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My latest work....

She's a deadly WWII era assassin who, as you may have guessed, specialises in gassing her victims before pumping them full of lead. There's an element of craziness about her that I wanted to come across in her character - no one knows if there's even a face under her mask, not even me.


I used Topogun and Mudbox lots here. Topogun proved essential in the making of Gas-Mask as it allowed me to really focus in on her topology whilst still retaining the shape exactly how I wanted it. Topogun was also used extensively in the creation of the texture maps, as the ambient occlusion baking works more perfectly than I could have imagined.

As ever, comments and crits welcome ]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:55:25 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/801488

“Lewain” is a character of my own creation and is part of a fantasy world which I have envisioned.

He is the childhood friend of one of my previous elfen characters (“Thralia”) and is a mischievous and arrogant young thief who can't stay out of trouble.

In this image we see Lewain going to poach for valuable crystals in the river. I decided to situate Lewain on a wooden base to allow me to present the character and hint at the type of environment in which he lives.

The project was initially started as an exercise in Mudbox, where I sculpted the head from a cube. The high-resolution head mesh was imported in to 3ds Max 2010 where I used the new Graphite Modelling Tool Kit to re-topologise the model, and continued to build the rest of the character. Lewain was unwrapped using Xray Unwrap, and his textures were created in Photoshop.

Materials and rendering were done with Vray, and some slight post-processing and effects was done with Photoshop.

Modelling and Rendering the 1.3 million polygon scene was completed in 11 parts on an Intel Q9550, with 4GB memory, a Geforce GTX285 and Windows Vista 32bit.

The image took about 4 weeks to complete in my spare time in the evening and at weekends.


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Hi all. Meet Thralia.

This project has been a learning project. I originally did the first drawing of her a year ago. She was then made into a model, which was then left, and recreated keeping only the face. A lot of inspiration has come from the movie Arthur and the Invisibles, which I'm still yet to see, but I like the look of the characters.

All hair and grass is done with Ornatrix, and rendered as geometry. I spent over a week playing around with various hair plugins. And eventually came up with this, which I'm happy with.

Her face is rigged fully with stretchy bones, instead of morpher. First time I've done it, but I'd recommend it to everyone who uses morpher as opposed to bones. There's a lot more control.

Let me know what you think guys.

Special thanks to Tyson Ibele (www.tysonibele.com) for his brilliant free tutorial on creating stretchy bones.

Thanks to AndyH...You are the man when it comes to cartoon characters. You're an inspiration to us all.]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:35:55 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/824311

A speed sculpt as part of my training in Mudbox.]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:04:59 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/777821

Hello all.

This was a model created for a book cover about 5 months ago.

Rexy was modelled over the course of about 2 days and then textured with hand painted maps. A vray displacement map was used for the primary bumps with a cellular/scaley bump map on top.

Hope you all like it! As always comments and crits are appreciated!

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Hey people.

I've had this scene knocking around for a while and finally got it rendered off so I thought I'd show. Not much to say really, it's my guitar.

The wire didn't really turn out very well, but that seems to be mainly a result of my DOF settings in photoshop (using Zdepth).

I think it turned out okay...not great, but okay

Let me know what you all think. Thanks for looking.

Oh and for all you fellow guitar players, the hardware is my Vintage V100 Les Paul copy (a £200 guitar, with solid mahogany body and set neck) guitar with a DiMarzio PAF Pro in the neck and DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge...Both excellent pickups. And my Roland Cube 15 Watt. ]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:46:26 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/504910

Hi guys. First image for a while, and it's a re-make of an old image I did when I was just getting started with max. I've tried to keep some of the charm from the original, but I've used a few new techniques, struggled with particles, had fights with fur simulators, and wrestled with Vray. I'm pretty happy with the way it's turned out.

I've tried to capture the magic of an enchanted forest, with lush greenery, a bright yellow sun light effect and the feel that beyond the house, the forest could go on forever.

I really love the fantasy genre and wanted a feel that could be seen as realistic, but cartoony...Kind of a similar feel to the Shrek movies.

People liked the first version so I can only hope that version 2 is as pleasing. Let me know what you all think. Thanks!

Oh yeah, for those of you who want to see the original image, go here. http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/media/folder_12/file_117115.jpg]]> Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:31:54 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/634673

Hi all,

Nothing too special here. Just felt like I hadn't really modelled anything for ages, so I modelled my phone. It was done in around 10 hours to try and expand my portfolio to show some more range as I'm no longer a student.

It was modelled mainly with ProBoolean in Max 9. I haven't used Booleans for so long, but I think here it proved much easier and quick than poly-modelling everything.

All textures by me (except the sunflower photo, that's from Google so thanks to whoever took the photo), I know the font isn't the correct font but m'eh.

Let me know what you think. Cheers people.]]> Fri, 23 May 2008 10:15:25 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/776443

This was a pretty quick sculpt I did in about 1 and a half hours. I'm really enjoying Mudbox, and the whole schulpting thing. ]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:35:12 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/767322

A draft render of one of the buildings I completed for Lloyds TSB Welcome Wall. ]]> Mon, 25 May 2009 07:53:49 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/777904

A draft render of one of the buildings I completed for Lloyds TSB Welcome Wall. ]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:52:31 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/777902

A draft render of one of the buildings I completed for Lloyds TSB Welcome Wall. ]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:51:55 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/767321

A draft render of one of the buildings I completed for Lloyds TSB Welcome Wall. ]]> Mon, 25 May 2009 07:52:14 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/767319

A draft render of one of the buildings I completed for Lloyds TSB Welcome Wall. ]]> Mon, 25 May 2009 07:48:26 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/767325

A draft render of one of the buildings I completed for Lloyds TSB Welcome Wall. ]]> Mon, 25 May 2009 07:59:43 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/767320

A draft render of one of the buildings I completed for Lloyds TSB Welcome Wall. ]]> Mon, 25 May 2009 07:49:13 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/767310

Hello again people.

During some downtime at work I downloaded the trial of Mudbox and finally tried my hand at a bit of sculpting.

This was my second attempt at it, and I think it's not bad for a newb.]]> Mon, 25 May 2009 07:13:54 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/765047

Hey all.

Just a speed paint of Iron Man I did yesterday using ArtRage 2.5 and my bamboo.

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Did this a while ago during the design process of my flagship character Thralia.

It's ok, her breasts came out a little bigger than they should be though I think. ]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:25:36 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/633224

This is the latest design of my Thralia character, and more painting practice. I'm satisfied with this design (for now). Quite different to the original 3D version, but I like it more. Has more of an edge to the character.

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Hi all.

This is my first venture into the 2D forum, with a painted take of my 3D Riverbank Avenue.

I recently bought a graphics tablet and so thought I'd try and persue 2D art as well as 3D. It's good fun, and although this image is by no means perfect it was still a joy to create.

Love to hear from you 2D guys about what you think about it. Most of it was done with standard Photoshop round brushes, trees were achieved by adding scattering.

Thanks!]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:28:32 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/364896

This girl is my first attempt at a real human face... I used HairF/X for the hair and brazil for render. Textures painted in PS-CS. There are over 250 model hairs used to create the hair. The more I use HairF/X the more i love it.

The render of the girl took about 10 hours at full resolution, and suprisingly at the same res the hair only took 20 minutes, even at 250 hairs per face.

Let me know what you think on this one so I know what areas to work on next time.

Thanks.

PS. I've been told I went overboard with the bump mapping Yay? Nay?]]> Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:25:42 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/618735

My re-creation of everybodies favourite Space Ranger.

An old piece of work, but I still think I did well with this one.]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:46:28 +0000 http://chriswalker.cgsociety.org/gallery/273212

This is a re-work of an image I did a while ago. It's called Le Hovel because it reminds me of a holidy home in France I stayed in once which was called Le Hovel, not that it was a hovel, it was actually a really nice place

The grass is from a photo and it's comped in PS.
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