Nielson Art

A while back my sister @sheliesshattered sent me @alefvernon's concept art of ten swords inspired by the (at the time) ten albums of Taylor Swift. It looks like they have since added more swords for the recent double album, but leading up to that I was able to create these 3D models of each of the ten. I'm really pleased with how they all came out.

I posted this elsewhere yesterday for the solstice, but forgot to share it here! This is a Zbrush sculpt of Marta Kost's Summer character. I really enjoyed making her. I sculpted, painted, and posed the character in Zbrush, and I created the hair, clothing, and flowers in Maya. I also retopologized the character in Maya, and lit and rendered the final in Zbrush.

My most recent 3D project. I tried this once before a long time ago (with Lego people and no concept of lighting or texturing that time), and I'm really happy with how this version turned out.

I finished my last assignment for this intro to modeling course today. They wanted to teach us some of the basics of organic modeling, so it's still fairly simple, but I'm pretty pleased with how it came out!

My second modeling assignment for this class was to model a vehicle from a design. I selected a design for a submarine.

I recently finished my first big 3D modeling project for class, and I'm really pleased with it. I got my grade yesterday and I got a 98%! Below is a picture of the whole thing followed by closeups of the details.

So Husband is anxious about finances (even though we’re doing fine; he’s just always anxious) and has asked that I not get him a Christmas present this year. In talking with my mom about it, she suggested maybe I should make something. I wasn’t sure, since he usually sees most of my art, so I didn’t think I could surprise him with anything. Then I remembered I had started on a drawing of one of our wedding pictures a while back, so thought maybe that would be a good option. Well, my old attempt was no good in a number of ways, so I started fresh. That one didn’t seem to be turning out either. Boo. Then I realized that maybe my problem was lying in the uncanny valley - I was trying to make it too realistic and so it was looking distinctly off.