Diablo Crusader - Turntable

I posted final images of the high poly crusader sculpt on my website and I also rendered out a turntable:

Crusader Sneak Peak

I'm off for a couple weeks but this is the current project I'm working on based on my Diablo 3 character. I'll be finishing sculpting, detailing, wear and a pedestal when I get back.

Skylanders: Imaginators has launched!

The most recent game I worked on launched last week. I worked on 3 of the toys as well as hundreds of "create your own Skylander" parts. It was a ton of work to get all the parts working together and then 3D printable but everyone involved pulled together and made a really fun and impressive character creation system.

Skylanders: Imaginators Official Website

Rock On!

I recently finished a handpainted piece and uploaded it to Sketchfab. It was bascially a 3D illustration done for fun and as a little homage to Jennifer Herrema, a musician.

rock on by etotheric on Sketchfab

Skylanders: Imaginators - Starcast

So my contract at Toys for Bob has come to an end. In my 12+ years working in games, this was the best year yet! It was a great opportunity and place to work. I worked on a lot of "Create Your Own Skylander" parts but I also worked on some toys, playable characters and enemies. Starcast is one of the sensei characters. I worked on both the posed toy model and in-game assets. Here is a preview of the toy and in-game cahracter. (I will post some better material once the game is publicly available) When you buy the toy, you can activate the in-game character to play with.

In-game

Toy

Create Your Own Skylander

Skylanders Imaginators

Our game was announced this week! We've been busy making lots and LOTS of parts.

Finland: Helsinki

I just returned from a 2 week trip to Finland last week. It was a really great trip. I got to meet relatives I've never met before, saw a whole bunch of cities and traveled all over the country with my dad and sister. I was able to enjoy a couple lake-side saunas and jump in the lake afterwards to cool off. Everyone was extremely nice and helpful. I am uploading the photos I took in batches starting with Helsinki since that was the first stop. The full photo album can be found here.

We stayed in a hostel that featured some interesting artwork on the walls.

The hostel was on an island right in the port of Helsinki where the Uspenski Cathedral is located.

I went out one evening and took some pictures around 10pm, and the sun was still up.

We rented bikes one of the days to do some sight-seeing. Coffee is a very common and popular drink in Finland and you see coffee stands and cafes all over the place. This one was right on the water next to one of the bike trails. 

Every city we stopped in had a central outdoor market area. This one included some boats with fresh fish and vegetables for sale. 

The Sibelius Monument.

One of the parks we visited on the bike ride, Kaivopuisto park.

Portrait Practice: Ron Perlman

Today's portrait, Mr. Perlman.

Portrait Practice: Hillary Swank

I am working on some more portrait practice drawings in Artrage. This was just using a basic pencil tool.

Sketchings

Starbuck Painting

For this week's practice painting I went with Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck. I want to do a couple more quick portraits then probably start on some full costumed figures.

Bronson Sketch

Tom Hardy as Bronson, painted in Artrage.

Annie the Pooh and Tibbers Too

I participated in the Polycount-Riot Art Contest which ended back in December, 2014. I recently uploaded my entry to Sketchfab which is a pretty neat way to check out 3-D content right in your browser.

Annie the Pooh and Tibbers Too by etotheric on Sketchfab

Received a nice plug on It's Art as well. Yay!

Olivia Wilde Sketch

Spent a few hours to paint this portrait sketch in Artrage.

Practice Digital Figure Sculpt and Render

Just another 3D figure study here. Now that I've got a decent idea how shading and rendering in Modo works I'm going to try something a bit fancier and more elaborate. I need to do some lighting studies as well. I picked up some portrait lighting books that I'm currently reading through. More to come on that...

Similar to the previous figure study, this is only sculpted from one side and is fairly low resolution.

Figure Sculpt

I followed most of the process Jeremy Engleman outlined in his video. I didn't paint normal mapped brush strokes but followed most of the rest of the process. It was fun to do something like this that can be completed in a day. It was good figure sculpting, color study, lighting and rendering and posed anatomy practice. I wasn't able to work from a live model for this so I worked from photo reference.

Anatomy for Artists, Final Ecorche Drawings

These are my final assignments for the Anatomy for Artists >> online course with Scott Eaton. It was a lot of work but a really fantastic and focused learning experience. I plan to take his other courses as well.

Fly Guy Sculpt

Here's a Zbrush render of a fly creature I've been working on. Currently I'm learning Modo and plan to render this guy out in there once I'm done with textures.

'Friend of the West' Set Available on the Dota 2 Store!

A bit late in posting this but I'm pretty excited and honored to get my first item set added to the Dota 2 store! The set is bundled in the 'Treasure of Radiant Arms'. Check it out >>

Beastmaster Animated

Here's another preview of my Dota 2 workshop submission. Currently I'm working on some beauty shots and in-game videos.