Monster Concepting

I'm always looking to pick up a few new techniques from other artist when sculpting in Zbrush, just purchased Kurt Papstein's "Monster Concepting." Check it out, great stuff.
Monster Concepting

 Kurt Papstein's website, http://ikameka.blogspot.com/

The Death Of Freelance Illustration...

Check out this article and pod cast on the death of be freelance illustration over at ChrisOatley.com.Interesting stuff.

The Death of Freelance Illustration

Lucas Marquez - Sculpey Dance

 Check out the dance animation by Lucas Marquez called, Sculpey Dance. You can find more from his site, acertijo

Sculpey Dance 

I Sold Too Many Copies of GTA V To Parents Who Didn't Give a Damn

I Sold Too Many Copies of GTA V To Parents Who Didn't Give a Damn  - Your Average Video Game Retail Veteran

The Visual Difference Between Linear and Non Linear Workflow

Article by Neil Blevins on Linear and Non Linear workflow.

The Visual Difference Between Linear and Non Linear Workflow

O'Neal Pignani is a Crook

Saw this over on facebook about an guy hiring artist to work with him but never paying those artist for there services. A must read article titled, "BEWARE of Swamp Ape Studios."
O'Neal Pignani is a crook

Shawn Dickinson's facebook page link, https://www.facebook.com/shawn.dickinson.12/posts/10201388173299511

Real time shaders for Maya

Here are a few links to realtime shaders for you game artist using Maya.
Leocov CGFX shaders
Mental Warp - Generic BRDF Cgfx shader
Koddeshader
TGA physically based shader

A link to more shader info.
PolyCount shaders

Zbrush and photoshop rendering tutorial

There are a lot of subjective tutorials on the process of multi-pass rendering in Zbrush and compositing those passes in Photoshop. Check out the vimeo video by Leo Haslam. A lot of good information here.
Blanka: zbrush and photoshop rendering tutorial

Procreate

For you concept artist looking for a great mobile, artist software package; found this tablet software called, Procreate. Looks amazing, but wish it was available for my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Those of you with Apple Ipads, you can find it in the apple store, or over from the software developers website. Here is a link, Procreate.

The art of daarken blog / Should I work for free.

Check out the blog of from a great artist, Daarken. Blog is full of really good information, especially for those looking to get into developing Illustration and concept art. Here is the link,The art of Daarken. Also check out the section of his blog titled, "low pay, no way." There you will find a link to a flow chart by Jessica Hische called, "Should I work for Free."  Chart is great if you have any doubts about working for free. Thanks to Jessica Hische for creating the chart and to Daarken for sharing the link. You can also find a link to Daarken's art site in the artist section of my blog.

Creature Lo-poly version

Low poly version of a creature sculpted for a 3D print project. Here are a few Marmoset Toolbag renders. Ambient Occlusion and Normal Maps applied. Normally, I would use Zbrush or Modo to generate both the Normal and A.O. maps. This time, xNormal was used to complete that process. Posing and texturing next.

Flat Shaded and Normal Map

Wireframe/Shade, AO and Normal Map

Wireframe/Shade, AO and Normal Map

Creature for 3d print

Hope to get some time soon to finish a 3D print creature sculpt. In the mean time, check out what I have completed so far. Sculpted in Zbrush. More models can be seen over on 3dbrats.com