Every tues and weds we have open life drawing sessions. I've been dropping in. I feel so $%@%@ alive when I'm in there. I can shuffle papers and write documents all day....and then when I start pushing that pencil around, I just feel invigorated.

I went to the Seattle Aquarium today. What a fantastic place that is! Here's a couple fellas that held still. I took some crappy photos of some other animals....if I get that special itch I might draw them too...

20,000 views?

I know this is kind of silly, but I thought it was interesting. My YouTube channel hit 20,000 views the other day with 200 subscribers. It appears the most popular video is how to export polypainted textures out of Zbrush. I should post a bunch of the other videos I made at DigiPen....here's the channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/kpburgess?feature=guide

Concept for a character I'm working on...

I finally found some time to put pencil to paper and draw this character up. It's based off a design by a friend of mine (Stephen Daniele). He had this whole world and game put together and wanted to start making the characters and environments for it. He's a mercenary type personality in an archaeologist/Indiana Jones context. Y'know how Han Solo could never figure out if he wanted to join the rebels or not? This mercenary hasn't figured out if he's going to help or steal from his employers.

Zbrush Tutorials on YouTube!

Hi All,
I've spent this past week making several youtube videos for Zbrush instruction. It's one thing to practice with zbrush and get really great technique nailed down. It's another issue to understand the logistics and setup necessary to get all that great zbrushy goodness out of zbrush and into a game texture and real time model. These videos are designed to answer all those complicated questions. If you're into zbrush, this stuff is for you! Feel free to post comments and/or suggestions.

http://www.youtube.com/user/kpburgess/videos

Remember Hermey? Here's his twin sister....

A good friend of mine gave me a sketch and asked me to model a character for her. She's got this short film planned...this is very preliminary. I modeled it in Max and then brought it into Zbrush for a quick surface touch up. Once my friend buys off on it, I'll go crazy in zbrush with the surface details.

Ahhhh, Xbox Avatars...quick and dirty

I got called by one of my favorite freelance companys: "hey Kevin, can you make three xbox avatars in a week including textures?".

Uh, hell yes!

Unfortunately, right in the middle of Number 1, I get an email that says the project has been cancelled. I guess the client expected Rock Band quality instead of Mii, I mean, Xbox Avatar quality. That's a big miscommunication, but, these things happen. Here's what I busted out in 11 hours.