Fish on Patrol

Ok... I know that last Wednesday, I said I would be posting this that night. I actually had something to post, but when I saw that no one else on the CG Character Challenge had posted anything for the week, I thought I would take an additional week to make this a lot better. I'm glad I did... I really like how this turned out.

The challenge that I did this for was Lurpy Cop Sea Animal Female. I built this fish to be like a officer/patrol car hybrid; with the body painted with the colors of a patrol car (I tried to make the top fin look like red & blue police lights), and topped with a classic bobby hat that holds a starfish badge.

Don't mess with her... she'll jack you up!

Well... hello, there.

It's been awhile since I posted anything. Last Monday, I had surgery to take my gallbladder out. Between recovering from that and doing some freelance work, I haven't had a lot of time to do anything.

This image was for the last CG Character Challenge, which was Crazy Cook Dog Female. I only really had time to get the modeling and VERY quick texture job done on it. There were several other things that I wanted to add to make her more feminine, but I just didn't have the time or energy. I'm just going to have to call 'er good until I have time to re-visit the old gal.

Will you BEE my love?

Man... that title is pretty lame.

This is my submission for this week's CG Character Challenge, which was Twitterpated Computer Nerd Insect Male. Because of my lack of time this week, I ended up using a bee that I created several years ago for my sister, Sharman (if you're interested, you can read the back story here).

I pretty much threw this together in about an hour.

Evil Turtle

This was my submission for this week's CG Character Challenge, which was Evil Delivery Boy Turtle. I spent most of the week being busy with side work and having to go to the emergency room with a gallbladder attack - which, while it was very painful, I'm extremely glad that it wasn't more serious.

I really like this character, and was a bit sad that I didn't get to finish him. Hopefully, I'll have some time to finish him up in the future. If nothing else, I'd really like to take him into Zbrush. I have some fun ideas to do for his textures and detail.

Fighting Fire with Fire

Man... I need to get a lot better at posting.

For this week's CG Character Challenge, the goal was to make a Frustrated Fire Fighter Food Female. I thought it was cool that every word started with the letter 'F'. I wanted to make a food character that started with an 'f', but I couldn't find one that I liked. Instead, I chose a red chili pepper so that I could go with the whole 'hot vs. hot' theme.

I also have this scenario set up to have two frustrations. The first frustration is that she can't figure out why she isn't getting any water out her hose to fight the fire. The second will be when the hose becomes unkinked and she gets a face full of liquid pain.

Oopsie!

It's been awhile since I've posted. It's been pretty busy over here, so I haven't had a lot of time for doing art, outside of the freelance stuff that I've been doing.

I was barely able to get this done. It was for last week's CG Character Challenge - which was Clumsy Cowgirl Dinosaur. She's supposed to be tripping over something, but I probably should've built something for her to trip over... maybe a cow pie.

This guy could use a good meal

This is my entry for this week's CG Character Challenge, which was Sad Lumber Jack Skeleton Male. I had a lot going on this week, so I wasn't able to get a lot of what I wanted to do with it. If I had the time, I would've had him holding an axe, with one of his arms accidentally chopped off. Instead, it just looks like he's sad to be a living skeleton, working for a lumber jacking company.

Also, I didn't get any art up yesterday because it was my son's birthday, I was working on some freelance jobs, and then spent the last couple hours of the day working on this. You know... considering the lack of time that I had to do this, I'm pretty proud of how much I got done. :)

There's something soothing about a snowman playing banjo music

This is my entry for this week's challenge - Sleepy Musician Snowman. I'm kind of sad that I spent so much time on details that can't be seen, yet have several areas that I wish I would've improved, instead.

Oh, well. On to the next challenge

That looks unBEARable!

This is my submission for this week's CG Character Challenge, which was Angry Construction Bear Male.

I snuck my signature in here. My initials are RGB. That is also the initials for the Red Green Blue color channels used in computer image reading. You'll notice that the bears are red, green, and blue. Clever... eh? I've done it in several other pieces of my artwork.

He's so good looking, it makes him mad

This was my submission for the CG Character Challenge, this week. The challenge was FURIOUS MODEL DRAGON MALE. Mine is an underwear model - which is probably was he is so furious.

It was a tough one - mostly because I hadn't been able to do it for the last month. Now that my side work has slowed down, I was finally able to get it. I've spent most of today finishing it up... which would explain why I didn't post a piece of art yesterday.

On to the next challenge!

Not quite there

This week's challenge was a Happy Politician Amphibian Male. I was really stoked about this challenge, because my wife and I had worked together on a really cool idea for it. In addition to this model, I was going to add some cool textures and materials that had some cool colors and designs, as well as some cool translucense in the material. Then, I was going to pose him, so it looked like he was throwing money in the air.

Unfortunately, I had to spend most of yesterday flying to North Carolina (for work), so this was all I was able to get done by the deadline. I really liked where this was going, so I may finish it later down the road.

Rock & Roll meets Sufistication

This was my submission for this week's CG Character Challenge. The challenge was to create a "Refined Rockstar Inanimate Object Female". I like how it turned out, and special thanks to my wife for helping me with the colors.

Resuscitation

It's time to bring this blog back to life.

Hopefully this will be the first piece of many to come. This is something that I did for a challenge that I just started for a bunch of artists I know. Every week, a random character is drawn from a bunch of different options. We then have a week to put build it.

This week's challenge was to build a 'Dizzy Teach Gargoyle Male". Unfortunately, I was only able to finish the modeling, but I was really happy with what I did get done.

If you want to keep an eye on this challenge, you can find it here: http://cgcharacterchallenge.blogspot.com/