Happy New Year!

Our move went well. We are now currently living in Katy, TX. So Happy New Year from Katy everyone.

New Sculpt

I'm going to play around with the Fiber mesh tools in Zbrush. Right now, just WIP.

Places of interest...

The Animation Guild

Licensing Expo

CTN Expo - On Demand

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.