Fish Patrol

This challenge has been one of my favorites, so far. I actually had something to post last week, but when I saw that nobody else posted, I thought I would take the extra week to just tweak this thing like crazy and add some things that I've wanted to do for these challenges.

I decided to make this fish an officer/squad car hybrid. I gave her the colors of a police car (I tried to make the top fin look like red & blue police lights), and then gave her a classic bobby hat. With her starfish hat badge, she's ready for a night of sea patrol.

Dobermans must be crazy

Isn't it weird that when the topic of crazy dogs came up, Dusty and I both chose dobermans? I wonder why? Or, maybe we just thought they would make the best cooks.

I just had time to model this gal and do a VERY quick texturing job. I wanted to add a few more things that would make her look a bit more feminine, but I ran out of time. I do have female eyelashes on her, but they're probably hard to see.

It's great to BEE in love

I gotta be honest... I wasn't going to do the challenge this week. Not because I didn't want to, but because I have been completely swamped this week. When I checked the site this evening and saw that Brandon and Joe posted, it made me want to do something, but I thought there was no way that I would have time to build something that quickly. Plus, I was planning on hanging out with my family tonight.

As luck would have it, my wife called me and let me know that she and the kids wouldn't be back until later tonight. Then, I remembered that I created this bee character a long time ago, and it was just sitting on my hard drive, not doing anything. Thus, the stars were aligned and it was go-time. I grabbed the bee character, built some glasses, hearts, and bowtie, did some texture/material touch-ups, posed the character, and BAM! You gotta love last-minute work.

Way off!

Because of an unplanned gallbladder attack and a good amount of side work, I was only able to get the modeling done... well, most of it. There were still a couple more things that I wanted to model on him before I could move on. Unfortunately, time just wasn't on my side this week. Though, I am grateful that I was able to get this much done.

Fighting Fire with Fire

I thought it was cool that every word in this week's challenge started with the letter 'F'. I wanted to make a food character that started with an 'f', but I couldn't find one that I liked. Instead, I chose a red chili pepper so that I could go with the whole 'hot vs. hot' theme.

I also have this scenario set up to have two frustrations. The first frustration is that she can't figure out why she isn't getting any water out her hose to fight the fire. The second will be when the hose becomes unkinked and she gets a face full of liquid pain.

Whoops!

It may be hard to see, but she's tripping. I'm thinking that I should've built something for her to trip over for it to be more convincing.

The object to trip over aside, I actually was able to get a lot of what I wanted to do for this character. I was able to add some subsurface scattering to the wings and even take her into Zbrush and add some detail - even if you can't see all of it.

Ran out of time, too

I also ran into a bunch of stuff that I had to do this week. I was barely able to get this done. I wanted to add an axe and have one of his arms accidentally chopped off.

I think now he just looks like he's sad that he's a skeleton and is asking the universe, "WWHHYYYY?!?!"

I hear banjo music

I seriously can't believe how much time this took. I spent so much time and effort on this - some of which can't even be seen. What's even more sad is that I didn't finish some of the stuff that I wanted to do.

I spent way too long on that darn banjo.

They can't seem to BEAR each other... HAHAHA!!

For as simple as these guys look, they actually took a lot more time than I thought they would. I felt guilty doing a simple teddy bear, so I ended up doing multiple to make me feel better. :)

I also snuck my signature in here. My initials are RGB. That is also the initials for the Red Green Blue color channels used in computer image reading. You'll notice that the bears are red, green, and blue. Clever... eh? I've done it in several other pieces of my artwork.

He's hot and he knows it.

I think he's so furious because he hates being an underwear model.

Now, let's finally move on to the next challenge. :)

Good Intentions

Another unfinished project. Well... at least I did something. :)

I had all sorts of plans for this salamander. I was going to make cool textures, sweet translucent materials, and a cool pose with money in the air. But, I ended up having to fly to North Carolina today, and it took up most of the day. So, this is what I did get done.

Good Old Fashion Rock & Roll

Whew! I was actually able to get the whole thing done this time.

If you can't tell, this is a female electric guitar, who has given up her rockstar life for the finer things in life. Unfortunately, there are just things about her past that she just can't change. And now, they follow her in the way she looks today.

Fail!

Dang it! The only thing that I got done was the modeling. If we get another gargoly challenge, I'm going to kill it!