Digital Sculpting Reel 2008
September 2008
Finally it’s done! It took me quite a while to get the content together for my sculpting reel 2008. It doesn’t turn out as good as I planned it initially but anyway, it’s always good to know when there is room for improvements. All in all it was a great experience bringing the sculptures to life, based on initial sketches over sculpting to the final rendering.
At the beginning I did a lot of research and collected everything where I thought it could be useful during the modeling process. A few months ago, when I was learning all the anatomy stuff, body structure, faces etc. I already had some ideas for the kind of character that could be interesting to sculpt. And so I have watched some movie classics again that I have seen years ago in hope for finding an already elaborated character, which I could use as a basis for further studies. A movie character has already a lot of personality, assumed his role is well written and the actor did his job. But the most important fact is, that the character is already part of a story; part of something much bigger than him. A few of this stories induces me to build my one virtual environments where a character had to play his or her role. With this foundation I could focus more on the sculpting work than designing a completely new character from scratch.
I have learned that the designing process could take weeks and can be very intensive if you have to come up with something never seen before. It can be an amazing but also very frustrating time, when you try to reach your deep inner, where you eventually will find what you’re searching for. (Yes, I know that sounds scary).
To cut a long story short, this is my digital sculpting reel 2008. If you want, just click on the video at the bottom of this page or use one of the download links. Enjoy!
(A hint for everyone who is going to create a show reel: don’t use any kind of gradient as a background for your reel. You can get into trouble when you compress it for online presentation)
More Picture: Sebastian
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More Picture: Susan
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More Picture: John
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Digital Sculpting Showreel 2008
Download HighRes Mirror 1: 50mb (right click, save as)
Download HighRes Mirror 2: 50mb (right click, save as)
Download HighRes Mirror 3: 50mb (right click, save as)
Show Reel on YouTube (very low quality)
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September 15th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
We are ONLINE!, I want to thank my brother Joker for making this AMAZING website possible, you’re the greatest!!!
September 15th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Hey Benni,
really nice to finally hear/see something from you again.
I really like what you’ve created and I’m looking forward to see more great stuff from you.
Greetings,
Uli
September 15th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
You finished it. Just dl the reel and watched. Very nice work. Hope Jonathan let me some time to speak you next days.
klonsemann
September 16th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Hey there!
Really impressive stuff.
I love the first one (Sebastian). He’s got such a nice (at least it seems to me) psycho-expression on his face.
Even the drawings are very well done (kinda Da-Vinci-like if you ask me).
All in all a nice reel.
Keep it up and stay creative!
Cheers 🙂
September 16th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
hey benni!
a really suppo saite!!
SPOONER you are do beschte!!!
September 17th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Ausgezeichnete Arbeit!!!
Das warten hat sich gelohnt, ich weiß nun wenn ich fürs modeln anrufen werde 😉
weiter so, freu mich noch weiteres zu sehen.
Grüße der Major
September 19th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Gratulations Benni!
Graet work, i am realy impressed!
May i call you “Maesto Selwy” from now on?
Cheers,
Mr Bahr
September 25th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hoi benno
lamano weita aso!!! komplimente – widramol la guitis material zin segn. bin schun afn nechste version gsponnt, obo moch mo sem koana gedonkn – weard noamo bessa sein!!!
lossamo wio epas hearn!!
tom
September 29th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Really great scultping job, all the three models have a real personnality. Keep the good work up !
September 30th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Benjamin,
Absolutely amazing work! We are all very proud of your talents here at Pixologic.
Martin K.
Marketing and Education
http://www.Pixologic.com
October 1st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Hi,
Thank you very much for all the great comments! That means a lot to me!
October 8th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Wow amazing work ! i am very impressed
unfassbar , wie lange hast du gebraucht um so gut zu werden .. ich hoffe ich kann mal deinen sculpting Level erreichen.
grüßle
turri
October 9th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Best digital modeling I EVER saw!
NO gimmick!
October 12th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Superb Work Benjamin,
You are one of a kind, great style and awesome anatomy sculpting.
I hope to see more work and more characters here soon!
Congrats
Lee
October 19th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Komplimente fi de bis ins detail suppo ausgfiortn akte(bsundos do sebastian),respect….hon olm gidenkt,dass in dein genre do Craig Mullins uando fa di beschtn isch…obo glabmos: mitn sem konsche leicht mitholtn!
leido vosteie fan dig. molprozess zi wionk…obo i konmo denkn, dass di ausführung brutal viel Zeit in onspruch ginumm hot!!….af olla fälle niamo a fettis RESPECT!
October 20th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Hi Benjamin,
I have to say that your modeling and anatomi skills simply blew me away.
Btw. you choose great music to your modeling reel 🙂
I wish you all best to future
November 18th, 2008 at 4:26 am
WOW, very impressive artist! True artistic talent!
Best of Luck!
November 26th, 2008 at 7:35 am
OMG, awesome mate! 🙂
November 29th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Hey man love the site. Truly inspiring work man. I wish you the best of luck in finding a job. I am sure you wont have any trouble!
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Very good job Selwy,I find nothing else to add.
December 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Is there anyway you can show us how you do the finger nails? For me, it seems so hard to do any fingernails on zbrush. Or any hard surface at that.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Excellent work in every aspect. You’re a true artist! I wish the best for you 🙂
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:04 pm
amazing work !!!
神工鬼斧！
June 10th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Hey what song is this?
Great work! Really like the super mom!!!
June 16th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
You have extraordinary skills Benjamin. Your works are amazing, pure madness to me
Andrew
June 30th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I keep up with your stuff when I can. It is truly amazing. My question, how do you find time to do your artwork and employment opportunities? My guess is that you are single or live in a city that abounds with such opportunities. The only opportunities that I find are with architectural modeling in my town. Keep up the great work!
Kenneth Massey
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:50 am
Man!
You Already is a execelent artist!
And I must say you are doing everything the right way!
I really would Focus like you, for Studying the most important and the base for everything, that is the human anatomy!
thanks for sharing your work with us and their references …
Incredible workers and keep going !!!!!
please whem you have time, visit my blog and give some opinions and some helps …
http://www.arthurduque3d.blogspot.com and http://www.arthurduque.blogspot.com
until
Arthur Duque
and plese whem you have some time plese visit my blog and give somes helps….
See ya!!
July 29th, 2009 at 10:59 am
LOVE YOUR WORK BENJAMIN!! Simply AMAZING!!
Ewigkeit seitdem ich dich nicht mehr in Bozen gesehen hab!
Ich bin echt sehr, sehr beeindruckt von all deinen Arbeiten!
MIr kommt es vor wie Gestern das du noch Tutorials im Macpool runtergeladen hast und in der Bib. nach Inspiration suchtest und jetzt sehe ich die Arbeit eines wahren Profis! WoW!!!
You came a long way!!! keep on going!!!
und lass mich wissen falls du mal nach Paris kommst!
Bist immer willkommen!
LG,
Philip
August 9th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
hi selwy i very happy of tell in you
and goodlook i english very good not but
this works the best really in more work has but very good not THANKFUL.
nee basic anatomy reding and drawing anatomy
more in zbrush works yuor works verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyy gooooooooood
BYE
September 6th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Brilliant!, Beautiful work you are a true artist!
and thanks for all the advice and techniques you share!
October 20th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
It`s been some time since I`ve been following your work, and I must say That I became a huge fan of your style!
When it come to anatomy studying and realism, your way of sculpting inspires me.
My compliments and regards to you sewly…I`ll keep my eye on this site, and I hope you keep helping us, showing your studying process, and maybe some tricks! 🙂
Best regards,
Ramon.
January 12th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
superrrrrrrrrrrrrbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb…..awesommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmme work i don’t have words to appreciate you man nice job.
I WILL TRY TO REACH 10% OF UR WORK FROM TODAY.
November 13th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
echt super arbeiten!!
gefallen mit voll gut!!!
December 17th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
great post, thanks for sharing
April 9th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
very very nice dude…..
July 20th, 2016 at 5:06 am
As a Newbie, I am always browsing online for articles thzt can be of assistance to me.
Thank you