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Making a bust of a character I created for an assignment at school. Really enjoying working on this project. Haven’t really had fun doing any work in a while.

Gonna be going back and forth between Zbrush and Maya for this. Eventually Ill texture and render it but that won’t be part of the assignment section of this project unless I have time.

Still haven’t finished that revolver though...

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Still Life, Francis O'Connor

I made this over a 4 week period. This was part of a group project where all of our individual images were to reflect the items of a particular fantasy class/character.My character was a holy knight/templar

Here’s this still life project I worked on for four weeks. First week was taking photos and making documentation and the next three were production. This was really hard and It doesn’t match the photo which made me really unhappy during the project and at the end however looking back at it I am quite happy with it. The candles were a big pain in my buttock.

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Haven't updated this in a couple of months. Been busy due to Still Life and Previs. I didn't finish my shotgun. Looking back at it i'm not happy with its topology and could do a much better job if I started again. I'll bake out the normals from the sculpt so far out of zbrush and texture and render it anyway. Started a new project. Modelling a single action army. For this one I am just matching reference. My shotgun project was not meant to take long. With this one I am not going to add extra features or anything, I am just going to match the reference, model it as fast as I can and texture it.

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Back at it after a long time of doing nothing. I forgot the sling. Fuck

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Pretty much the stuff I’m going to add in terms of modeling. Will make another plan detailing damages to be sculpted, detail to be painted and how this all relates to added accesories ( I had these details in mind before deciding on accesories to add)

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View this board on Niice.

I found a decent amount of reference images of ‘post-apocalyptic’ / makeshift guns and analysed what parts I liked and didn’t like and whether or not certain design decisions really made sense.

I think I have a really clear Idea of what the object history/owner of the gun is now and this will inform my decision process as I progress further with the sculpting, texturing and modeling extra additions to the gun.

I started this project entirely with the intention of just picking a reference and matching it as best I could but now It’s become something else and I’m quite glad about that, I just wish I had started with this process in mind before I started modeling at all.

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Object history

Got to sculpting on my coach gun finally about two or three days ago but stopped working as much because I wanted to work on the urinal etc.

Also once I started sculpting I  realised I hadn't thought through and concepted a final idea of how I wanted to detail/theme this prop, seeing as how I sculpt it will also effect the textures. I decided to go the post apocalyptic/ makeshift weapon route so I'm currently doing some research into other cg/real life props with interesting object history of the same theme and from there I'll decide what elements I like and want to include in the design and get back to sculpting. For one or two elements I'm definitely going to need to use Marvelous designer.

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Finally in zbrush! Modelling this took a lot longer than expected. I really need to brush up on doing good topology. Some parts of this are far too dense as well as really janky as a result of adding divisions willy nilly and not noticing resulting ngons until it was time to UV.

Lesson learned.... again

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Modelling in maya all done now I think.

It’s a bit dense...

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Taking longer than expected

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oooh wee a block out

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UFO, Francis O'Connor

This is a UFO asset that I created for Rich Turners short film 'The Seraphim Heresey' which was submitted to Cannes short film festival.

Finished renders for this. I thought about implementing it into marmoset but I can’t be arsed. This model requires so many lights and has so many little objects it would take a long time and I really am sick of looking at this thing

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Next short term SDL project. Going to model and texture and 1878 double barrell shotgun. Might look at engraved versions and sculpt the detail in.

However Im thinking about making it more interesting by coming up with an object history for it and/or thinking about who uses it for what and adding extra details and accesories to reflect that.

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another one I did in nuke just then and it really doesn’t look much better than the photoshop one. Bleh

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Trying to render my ufo in a nice way because I never really got any done well enough that I liked. Also need some for putting on art station etc.

Really struggling to get this shit looking nice. Also having trouble with renderman 21

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Francis O'Connor

My Rookies page

So I signed up for this thing called The Rookies. Basically you upload artworks you’ve created in order to try and win prizes from all the sponsors and what not.

There is also like a job draft thing which is pretty cool so even if you don’t win any mad prizes you might get some work out of it.

Im hoping to get either the 4 week paid layout intership at Weta Digital or the Creature department intership.

Gotta go hundy on this.

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+VLFBERHT+ Sword, Francis O'Connor

This was my first SDL project. Not gonna bother posting the backlog of development posts but all posts from now on will have all the progress of a particular project