Facial Rigging and control panel!

It's been a hell of a weekend, working so many hours, trying to figure out how to do this rigging properly using CAT and 3ds max, since all the tutorials I found in bone rigging where done in Maya with the normal skeleton. I could have used Maya directly using the instructions in the tutorials straight away but I knew that if I tried I would end up finding the way...
Having this kind of setup makes animating so much funnier and easier...
I will upload a video of my new toy soon :)

Faith caricature: going realtime with it

Here we go! A video of the progress I've been doing with my Faith cartoon model. After retopologizing, baking normals, etc... I rendered this video. The only thing that I still need to model is the inner of the mouth and I'll probably begin rigging and animating it in no time. That will be if the urge of doing something say... more photorealistic doesn't grows too much.


So the final model is a bit above 7k triangles and uses a couple of 2048 textures. Everything is going all right :)

Faith from Mirror's Edge cartoonish caricature.

A sculpt I've been working on today. I'm a great fan of Mirror's Edge. In the next days I'll probably take it through the whole proccess of baking and then rigging. I would like to do some animation tests with this model :)

ZBrush Sculpting Exercise

This is the latest sculpting exercise I've done in zbrush. It took me about 4 days, 3 hours each day. I've spend a lot of time this christmas studying anatomy again, back on my books and sketching on paper. I also did like a couple full-body quick sculpts to recap all I knew, but after it I felt like I wanted to model something more final. Voilà!

ZBrush Exercise

An exercise I did in Zbrush. An exercise to relax, no time limit.

UDK Environment: Villa Savoye

This is a Work in Progress of an environment based on the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.

Trying to use UDK for architectural visualization. I started this I think in August, and I've been working on it since then.
I modeled everything in 3D Studio Max, and worked my textures in Photoshop and ZBrush. I used a couple plants and rocks that were already in UDK but all the rest is all mine.

The objectives of the excercise were

• Learning the basics on the creation of assets and levels with this engine (packages and organization in UDK, materials, kismet, matinee).
• Learning to organize myself while creating such a big and complex environment as this was (the source files of all of this is like 800 files). You can rather try to keep a clean and organized folder tree and use a naming convention or go crazy.
  

I think I succeded in both. Wonderful.

I have to thank Carlos Viola (Sectoid) for his awesome music!
http://www.sectoidwebsite.com/

3D Character "Gladiadora de Fantasía"

Realtime capture of 3ds Max viewport.
Made using Zbrush, 3ds Max, Topogun and Maya.
Got my inspiration from some old 3d model of mine, just feeled like I wanted to remake it after all this time, and to see how far I could take it

I submitted it for a 3d graphics contest in a demo party ([link])
and got second.
The whole character its like 14k triangles, I could have optimized it more but didn't really took time for it since I was working with a fixed deadline... and my objective was in fact make it look good, and not actually to have a good performance or anything.

I do not code (BIO)

This blog here is to serve as my online portfolio from now on. It's been almost 8 months since I was able to quit my last job as a junior programmer, and I haven't coded a line since then. And to be honest, I don't even miss it.

To keep it short, lets say that when I was 17 I started two parallel roads, both as programmer, entering Computer Sciences on College and as 3D artist by self-learning and joining a group of amateur game developers. I found a job, where I took advantage of this mixed set of habilities when I was at my 4th year of College. I ended up being some kind of Technical Artist so to call it in a video game studio. I was mostly in charge of the scripting part of the games, menus, and GUI. Also had to program some tools and this colorful and easy to program game about a pink bunny.


I wanted to dedicate more time to my development as an artist, but I almost never got permission to do something by myself in the office, and the evenings and weekends were not enough. So I got fed up and stressed and had to quit my job. I really had to. Every day I stayed 8 hours in front of the screen, coding, debugging, and doing things I didn't care about while I could be doing anything else, devoting my time to something I really liked instead.

Since then its been 8 month of passionate learning and training and I start to have a bunch of things to be able to show my progress and skills back on the right road. Some say it doesn't have to be one road or the other, but hey, I really tried to keep on with everything and I was not happy with it. So from now on I'm picking up only whats more important and leaving all the rest.

Peace.