisans side. Anyway, the comp is basically, u get a pretty generic basemesh, which u can not edit in any way except move the uv's, and then apply whatever textures u wanna throw at that thing. Ive been working for 3 days on it i think, not sure about whether or not i wanna call it done yet, but i think were getting there, though im not sure about the scarf at all any more, any suggestions are welcome :)

New blog... wow...

2009-02-28T15:59:00.000-08:00

Never thought id do this, but it seemed like a practical solution to putting my stuff up on the web and, it seemed easy enough so here we go =)