My Senior Portfolio Review

Hello all viewing this post. The following is provided for my senior portfolio class as review material of the projects I've been working on, from oldest to most recent (please see the bottom of this post to view my business card design):

 

My Business Card Design

Vex Model Progress Update

Come tomorrow I will have all of my works' progress so far for Pre Portfolio Review feedback. For now, just to say I updated this thing with something before then...

Celestial Prince Vex, OC

Had to take a minor break from ZBrushing to start my creature/alien model. He's my own concept, so no need for me to credit anyone else (his turnaround is floating somewhere around on my blog...). That seam going down the middle is only temporary, just necessary for the moment due to the sake of symmetry. I'll attach both halves eventually. I'd say, given one more day, I can probably have his hands and head finished, not to mention completely unwrapped... but for now he's just a WIP, and one I'm putting on hold until later in the week after I go and touch up my crazy girl Aida in ZBrush before the review tomorrow. Later for now~

FemaleDoc Model - 85% Complete

Hello again~

Well, I'm trying to get a lot accomplished for class. I feel like I'm so behind with everything, but I think that's the senioritis talking. And now I digress...

Here's where my femaleDoc model stands now:

I'd say I'm about 85% done with her. I just need to finish adding some details to the boots and work on the hands and arms. Then, when I have everything down, I'll go back and make sure there aren't any places I've missed or that need tweaking. By next week I plan to have more details to my crazyGirl Aida done and have the base mesh of my creature/alien character, Vex completed. After too long, I can start working on the textures.

More to come soon!

More Updates

As I said in my last post, I'm posting up my turnaround for my creature/alien character that I need to model for my portfolio. I also have a bio to accompany him:

Please don't steal him! Ask permission to use him first, thanks~

Name - Vex (full birth name with title is Intergalactic Price Vexildextriel Phantasmose IV)
Age - Unknown (though, in human years, he's probably around 30)
Sex - Male
Height - 6'5" -6'8" (this mainly depends on if he slouches or stands straight)
Weight - approx. 250-300lbs (as measured by earth's standards considering gravity)
Bio - he is an alien prince born from particles and matter gathered together from several galaxies and melded within the womb of his mother, Queen of a galaxy whose coordinates are not far from the Milky Way. Being from noble birth and right he has a certain regal air about him and speaks formally in most situations, whether he's speaking his own thought spoken language (telepathy) or using another of several learned languages from other planets (one of which is English, he also knows French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese/Mandarin fluently from earth). His kind is very intelligent, he being one of the more privileged and knowledgeable beings due to his royal family bloodline. He considers himself an adventure seeker often traveling around his galaxy to different planets to explore and study life there, adding to his already extensive knowledge.


He has also ventured to neighboring galaxies (namely the Milky Way) and grown fond of earth for the complex creatures called 'earthlings' or 'earthbeings' (that is his term for them). Despite his immense size, compared to humans, he manages to keep well hidden during his observation excursions. Often times he will take back pieces or trinkets he finds interesting to his home to add to his collection. The majority of the trinkets he's collected have come from earth. He is a sentient creature, and thus has empathy, however he would not readily join one cause or another to further any sort of gain and remains neutral just as his race/people are.

Okay, I know he isn't colored, but I'm still trying to figure out his color scheme (not to mention which title he should go by, lol). I think it's more important for me to actually start modeling him than be too concerned with if he should be blue or red, have scales or slimy skin, etc. I will post up a more finished, colored version before the week is out. More work to come soon~

Updates!

I'm so bad with updating this... lol. Anyway, I've been working in ZBrush recently trying to push the details of my models further. Here's what I've developed so far:

Here's the full model

Here's the close-up...

And here's the original concept she's based on (I did NOT create/draw this)

I plan to have this finished up by the end of this week so I can move on to her textures and generating all the corresponding maps. Of course, I still have a lot of work to do sculpting wise as I haven't touched her legs, hair, or arms yet, but I'm getting there... I'm getting there.

I'm also developing another character from scratch, or should I say, a creature. I was doodling around in my sketchbook and here's some of the concept stuff I've come up with:

These still need to be finalized (meaning heads with bodies) which I will be doing over the course of tonight and tomorrow. I'll upload the turnaround for the finished version including color by tomorrow. Yay, I can finally start to model him! I will post up progress on his base mesh by the end of tomorrow.

I still need to ZBrush my crazy girl... well, she's next on the list. Stay tuned~

Work, work, work...

It's been a while since my last post... I'm bad at keeping up with this. I'll try to get better, though. Anywho, I'm taking on more personal modeling projects, mostly because it's now on my own initiative to do so since I'm basically done with all my modeling classes. Plus I need to pad my portfolio!

So, here's a look at some things I'm working on thus far:

concept art not by me

Cocca model 3/4 view

Cocca model front view

Cocca model profile view

And another piece that I've started:

concept art not by me

Aurlok partial model 3/4 view

Aurlok partial model front view

There are other models I'm considering doing and I'll probably upload those concept artworks by the end of the week. At least, that's the goal I'm shooting for. I hope to become more productive now that the quarter is coming to a close. We'll see how that goes~