Speed Paint Nasty

Here's a sneak peak at a larger project underway ... as always it's the areas of the canvas I don't care about that turn out the best ...

Black Emperor

A speed paint tonight: Septimus Severus in all of his historically-inaccurate beauty.

Zbrush: Mignola Sculpt Part Duo

Progress: Blocked in the arms and feet, detailed wings and touched up the rest. Hands and feet need some attention. Threw on some colour for fun.

I need to kick it up another subdiv but I'm scared ... oh how I'm scared.

Zbrush: Mignola Sculpt Part Uno

Happy New Year everyone ... first post of 2011! This is a year that's really bad for my signature ... that eleven is a tricky one ... no full round numbers you see.
I'm currently back on the Zbrush bandwagon and honing my sculpting skills... you can see here a devil I bashed out today ... started as Zspheres, skinned and taken into Maya for a clean-up (proud to say the entire thing's 100% quads ... not a tri to be found! I spent the time on retopology to get the best results out of Zbrush), then back into Zbrush to be subdivided and scultped. Lots of fun ... it's only mid-range poly count for these larger details. I might try to push my PC for hi-def sculpting, but my money's on the rust-bucket imploding under the strain. The plan is to get the details transferred onto normal maps to apply to my original 4.5k poly model - just because normal maps are cool.

Oh, I was inspired by Mignola-style devils for this one ... thus the cartoony proportions.

Beanie's Bed Hair

Just a quick sketch, trying to fathom Beanie's bird's-nest bed-hair. Laura has to brush this every day to keep it under control :D

Cthulhutech: Burning Horizons Cover

Cover to a forthcoming Cthulhutech RPG book called Burning Horizons ... it's a book that propels the overall metaplot of their universe. This is photoshop territory, with a little bit of vector art from illustrator. Doing a collage style doesn't always mesh well with me ... infact I find it downright confounding. But the challenge is always welcome!

Art Direction by Mike Vaillancourt. © WildFire LLC

Edit... Okay, I mispelled 'Horizons'... fix