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Blasphemous Bunny and Cheap Chick by Trickmonkey

trickmon — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:44:23 +0000

Just in the nick of time! Here’s my Bunny and Chick for Easter 2012. All done in Zbrush, composited in Photoshop and added the fire! I might have to get this 3D printed for my desk.

Oil Slick Mermaid

trickmon — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:48:26 +0000

This is going to be the start of a series of creatures and I learnt SOO much about Zbrush doing this!!!
I’ve also utilized some of the new features in R2 and R3.
I used Dynamesh for the Base Mesh of the Mermaid, the fishermen legs in the BG and the fish on the ground.
I used FibreMesh for the eye lashes and also for the seaweed bits on the rope around her chest.
I used the the new noise features to do the rusty, barnacled bath tub. It was all rendered inside Zbrush using BPR and then composited in Photoshop. Was a fair bit of work and was flying in the end to get it done for Expose 10 submission (hope it gets in, there’s amazing work in there) but I loved doing it!

Feb Sketch a Day!

trickmon — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:18 +0000

I’m doing the February Sketch a day. #febsketchaday on twitter and instagram.

I’ve been wanting to sketch some of the anti-heroes from some of my favourite shows and it was fun to tackle.

I hadn’t done any portraits for awhile and I kinda shock myself that they came out ok. There’s still things I can see to fix but it’s been a good exercise, I’ll do some more this month.

Also threw in a monster for good measure.

Dark Mermaid WIP

trickmon — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:41:52 +0000

This is a WIP of the model I’m creating in Zbrush for a Mermaid Piece. I’m taking a darker and modern approach to the mermaid myth.

This model is almost finished and I’ll start texturing it next.

trickmon — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:15:30 +0000

I seem to be on this underwater theme at the moment. Here’s some quick iPad sketches of undersea beasties. I’m working on a bigger scale piece in 3D of a Mermaid which I’ll post soon but you can see a W.I.P. forum post here at cgSociety. More Soon!!

New Website, New Post, just add sharks!

trickmon — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:26:19 +0000

Hello 2012 and Hello Everybody! I have a new website: andymonks.com and now have a new post of a Shark Sketch I did for a recent little competition I ran on my Facebook page (Hit ‘Like’ and you can subscribe and keep posted for the next competition to win a sketch).

This sketch inspired me after watching Deep Blue Sea again after a few years! If you like trashy shark movies, it’s worth a watch especially a scene with Samuel L Jackson, which I won’t say in case I spoil it.

This year had started with a bang. I have a tonne of work on and heaps of personal art I’ll be publishing in the blog in the next few weeks. Including my recent 3D sculpts in Zbrush….one of which I had prototyped in 3D which I’ll post soon, so stay tuned.

Thanks,

Andy

Merry Xmas

trickmon — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:32:00 +0000

Hey All,

Merry Xmas! It’s been a quiet year with updates but stay tuned I will be updating more in 2012!

Andy

Happy Easter!

trickmon — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:09:58 +0000

Hey All,

Well this is my first 3D piece in quite some time. I have fallen deeply and madly in love with Zbrush, where have you been all my life!

I did the base meshes in Maya low – rez, then I sent them into Zbrush for the detail modelling / texturing and then back to Maya where I laid them out. Final rendering was done with Mental Ray and then I did some final colour tweaking in Photoshop.

My daughter loves this ‘bunny wabbit wif a ticken on it head’. I hope you all do too!

And no doubt you’ll see some more 3D pieces from me soon!

Have a great Easter!

The Flame Dog

trickmon — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:29:56 +0000

It’s been a little while! But I’m about to unleash it upon you!!

This is a recent character I did for FlameDog Records, it was heaps of fun to work on and Orlando from FlameDog is great to work with. More Soon!

Some of my assignments!

trickmon — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:57:58 +0000

Hi All,

Been a bit quiet on the updates and I intend to rectify that! Had a load of work on and also been doing the self-taught Stephen Silver Character Design Course at Schoolism, check out Stephen’s Work on his blog. Schoolism has a stack of great courses, headed by Bobby Chui, a really inspiring artist and leader in the field. It’s an awesome course, I highly recommend it, really has been patching a lot of holes in my drawing and designing.

I thought I’d post up one of the assignments.

This was one where you drew this guy and then did 3 variations from memory as basis and pushed it in different directions (using strong shapes as the basis), I’m having a blast doing this stuff and the original photo has so much character.

Anyone who wants a caricature commissioned, give me a bell!

I’ll share some more of the assignments soon as well as some of the latest projects!