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Hi guys,
This is what I've been working on the last few weeks. It's my entry for the "characters contest" on Blenderguru.com. ^^
Since it's my first humanoid character I'm not expecting to win anything.

I had to go outside of my comfort zone a lot, as I've never done anything like that. I can understand why people say that characters are the "king discipline" of 3D art. ^^"

I've also been using this project for learning purposes. I've followed a course of over 30 hours of video tutorials from "Blender Cookie" to learn the art of character creation including creating a original concept and sketch, sculpting, retopology, rigging and finally rendering it. While watching I've made about 20 pages of notes to remember the process correctly and use it on my own project. So this character was not created while watching the Tutorials but after watching most of them and making notes. The notes look like that:
I also had a lot of references like: or (Btw. They are amazing!)

I learned a lot, and making Characters is something I'd like to continue doing in the future. ^^

About the Specs: The image was completely created in Blender. I rendered it in Cycles at 10000 Samples in about 5 Hours. (My new render Pc is so fast! )

Finally, I am also entering this to the "Comfort-break challenge" Comfort-break challenge! [WIN POINTS!]Heya Deviants! The challenges are back!!!!

As a follow-up of the speedpainting challenge and face-variety challenge I did last year, I want to organize new challenges in 2016 for people to take part in.
The general idea of a challenge is not that it's like a contest. Yes, you make art and there are prizes, but the main goal of a challenge is your own improvement. The idea of a challenge is that it gives you somewhat of a direction, and that it's more motivational to improve with others than alone. The prizes are there as an additional motivation, but the biggest prize is that you get better at art!
The challenge

The challenge is that you make an artwork that is outside your comfort zone.
You know, we all have our comfort zones. The things that we l by DamaiMikaz . Since I did a lot of stuff I never did before, I guess it fits quite perfectly into the theme! ^^

Cheers,
Kai

Description
Hi guys,
This is what I've been working on the last few weeks. It's my entry for the "characters contest" on Blenderguru.com. ^^
Since it's my first humanoid character I'm not expecting to win anything.

I had to go outside of my comfort zone a lot, as I've never done anything like that. I can understand why people say that characters are the "king discipline" of 3D art. ^^"

I've also been using this project for learning purposes. I've followed a course of over 30 hours of video tutorials from "Blender Cookie" to learn the art of character creation including creating a original concept and sketch, sculpting, retopology, rigging and finally rendering it. While watching I've made about 20 pages of notes to remember the process correctly and use it on my own project. So this character was not created while watching the Tutorials but after watching most of them and making notes. The notes look like that:
I also had a lot of references like: or (Btw. They are amazing!)

I learned a lot, and making Characters is something I'd like to continue doing in the future. ^^

About the Specs: The image was completely created in Blender. I rendered it in Cycles at 10000 Samples in about 5 Hours. (My new render Pc is so fast! )

Finally, I am also entering this to the "Comfort-break challenge" Comfort-break challenge! [WIN POINTS!]Heya Deviants! The challenges are back!!!!

As a follow-up of the speedpainting challenge and face-variety challenge I did last year, I want to organize new challenges in 2016 for people to take part in.
The general idea of a challenge is not that it's like a contest. Yes, you make art and there are prizes, but the main goal of a challenge is your own improvement. The idea of a challenge is that it gives you somewhat of a direction, and that it's more motivational to improve with others than alone. The prizes are there as an additional motivation, but the biggest prize is that you get better at art!
The challenge

The challenge is that you make an artwork that is outside your comfort zone.
You know, we all have our comfort zones. The things that we l by DamaiMikaz . Since I did a lot of stuff I never did before, I guess it fits quite perfectly into the theme! ^^

Cheers,
Kai