Playing Catch-up...

Realized that it's been ages since I've posted anything on here, so here's what I've been doing lately - This big guy is about to go into production real soon, so I'll have more details when that's available.

And here's some recent doodles and two more comic pages.  Just two more to go!

Comic Pages

Lately I've had the itch to work on some comic stuff again.  Nothing long form, yet, just some short stories here and there.  This is one that I've gotten halfway on penciling, about another 4 pages to go before I can start inking it.

New Stuff!

Looooong absence since I last posted - mainly from getting settled into the new house after the move, then falling into some new freelance work while continuing dinosaur sculptures.

In anycase, here's new sketches and a preview of the next line of models I'm working on!

Parasaurolophus Models

I wanted to put up the ten finished models that I did of the Parasaurolophus herd.  These found their way elsewhere on the internet, but I failed to give my blog any love with new dinosaurs so here's to changing that!

When I have some fooling around time I'd like to try my hand at doing a proper rendering pass on one of these, just to have a really nice render of the sculpts.  I've yet to order any prints myself, but some people over at the Dinosaur Toy Forum had their prints come in and love them.

If you happen to order any of these models, I'd love to see whatever paint-ups or dioramas you make of them.

All Kinds of Stuff!

First things first...My Parasaurolophus herd is now available on Shapeways in 1/40 and 1/72 scales!  There's ten poses in total, and I hope to model some juveniles in the near future to add to the diorama possibilities.  Here's the store for those interested:

Gorgonzola's Dinosaur Shapeways Store

And because I'd be remiss if this post went without art, here's some stuff out of the old fashioned sketchbook.  Doodles, character things for some comic ideas, and not much else.

New Dinosaur in the works...

New dinosaur in the works, Parasaurolophus.  I'm just about done detailing him, then all the posing will begin!

Unlike the previous dinosaur, which from start to finish was done in Zbrush, this one I started in Blender as a box and slowly modeled it out to get the best topology flow I could.  I had a lot of issues on the Carnotaurus with having too many polygons in one area while not having nearly enough in another, and in the end the sculpt is very uneven (and required a massive amount of polygons to fix such unevenness.)  By the end of sculpting the Carnotaurus I had somewhere around 9 million vertices, which made the file incredibly bloated.

So for this one I started off in Blender, and took the time to slowly model out where I wanted the topology to go and how much information I wanted to devote to each area.  Here's an example of the model about 70-80% done with its box modeling.  Before I brought it into Zbrush I did bulk up the number of edge loops in various areas as I tested importing the model to see where I might need it for sculpting later.

Once I did that and tweaked any last minute silhouette adjustments, I imported it into Zbrush.  By this point a major bulk of the modeling was done, and with such an accurate sculpt, a lot of my time in Zbrush has just been refinement and detailing, mainly making muscles appear and creating skin folds.  I initially didn't model him with an open mouth, but decided that my future poses might necessitate it, so I opened him up in Zbrush and added more geometry.

From then on, it's just been detail, detail detail.  I'm about 90% done with him, and the last 10% is going to go by real quickly.  From there I'll make a master pose file and rig him so I can easily set up a variety of poses.