Category Archives: 3d

Freezing Tips

Abominable Snowman was the theme for Drawergeeks this week. Where else would a Yeti be more at home than a vintage household magazine?  At least that was my “thinking”. Lots and lots of making of stuff if’n you click on the “more” link. Click the image for some super yeti-zoom action.

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Dye Know Soar

For the latest Drawer Geeks. Yep, dinosaurs was the topic.  Click it for a bigger version. Here’s the original sketch.     

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faster than a speeding wiener

Another illustration from the book I just finished up illustrating. We actually went to the wiener dog races last summer in Fort Wayne, and they were a total hoot. Click it for a zoom.

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Zannin’ it 3d

Well here he is. I tried some new shading stuff and it worked out pretty good I think. Read on for a lil’ bit of making of spiff. Here’s the base modeling of the scene.  Nice and blocky. And here’s the body smoothed out with the material applied.  I find this ridiculously disturbing. I hope...

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Galactus, 2d or 3d? You be the judge.

I did this for the latest drawergeeks. Read on to see a bunch o’ making of crap.   First up is the sketch. Drawn directly with a sharpie, no pencil scribblinz involved. Then… yeah, I went into Maya and drew out the curves/outlines. I thought about doing this in Photoshop or Illustrator, but you know,...

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chicken dude revisited

in t-shirt form, no less. Yeah, I know. I’m going to stop the threadless submissions soon. My work’s clearly not a good fit. In the meantime, I had to give this guy a shot.  

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penguin pileup

A cover I recently did for an educational math book.  Super extra double fun job.

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hoop jumping

Well after my mouse shirt scored a stunning 2.4 out of 5 on threadless, I thought I’d best post on something else. Anyway, here’s an illustration from a children’s book I just finished illustrating.

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another pooch

Here’s another character from the book I’m working on.  He’s worried but friendly. Just like me. Click on more for the initial sketch and another view.

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a christmas bow

I did this for the latest DrawerGeeks. Click on the “more” link below the pic to see a whole buncha making of stuff if’n you like.

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3d doggie, sketch2model

Here’s a character from a new children’s book I’m illustrating. All the main characters are dogs, so I’m excited. I like dogs. Anyway, here’s one of the characters. Click on “more” for some, well, more.  Here’s the initial character design sketch. Iddn’t he cute? And here’s a test render of the final model.

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Cream Filled Sponge Cake

No, not a twinkie silly.  I did this awhile ago, but believe it or not, this illustration was actually produced wall sized and installed in the lobby of a Seattle Ad Agency.

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Robird Redux

So I had this illustration from an old Drawergeeks, and I was never fully satisfied with the way it was lit, or its materials. Well I’ve been using custom Mental Ray shaders a lot more recently,  so I decided to give it another whack. I’m liking this a lot better. Much more moody/interesting I think. ...

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Mash talk

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I’ve got some new Taterbots up on Taterbot.com, check ‘em out if you get a chance. Here’s one of the new guys. This is Masher (along with his faux advertising copy). With an advanced degree in tater pain, Masher brings his obvious wit and delicate sensibilites to bear in all his spud mushing activites.  An integral addition to...

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The PorkChomps are here, wheeee!

So we’re at the Petco getting some doggie chow and lo and behold, there’s a PorkChomps display!  I did the character/logo for this a bit ago, and it was super neato to see it finally out in the wild.  So we bought a few packs. Our doggies loved ‘em. Probably because of the logo.

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Not just for Xmas anymore.

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Taterbot

Well, I’m launching my new toy design site, taterbot.com.  So, in honor of that, here’s a hirkin’ taterbot step by step post!  So buckle up and read on. Okay, the first step in the creation of the taterbot was to start with some sketches. Here are some of my initial drawings. This one was kind...

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Vinyl Smoothie Pig

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By popular demand, here’s my grunting pig toy design all nice and smoothed out. Smoothed or cubed, he still wants to be your scowling friend.

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a vinyl cubic pig for your office?

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So, I’m putting together a website where I can pitch some of my vinyl toy design ideas based on my 3d illustrations.  Yeah, it’s weird, but what the hey. Anyway, this is just a test to see if I can embed video. Hopefully it works ok. In fact, please let me know if it does...

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Indybot

This week’s drawergeeks was Indiana Jones. Since I’ve been sketching so many robots lately, I figured, why not? Keep reading for a bunch of step by step stuff. First came the sketch. Sharpie on post it notes, of course. (shhhhh, this was drawn during a meeting.) My really simple robot drawings translate into really simple...

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