Hi all.
Well its been ages since I did any sketching, just been busy in the production side of animations so fely I really need to start sketching again myself. Before I started GioChronoStudios, at my previous full-time position we all decided to do a daily (or weekly when shedule was too busy) speed paint.
One person would nominate a simple 1 to 3 word description on the spot and then we would all have 30 mins to some up with an idea and sketch it out as quick as possible usually using Photoshop.
I decided to start it off with the rough idea of orc-man. Not a full on big orc but a sort of half breed looking character.
Anyway the result although nothing special was a nice change from being in Maya all the time and hopefully the start of a weekly sketch at least to get my rusty drawing skills back on form.
So for now, here’s the first speed painting.
Orc Man Speed Painting Fantasy Concept Design
Cheers
-Gio
Hi all,
I just bought SprayTrace plug-in for Maya. It’s a new progressive rendering window fro use in Mental Ray in Maya.
Still early and they are updating it with some additional features but so far it’s proving to be a very useful look development tool.
For more information go check out www.SprayTrace.com
Cheers
Gio
Been busy on various projects (lost count at 6) but here’s some more work in progress bits and pieces…
My alien character rendered in Maya now.
Alien Render
Also heres some more characters from the same animation.
3D Boy Character Model
CG Mum Character Model
And the Aliens ride.
UFO 3D model
Now and then when clients permit, I like to post updates here. I’m working on about 8 projects at the moment but this is one that I’m having fun with.
It’s a fun commerical and one of the characters is this alien character
Alien Character Concept Design
Here’s the base model in Maya
Alien Body Model
And this is the Zbrush sculpt…
Alien Character Zbrush Sculpt
More to follow…
Regards
Gio
New & Improved GioChronoStudios website and a new Blog is now live.
After some hard work, sleepless nights in what little spare time I have, I’m happy to say that our new website is now pretty much done and is now live at GioChronoStudios
We also have a news page which will be reseved purely for mentioning projects we are working on or have completed that we feel are of note, but this blog is more general and a place where I can post links to animations we think are cool that our members may like, or potential clients might see and think would be useful as examples or reference for us to use when creating work for them. This page also serves as a place for you to comment and share your own links. we may well post Work-In-Progress shots here for feeback (when clients approve of course).
So that’s all for now but watch this space and don’t forget to subscribe to keep up to date.
Oh and another thing, I also have a twitter feed so if you want more little bits of news about projects and software I’m using and testing then click my name on the twitter feed to the upper right.
Regards
Gio
Art Director & Lead Artist
GioChronoStudios
