JLA

Some time ago, I started to do fast sketches to warm-up before I started working, or just to pass time... Mysteriously, I did a LOT of DC Comics JLA characters (I'm a Marvel person :D), and WORSE, I did not drawn my favorites (Blue Beetle, Booster Gold and Guy Gardner) from the JLI era League...

And that's a good idea for the future :D.

Ments Monsters!

Just a character test I did a couple of months ago and (as always) did not get used. Initially the job only required an octopus holding some hi-tech equipment and trying to reach a character on the other page...

But THEN, the client required the octopus to have enormous tentacles reaching the top of the page holding the title of the article. That was hours after I modeled, rigged, and textured the octopus.

In the end, the idea was scrapped and the lil'bugger found his way here :D.

All is Full of Love - Japs Version!

Remember kids: you first solve your client problems, THEN you try to be fancy.

Most of the time, the client have a unique and clear view about WHAT he wants done... Aaaaaand most of the time, he's simply unable to show me his vision properly :P.

In those cases, I just try to match as close as possible my references while I follow the specific requests for the job.

For this specific piece, that approach simply didn't work :D.

My client (the brazillian Playboy magazine) wanted a mixture of a robot with a crash test dummy, based on the visuals of Bjork's All is Full of Love music video. So, I searched for an appropriate 3D female head model, wiped some faces, created some pieces of wannabe machines, cooked up an eerie cold factory lighting and THEN... they told me that they wanted a MALE face...

So, I scrapped the face and the body. And started anew with an appropriate male model. Had to delete most of the detail on the neck area, blah blah blah... (I will post the final version of the job on my official portfolio).

But since I liked the somewhat peaceful look of the original I decided to finish it, with a proper render and a more dramatic color palette and lighting. The second version is just a composite of the final processed render with the occlusion pass (an interesting by-product of the occlusion pass is a pencil rendered wannabe look).