As requested, I started to produce a short tutorial based around how I did my previous two posters and found a photo of the sucker person who requested the tutorial. I have started it and took many screen caps during the process and now face the job of writing up my notes. Not an easy job as I kept changing things heavily along the way.

Bah…

Anyway, here the finished poster, I will attempt to write up the tutorial at some point.

While ambling home from a day of sharpening my crayon collection at work, I spotted some words on the back of a ‘Hello Kitty’ tea set which said that ‘I would fall in love instantly with this charming tea set’.

Now is that instructions or a statement? If its a statement then its not true, as I clearly felt no form of romantic interest in the set. If it was instructions then I’m obviously quite rich in the man gene which makes all blokes ignore instructions and just get on with building the wardrobe/bookcase/flatpacked monstrosity.

Anyway, enough about my interest in Hello Kitty tea sets. I was reminded the t’other day that I hadn’t finished one of my propaganda posters for the Holy Empire of Dave. I should have myself shot for not being a good propaganda coordinator. I have now finished the design and will flog myself 20 times as penance.
How will I punish myself if I ever actually finish any of my other pet projects?

After a few days of not going near any form of 3d app due to feeling like a huge rolling ball of mucus, I’ve started dabbling with some ideas again. Trouble is I ended up just going back and forth from C4D to zbrush as I buggered around with the different tools. Ho hum… anyway I’ve started to texture up my shroom.

Take that Mr Smith, I can actually (try and) finish my personal projects.

Very funny…. you know i do get an email when you push that button.

Full of cold. Ug.
The last week was spent keeping the little un amused over half term and one of the delights we partook in was shopping for an Alice in Wonderland costume for her school next week. They are all dressing up as characters from books and rather than join the masses of Harry Potter chars, she picked Alice (thank gawd for a well read child). We found a rather nice one and shes all set for Anyway, on the way back from work today, my mind stumbled across a thought, if i get a nice few photos of her, I can create a scene in 3D to drop her into. I spotted a zbrush mushroom tutorial in my RSS feed the other day, watched it this evening and then kicked off a basic shape to give me some motivation.

Not much to look at so far but I’ve been sketching out some ideas as well as digging into some research images.
This could be quite fun if i manage to get the elements together before next week when she dresses up for school and i’m putting old mech on ice while i do this one. Nothing new there then…

Last week also saw what could be my last visit to the broadcast show in London. Its been well over 10 years from my first jaunt down to the smoke to visit and its lost the appeal now. There was some nice gear like high def cameras which shoot 3d footage but after my recent career shift from video production to web design it has become a little less of an attraction to see gear like that. Three or four years ago I would have been over excited by them but i had an overwhelming sense of ‘meh’.

http://matt40k.co.uk/ to my RSS feed.

A mistake?

I’ve started back on the servo skull and begun to do his teeth. I’ve blocked out the set with primatives and have started to form the front six. What has struck me is the state i left the mesh in. The skull itself is rather dense (much like my own) and the nurnies are not the best ever as well. Its been 2 years but i can’t have changed my habits that much, could I?

Some quick renders but minus the bigger textures:

Dawntreader
And I quote from their myspace page
“Dawn Treader, a four piece doom/melo-death metal band”

I’m quite liking the syndrome track.

All hail Dave