Eve Of CNY 2009

Ah, it's the 2nd new year's eve for me. Took a few hours just to finish up the Pawn's concept sheet, and will now proceed to doing more cleaning around the house. Hopefully i'll have the courage to jump right into 3D after this!

Here you go. It's big.

Happy CNY and happy holidays!

The Eve of 2009

Thanks to Zeth, I was able to enjoy new year's eve at Mandarin Oriental. On the 21st floor with a direct view of the fireworks, it was simply awesome. Away from the horrible silly string & snow spray, sweat, noise and terrible gropists, nothing beats lying on the sofa sipping cocktail while enjoying the fireworks in full view (although I was clicking away most of the time).

P.S: Unfortunately, I was poorly equipped at the time, and forgot the tripod. Guh.

If you look closely you'll find the fireworks boxes in the park.

The clock ticks away, while other guests enjoy a poolside dinner downstairs.

It begins.

Looks like an inferno down there.

And it's over.  The whole town gets smoked. 

The Pawn - Armament

Johnny requested that there be weapons, so weapons he shall receive! Resisting the urge to equip the Pawn with high-end fancy weapons, the Pawn gets a crude and cheap (yet effective) cleaver to hack enemies up after closing in with their not-so-advanced-arm-embedded machine guns. Yes I know they're pretty small, but those guns aren't supposed to do s**t (sorry, Pawns) besides peppering enemies with low caliber ammo and trying to look intimidating.

Supposed to post this yesterday, but Merry Christmas anyway~ *Adds Santa Hat*

The Pawn - Concept Sheet 3

Decided that a pawn should look like it's mass-produced, thus gave it a dusty, heavy and metallic colour scheme. Also shaded it and slapped on some textures for a better idea of its materials. Had quite some fun doing this, albeit a little tiring.

P.S : I know I left out the side view. Oh well.

The Pawn - Concept Sheet 2

Kinda refined the concept, and made some tweaks to the head. A fun and refreshing break from 3D, and that dreadful experience with the corrupted file. Will try out several colour schemes later.

The Pawn - Concept

Out of frustration and to heal the pain of the loss of work while ZBrushing, I started to sketch again after a loooong time, and this is the result of around 30 minutes of doodling. Very much inspired by Taehoon's 'Bigun', the winner of last year's Dominance War 2. Staying away from 3D for a while now.

Project Rithias 3D Permanently Stopped

The unthinkable happened. The program crashed while I was saving the ztool file, and I can't reopen it. The previous version of the file is just... too far back. Time to move on.

Rithias 3D - WIP 7

Almost there! Now, the backplate, hands and feet are all that's left. Of course, there'll be the 2nd lvl sculpt where I add irregularities and such but that'll come later.

Division levels are left at 5, so the details are a lil' jagged.

P.S : I think it looks like a caramel/toffee sculpture. Yummy!

Rithias 3D - WIP 6

Update frenzy lol. Was using polygroups to hide the left lower leg but had the masking on and the sculpts didn't get mirrored. Ouch. But I think I'll leave it for tomorrow, I'll need a reason to wake up in the morning.

Rithias 3D - WIP 5

In the mood for some updates? Not much additional sculpting, but was tinkering with the materials and render options. Figuring out how to solve a mapping problem now.