Zbrush Paintover

Started learning zbrush over the term, as glitchy as it is sometimes it is still an amazing fun program. over the summer i will definitely use this more and incorporate it into my pipeline.
this is a paintover of a quick sculpt i did for the Zbrush class final

The Effigy of Animus

This started off as a Viscom 4 assignment but when i applied a story that i've been working on for a while to the homework piece i ended up having much more fun.

This is an god effigy deep in the rainforest twith magical glowing elements indicating some deep mysterious advanced technology. There is an obvious "Atlantis" influence and i also referenced some babylonian and assyrian monuments and sculptures for the design.

As one of the god robots of creation, Animus is the father of new mankind. Pieces of his body are embedded in various statues all over the world  giving off a deep glow when in contact with a similar technology. The embedded fragments of his technology being so powerful, enrich the surrounding areas creating lush beautiful environments.

- Alex
eventually when devin and I decide that we are at a suitable enough amount of work for the world of Uin we will open the other blog to the public, Until then i will periodically upload random bits of the world on our respective blogs.

Devin Manning's Blog
http://weallbegintoburn.blogspot.com/

Texture experimentation (brushes only)

i know i've done a lot texture work using photos, but very little of my work has pure photoshop brush use. I definitely need to find my midground between brushes and photos. Right now i'll just keep building my mileage in photoshop brush work and brush creation.

peace

The Tree Devil update, finished project and process book pages

Hey guys, this is my Imaginatomy project for Rey Bustos' class. It was a fun class in which i learned much about bone structure and anatomy. We looked at how nature designs animals giving them form as a result of their habits. I tried to design based on what this cat's lifestyle is. I uploaded my process book and you can see the final diorama that i built based on this giant cat's habitat. 

I will have better pictures of the final later.

- alex chen

Luke the space trucker

This is a character for a class project that we base on the story Jim Button (jim knopf) and Luke the Engine driver.  

This is essentially my thought process for the aesthetic of the story.

Zombutant says Happy Belated Halloween

I meant to put this up for Halloween but between midterms and zombie attacks it got pretty hectic (almost blew the head off a zombie but i realized it was just a sleepy Art Center student) . I'll probably dump a huge post of my work after term. Good Luck survivors!

PS next year EVERYONE should hit up the Code Red Airsoft Zombie game. BB Airsoft Pistols, Shotguns, and foam melee weapons only. It is pretty much Left 4 dead. it was quite awesome

La Mosqa

How to Charm a Coat Pocket....literally

This was a fun assignment for Creative ID at artcenter in which you create a how to. How to Charm a Coat Pocket is inspired by smooth crime caper movies such as Oceans 11 showing a higher class criminal. This assignment started off absurd and then quickly became retarded. fun though

Some Character Sketches

Frankenstein Concept and Revised after crit

This is a resolved concept from one of the greyscales in the previous post. A Frankenstein style cyborg.

Scifi Creature Greyscales

These are some greyscales for the Scifi Genre of creature design, its Cyborgs, Aliens, and Mutants.

Environment Studies.

These are some environments i did for my class at CDA taught by James Paick. I just did concepts based a story i was working on with Devin trying to flesh out our world.

Resolved Creature Photo Collage

This is a new process that i'm practicing in Creature Design Class. I start with a photo of a person and drop photo textures and use liquefy and warp to change proportions.

Pumpkinhead inspired Creature Design

This is a design inspired by Pumpkinhead. i basically took the idea of front-heavy knuckle walking primates and tweaked the proportion giving it a more spider-like read. I gave it an alien head inspired by sea life and little nasty arms to push the sickly scary vibe.
I will update with a fully resolved version later.

Weremolerat creature concept

Hey guys,
this is my weremolerat concept for Creature Design class. Although the main influence is a molerat, I incorporated more aggressive hyena elements making it more top heavy with a hunch and a hump. cuz face it, molerats aren't very aggressive, more sickly with baggy skin. The Hyena element also let me add some mangy fur which also reads as residual human hair after the transformation. I had tons of fun with the sickly aspect of the molerat. Jared Marantz pointed out that wrinkling occurs where there is the most movement. Everybody loves cataracts!

peace out folks!

Resolved Character Creature

Following an awesome critique from Jerad Marantz i had to fix this guy up make him look more...live action, somethings about his nose were getting too stylized and was losing all the good textures from my photos when i painted over them, also the arms and legs were a bit muddy so i cleaned them up a bit, Cheers folks enjoy!