Professional Quality Character Artwork for MMO Gamers! (wasFollow

Pertains to gaming characters and forum sigs, I'll allow it.

Humm, is our feature artist HellBoy fan perhaps?



-Avotas
CG 3D Arist,
Texture n' Lighting n' Rendering

I have the machine, it's $180 if you want one made.

Prices seem kind of high. What comic books have you worked on?

It's uses Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology to produce a good surface finish (light grey) with Alumide powder. All im doing is taking the info from the .dat files, dressing, then printing in 3d whats onscreen. Custom modeling jobs start at around $40,000 and up from there.

You can google SLS for good pictures, I don't have anything to show you, and im not the same guy.


-Avotas

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Edited, Feb 27th 2007 2:47pm by Tyreck

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Edited, Feb 27th 2007 2:47pm by Tyreck

Just to respond to a couple of the posters here.

I've worked on Marvel Age: Hulk, G.I. Joe at Devils Due, Fused with Steve Niles at Image Comics, and others...

Somebody mentioned the prices being high... You have to consider the amount of time spent creating one of these. A detailed digital painting could take up to 30 hours or more to complete. Even a detailed pencil only piece could take 10 hours or more. Do the math on this "Start Up Offer" and you'll see that I'm not making a whole lot of money from this... I just need to get some content and customer feedback for site launch and thought this would be a good way to do it. Anyway... A lot of time and effort go into these and they're professional quality.

It is definitely understandable that somebody unfamiliar with this or somebody not desiring this service may look at the prices think it's outrageous, but hopefully I was able to shed some light on the reason why.

Any questions or anything, feel free to e-mail me through the website.

Oh... and to the guy that mentioned Hellboy, yes I am a fan... does that guy look too much like Lobster Johnson to you? I guarantee you that book is nothing like Hellboy, and that guy's nothing like Lobster Johsnon. Also, you should see all the design's Mignola ripped off for that Lobster Johnson look, it's a common WWII themed costume that goes back to books from the '40's.

Edited, Feb 28th 2007 6:01pm by mmodraw

I'm no pro, but I managed to make the cut for my high school's advanced art class back in the day where the teacher's won a number of local and state contests. To say he knew his stuff would be an understatement. Whether or not he was cut out for teaching is another matter, though. Good guy, nonetheless.

Back to the point, though, I'd sometimes just sit in class and watch him work on stuff after I finished my own projects. His pencil work was astounding and I can see how something would take 8 hours or more with that alone. Using pencils of various grade, consistently keeping them sharp, being careful not to smudge... definite labors of love and perhaps something that scared me away from seeking art professionally aside from seeing how the industry worked in college and just keeping it as a casual hobby when inspiration strikes.

Unfortunately, when you realize that the bulk of the people here are probably poor college kids or teenagers, it's not shocking that something costing over a hundred bucks is totally out of the question. The actual appreciation for art is another matter.

I wish you luck professionally, at least, as you've got more courage than I continuing through the industry.

Actually ignore me, nothing to see here.

Edited, Mar 1st 2007 6:32pm by Pawkeshup