Adventures in Digital Art! [Updated 4/5/12]

[Littlebigdude805]

Hello LBPC, for a while now I have been pursuing my passion of some day becoming a 3D modeler for the games industry. I feel like now would be a good time to start posting some of my works and progress as I continue to learn in both the fields of 3D modeling and digital painting.

Some programs:
For 3D, I have been using a lovely program called Blender. It is completely free and has become second nature to me.
http://www.blender.org/

I have gotten 99% of all my tutorials and education from an amazing site called Blender Cookie.
http://cgcookie.com/blender/
For painting, I use GIMP! It is also completely free. This I have only picked up a few days ago, so expect a lot of progress.
http://www.gimp.org/

For my tutorials and education in painting I go to Concept Cookie, from the same lovely people as Blender Cookie (CG Cookie would be their main HUB)
http://cgcookie.com/concept/

I will be posting all my works on this thread, don't be afraid to comment and critique. Feel free to share your own stuff too!

I will post some stuff I have done in the past to get the thread started, and continue to add to them frequently.

3D stuff!
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A collaboration between me and chump, original sketch and concept by chuck.


All done within Blender's compositor, no GIMP or Ps.

Using Cycles Render to achieve a great glass effect

Using Cycles Render to give my sword a great look.

My first animation. The jump is a bit floaty looking back :P






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Paint Stuff!

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One of my first 2D creations More to come!

A protoss inspired shoulder guard.








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[jalr2d2]

I really like that sword! I do agree with you though hat the spder is a little floaty.

[AdenRalumdan]

Woah...i've used most of those programs...and you're pretty good =)

[Lordwarblade]

Great work i havent tried blender yet but i have been meaning to get into digital art myself.

[Littlebigdude805]

Thanks If it seems like something you would be interested in, I would encourage you to start right away. It can be a bit daunting and you won't always be happy with your work, the best tip I can give is to always have confidence in yourself and your abilities, your work will reflect it!

[Dragonvarsity]

Thank you very much for recommending these programs, I also want to go in that same sort of industry myself, although I've had all this trouble with my tablet and all o_o but yeha, need to try out Multimedia Fusion 2 demo, but will also try Blender aswell

[Littlebigdude805]

Thank you very much for recommending these programs, I also want to go in that same sort of industry myself, although I've had all this trouble with my tablet and all o_o but yeha, need to try out Multimedia Fusion 2 demo, but will also try Blender aswell

I don't even have a tablet. It sure would make painting easier! I got so frustrated with making eye lashes that I just omitted them for sanity's sake :P

[AdenRalumdan]

Blender is not a user-friendly program, just to warn those who haven't used it. I personally like Maya a lot more, but it's also a LOT more expensive.

[Littlebigdude805]

I haven't tried Maya before, one of my friends uses it. Blender has a bit of a curve but you can really start cruisin' once you've gotten over the bump. I'm working on a bit of art in GIMP right now, just kind of hopped in with a vague idea of what I want. Probably not the best idea considering I'm so new to it :P . Should be finished in a matter of minutes.

EDIT: Oh and expensive indeed, $3,495 :O

EDIT EDIT: New stuff!


I really should have made an environment or at least a few strokes of grey but I had already overlayed the colors T-T oh well. I went in wanting to make some sort of metal shoulder guard, then I sort of got inspired by the Protoss from SC2, funny considering I don't even play it.

[xero]

Nice work! These are all pretty darn good! I'm a 3D artist myself; though I don't have anything good enough that I'd like to share, perhaps in the future that will change.

I used to use Blender, but it's interface was so cluttered and confusing to me... I now use Autodesk 3D Studio Max. It's insanely powerful!

[Littlebigdude805]

Oh yes, it is scary at first, SO many buttons :O This is why it's best to get acquainted with the key strokes. Then you can close and minimize all those menus and work at an incredible rate.

[xero]

Oh yes, it is scary at first, SO many buttons :O This is why it's best to get acquainted with the key strokes. Then you can close and minimize all those menus and work at an incredible rate.

I don't know if I could ever get used to Blender now... I think I'll just stick to 3DS Max or Maya. Have you ever thought about texturing those nice models of yours? Slap a bump map and a normal map on those puppies and they could look even better!

[Littlebigdude805]

I don't know if I could ever get used to Blender now... I think I'll just stick to 3DS Max or Maya. Have you ever thought about texturing those nice models of yours? Slap a bump map and a normal map on those puppies and they could look even better!

Yea, I had but they are kinda old now. Now I have some good know-how on doing that and I would like to apply it to some better models.

[ALEXhatena]

I believe you have a good future at anything related with 3D figures and drawing.

[warlord_evil]

You are very excellence.