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Hello and welcome to my blog. I am a 3D Artist and Animator with a fondness for modeling, sculpting, animation and rigging. Here I'll be posting finished work and show stages of my progress. You will also find things that interest me or that I enjoy.

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This is my first attempt at making a clay render in Maya. There’s a lot of grain that I would like to get rid of though.

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Here’s the remote I modeled for my toy RC. I had lost a bit of my progress because of Maya’s frequent crashes, but am a lot happier with the outcome now compared to before. I enjoyed figuring out this thing and even added a little logo for the car, which will be called ‘The Dust’. 

I’ll be making a clay render next!

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Here’s an overview of my toy car after a day of adding details all over. I’ll be adding the side windows and doors soon, and then start on the remote controller itself. 

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My car’s motor! A part I really enjoyed modeling :)

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The front wheels’ function (which I had forgotten at first).

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The car’s battery box is adorned by a series of cylinders.

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This is the first function I built on the car, a spring controlled gear. 

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In order to study Maya I’ve decided to model a remote controlled toy car, going through a handful of tutorials along the way. Here I went from something basic to something more detailed. As I went on, Maya deleted a whole mesh for no reason... but I’ve managed to familiarize myself with the interface now and am enjoying it quite a lot.

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It seems I hadn’t posted this one yet. This is another sculpt in my series of Kingdom Hearts creature sculpts. the doggish cat thing: a Meow Wow Dream Eater. It fits with my recent cat sculpt though :)

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Here’s a turntable of my latest sculpt. This was a really great way to check out some advanced lighting features. 

Check out the final result on: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/sphynx-cat-296f95e5-ce2c-4972-8df3-b7649c6e7566

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Discovering new features in Zbrush is great! This here is the Forward History feature, which records all my previous steps and turns it into a movie. I tried it out on my latest sculpt and this is what I got!

Follow for final result: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/sphynx-cat-296f95e5-ce2c-4972-8df3-b7649c6e7566

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Fabyan Pasteleurs

Fabyan Pasteleurs, 3D Artist & Animator, site on Artstation

A friend of mine suggested to make an account on Artstation, which is filled with lots of high quality digital art. It also seems to be housing lots of professionals in the industry! On top of that, the site just kinda looks good.

So from now on, visit my Artstation website where I’ll be posting all my newest work: https://www.artstation.com/artist/fabyanpasteleurs

Make sure to also visit my aforementioned friend’s site: https://www.artstation.com/artist/bramvangerrewey

Greetings

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My newest sculpt is of the naked cat breed they call Sphynx cats. I also made this sculpt to try out the feature to record your progress in Zbrush, which I hadn’t discovered yet. That video will be up soon. Cheers!

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Reblog this post for a chance to WIN a MEGAPACK.

3 Winners will be chosen this Friday, April 3rd, 2015. 

These are the same brushes used daily by artists at Disney, Dreamworks, Sony, HBO, Marvel, and Laika!

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In case you missed this - another reblog contest!

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… a few days left to get in on this.

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Always loving Kyle’s Brushes! hoping to win :) 

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We're not the only ones enjoying a nice and cozy Christmas eve. Our most trusted friends, who are always there for a smile and a stroke on the head, also enjoy a little celebration by the Christmas tree. Therefore we have brought together 6 dogs, all from one family, and collected their wishes into a song: A Christmasy Christmas cover of Eels! Give your doggies a bone, it'll make their day!

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MIKE ROUSH / The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl / 5:16

I have always been fascinated by wildlife documentaries. As a kid I would take my mom’s camera and try and get as close to the neighborhood animals as I could. Most of the time this would mean long hours sitting motionless on the back deck with bird seed sprinkled on my lap and shoulders. I never got the shot I wanted, so when Chris and Shannon  asked me if I wanted to make an animated film for Titmouse, I said yes before they finished asking. 

Chris and Shannon Prynoski, Dik Pose, and I Line up a shot in the middle of nowhere. photo by Steve Kellener.

Early thumbnails of the burrowing owl.

Rough turnaround.

"Owl" was animated in Flash. I used a technique where I would animate traditionally very rough, then I would take a second pass cleaning up symbols that I would be able to reuse later. Most of the final animation you see in "Owl" is puppeted symbol animation with hundreds of symbols and a different puppet for each shot. This way I could get the detail and animation quality I wanted.

The Flash break-down on one of the owl puppets. Lots of feathers!

One of my favorite parts of making this film was having to get out of the studio and go on location. I found an amazing place in central California called The Carrizo Plain using google maps. I spent the weekends driving all around taking pictures and exploring. Fun fact: The burrow used in the short was an actual owl burrow. On one of the days I was taking photos of the burrow one hissed at me from inside the burrow with it’s rattlesnake like call. It scared me nearly to death.

This is how I made all the “live action” backgrounds. I drew a storyboard of what I wanted and photo collaged lots of pictures together to make it look like what I drew. Unfortunately these places don’t exist in real life.

Whenever the owl had to touch the flower or fork, I took hundreds of photos, cut them out in photoshop and animated them. Fun.

On location I used a couple stand-in models to get the lighting right and a maquette when animating for inspiration.

I had a great time making this film and when I was done we were lucky enough to show it at festivals around the world. After 4 years the “Owl” showed at more than 40 festivals, in over 25 countries. 

Can’t wait to do another one.

Mike’s Tumblr

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Mike Roush’s incredible short film is now online!!! Don’t miss this one, folks! It’ll stick to your ribs likes delicious cartoon BBQ!

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I was lucky enough to catch this at an animation festival a while back and it blows my mind as much now as it did then

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Another Kingdom Hearts Zbrush sculpt! This time around an Unversed. I had some minor difficulties with the horns. Making them bulkier fixed the problems though. It was fun moulding the body and fitting it's interesting head on the bust was very enjoyable.