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A portrait of William Seward, United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln. I was watching a show on Lincoln and they spoke of Seward. I thought he had unique and interesting features so I decided to do a piece on him. I wanted to give it the old portrait photograph look from his era.

This was sculpted from a generic head base mesh in Mudbox. I textured with Photoshop and rendered with Mental Ray in Maya. Post processing done wtih Photoshop.

a color version can be found at my site

Color Image

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I'm helping my good friend Alp Altiner ( www.alpaltiner.com ) with his personal project called The Unknown ( www.unknownproject.net ). The book will be out in September with lots of great concept paintings. This creature will be featured in his book in the 'making of' section. He gave me a rough concept for a creature and I modeled it out for him. Through his art direction and some back and forth we went from the rough original concept to this final sculpted and textured character. The base mesh was created and posed in maya and sculpted in mudbox. Textures were done in Photoshop with final rendering in mental ray. ]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:06:09 +0000 http://zippzopp.cgsociety.org/gallery/406324

I created this for the Blizzard Art contest. hope you like

I used Maya for modeling, Mudbox for sculpting and detailing, photoshop for texturing, mental ray for rendering and matte painted the background

a full resolution image can be found on my website

Full Res Image]]> Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:06:45 +0000 http://zippzopp.cgsociety.org/gallery/406773

I wanted to do a human anatomy study, but something more figurative than the regular old T-pose human. I used an old low res human model of mine, quickly posed it in Maya and then brought it to Mudbox for sculpting. I wanted to try to keep my strokes loose to catpure the feeling of a clay or stone sculpture. I also tried to keep it loose so that I could concentrate more on the gesture of the pose as opposed to smaller superficial details. The render was done with Mental ray and again, I tried to capture the look and feel of a stone sculpture]]> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:10:18 +0000 http://zippzopp.cgsociety.org/gallery/350283

He is an old gangster, a mafia man, someone who could be found in a movie like Godfather or Casino. ]]> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:44:26 +0000 http://zippzopp.cgsociety.org/gallery/215291

This is the Trinity College Chapel in Hartford Connecticut. This is part of a larger project which is for the digital sets class I'm taking at Gnomon with Eric Hanson. It was created in maya, rendered with mental ray and textures done in photoshop and with texture shaker. Trees are a mix of 3d trees from Natfx and onyx tree.
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