Einsteindwarf free model and rig

This spring I published an article in Blenderart #15 (www.blenderart.org) about development and rigging of my "Einsteindwarf" character. I decided to share the mesh and rig with Blender community.

Here is my post at the Blenderartists forum:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1271798#post1271798
(you can download the rig from there)

and I have been featured at Blendernation:
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/12/06/einsteindwarf-free-rig/



So, if you use Blender for 3D animation, here is a new toy to play with (some limitations apply, read the post at Blendernation)

SumoKnight: low polygon character model

WOO HOO! It has been almost a year since my last post! Lot of things happened in a meanwhile, I have been to United States, I returned to Macedonia, had interviews in the game industry... so I haven't posted anything in a while.

This is Sumoknight, my pet project in a meanwhile. Concept art:

Finished 3D model, less than 1200 polygons!





Textured model: Color, normal and specularity map


Render in Game Engine: SumoKnight: low polygon character model (1105 polygons) fully textured, viewed in the game engine with Axe (152 polygons) and shield (64 polygons). This is “idle” action, so that he can move and not appear totally zombified.


Short animations with idle action can be seen on Vimeo:

http://www.vimeo.com/1937794
http://www.vimeo.com/1937633

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Riste

BLAST FROM THE PAST part three !!!

This is one of my favorite projects, my wife Marina wrote wonderful lyrics in Macedonian and I have drawn the illustrations. Pages one to five for your viewing pleasure!

BLAST FROM THE PAST part two !!!

Those are series of illustrations made for ALLCOOP (Alliance for Lake Cooperation of Ohrid and Prespa region). They published lovely booklet with which children are to learn basics of ecology while playing in nature. Of course it was made even better by me drawing its illustrations ;o)

BLAST FROM THE PAST !!!

Rummaging through my CD archive, I have found those pieces! Previously unpublished on the web, those are series of cartoons made for the Lake Ohrid Conservation Project.

BunnyRider! Igor Knows!

Some more art for your viewing pleasure!BunnyRider! He is really afraid of something!

Igor Knows!

This is (imho) one of the greatest Hollywood character creations! This is the way I see him!

Three comics pages in pencil:

Generic Ork vs Generic Dwarf assisted by Noble… anyway, see for yourself:

Three comic pages set in Tolkien’s kind of universe. Comments and critiques welcome!

In the meanwhile...

I haven't posted anything for a little while... the reason for that is that some of the stuff made in the meanwhile is yet un-postable (for copyright reasons, although it hasn't been paid yet), and this is the other thing that is postable ;-) (or Blogable... hmmmm, one wonders about those new words...)


This is my 3D - character, made for short animation which I am planning to do in a next few months. It was modeled in Blender (free 3D app, but as powerful (and even more powerful) as anything out there: visit www.Blender.org). This is Ambient Occlusion render of the modeled character without textures. (Ambient Occlusion fancy word to describe light condition which is similar to the cloudy day)



The same character with textures. (textures describe surface properties of the material: color, bumps, the way it reflects the light, etc, etc). Character is also rigged, which means that he is able to move (and change his facial expressions) - in fact he can act! More of that very soon!

If interested, you can visit thread on the blenderart forums which covers this character creation on the almost step - by - step basis!

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=91877

SantaDwarf brings Christmas present to one Dwarfling

Inspiration for this piece came with the season... It was actually drawn and painted on Christmas Day (most of it after son and missus went to sleep ;-D)

Pencil on paper, scanned and inked digitally:

I wanted to use warm honey color for the background when painting: I am quite satisfied with the final result. After this stage I felt that adding more color to the picture would actually take away some of its magic.

At the end I just added vignette and my blospot adress:

I hope you like it!