It has been a while

Hi guys sorry for not posting much for a while and it is the cause of my wrist, few days ago my hand stopped working...again! yeah, the wrist just below the thumb muscle area hurts like hell when i grab a pencil or a cup ( the grip move is no good ) and the bone is popping out of place to a very noticeable degree and when i press it it sure damn hurts.

going through massage therapy now with a daily hot compressing and as well as wrist orth band... lets see if that will get me back on the train...

with me luck guys and you enjoy art! and stay healthy!

Steam Punk Wizard from Concept to 3D

Alright! so 2 years ago I came up with the steam punk wizards and today I guess I have the capability to bring that vision I had to reality, started with the 1st main character ( the kid ) ( possible name aquatiqo ) not sure yet.

so finished the 3D model of the character, next is unwrapping and texture

3D repair work was done

today I have done some 3D repair work on a 3D model for a client it took two hours fixing that mesh for 3D print, it was a horror to work with that mesh, but I managed and got the job done i guess

the original mesh after a bit of tweak on the hair line  since it was flat

the final result 

am sure it will 3D print very well since everything is properly meshed out now and no hanging parts 

quick modeling

I have done a quick model based on a model sheet for a portrait, I think it took around an hour and half? and the texture took me a while but the result came out really good

am very happy with the result!

Update : after the eyelashes! and the eye texture! sweet! today I surprised my self! 

Update 2:

after some feedback from my friend and soul brother Ali Alkhiro pushed the good result to be an awesome result

announcement to game designers and game developers

Announcement

Am ready to create 3D lowpoly models for your game with very affordable prices, creating game assets and characters with price range starts from 5$ for asset and 15$ for character and goes higher with more details and more maps that comes with the model from (ambient occlusion, normal map, spectacular map, etc ) the file will be exported in any format needed,  without rigging.

Okay! texture study! aaaaand new model !? :D

alright! I promised I will do texture study so here is my 1st one today using paint tool sai!

aaaand!!! i did something new! I reused the old female model with a bit of soft modification tool and learned how to recreate stuff from old models and make a better use out of it! :) am happy about that 

Mugger! my favorite character from my life with Fel serious by the awesome http://kennoarkkan.deviantart.com/

quick painting practice

since now I can do 3D modeling and texturing them with no legal issues regarding the license, am taking 3D more seriously thanks to Blender foundation.

so now am doing a daily practice painting plus daily quick modeling from now on! but sadly I wont have internet connection for a while T___T  but will update you guys as soon as possible!

here is the practice painting

have a good day ahead

ouh and to the muslem fellows, Happy eid!

rigging pending and new character model

so! previous I said I was going to rig...and Jesus! I still hate rigging and even more, paint weight! it sucks but it had to be done, the girl is rigged now with mata rig in blender and working on the animation, I wont show much now since am not happy with the results at all.

anyway a new character model that am close to finish and there are 3 or 4 to follow!

Portfolio Update

alright guys! updated my portfolio today and here it comes!

http://zaidmjraven.blogspot.com/p/art-works.html

Johnny Mnemonic Imagination to reality?

Today I was thinking about the technology we are having now and the direction that it is going to, and made me think that Jhonny Mnemonic.

In case you don't know what is Jhonny Mnemonic ( uncle google will tell you ).

Technology has reached the body gesture sensors, we have the 32GBs memory stick and the 8 GB microcard,

so I think lets say what? 10 years? less? we can store 200GBs in a small chip and it can be placed in someones brain! the vision that people thought it was fiction 15 years ago, is close to reality, and the vision we are having now also will one day be reality like Dues ex Human revolution

fiction is soon reaching reality, but the bad sides of it as it was in the fiction will follow? we dont know until we reach there.

Just something I thought of sharing, I hope you enjoyed the idea :D

The Black smith Scene

now everything is done! small nap since I have been awake for the past 9 hours, than straight to rigging!

and just thinking about rigging now....am frightened T____T

Updated the anvil texture

and worked on rigging last night, it didnt go well at all....

the Anvil

so I finished working on the anvil for the back smith and now the peace of metal he will be working own which will be very simple to do! :D

and after the piece of metal rigging and animaaaation! :D

Update :

so I adjusted the proportions of the anvil after I put it with the character and the furnace and now it looks cool :D here is everything together

the Black Smith Furnace

Okay sorry that I was away for a while, I was moving to a new place and just today started working again, the black smith will be a whole scene ( simplistic ) he will be working on a sword so it will have a bit of animation :) today I finished the Furnace and tmrw will work on the anvil and the sword and hopefully will rig and animate it to have a complete out put :)

here is my work for today

Solid

with wire frame

with diffuse map

Ambient occlusion map

Diffuse map

Softwares used:

Blender 2.68

Paint Tool Sai

Spriter B6 Pro

Yesterday BrashMonkey.com released a teaser for the new Spriter release, am so proud to be one of the kick starters in that project and even more proud to be friend and a student of one of the people who is involved in developing this awesome wonderful kick ass software.

Q : What is Spriter?

A : It is a new Indie software created by Brashmonkey.com, it is the new solution for 2D games graphics and more!

Spriter is a cut out animation style software, importing pre-created graphics into the software and animate them ( and with the new release I would say animate them freely )

and now it got sound, easing curve for your animation, and it already has a separate time line for every single object, and a freaking collusion box! and tons of other cool stuff! I can't wait for the full release! i mean this is beta 6 for God's sake and it is too awesome! how the full version will be!? O_O wohoooo! am dreaming already! :D

visit their website for more info : http://www.brashmonkey.com/spriter.htm
              their kick starter page : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/539087245/spriter
             and this amazing video!:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgJyiOyA3jc

and btw! you can buy it now for 25$ it is a pre-official release version, insanely cheap and it is amazing since I also am using it and has a pro license so my statement is back from a 1st hand experience! :)

if you are planning to do a 2D game, Spriter is the man!

the black smith's hammer

today am emotionally and mentally down, so I will just let the picture tell you what i did

New model before start Rigging in Blender

Okay so am starting a 3D model for a character I have done for NPC character in the Prophecies of Nnar by www.BrashMonkey.com just finished a basic guide model sheet  and will start modeling right away, this time am timing my self 

alright! exactly one hour and half to finish the model! now unwrapping!

alright! 2 hours and 15 mins for model and unwrapping but the texturing took lots of my time anyway it is done! ready for rig! :D

no the hammer, the fireplace and the anvil thingy 

so I asked for some feedback from my awesome mentor and he gave me some skin texture tips and I just couldnt keep it for later! I have to finish now! :D 

more texture update

Good morning!

today is a new day which bring more working and learning experience, today I will do the hair and will try to get some clothing done for the character :) 

alright! so modeled the head by extracting some of the head mesh and reworking it and than modeled a hair strand out of a plain and extruded it for the front hair than unwrapped and textured :D Blender and paint tool sai!

I still needed to make the hair look better so I followed the model sheet a bit and fixed the location of the strand base

more update

even more update!

okay changed the colors of the eyelashes, moved the eye brows, fixed the hair a bit more, and added cloth base! :D

cloth texturing is done! :D 

SketchFab

Okay! so I got a SketchFab account! now I can Upload my models to there so you guys can view it in..... 3D! :D hah HA! :D you can zoom in, zoom out, rotate and check it out better than just a screen shot! :D

the barrel : http://sketchfab.com/nk43hge
the axe : sadly it doesnt take more than one texture file and I have to modify it to show it T___T http://sketchfab.com/nk43hge0a so just the handle textured now
the sexy ass female low poly! : with no eye textures T__T http://sketchfab.com/nl3h2da

I couldnt get my self to stop working

SO! I just couldnt shut up, watch a movie and get my self to sleep... Just finished the character's eyes! :D

Update1 : 

okay so I added upper eye lashes and teeth for later animation :) 

Holiday already?

I just went to the mall near me for a small break and to buy a small snack sweet after dinner and I passed the book store and I saw the Harry Potter 1st book poster in there and lots of other stuff and I was like, whats all of a sudden? and I realized we are in September... 3 months to 2014...OMG! this year just passed by with so much happening that I didnt even notice how it passed, I would say this year is the fastest year of my life! ...heh! WOW! 3 months! ... still cant believe it! LOL!

I know it is early! but any plans? doing anything?

as far as I can tell for me it will be time with my family and of course will be working like every holiday non stop work for me ... :D my family doesnt have much to do in the holiday but am going to make it rocking since am there! :D video games, Christmas movies and what not! :D