tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47583629625378300962012-01-23T19:45:04.340-05:00This is the blog spot of Nick Zuccarello. I am currently a 3D graphics trainer for Electronic Arts Tiburon in sunny Orlando Florida. The work on this blog will be post of my personal art work that I am currently working on. Thanks for looking.NickZ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07607586909787015652noreply@blogger.comBlogger1021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758362962537830096.post-36971646205502213002012-12-21T00:00:00.008-05:002012-01-21T16:13:50.148-05:00

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.nobr br {display:none} Here is a video that I created that details how to use a program called Alchemy. (CLICK HERE TO VISIT THEIR SITE TO DOWNLOAD) This application is great for quickly generating shapes and ideas. It creates vector art for you so you can take it into other programs like Photoshop and blow the art up to what ever size you wish. This program is great for quickly generating

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Well, I've been with EA (Electronic Arts Tiburon)for a little over 7 years now. Sounds like a number of perfection to me. Well I officially started a new journey as a full time Graphics Instructor at FIEA (Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy)A division of UCF (University Of Central Florida). FIEA is a masters program geared toward all aspects of game creation. I'm really excited about

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As you can see from this blog, I tend to give a lot of my work away. Well I have been working behind the scenes for a few months making a new website where I can share my digital models in a High Quality capacity. On Monday the 12th of September 2011 the site went live. I created a new thread on ZBrush Central talking about the new website Digital3DModels.com On the site there is a "Free

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In response to the latest release of ZBrush 4R2 I am making available my first mini project since I downloaded the latest rev. CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE DOWNLOAD PAGE I really love the new Dynamesh. This really is a game changer. What an awesome tool that we now have as digital sculptors to create things out of thin air purely from our imaginations. I have really been waiting for the day that

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I have a new 3D model that you can download for free. I've been working with another talented artist, Russell Barton, to try and work out the topology from my previous model in order to build a base mesh that can not only be used to generated a male model but a female model as well. This model comes with pre-defined polygroups, UV's and some extra subtools that should easily help you realize

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I have been trying out the new Mudbox the last few days. I was really interested in the ability to paint in layers. I had a lot of fun making this alien head. i just started out with the package bases head and used the "send to Maya" feature to make new UVs and add geometry to the bottom of the mesh. I really like the real-time screen space filters that Mudbox has. It took me some time to get

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I'm trying out the new Painter 12. I must say that I really dig the new updates. The interface is a lot easier to understand for me and it looks a lot better than it did in the past. (I do wish they would give the community the ability to skin the interface.) There are still things that I wish for but when it comes to natural media brushes you can't beat it. I was hoping that Photoshop CS5 would

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I made this Photoshop file to help speed up wearable/costume/gear creation for a human male character. I took Front, Left, Right, Rear and 3/4 view shots of my human male character and created an easy to use Photoshop file that should aid in creating new wearables/costumes/gear. There is also an example costume that I am creating if you would like to see how I approach layer creation inside of

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I have been learning the Unreal Development Kit (UDK) in my spare time.HeavyDemon_UDK_StaticMeshTestScene_001I was having one heck of a time figuring out how to not have horrible normal map seams every where on my model. So I thought I would give a real quick run down of some of the pitfalls that I have learned to avoid. (If you have any further tips for static meshes in UDK it would be awesome

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Here is a Work In Progress for the new Human Male Athletic Version 2 model that I am currently working on.I wanted to share a few things that I have found recently that have helped me sculpt inside of ZBRush lately.The first is the ability to load a project directly into ZBrush. This will save your model, your materials and more importantly all of your new BPR rendering settings.I have made a

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Here is something that I just recently finished up. It is an illustration that I created for a friend of mine, Doug Sayre. We used to work together at EA.It is for his screen play that he wrote called Petty Theft.You can see the WIP image in this Blog thread:Click Here To JumpHope you enjoy!Peace,Nick Zuccarello

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Well...It has been a long time since I have posted anything. I have been a busy man, you know wife, kids, dogs, work, church, and serving God can keep one rather busy. I have been working on some things but they just are not ready to show yet. Any who.... I wanted to let everyone know about some new hardware that I have recently purchased.First is the Wacom Cintiq 21UX. I love this thing, best

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I drew this for my step son last night. Mason likes to draw his own "guys" as he calls them. I wanted to try out a new coloring technique that my buddy Matt Szidlik showed me, so this was a win win situation. Spend some time with the step son and do something fun and work on learning something new all at the same time....oh yeah, having fun was part of the equation as well! Peace-NickZ.

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Well I have been working on my own comic book for a few months now. I have learned quite a bit lately, I'm learning how to thumbnail pages out, build rough pages, digital inking and digital coloring, setting up word balloons and lettering. It is a lot of work making your own book, but it sure is a lot of fun! These pages were all made digitally with Photoshop CS5 and a Wacom Cintiq 21UX!I hope

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This is going to be the back cover to my comic book! I have a test print on its way for the first 8 pages to make sure that I am doing everything correctly. I'm going to be using Lulu.com for the first book! Wish me luck!Peace-NickZ. :

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I have been adding brushes to the list for doing digital sketching and inking in Photoshop. These are saved out as tool presets. There are more than brushes but I will leave that up to you to figure everything out. Hint, if you are doing color flats then use the Pencil tool instead of the brush tool. If you are selecting your pencil flats, I made a special magic wand tool for correct selection as

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I made this after listening to Misty Edwards song "People Get Ready"1. Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals.2. And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?”3. But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look

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I made this for my wife and my mom for mothers day. Thanks to any ladies out there that give all their heart to their family day in and day out. God has blessed us to have you in our lives and we thank you for all that you do! Peace-NickZ. :)

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I had this image in my head after listening to a song by Misty Edwards. I hope to do some more images like this when I get time!Peace-NickZ. :)

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Here is something I have been working on for a little bit here and there. I would say more it has been more there than here. Anyway, I'm having fun modeling and sculpting. :)

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I finished a little mini project for myself and I thought I would share my work with everyone.First I was snooping around on the Freedom Of Teach website and I saw there was a “CG Practice Model Download”. I thought it might have been the hi res model that they used to generate their 3D print, but it was just an base mesh with no detail. I’m not sure why but I just stared sculpting on it. (

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I have recently become obsessed with comic books again. Yes again, I have always loved comic books and super heroes and I have always wanted to create my own comic book. So I have been trying to discover the best way to go about this.I have always drawn traditionally with a pencil and inked with rapidograph pens. Well after drawing again, I devised this process where I would thumbnail everything

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I was trying out the new demo of Mudbox 2009, loaded up their default head and sculpted this bust. I then baked out an Ambient Occlusion map using their map baking tool. Speed is pretty good for baking out an AO map. They have added a lot of nice things to this version! In the Zip file there is a Mud 2009 file, an OBJ at the highest sub D level in case you want to view the model in another

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I'm taking my digital human male model and seeing how far I can push the mesh before it causes problems. So far so good. I need at least 6subdivision levels to keep the mesh from falling apart. (I'm currently at sub d level 5 and you can see some polys in the neck/trap area.)WIP as of 9/1/08Here is an update for 09/02/08I also added some armor.Adding some skulls 09/04/08Changed this guy up quite

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Here is something that I am working on for a new side project. Using my Human Male Model as a base.I need to make an attachment holder for the sword to tie it to the body. Need to set up UV's and pull everything into ZBrush to start sculpting.This is in Maya's viewport rendered in real-time with "high quality" rendering.Update as of 3/13/09 (ZBrush Sculpt Update)Update as of 3/18/09 (Maya Mental

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Drew these traditionally and then scanned them and then colored in Photoshop.Peace-NickZ. :)

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I love Painter X!

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Here is some more fun with Alchemy. Man this little program is fun!Peace-NickZ.

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I just downloaded this cool little application that lets you paint abstract vector shapes really quickly. It is called Alchemy (Click Here To Visit Their Site.)If you have seen the work of Andrew Jones then you have already seen a little of what this program can do.Here is what I created by taking my vectors into Photoshop and turning them into brushes. This was a ton of fun for me and I don't

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I recently watched a Gnomon DVD that covered how to create custom brushes and use them in Photoshop to create concept pieces for environments. This isn't the normal thing that I am interested in but it was a very cool video by David Levy (Click Here To Learn About The DVD)Peace-NickZ. :)

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I think I am getting the hang of digital painting....well I feel better about it at least. I decided to give Venom another try...here he is!

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Do you want to learn how to be a 3D artist? Have you tried to use Maya but you are overwhelmed by the program? If so then I think I have a treat for you. Here are some Maya introduction training video's that I have produced that will teach you the basics of the application.The first video will go over Maya's interface to get you familiar with where all the buttons and gadgets are.This video will

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ZBrush Building Environments Part 03ZBrush Building Environments Part 04ZBrush Building Environments Part 05ZBrush Building Environments Part 06

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My step son has a friend in his class that has really been wanting a drawing of a dinosaur. So I finally pulled myself away from the TV, well actually I drew it while I was watching the presidential debates, and drew this version of a T-Rexish dino. I scanned the drawing and colored it in Photoshop. I think I'll make some prints and let my step son hand them out to some of his buddies in school!

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This illustration was part of a presentation that I gave when I came back from Siggraph this year. I attended a talk with the people that created some of the back drops for the movie speed racer. They were talking about how they were using these high resolution versions of (Quicktime like) VR backgrounds in their shots. I decided to try building my own version of this in Maya. Instead of using

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I had a real quick private lesson from one of the concept artist at work on how he digitally paints.I wanted to try and apply some of the principals/techniques that he told me about.Here are the results so far:Peace-NickZ. :)

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I am currently taking my Human Male Athletic Model and adding skinning inside of Maya. Here is a first pass at some of the weighting (makes the character move) on the model.I think I am going to try to build something special for the neck muscles to work correctly, he has a real rubber neck right now.Here is an update to the neck weighting.Here I updated with the addition of a normal map.Here is

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Here are some concepts of mine that I thought I would add.Peace - NickZ.

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nickz_manimal_timeLapse_noSound from Nick Zuccarello on Vimeo.

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I have a new tutorial up on thegnomonworkshop.comZBrush: Using Photos As DisplacementIn this tutorial we will be taking a look at how we can use Photos as mask to build controlled displacement on our model inside of ZBrush. We will be using textures, alphas, Zbrush deformation tools and 3D layers. The Final 3D ZTool and images will be provided with the tutorial.CLICK IMAGE OR CLICK HERE TO GO TO

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Here are some of my older 2D concepts that I drew with pencil, scanned into PhotoShop and colored them digitally.Peace-NickZ. :)

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Here is a material pack that I put together. These materials only work inside of Zbrush 3.01. Feel free to send me some feed back on these, I would love to see what people create with them.Here is an example of a 3D sketch that I created using the greySculpey_001.ZMT.CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE MATERIALS.Peace-NickZ :).

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Here is something that I made for the 3Dtotal.com Sculpting Challenge II.It is a half man half cat creature. For the challenge you had to sculpt your creation in under 4 hours and you had to start with a base mesh that was provided for the challenge.Here is a 360 turn table of the creature.Hope you enjoy! Peace-NickZ..

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I have been looking into using an XBOX360 controller as a real-time input divide inside of Maya. I had my Alien Shark character laying around collecting dust so I thought I would use it as a test to see if I could do some real-time motion capture like animation in Maya.I'm pretty pleased with this first test. The feedback is slooooow when I have high quality rendering on with all the bells and

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CLICK HERE TO GO TO MY GNOMONOLOGY TUTORIALPeace - NickZ. :)

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Here is an update to my Male generic model. I have been wanting to rebuild the topology for quite some time now. Here are the results.Here are some examples of taking this topology and sculpting it into a new target.In this example I extracted a shape (geo) for some hair.Here is the body topology after it has been rebuilt.Peace - NickZ.

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Here is a sculpt that I started working on. I took the Spder man model that I created and started smashing this thing around. I'm having fun! :)Peace -NickZ. :)

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Here is a free Spider Man 3D sketch ZBrush model that I created. You are free to download and check out in ZBrush 3.0.I would love to see some people take the model and pose it using Transpose tools in ZBrush. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE ZBRUSH MODEL (9 MEGS)

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On Friday night, I was asked by step son's school to do some face painting for the schools "Family Fun Night." My wife asked her friend Chrissy White (Ringling Alumni) to help out with painting. So she and I sent out to paint the town red... well at least some of the kids faces that is. (I did get to do 2 Spidey faces!!! Woot woot!) I had so much fun painting faces that I volunteered to paint

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This is a tutorial that I built that will show you how you can use Zspheres inside of ZBrush to build some simple geometry and then take that geometry and sculpt it into a final sculpt. At the end of the video (Last 9 min.) I put things into a time -lapse mode to finish out the sculpt.Peace - NickZ.

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This is a time lapse move that I created from a ZBrush session. I started with some ZSpheres, created some geometry and then started sculpted that into the final model of Spidey.This video is a time - lapse movie of the entire session. This is about 3 hours worth of work condensed into about 9 minutes.Peace - NickZ.

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Here is a new update to the Human Male Athletic Model. I am trying to go for the over all shape and layout of the muscle groups before I add the hyper muscle cut. I have learned (took me a while) that the over all shape of the body is more important than just having all the muscles laid out in the correct location. Now it is time for me to start concentrating on the feet and the hands. Hope you

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Here is a series of training videos that I created to help learn how to use the 3D sculpting program ZBrush.Getting Started in ZBrush Watch GettingStartedInZBrush.avi in Entertainment  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.comWorking With Subdivision LevelsWatch SubD_levels.mov in Entertainment  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.comWorking with SubTools (Multiple Objects)Watch

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Here is a concept that I drew a while back of an underwater aquatic creature. When I lived in San Diego I would go to the tide pools in La Jolla and I was fascinated with all the cool crabs that were crawling around. I drew quite a few creatures that were crab related. I think I drew this guy after a night at Red Lobster. :) Hope you enjoy - NickZ. :)

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Here is a time-lapse move that I created of a 3D sketching session inside of ZBrush 3.0.This was the first time that I creaed a model from a sphere. I then added some music and produced the final movie file in Adobe After Effects.made with the new ZBrushEnjoy! NickZ. :)

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This is a 3D sketch that I made usingZbrush 3.0 go to www.pixologic.com to learn more about the applicaton.Online Videos by Veoh.com

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In this video we will take a look at how we can take a model from ZBrush, export this out as an OBJ, bring that into Maya and resurface that mesh. (3D tracing) This will give us good edge flow an topological layout for our model. We can then use this video (Click Here To Watch) to learn how to capture all the detail and color from our original sculpt.Peace - NickZ. :)

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In this tutorial we will take a look at a scenario where we have a hi resolution mesh that is sculpted into the shape that we would like, but we have resurfaced this mesh in another program (such as Maya) and we would like our new topology to have the same shape and color as our original sculpt. To achieve this we will be using the project all button in the sub tool section.Watch Projecting

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Here is a sculpture that I created for my wife last Valentines Day. This was a lot of fun and my wife acted like she like it. I never know with her. (She isn't into art so much!) Peace - NickZ :)

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Here is a 3D model that I created that you can download for free. Follow this link to get to the model. http://www.sharecg.com/v/3932/3d-model/alienHostPart1ZTL Peace - NickZ.

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Here is a 3D model that I created that you can download for free.Follow this link to get to the model.http://www.sharecg.com/v/5544/3d-model/AlienShark-model-ZTLPeace - NickZ.

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This video is how to use the Mesh Insert Tool inside of ZBrush 3.0. This tool will alow you to take multiple meshes and combine them into one mesh.Watch Mesh Insert Tool in Entertainment  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.comPeace -NickZ. :)

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Here is a time - lapse movie that I made with Zbrush 3.0. Created with just a sphere.NickZ's Veoh Art Channel

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Here is the Alien Shark Craft Time-Lapse movie that I created using Zbrush and After Effects. I used the lazy mouse quite a bit on this one to generate the small straight lines on the craft. I then produced displacement maps, built a shader for the craft and some for the after burners, then I set up a simple turntable with a little animation on the camera to make the move a little more

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I spent a little time updating the abdominal area of my Human Male Athletic model. Here is the results. Still have a lot of work to do on this model. I think that I will concentrate on the hands area next. Peace - NickZ. :)

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Here is a quick video that I made using the new Turntable Plus from Pixologic. You can now store edits on a layer and create a movie of your model transitioning from one layer value (0) to anohter layer value (1) This will make a little animation for you.I then took this video into After Effects and made it loop back and forth.Here are the results:Peace -NickZ. :O)

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This is a craft that I created for the Alein Shark Illustration.I spent a good bit of time creating this. The thought was to have quite a few of these flying around in the background. It seemed like a good idea but in the end it made the piece way too busy.You can take a look at the final illustration if you Click Right Here.I made a "making of" video for this craft but I was having some trouble

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Here is the final snare drum from this post. I have been waiting quite some time now to see the final drum with all its hardware and clear coat on.Peace - NickZ. :)

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Here is a file that will fill a 8.5" X 11" Photoshop document with a resolution of 300 DPI. This page can then be printed out and used to build thumbnails for a comic book. There is an area below the image area that you can use to write notes for yourself.This is the latest version that I am using.Peace - NickZ. :)

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Here is an animated Gif Test. This was a little tricky because Picasa and Blogspot don't support animated gifs. You will have to upload and publish your animated GIF from Google Docs. You will have to Upload your Gif in Googel Docs and then you will need to Publish your Doc to your blog.Peace -NickZ. :)

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Here is a snare drum that I worked on for a buddy of mine, Eric Warman. Eric has a site at www.ghostnote.net that is geared for people whow like to build their own drum kits. Eric used to work at EA as an evironment artist. While he was here he had a few of the artist in the studio design a drum shell for a drum show. It was a pretty fun project and I learnd a lot. In the end I got to keep the

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Here is a small update to the Male human Athletic model that I am working on. It is a tighter shot on the model as well. I'm not too worried about the fine detail at this point, I still need to focus on the over all shape of the model before I get too involved with detail work at this point. Peace - NickZ. :)

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This was a drum shell that I worked on for someone. (I had to take many pictures and splice them together to make a continuous wrap image that you see below.) It too me for evvvvvver to complete because it was all done in my spare time....and of course I charged wayyyy too little for the work. If I broke it down I would have made more an hour flipping burgers, but I did have fun making the

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Human Elders are warm, compassionate, nurturing and wise. The Human Elders have gone through many evolutionary changes, most notable is their development of their brains. The Human Elders have developed a way to have a direct link between computational devices and their brains with out any physical connection to the hardware. (This was the key difference between the Human Elders and the Tech

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Here is a character that I created awhile back. He is a Tech Lord. Evil as they come. He was once fully man but in his lust for power, knowledge and his unwillingness to die has turned him into the monster that you see. His brain and the top half of his head is all that remains of flesh and bone, everything else has been replaced with metal, wires and circuitry. When he is fully machine his

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Here are some sculptures that I have worked on in the past. The first, my favorite is a cool cat named Tylor. I just fined this sculpture up and put him in an art show that my company was was holding at an outside (Outside the company) venue. My sculpture was stolen at some point after the show and I never have seen it since. I worked on this piece on and off for over a year. It was my first

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This is an image that I created using a photo of my hands (holding a candle) and a photo of the earth. The rest was done in Photoshop. I have had this image in my mind for a while now and I had to create it. Hope you enjoy this,NickZ. :)

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Here is a rendedr that I created in Maya. Rendered with Mental Ray in Maya 8.5. This model was sculpted inside of ZBrush, resurfaced in Maya, painted in ZBrush 3.01Peace,NickZ.

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Here are some renders that I created for a ZBrush and Maya project. I sculpted and painted this model inside of ZBrush and then Rendered in Maya.Here is what the model looks like inside of ZBrush.Here is what the model looks like rendered inside of Maya using displacement maps. Here is a final render inside of Maya and comped inside of Photoshop.Peace,NickZ. :O

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Here is a human male model that I am currently working on in my "spare time."For this character I am going for a very fit male model, a perfected body where it is very easy to see the muscle layout of the body. I plan on making this model available for sale on turbosquid.comAt some point I was thinking of making a texture set that would include all the muscles in the body laid out on the model as

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I wanted to share some anatomical refernce material that I put together.I went through one of my favorite anatomy books "Strength Training Anatomy - By Frederic Delavier (Click Here For Amazon Link)and the 3Dsk (Click here for the 3D.sk site) site and built some anatomical reference sheets that I will be using in the class.Thse sheets focus on the torso, arms and legs. Peace - NickZ.

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This is a cheat sheet that I made to help me remeber the different types of Compostion layouts that can be used when building an illustration.Hope this helps you out as well. Peace -NickZ. :)

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Tortosaurs are a genetic mix between Human, Brontosaur, and Tortoise. Tortosaurs are not the fastest moving creatures on the planet, in fact some would say that the are downright slow, but where the Tortosaur lacks in speed he well compensates for it in power. A Tortosaur is believed to posses the strength of over 100 men. Tortosaurs live in the great plains with the wild WerkOx, but they do not

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Here are some concepts that I created working on my first game a little over 7 years ago. These were created for a small start up company, Greystone Technologies in San Diego. I had a lot of fun creating these characters. We were working on an arcade ride/game. The game was set in the future, you were racing a hover craft. When you played the game you sat on something that looked like a wave

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Kung Fu Panda Behind The ScenesInsomniac - Resistance Of Man 2 - PS3 Killzone 2 - PS3

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This is going to be a thread that I am starting for the work that I am producing for my digital human male model. I am working on making the feet look nice right now. (Everything is very rough right now at this point.Here is a reference sheet that I put together to help build the feet, I thought I would share! :).Here is the latest WIP.Here is a new reference sheet that I created.The latest WIP

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Here is a speed painting that I did over the weekend.Peace-NickZ :).

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Episode 2 Light And ShadowEpisode 3 Drawing a faceHow to Draw STAR WARS! Episode 3 of 7: Drawing!Episode 5 Underpainting With Color WashesHow to Draw STAR WARS! Episode 5 of 7: Wash Painting!Using Color PencilsHow To Draw STAR WARS! Episode 7 of 20: Color Pencils!Unholy CommunionJoe Jordan - Unholy Communion 2009 from Joseph Jordan on Vimeo.

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