David Chung's SketchBlog.

2011-12-01T10:53:00.000-08:00

Started with some pen sketches of figures , fun but crappy at it so far.

2011-11-26T11:39:00.000-08:00

Truckin along..

2011-11-19T11:50:00.000-08:00

More stuff from the week

2011-11-17T13:08:00.000-08:00

Bunch of studies from the last week.

Doodlin

2011-10-14T13:39:00.000-07:00

Some more doodles ,worked a bit more on the ogreish guy .
Rest are an hour each .

07-10-11

2011-10-06T14:10:00.000-07:00

Some studies, trying to get into colours,

Also tried out something after i received my update of the new Zbrush , dynamesh is definitely cool.

heads

2011-08-18T20:55:00.000-07:00

Some head sketches in 2d and 3d.

More Wip-ing

2011-06-01T06:03:00.000-07:00

Trying out a wolvie sculpt , still very much wip .
And a quick study of a female face, around an hour.

Stuff i might never finish .

2011-05-22T00:17:00.000-07:00

A Mix of some half-arsed attempts at trying to compete in online challenges, really need to manage my time better to finish in the future.

figure study

2011-05-13T17:21:00.001-07:00

quick sketch

2011-05-06T06:02:00.001-07:00

Did this last night to fight off a massive headache.

Experimenting with using polyspheres to quickly block in masses. Quite intuitive.

noggins

2011-04-12T14:48:00.001-07:00

Some head studies from jeremy enecio's sketches ,a bit of figure studies and a pretty retarded skull study ..

Hitting the studies button

2011-04-08T16:23:00.000-07:00

Some stuff ive been studying (mainly figures ) trying to get back into the drawing groove.

Clement Sauve Tribute Wip

2011-03-07T13:05:00.000-08:00

The guys at cgfeedback have a tribute challenge going on for artist Clement Sauve who passed away recently.

Here's my contribution so far based on one of the guys from his pantheon city comic , his concepts are fun to model but pretty challenging as well (so much tech and gear ) so i hope i can finish before deadline.

Amazing Screw on Head Fanart

2011-02-13T05:41:00.000-08:00

Long live emperor Zombie :P, done over the weekend for a micro challenge on cgtantra.

Various Speed sculpts

2011-02-06T12:02:00.001-08:00

A selection of speedy sculpts done over a period of time for Danny Williams ' Lunchcrunch blog and Gameartisans daily sculpting exercise.

Most of these are between one hour to two hours each , which makes them ultra fun to do:)

You can find the timelapse for some of these on my vimeo channel .

Zergz gots picked

2010-11-04T23:46:00.000-07:00

Got a pleasant diwali surprise this morning , the ever awesome fellas at cghub picked my zerg hydralisk as one of today's editor's choice :) .Honored and humbled i yum.

Mitti De DUbba 2011 edition

2010-10-30T03:12:00.000-07:00

Oh Well Ive been using Zbrush for around a year now so much so that im really used to all its tools and quirks ,

Aaand for a change of pace i tried out the Mudbox 2011 trial today (btw they have a 3 month special trial provided during the Warriors Challenge hosted on CgHub )

Its definitely got a different feel to it while sculpting , (something to do with how the mesh reacts i guess) and So far im liking it , howeverit does take a while to get used to the simplified interface after getting bombarded with ZBrush 30 something brushes , but its a robust interface and i think ill be playing more with it in the future.

This was a quick doodle done after breakfast btw... yeah ..ugly dudes with deformed features....thats my thing...yosh.

Mini Interview and Making of for Zerg Hydralisk

2010-10-15T11:02:00.000-07:00

Hey , not much updates recently as works been a bit hectic , however i did get to make a small making of for cgtantra for my Zerg Hydralisk

Check it out HERE

Starcraft Fanart

2010-09-15T09:55:00.001-07:00

For Cg Tantra sculpting Challenge ,ran out of time with this one due to work but gotta call it done for now , Not really happy with a lot of the forms , Too busy /blobby in places , oh well learnt a good lesson in focusing on the underlying structure better for future stuff .
Composited in Photoshop.

Wip Zerg Hydralisk

2010-08-07T15:27:00.001-07:00

Well i finally have some small amount of free time in between work so i started something for monthly modeling/sculpting challenge over on cgtantra called Starcraft Fanart .

Heres progress so far , trying to keep everything relatively low subdived till i pose him or change stuff around .

small feature on 3d artist magazine

2010-06-30T00:38:00.000-07:00

My 3d imaginative busts .. hehe... imaginative busts...heh.. got a small feature on this month's issue of 3d artist magazine no 17 under the community news section . Its cool to finally get published somewhere albiet in a small way :) . Heres hoping to bag some bigger articles in the future . gotta keep working yesh .

Also tried out some hypershot on Tommy Boy, need to do the game rez for him soon .and try my hand at texturing .

Tommy Boy Grey Finished

2010-06-20T17:59:00.000-07:00

Calling it done for now , im so outta time .This was a damn fun model to work on.. will make a proper game rez of this when work gets less busy . A lotta thanks to Sanford for giving me inputs and letting me mess with his awesome design :) .

*edit* got picked for editors choice today from those fine fellas at cg hub .

Small Update

2010-06-16T23:40:00.001-07:00

Nearly there.. gonna tackle accesories next and do final tweaks .

tommy boy wip 02

2010-06-09T15:45:00.000-07:00

tommy boy ongoing.. added lower body.. made the pose a tad dynamic...made some changes to torso (however i wonder the feasiblity of doing so as the final figure will be clothed ).

changed the proportions of neck as pointed out by sanford
...still long way to go

tommy boy_wip

2010-05-18T21:55:00.000-07:00

found this cool design by the awesome sanford greene and couldnt resist working on it.

hope i get to make a textured game rez character out of this

Back to Basics

2010-05-14T10:09:00.001-07:00

Just Realized i try to do a lot of guess work with anatomy, these studies are a start of trying to remedy that. Hopefully should get the time to do few more of these , gotta crank out a lot more to retain this information....yep

minor update

2010-05-02T12:52:00.000-07:00

found a bit more time to work on this fella.....bulked him up a bit and changed the dopey face...have some ideas i wanna try out on him ...hopefully soon.

Monchichi Hominid

2010-04-19T11:59:00.000-07:00

Messing Around..yeah probably should be working on that deadline thats looming over me...

My SKetchBlog be started up y'all .

2010-04-16T21:43:00.001-07:00

Started a place for my sketches ,studies and the rest of the 2d stuff that i put into for strengthening my modeling kungfu mojo ...yeah... its at http\\:2dchung.blogspot.com

late night shenanigans

2010-04-14T17:09:00.000-07:00

got bored inbetween work..crapped this one out.. 2 hrs in zbrush .

*edit* this got selected as the editor's pick by the nice fellars on cghub for today.....woot.

Just like that

2010-04-12T18:16:00.000-07:00

Sneaked this one in when i got bored with actual work.. not too happy with it either...oh well , did learn a few things about using inflate brush though...

Im Still alive....(couple of quick ones in zbrush )

2010-03-10T07:23:00.000-08:00

These 2 were done as quick sketches to take a break from real work ..
Ones from reference and the other ones a doodle slightly inspired by mass effect 2 (awesome game btw ) ..you can probably make out which one's which .

NO country for old men

2009-10-29T17:48:00.000-07:00

Just finished up another model for a cg challenge...this time the topic was "movie villain"
Went with anton chigurh from no country for old men , one of the creepiest villains on screen in a long time.. imho :)

Super hero gone bad challenge

2009-10-01T00:19:00.000-07:00

Another challenge i did for cgtantra
The topic this time was "superhero gone bad " and since i always wanted to do a hellboy , decided it would be a good fit . I went with a relatively simplistic design ... also this being one of my first projects in zbrush im pretty happy with the results .A lot of concepts such as the transpose tool were cleared up for me finally . I did some post work in photoshop and all the renders were done in Zbrush .

More of the same ...

2009-10-01T00:11:00.001-07:00

a few more

Studies and sketches .

2009-10-01T00:08:00.000-07:00

various stuff i did from reference

Some 2d stuff

2009-09-30T23:59:00.000-07:00

Sometimes i wish had taken an art education instead of a Business degree :P,anyways these are my attempts at trying to learn illustration and concept art .All painting work is done in photoshop and sometimes opencanvas (a really cool and free painting program).

merman challenge for cg tantra

2009-09-30T23:48:00.000-07:00

This one's a really old model i did while participating in a challenge for cgtantra. The topic was merman ,i thought of going against the normal muscle bound dude concept and thought of doing an old king of the sea guy with a throne etc.. oh well just managed to finish the body in the end ... might pick up on this concept again in the future . Everything is done in Maya the old fashioned way .. the renders were just normal ambient occlusion renders which were touched up in photoshop, which is normally how i do my final images.

First Post ! (some quick 3d stuffs )

2009-09-30T23:36:00.000-07:00

select stuff ive been upto since last year ...most of these are just quick zbrush and mudbox sculpts or studies i did in my free time and yeah , gonna try to do some more regular updates from now :)