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2010 - 2012

Of course learning anatomy is inevitable and the more you know, the better, but it’s just one part of the puzzle. At the end you are still working with form, be it in digital 3d space, or with clay or any other material. Anatomy is the foundation for…

The 3DWood guys imported the STL file into their CAM software and prepared it for milling with a KUKA robot. Watch the video to get an idea of how the milling works! You could call the model pretty much…

As ZBrush evolves that fast during the last three years, many artists came up with new and innovative modeling and sculpting techniques by using the new tools and brushes Pixologic invented…

2005 - 2009

Working with good reference material is important when you try to make a working face. If you can come up with some pictures shoot from different angles of a static face expression, then the actual sculpting work can become pretty easy and fast. On the other hand…

It was great fun to do the clothes. I tried some new techniques and made a few new brushes. If you should be interested in the process, feel free the check out the short breakdown in the article section. I made the brushes and one part of the robe also available for…

The final rendering you see above was done in 3ds Max and Vray as render engine. The settings are very basic. There are two Vray and a directional light in the scene. The yellowish tint on the left and the bluish one on the right are coming from…

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…

This post contains my first attempt in figure sculpting. Before that I adventure myself only into body parts and not the body as a whole. As reference I used the amazing photo collection on…

In elementary school I was asked to draw a squirrel on the blackboard in front of the class. (Maybe because the teacher wasn’t able to draw it) And so I went to the blackboard and tried my best. When I was done, the teacher start laughing. She said that…

When I was done with my anatomy studies, the next step was to transfer the knowledge into form. This sounds quite easy. When you know where the muscles and bones are, it should be no problem to sculpt something that looks correct. So I started sculpting and…

The experience that you make during such a project is very enlightening. The oddest thing was that you have no CTRL-Z when something goes wrong. Maybe that sounds obvious but you can’t imagine how often I pressed this key combination in my head and nothing happened…

I was amazed how he was able to bring his knowledge into the modeling process. It was much more than just pressing buttons and knowing every corner of the software. He used the computer really only as a tool. And then I asked myself…

For the Arcadia scene I wrote a short story and did research on Nicolas Poussin and other artists from past centuries. This was also the time when I rediscovered art history. When I was in High-School I hated..