Gobriar Creations

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About Me

Pleased to meet ya! I am gocleau, which is pronounced like go-slow.  I am an artist and content creator, originally from Colorado, but currently based out of Southern California. 

I have been practicing art seriously since roughly 2001, and I got into digital art three years later in 2004.  My first foray into 3D character art and digital assets was on a program called MilkShape3D, and hand painted UVs in Photoshop.  I have gone to multiple art schools including Woodbury University, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, and I also apprenticed at the Stan Winston School for monster art, painting and practical art, learning how to paint skin with acrylic paint on plaster.  Today I use these skills together, along with programs like Substance Painter and the Arnold Render engine to create renders, assets and other digital art, Blender and Maya to create 3d hard-surface models, and Zbrush to create all the rest. I still do practical art as well, but not as much as I would like.

Finally, I would not be where I am right now if not for my wife, who inspires me in every way imaginable.

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This is a sneak-peak at some content that is coming, these are full renders of the same exploding animation, but from different angles. The final video is a few clips of a moving camera, but the scene is stationary, it will be used for the same thing. All of these, plus one more camera and some still images will go together for a showcase of the project, and will end up being part of my demo-reel.

An exploded view is just all of the smaller pieces moving out so you can see everything that might be obscured in other views, or in stationary renders.

This project is almost complete - not counting the many hours of rendering, I have put approximately 160 hours total into this project, including modelling, sculpting, unwrapping and texturing.

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Here is a link to my Artstation.

This is part of a collection of digital assets that I created; these couches together are the fourth hero prop I made for an environment that takes place in a retro futuristic world. These pieces go together as one prop. I did not use Zbrush for any of this project, but rather relied on the nCloth tool in Maya; I modeled the other parts, unwrapped and created the UV layouts in Maya as well; finally I textured each piece in Substance Painter.

This is part of a larger project that included 6 hero props and a spaceship.

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This is a sample of the many, many drawings, gestures, designs and sketches that I have, but I feel like they are a good representation of what I have done. I am classically trained in art.

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I created these works out of common household items to explore materials, but also to explore sculpture within the boundaries of wealth-inequality and the inability to always have proper materials on hand.

The base of the nautilus is made of recycled wood, tile and threaded-stock, and the top is made mostly of recycled chicken-wire and foil for the armature, and toilet-paper tubes for the outer shell.

The bees and hive were made of flower-foam scraps, but could have just as easily been created out of any kind of foam; soft foam would have required a coat of PVA glue or mod-podge before painting, however as the weight would have been problematic.

Finally the little squirrel is created out of a few pieces of crumpled computer paper and a few pieces of masking tape - this one is my favorite of the set.

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Here is a link to my Artstation.

I created these works almost entirely out of polymer clay and balsa wood, save for the bases of each, which are premade, pine, craft-planks. The shoji screens were created with sheets of velum.

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Here is a link to my Artstation.

While one of this is actually a self-portrait, there is a little bit of me in each of the rest as well, which is why I chose these specific pieces from my collection. You wouldn't know it looking at me, but I really love bold colors, and narrative told through color.

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Here is a link to my Artstation.

This is part of a collection of digital assets that I created; together this piece is the fourth hero prop I made for an environment that takes place in a retro futuristic world. These pieces go together as one prop. I sculpted the seat in zubrush, but modeled the other parts of this asset in Maya, as well as retopologizing, unwrapping and creating the UV layouts; finally I textured each piece in Substance Painter.

This is part of a larger project that included 6 hero props and a spaceship.

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Here is a link to my Artstation.

This is part of a collection of digital assets that I created; together this piece is the fourth hero prop I made for an environment that takes place in a retro futuristic world. These pieces go together (along with some books) to make up one prop - they are together in the next set. I sculpted the seat in zubrush, but modeled the other parts of this asset in Maya, as well as retopologizing, unwrapping and creating the UV layouts; finally I textured each piece in Substance Painter.

This is part of a larger project that included 6 hero props and a spaceship.

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Here is a link to my Artstation.

This is part of a collection of digital assets that I created; this piece is the third hero prop I made for an environment that takes place in a retro futuristic world (technically the house itself was prop 2). The process for this car was similar to the shell of the house - I used zbrush to find my forms, and then I retopologized in Maya, but I did not do a high-low bake. As usual I unwrapped and created the UV layouts and wireframe renders in Maya, and I textured each piece in Substance Painter.

It is also part of a larger project that included 6 hero props and a spaceship.

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Here is a link to my Artstation.

This is part of a collection of digital assets that I created; this piece is the third hero prop I made for an environment that takes place in a retro futuristic world (technically the house itself was prop 2). The process for this car was similar to the shell of the house - I used zbrush to find my forms, and then I retopologized in Maya, but I did not do a high-low bake. As usual I unwrapped and created the UV layouts and wireframe renders in Maya, and I textured each piece in Substance Painter.

It is also part of a larger project that included 6 hero props and a spaceship.

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Sneak Peak of the newest project

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Here is a link to my Artstation.

This set of Renders are of a model real house that I created; the model, not the house. This house is based on a real house in Glendale, California. The original building sits on a hill, which would have been difficult to design around, but the architect of this house chose to make it a series of small rooms that each sit on a different height-level. To make this asset I created every model in Maya, and unwrapped unwrapped, also in Maya, created the UV layouts, and finally I textured each piece in Substance Painter and Photoshop. In contrast to much of my other work, this piece features a lot of textures that I created by hand in Photoshop, and minimal Substance Painter.

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Here is a link to my Artstation.

This set of Renders belong to the Retro Futuristic collection of assets that I created; this is the building for the larger environment. This house is based on the Sculptured House in Genesee, Colorado. The original building was based on a sculpture, which is actually registered as part of the working drawings for the original building. To make this asset I sculpted the shell of the house in Zbrush, and then I created a low-poly retopology model in Maya, which the original sculpt has been baked on to. I modeled and unwrapped the rest of this asset in Maya, created the UV layouts, and finally I textured each piece in Substance Painter. This is part of a larger project that included 6 hero props and a spaceship.

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Here is a link to my Artstation.

This set of Renders belong to the Retro Futuristic collection of assets that I created; this is the building for the larger environment. This house is based on the Sculptured House in Genesee, Colorado. The original building was based on a sculpture, which is actually registered as part of the working drawings for the original building. To make this asset I sculpted the shell of the house in Zbrush, and then I created a low-poly retopology model in Maya, which the original sculpt has been baked on to. I modeled and unwrapped the rest of this asset in Maya, created the UV layouts, and finally I textured each piece in Substance Painter. This is part of a larger project that included 6 hero props and a spaceship.

[gobriarcreations]

Here is a link to my Artstation.

This set of Renders belong to the Retro Futuristic collection of assets that I created; this is the building for the larger environment. This house is based on the Sculptured House in Genesee, Colorado. The original building was based on a sculpture, which is actually registered as part of the working drawings for the original building. To make this asset I sculpted the shell of the house in Zbrush, and then I created a low-poly retopology model in Maya, which the original sculpt has been baked on to. I modeled and unwrapped the rest of this asset in Maya, created the UV layouts, and finally I textured each piece in Substance Painter. This is part of a larger project that included 6 hero props and a spaceship.

[gobriarcreations]

Here is a link to my Artstation.

This is part of a collection of digital assets that I created; this piece is the first hero prop I made for an environment that takes place in a retro futuristic world. I modeled each part of this asset in Maya, as well as retopologizing, unwrapping and creating the UV layouts and wireframe renders in Maya; finally I textured each piece in Substance Painter.

This is part of a larger project that included 6 hero props and a spaceship.