Future Worlds Character Updates

One more iteration on the Future Worlds avatars.  We decided that the female characters from my previous version needed to be cuter to appeal to the pre-teen audience plus a couple little changes on the other characters to make them more cohesive.

Game Design & Zbrush Studies

Game Characters

I've been employed this summer at NC State's Computer Science Dept. helping create characters and sets for a 3D game they are developing. Here are the characters I worked on. I did all the modeling & texturing on these with the exception of the red-haired female who was modeled by a coworker.

The second image is my original sketch for these characters, and a revision for "Bryce."

The X-Men

Playing around in Flash, fun!

Lady Femme Learns to Fly

I updated one of my older projects with a new title card.

View Lady Femme on Vimeo

Barbie & Ken

I was grinning ear to ear this afternoon as I was painting Barbie & Ken as well as three children (not pictured). I'm so thrilled that this illustration style & process that I have been developing over the last couple years is so useful in this animation project. I'm also thrilled with how naturally the designs are coming together.

Also, in a testament to simultaneous contrast Barbie is a blonde and her green hair will look very yellow in the context of the scene I'm dropping her in.

Character design.

Dear blog, sorry to have neglected you. I'm in school and it's just a lot of work! I have been creating a lot, check out my little explorations on vimeo.

I'm currently working on a 1-minute animated autobiography. It's going to be Richard Scarry animal-style. This is the puppet I created of me as a little boy. And no, I don't remember being dressed like a hipster BUT that's a real shirt! I wish they made things that awesome now. Capped sleeves, diagonal arrows, great color combo. If I had a time machine I would make go back and get that shirt.