After months of hard work I am proud to present my capstone: The Forest God. This project has been a dream of mine since first joining...

I've done more work with the style of the model. Everythings coming together nicely, I learned a trick for baking the mesh. If you...

I've gotten a lot of work done on the surfacing. It's really capturing the rough hand painted textures of a Miyazaki film. I'm currently...

The goal is to create a handpainted/cel shaded coloring style on these models in substance painter. I've gathered some resources to help...

Get this. Turns out maya has a customizable toon shader. Not only is this something I've been looking for it is perfect for playing...

The model it finally done! I'm not even done yet and I'm so excited to see how thisll turn out. I made the roots of the tree longer to...

Mentioned in my last blog I have made changes to the tree model found on the guardians back. Barbra Klein suggested I make the roots...

It took some time but I finally completed all the necessary retopology. I am making adjustments to the tree model on its back but thats...

The shell is shaping up to be the more difficult than I expected. I thought I would be able to simply pull all the polygons up around...

This week I was able to work more on the retopology of my model. After some input from my mentor I was able to make some necessary...

Wanted to make an additional post to highlight the changes I made to the model The biggest changes were made on the shell. I felt like...

After the midterms I was able to work a lot more on the rest of the model. The shell, head, and floral add ons were made way easier after...

This past week I unfortunately wasn't able to work too much on my project due to midterms. But I was able to start working on...

This week I was laser focused on completeing as many of the details on the model in Zbrush. That program rocks by the way. Learning this...

Did some work in Zbrush so I can get used to the work flow and learn the necessary tools. Before this I had a meeting with Nimi about...

I think I have nailed the final desgn, or at least the shape I am going to use. The proportions have been greatly exaggerated and the...

After some more discussion over the design of the character and I made some changes. They pointed out that its still important to sketch...

During the weekend I got some feedback on the design of the forest guardian and pointers for replicating the miyazaki style: Exaggerate...

While I do have the actual shape of the model decided, there is still a lot of detailing to do before I can move on: Need to detail the...

During this process, constant contact with Nimi Parmar is going to be key. I have been playing around with Zbrush these past few days to...