TeamLando's Cool Stuff

Sackboys!

2011-03-06T04:27:00.000-08:00

Was a while since we updated the blog, so here's some pics from Gameartisans.org's Sackboys Mini Challenge! The theme was free, just had to include the sackboy design somehow :)
200 Tris cap etc.

Christmas Cards

2011-01-16T05:44:00.000-08:00

We've made a tradition of drawing our own christmas cards to friends living far away, and giving them different game or popcultural themes, depending on what that person likes. Though it proper to show last years xmascards, and some older ones too, since some of you might not have seen them and might find them amusing! So, here they are. A bit late maybe, but hey, just 11½ months left to christmas now.

And some older ones, from 2008/2009.

Woo. In other news, the new half-sceret sculpting-projects goes on.. the first of two characters is almost done, and some props and stuff for the base is also done... look forward to it ;D

Kara and Criid maquettes, all done.

2011-01-06T13:33:00.000-08:00

Yup, here they are, the second two clay figures, mounted on a base, painted and done! :O Kara Swole and Tona Criid, of Eisenhorn/Ravenor-series and Gaunt's Ghosts series fame.

And some pictures of the back:

A lot harder to sculpt ladies than gents, you can't cover all the stuff you mess up in a beard xD
But still, we're pretty pleased with the result. A good thing with these is the way we, mostly, managed to capture the material of the different clothes and gear with the paint.. leather looks like leather, fabric like fabric, etc... although there's a lote of stuff there we would've liked to fix. But that's life, ain't got no undo button with these things, and we just have to learn from our mistakes and use that experience next time. Started sculpting on the next one yesterday, Inquisitor Eisenhorn. He won't be done until after the deadline for the project though, and that's because he looks like this:
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs19/PRE/i/2007/294/5/1/Eisenhorn_Wallpaper_by_TehAardvark.png
Insaaaaneee~ But as of today., the boots are done, atleast xD With some luck, I'll finish the pants and the belt today too.

It's hard to paint 30cm sculpts when your used to 32 mm warhammer ones.. a lot of tricks you can't get away with in the bigger medium. But there's also a lot of cool stuf you can do with these that you won't be able to do on 32 mm ones. You have to turn the model around a lot and paint from different angles, it looks like this:

Red Viking beard of hard work excluded.

Our next sculpt project will be something video game-related, the first piece will be called "It's only Rock n' Roll but I like it", which characters do you think it will feature? ;)

WIP Update before Christmas :)

2010-12-21T02:46:00.000-08:00

Here's a small update before christmas, when we'll be pausing our work because of the holidays.
The sculpts are almost finished, but we're not quite there yet!

The actual sculpey sculpts are spray-painted black but other than that they're also paused at the moment :)

Some new stuff.. and some WIP

2010-12-17T15:10:00.000-08:00

Some people have been asking us what we're doing these days, and now we've finally got permission to show some of the stuff we've been working on lately, it actually hasn't been a part of the before mentioned and featured Dan Abnett-project, but something else entirely. We were asked to help out with some props for the ongoing game project Sanctum, and seeing that one of my best friends is one of the guys behind the game we agreed to help them out a bit, a really nice experience! Here's some of the stuff we've been creating lately, no normal maps och specular on these since they said they'd fix that later, but still, looks kinda cool right?

Also, we've just started sculpting on the second characters of our current project, Kara Swole and Tona Criid in zbrush. The clay figures are done and we're gonna start painting them soon, but atm, we're fousing on fixing the brush-sculpts before christmas and then our goal is to paint these two sculptures and, hopefully to start sculpting on the third and last character.

Here's two decent pictures of the clay sculpts:

Too bad both their legs warped and broke a bit due to the weight of the sculpts, but that's life in the world without ctrl+z.

And here's the first two WIP pictures of these two ladies in zbrush.

We'll probably finish both of them this weekend, or someday early next week, so look forward to that d(Ô_Ô)b

Mkoll and Corbec in Zbrush 3D

2010-12-02T02:22:00.000-08:00

And now for something....completely different.
However, quite alike still.
Here are some prints of Mkoll and Corbec done in Zbrush!
Not quite done yet, but almost, some tweaks and fixes left to do.

This is actually the 2nd Zbrush sculp we've ever done, I'm not counting the Magnet Ball girl seeing that was mostly Maya highpoly modeling :P
I do intend to practice more in the program, seeing it's so damn cool!

They're about 60 million polys each btw O_O O_O

Here are both the guys in their front views:

Corbec Front

Mkoll Front

We made them in zBrush staring from this standard boxman.

And then we boxmodeled the rest of the gear and imported it into zBrush as we went.

A shot of the gear ready to be imported into zBrush, I dunno if this is the best way to do it but it worked out kinda fine. Just modeled everything without thinking about keeping it low and when I nailed the form it went into zBrush.

And here are some shots of the guys in all perspectives and some details shots on the gear. Crobec first, Mkoll below.

Corbec Right Side

Corbec Left Side

Corbec Back

Corbec Chestplate Detail

Tanith Straight Silver (we made both our fromk the same base, keeping the standard issue feel)

Corbec Pauldrons and Face

Corbec's Lost Finger!

Corbec's gun.

A bigger satchel.

Mkoll from here:

Mkoll Right Side

Mkoll Back

Mkoll Left Side

Mkoll's face - this was really hard to sculpt from the boxman seen above! Not completely satisfied with it, but hey, one learns by doing.

Hand, gloves, bandage webbing.

Mkoll's straight silver, as said above, we built thme from the same base to keep the regimental standard issue, but we changed them to make them indivudeal afterwards.

Mkoll's gun.

Radio, grenades etc.

And som satchels.

Next time maybe they're completly.....complete :P might wanna try polypainting aswell, we'll see.

Tanith First and Only - Colm Corbec and Oan Mkoll figurines done

2010-11-23T14:07:00.000-08:00

Yup. After many hours of work, these two are finally 100% done. The clay took its sweet time, but the paintjob and work on their bases was the hardest bit, a lot of stuff has been redone a couple of times, and all the small details, like the mud on their clothes, and chip damage on their gear, took a lot of hours to get right.

For a slightly more hi-res version, check out this link:
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6519/colmcorbecoanmkollcolla.jpg

Anyways~. Gonna post some more WIP and detail pictures here later :)

Here's two pictures of the guys with the sides and back, and some details from other viewpoints.

These guys took alot of time, I haven't posted the WIPS yet, but here they are, some of them. They were built from scratch, using wire and tinfoil, alot fo Super Sculpey was used both the soft pink one and the firm grey one. After we baked them, we used some additional green stuff from GW to weld certain parts (such as the cloak, which was built and baked separately). We also used green stuff for sculpting the smallest details such as the Tanith Cap Badge, it was so damn small and Green stuff proved to be the best subtance for sculpting that one.

The cape's "skeleton"

Welding the Cape with Green stuff

The base was made from a "wooden lid" that we bought on our local woodwares store (Beir Bygg), it turned out to be perfect in size and weight, we then drilled and bolted the guys to the base carefully.

The earth on the base was created with the fine mix of putty, earth, sand and stones. It was applied to the base using a small wooden stick.

The screw inserted into the foot of the character, to can't tell here but it's a damn long screw, up to the knee or something I'd say.

The screws, with bolts, going trough the base. These guys won't fall over anytime soon.

The base, you can see the mix of putty and general earth,sand and stones.

Mkoll, just before being sprayed black.

We then sprayed the black, and then started painting, nothing much to say really, paint paint paint using standard techniques such as blending and washing with water mixed paint. We used Forge World's soot powder for sooting down all the metal, just like in the books.

Really early stage of Corbec's face

And even earlier stage on Mkoll's face.

Viggo Painting Corbec

Mange Painting Mkoll

And then they stand finished, as can be seen above.

Currently up on Cool Mini awaiting the Green Light from the staff.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/265203

and

http://www.coolminiornot.com/265201

Progress Photos, Tanith F&O - Faces

2010-11-05T08:23:00.000-07:00

Lemme see yoaaaar face!

Quick update before we go away for the weekend, here are the Work in Progress shots of Mkoll and Corbec faces, painted. Not done, but getting there.
I believe the dirt and mud filled creases and such is turning out kinda neat, need to maybe lighten them up a little bit when done.
I'm not really sure if facecamo (tiger striped) will be painted on Mkoll or not, had it on the concept, it's a cool idea, but it might also turn out kinda bad. We'll see.

Kinda old photos btw, at the moment the cloak is almost done. No touching whatsoever on the hair (which will be black, but shaded with different levels of grey later on)

Kinda big picture, so one can see all the little details!

Progress Photos - Tanith First & Only

2010-11-03T14:42:00.000-07:00

How do you make a figure standing 30 cm tall just from some wire, aluminum foil, clay and more clay, and then some more clay?
Well, actually, here's how.

Colm Corbec

Oan Mkoll

We're currently painting them actually, some WIP shots just might show up later.

Selfportrait(s)

2010-11-01T18:10:00.000-07:00

There was this self-portrait-day- kinda thing going on yesterday, or today for some of you out there I guess, and seeing we had an school assignment to draw selfportraits we figured we could just as well upload two of' em here.

Who's who eh!? I guess the picture below kinda gives it away, then again, who's who on that pic :P

Starting things

2010-11-01T04:27:00.000-07:00

Yeah, this here is our art blog of sorts, where we upload various things that we do, be it 2D or 3D.
In the beginning there's gonna be alot of sculpted figures, seeing that's what we're doing most of the time right now.

Anyway.

This is our "Tanith First & Only Project", which is basically a project based on a series of books written by the great Dan Abnett.
To cut it short, we're gonna try and create characters from his stories from the Warhammer 40 000 universe. This is how it looks at the moment.

Colm Corbec and Oan Mkoll for the ones out there who have actually read the books.
They're spray painted black and nailed to their footing at the moment(but not in these pics), wips will be posted when we begin to paint them for real (soon).

We also did two concepts for these guys.