One Week Break

It would be nice to post personal technique descriptions up, or post work for previously dated topics.  

The Gang Roomba

Took about 2.5 hours to model everything and animate with the junk rig I made with parenting geometry and nurbs circles. 

Saturdays Topic

Mighty

Wednesday's Topic: Boomarangatang.

Boomarangatang.  You may take the letters in this fictitious word and reconfigure them to anything you like without loosing more than 7 characters, or you can take the word as is.

The Wandering Bros.

Sorry to be late...ended up having to go and build a metal building out of town.

The Wanderer

jelly remote

late. painted the bottom right and hue shifted other 2

In response to Caleb, blending colors with smudge.

Monday's Topic: The Wanderer

Exactly what it says on the tin.

Eeek!

Tough topic!  Had a hard time staying focused..I feel like there is too much latency when using a tablet in Photoshop..a lot of motion gets deranged in translation...cannot wait to paint on a cintiq.

Jelly Remote

I had a lot of fun painting such a delicious material :)

Saturday's topic is jelly remote

Hairy soap gem leading the map maker.

loose 40 minutes. lots of Caleb's favorite muddy colors. no plan going into this. would like to clean up and take further but I must instead abandon my children, says Caleb, until they're pretty enough, and only then may I keep them.

Ad-Hoc the Maker.

so..I thought maybe I would draw a map and..its not easy to just make up a whole map..so this is as far as I got.

The Old Cartographer

Actually a bit early tonight. Been in an art mood and doodling things throughout the day today.

multisim half wave rectifier

this is an abstract piece inspired by both topics. it ended up being inevitable that they mix together. i was thinking of doing each of them but then different aspects of both ended up influencing this.

Wednesday Topic: The Mapmaker

The Mapmaker

When you see it..

Had something entirely different in mind but Maya 'sploded so then I had this idea pop in my head. Cheesy, but it's a pattern kinda.

The Wheel

Okay, okay so its just a concept of a tread pattern but it is still a pattern in technology.

I decided to make a insert multi-mesh brush for ZBrush.

technological patterns

find a pattern in technology (not limited to electronics, a hammer qualifies as technology) and either represent its pattern artistically or create a new one with it.

FEEL NRG lol

oh goodness... this was just going to be a quick concept before the actual drawing but i like it.

Placeholder

Bah.. I know it's only like 8 but I know mine's gonna be late tonight. I have been feeling a little fever-y and gross this weekend, I think I just need some rest and then I can just focus for a bit.

The Mainline!

Saturday Topic: Faux "Energy" Product

So one time I was in a sports authority and I saw this "energy spray" it was kinda like binaca..but it was called 1000 hour energy..and to me that was just plain ridiculous..so try to create some faux energy supplement or attempt to portray its effects.

I'm super late, and I ran out of time. t____t

This horseman brings the party, regardless.

horseman in hiding

Conquest

What do you get when you cross two of the most challenging things to draw? This, apparently. I definitely need to keep working on it, but this is it, two hours in.

Darkness.

Still trying to get better at 2D concepting...

As a bio: this is the horsemen of Darkness, The Horse's name is Eternal. He carries around a black hole singularity that's relationship seems similar to a bird companion..he can command it to devour things into darkness.

"The Forgotten Horseman"

wednesday's topic: the forgotten horseman

So, you know how the riders of the apocalypse are Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death and they all have respective colors. The forgotten horseman idea came up in drunken conversation last night and some pretty ridiculous theories ensued.
 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

~*~later y'all~*~

Alexander DeLarge

This was what I could get in 2hours from Point Pushers base mesh.

clock rest

one time i stayed up for 5 1/2 days when i was 15. i realized i was hallucinating when i looked at this clock on my mom's VCR and it resembled this. the topic reminded me of how terrifying that was. eventually i fell asleep but i didn't forget about it.

"Like Clockwork"

Monday's Topic: Just Like Clockwork

The subject is "Just Like Clockwork"

Treasure

Was a bit late in starting mine, but here it is! A curious baby critter has found a strange, shiny egg.

found a connection

this one is a relative of the molten dude that i did earlier in this blog. as far as technique it was pretty much the same. but this one is more about finding a connection with an animal, its a pretty cool treasure to find.

Goretrex

The Goretrex "Treasure Hunter 9000"

This is a robot built to find buried treasure.  Factory tested to have found over 9000 variants of hidden treasure in various terrains.

Saturday's Topic: Found Treasure

Interpret this however you wish. Could be any kind of treasure - riches, knowledge, or something else entirely! Can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Kung-FUBARED

this was originally going to be a comical reflection of how rudimentary AI in a lot of classic videos games was but my 2 hours ran out and i just kind of had to patch it together. just barely made it

NOM

Closer Tiny Dancer

Hold me closer tiny dancer.

Wednesday Topic: The Kill

This doesn't have to be as dark as it sounds, but it could be if that's what floats your boat. Many living things must kill to survive. Characterize that moment and let us see what you think!

Corundum Critter

That Wiki article mentioned metal oxides as potential alternatives to carbon as a basis for life. I went with aluminum oxide (A form of which is corundum, one of the hardest materials, which is what rubies and sapphires are) and made a critter that chips away minerals to eat with its beak (and possibly to fight with others of its kind). The crystals on its back act as both armor and as a counterbalance. It senses the world around it by detecting chemical signals through rows of orifices on its limbs.

The Infinity Leech

Enormous space parasites that devour whole planets and stars and must live off the radiant heat stored in the planets core as well as residual radiation found in space..its body is made of silica that it devours..all other matter is discharged into its antlerish wings. due to its size, the Infinity Leech is a slow moving creature.

no comprendo

Humans tend to look for things that they can recognize when they cannot comprehend what they are looking at. This is the way i chose to go for the non-carbon based life form. It's more based on the idea that we would see bits and pieces of things that we understand in something that we cannot understand. ALSO, pokemon.

late to the party!

tried to keep it simple!

Mondays Topic: NCBLF's

All forms of life that we know of are carbon based....Imagine if you will..a Non-Carbon Based Life-form.

Fibbonoculus

Just a few variations on my logo idea.  

Logos

Came up with two, an hour apiece. Here they are at different sizes:

Saturday's Topic: Group Logo

I thought this group could use a logo, and Caleb suggested I make it a 'topic' for my turn, which I am totally down with! Then maybe this weekend or next I could put together a custom template style based on the resulting chosen logo.

Super Happy Sausage - 122 - 2b

i don't feel like the packaged meat industry wants us to think about where sausage comes from but if we had to... this might be what they'd hope we would assume.

Sausage Beast

This creature eats the entire carcass of its kill on the spot, holding the meat in its first stomach, then goes back to its lair and deposits portions of it inside casings to preserve for later. Eventually, humans observing this behavior were inspired to invent sausage.

Heres where I think sausage comes from...

Claytoon clay? (not reccomending it.)

Cat W/9 Ales

Still trying to sketch with the drip pen..it gets some unexpected results..this is the Cat with 9 Ales..

So this one is going to be redone in the morning..there is no UNDO button in real life so..yeah..I kinda got carried away then it was too late..I was trying to learn sketching with this drip pen I got and it got super messy but I tried out Cat with 9 Flails..Bat with 9 Tails and Hat with 9 Sails..even though I broke my rules doing it.  But in the end I put gouache on it and it got super messy..sooo..I am going to redo in the morning and post it up.

WEDNESDAY TOPIC: the invention of sausage

sausage is a little messed up... i was thinking it would be cool to get everyone's take on where it came from.

Bat of 9 Tails

Thought up this little guy, who uses a sticky substance on the ends of his tails to catch swarming insects.

"Cat of 1 Tails"

yeah i know its a dick move. WHOOPZ i'm a punk haha jk

Monday: Topic

"Cat of 9 Tails"  You can Replace letters in this..for example "Kat of 9 Tails"  or "Cat of 9 Tales"  You can only use one letter that is not contained in the original title.

Murdok "Lord of the Shrimps"

This was done on some crappy newsprint type paper and my pen went out halfway through so it was done with drip ink......so a little messy haha.  SHRIMP KILLA!

Lord of the Shrimps

'Twas awfully fun going outside my usual box of source species.

Untitled Shrimp King fake life study

Collaboration with my girlfriend on this one!! Uploading from an iPad sorry if its turned. I was not good at planning to be around a computer.

Saturday Topic: Lord of the Shrimps

Should be fun to see the interpretations!

LAVA RAWR

Cut it close with this one. Kept nitpicking >.> Fun topic, though!