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Happy Easter !!

It’s on MOnday anymore in Paris, but in some other places in the world it’s still Easter time !!

 

So a little gift that has nothing to do with Easter, but anyway, I thought you might like it !!

 

Alex

 

 

Armature on the way.

Hello guys,

 

Really happy to find some times this week end to work on Peter !!

I’m working on the armature, And things are going smoothly !

I just have to work on the facial armature now.

 

I also started to do his eyes and teeth. I just have to fix them to the armature now.

 

But seeing him now in this pose, I’m realizing that his forearm is maybe a bit too long and the upper arm too short…

I guess I’ll have to fix that.

A lot of things to work on but little by little, it’s progressing.

 

Hope you’ll like the renders.

 

As usual, don’t hesitate to leave a little comment, that’s how this blog is vivid !

 

Alex

Texture and seams nearly done.

IHello, hello !!

 

I had some free time today so I could continue !!!

 

The main part of the texture is done !! And nearly all the corrections of seams are done too… It’s have little things to fix…

I did a little test with another lighting.

And then, all the fun part with the texture… All the details, the little veins, color corrections, etc… That will bring even more life !! And corrections in the sculpt also. (I have to modify the back… Ther’s something wrong…).

 

Comments are always welcome !! And thanks for your support !!!

 

 

Alex

 

 

Continuing…

Hello everyone,

 

Just to show you the progress. I’m really happy with Cycles (the new photorealistic rendering engine of Blender) !! The firsts results are amazing !

And the texturing process is not over yet.

 

I did this render and I guess you may be interested by it…

The cool thing now, as I’m working 100% in Blender, is that I can change the sculpt as much as I want… And continue to add details to the musculature or the skin.

 

I’d love to be able to work faster on this but it’s a long process and I don’t have so much time !!

 

Don’t hesitate to tell me what you think ! Really curious to read what you have to say about it !

I think the mix of realism of the textures and reder with a bit of cartoonish in the proportions will be a nice combination.

 

Alex

Some news and a test.

Hello everyone !!

 

As usual, unfortunately, I have to apologize for thelong time since my last posts.

I had messages from people asking when I’ll be able o post new images so I needed to give some news.

 

I’m working a lot at this time. The end of 2011 was crazy and 2012 is starting in the same way. It’s good for me because I was a bit worried that some of my clients bankrupped like in 2009.

Hopefully, they stayed ok and I was able to work for them.

And as i’m learning new things in 3D I have new clients, so actually, more work than before.

 

But I promise, I will go on with my 3D men.

 

So here’s a test with a new render engine of Blender, called Cycles.

Cycles is a photorealisitc engine. I’m working a lot with it for my pro images. It’s quite amazing how it’s reproducing the behaviour of light digitally.

 

So I’ve made few tests and arrived to this, this afternoon.

I created a new shader and I think it’s reproducing quite nicely the human skin, even without SSS.

 

But to use Cycles, I’m compelled to resculpt the details of the model in Blender. I don’t think it will take too long but the results will be great when it will be done.

 

I was not convinced by the skin shader I used before. I guess with this, and Cycles, the new images will be very cool !!!

 

I attached to the render a reference image.

The veines on the 3D guy are just test to see how it will look. Same thing for the texture, I’ll have to redo few things.

 

Thanks for your patience, and I hope you’ll enjoy this little render.

 

More to come as soon as I can.

 

 

Alex

 

The Steam pump mechanic

Hello everyone !!

 

First of all, sorry for the time during each post but I still have a lot of work besides my Albron work…

But I try to advance as much as I can and I managed to work on one new image. I know that it won’t be possible to make this for a calendar because we’re already in November… And the calendar should be finished by now if I wanted a release  for the end of the year…

 

But it’s always a new image done. I will change few things in the image, like the jeans he is wearing. I’m going to change the sculpt and give him more roughness and dynamism.

 

I wonder if I I’m notgoing to do other images with this character.

 

Tell me what you think of him and of the image !!

 

I hope you’ll like it !

 

Take a good care of yourself !!

 

Alex.

A new gallery : Blender work

Hello guys,

 

I just created a new gallery with all the latest works done with Zbrush and Blender.

You can see all the process of creation, from the sculpt to some final renders.

 

You’ll see also few exclusive images that I didn’t post for now : Some researshs for new characters and the image that appears at back of the blog.

 

I will post some more there.

 

And I’m working on the new images… Jeans involved so I’m sculpting one : Here’s just a little preview. I started yesterday so it’s far from being finished…

 

Alex

The swimmer – Preview

Ta daaaahh !!

 

I’m so happy ! I just finished the first image for the calendar !

As it’s going to be sold (just have to figure out how…), I put some copyright on it… I hope you’ll understand.

I can’t put a higher resolution of it… Otherwise, there will be no one to buy it in the end…

Anyway, as you can see, I changed completely the set. The previous one doesn’t seem to exist for real.

Here, I used some pictures of hollywood villas and cool swimming pool to create this set. The result is more in the spirit of the character… And more into what I want to do.

Don’t hesitate to tell me what you think… I know, you’re used to see higher res of pictures on my blog but I’m sure you’ll understand that choice.

 

I hope you’ll like the image. The calendar image will only be the main one. The close-up is just for you, to have a better view of his face.

 

 

Alex (really happy with the water rendering !!)