Work Samples Sheet (2nd Draft)

Here's the 2nd draft of my work samples sheet. Any suggestions or tips to make it better are always welcomed and appreciated.

Sidenote: The image on the lower left corner is the mural i was working on at school. it is located in the 'activity room' inside the Westwood College South Bay campus.

Ok, I'm Back.

I haven't updated my blog in a while for several reason, but none you'd care to hear about. With that said, I will get started on some new models and show you my progress as well as upload some photos of a recent mural I "finished" at school. Thanks to anyone reading this for taking the time to check out my work.

Merick on Turntable

Here is the turntable for our character Merick.

Merick [Turntable] from Juan Ortiz on Vimeo.

Merick: Z-Brush [UPDATE]

After getting some feed back on the character we have made a few changes to the sculpt. I actually had to start the sculpt over again because of some issues I had with the 2nd version of the sculpt. So yes, I have sculpted the same character 3 times now. Hopefully this latest version is the best so far. No done with it yet, but getting there.

Character "Merick": Z-Brush Color [UPDATE]

Just a quick update on the character. I added the diamond symbol on his forehead and also did some more painting in Z-Brush on the ear.

Character "Merick": Z-Brush Color x Sketch

I guess I shall start this post by announcing that we have decided to change the name of our character from "Nero" to "Merick". I main reason being that one of our classmates already had a character named Nero.

The two images above are of our character Merick with some simple colorizing done in Z-Brush. The second image is a sketch off the character that Eric Griffith did to give me a idea of the look he was going for.

Character "Nero" Z-Brush Sculpt UPDATE

I took me a while and a few different methods but i finally got the look i was going for on his outfit. I am currently trying to get the details on the forearms and lower legs done. But here's the detail on his forehead.