I made this time lapse of a modelng session, showing the whole process from start to end.
The character is Jafar from Aladdin. I aslo drew side and front drawings to help me block him in at the beginning.
I work in two stages:
1. rough – getting the shapes and volumes as quickly as possible.
2. Fine – refining the model and smoothing it while considering the topology.
(There is no sound or music so feel free to play something you like in the background)
Meetings can easily get boring….
Here are some caricatures of people I work with at Animation Lab
I almost never paint backgrounds. It’s something that I’m not a big fan of, and maybe a bit scared of, so I haven’t practiced landscapes for years now. That’s why I decided to challenge myself into painting some quick and small landscapes with a limit of one hour for each one (The one with the horse was most difficult for me and took 2 hours).
This week I participated in a sand sculpture competission with a great team of friends (Anat, Aviv, Elinor, Doron, Elin and my brother Ran). It was only 4 hours and was open for everyone so we didn’t see any professionals there, which probably helped us win the first prize!
The title was Cartoons, so I sculpted this sketch of Garfield lying in his sandbox with a TV remote
This thing helped us a lot because we had only 4 hours, including piling alot of sand. Using the small sketch we could devide our work and always know where we’re going.
The piling of the sand took about an hour and a half, making sure the sand is strong enough by continuosly watering it and tapping on it with shovles. It seemed like it would take us all day…
When we were done piling we started carving, and eventually we were all on it from every angle.
And here’s the whole team with the end result
If you can easily cross your eyes you can enjoy this crossview 3d image
A freelance job I did as character modeler. This is an Animation test for series of original shorts created by JP Vine with Alex Orrelle at Crew 972. I love how this character turned out and how he animates. Menashe Morobuse pulled off a great rig and camera matching, Alex Orrelle and Nir Ginat did an awesome job of bringing Seb, the lemming, to life. I modelled the character and prepared it for facial animation.
This is a 3d character I created for Animation Lab, for their new training program for 3d artists.
I designed and modeled him. Haim Sarusi shaded and rendered.
(click image to view very large)
Just wanted to inform that I added a new page on the top right called “Making of Skull Monster” that will be updated in the next 2 weeks until PURIM, the Israeli Halloween-like-holiday. As allways I would love to hear comments, suggestion, questions or anything else you feel.
You can also click this image to enter the page!
I started working on my costume for Purim (the Jewish equivalent to Halloween). It’s gonna be some sort of skull monster. This is a small skull I made from sculpey for a neck piece I’m gonna wear. I dug a hole in the back for the string. Then I painted it with acrylic colors, and ink for the dark areas.
(click images to enlarge)
My friend Dana asked to me make her an invitaion to her 30th birthday. I had this idea to make a portrait of her using birthday simbles such as candles and balloons and the number 30. The style and technique was inspired by Andrew Jones, who I learnt from in the conceptart workshops in Seattle and New Zealand.
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