Shub-Work 01: Update

Sorry I haven't posted anything on Friday the 11th I was busy finishing up on a model I have been putting off for a long time, and it is an updated rig of my character Albert. 

Don't worry I will have a playblast of the rig in action very soon.

*I have finished the Previs to show off the new rig and Blend Shapes*

The only difference this model has when compared to his older model is that now Albert has an FK/IK switch on both his legs and arms. I did have a lot of problems when updating this model for instances some how the mesh was not connected to the rig so I had re-skin the entire model again.

Also the blend shapes controls did not work so I had to reapply them to the head again, but when doing that a few of the blend shapes did not operate properly so I had to make a new set.

Example 1 of old Blend Shape working

Example 2 of old Blend Shape not working

To make things more trouble some both of Albert's eyelids also were not working so I had to remake them too. The good news is that I found some helpful tutorials on how to make cartoon eyes in maya.

*Here is the Previs*

Yet besides all of these set backs it was all worth it in the end.

I might take a break from this and start finishing on my fanart for my sister. Hopefully it won't take me this long to actually start working on animating him.

Shub-Art Work in Progress 01: Bayonetta

Sorry for not being too active last week I was sick but I am feeling much better now. The next picture i am making was a request from my sister, she asked me to draw her the game character Bayonetta. Partly because my sister felt I need to draw more female characters and also Bayonetta is her favorite character.

As you can see Bayonetta it is not finished but that doesn't mean I can't talk about it. The idea I had was having her surfing down a building while shooting at baddies, but that idea might change in the future I don't know I was going for a really cool pose instead of those boring sexy pose that most artists draw Bayonetta in. The hardest parts to draw was her guns on her hands and her glasses everything else was not that bad.

This is all I have to show for now, sorry it's not a finished picture like my last two but I don't want to ruin my scheduled of posting my stuff every two weeks or a month.
Hopefully I will finished this picture so I can work on and even cooler picture in the future.

Shub-Art 01: Dog House 01

It's been two weeks so here is my second picture.


DogHouse 01 by ~Shub125 on deviantART

It just a picture of a guy and his dog Biscuit going out for walkys. Nothing weird there unless you count a dog possessing his own doghouse.

This is an idea I have where an owner has a dead dog that can possess anything, the dog chooses his own house because he feels comfortable. The rest of the idea is just about them doing their own things just the dog is supernatural.

Well that's all today, don't know what I will draw next, maybe more adventures of the owner and Biscuit the dog. Who knows I might come up with a name for the owner by then :)

An update on my blog.

Hey guys sorry I haven't been on my blog forever just got massively distracted by things *cough* games *cough*. Anyway to those who don't know what happened on my trip here's the sort version. It was fun, enjoyed Anime Expo, ten times better then London Expo. Thinking of going to Anime Expo again but the trip is pretty pricey so I don't know.

Next I am going to talk about the future of my blog, I am thinking of turning this into a drawing blog where I will post some drawings once every two weeks or month. Hopefully this will give me something to do as well improving on drawing skills.

To start things off here is my first fanart of one of coolest Street Fighter characters Vega.


Vega Fanart by ~Shub125 on deviantART

I actually made this to get signed by one of his voice actors. I drew him in my style for fun, I did get some advice from friends on shading him in photoshop and how to ink him nicely. Adding in details to his gold bands and tattoo was also fun.

This is what I got so far, I am planning to make some more so take a look at my blog once in a while.
Take care and have a nice day, also leave some feedback to let me know on what to improve on.

Drawing Practice 01

Hey everyone sorry I haven't been posting much on my blog, it was a bit of laziness and my motherboard broke. 

So during that time I decided to improve on my drawing skills. I used some random life drawing images from a site that had a link to it. The site is call sycra.net and the link is under resources, the link is called pixelovely.

I also did some doodles just for fun as well as another way to improve on my drawing skills.

That is all I have to show for now. Once again I won't be posting too much because I will be going on a trip to Los Angeles next week. I hope it will be fun and when I come back I will try to remember to post about my trip. So until next time take care everyone.

Speed Paint Challenge: Speed Paint 2 version 4

Here is the forth and final remake of Speed Paint 2. I felt this was more towards the feelings I had when listening to the music 2; a burst of sad, emotional destruction. In a weird way it moves me, and I am not the type of person who likes being depressed but I am the type that likes music that gives me different unexpected feeling. The circles are meant to represent the destruction while the hoops meant to represent the long anticipation to the climactic BOOM. Again the use of red and yellow are meant to show danger with a hit of orange to give it a bit of variety.

This is the last painting I will make for the Speed Painting Challenge, like I mentioned in my last post. After this I will then work twice as hard on my own work and I will start posting them here as well on my deviant art page and sometimes on facebook. Taking part on this challenge was really fun I enjoyed it a lot and it really did spark my creative side once again. Lets hope I will be more active on this blog :).

So until my next post, which hopefully won't be too long, take care everyone.

Speed Paint Challenge: Painting 2 remake

I was able to get in contact with Phil, my old uni tutor, and he informed me that the Speed Paint Challenge only has 10 music pieces and we can do as many versions of the digital painting based around one music as many times as we want.

With that in mind I decided to remake the only painting that I did not like the most, Speed Paint 2.

Speed Paint 2

As mentioned before I did not like this painting at all because it didn't represent the music I was listening. I believe most of the problem came from me painting this picture late at night.
So when I heard that we can make as many versions of a digital painting based around one music as many times as we want, I thought that remaking this specific painting would be perfect.
When re-listening to the music It gave me chills, it starts of gentle with a steady beat then BOOM an explosion of sound that gave me the feeling of destruction or burst of energy or an end of something, then the music slowly quiets down.
The next two pictures represents the booming part of the music.

Speed Paint 2 version 2

 Speed Paint 2 version 3

Both pictures represents the booming part of the music because it feels so powerful, scary and emotional. I felt the red and yellow really give it the sense of danger and an idea of level of heat.

I might make a forth one even though these two a good I feel like making another one.

Well that's all I have made so far, I really have to thank Phil for bringing this challenge to my attention and thanks to him I feel creative all over again. I decided when I make the forth version of Speed Paint 2 I will then work on my own things again and this time I will not get too lazy until I feel like I deserve it.

Thanks Phil your awesome :)