Hawk Eye

  My wife just called me into the kitchen to see a hawk that landed outside out window. What a big beautiful bird. Sorry for the blurry pictures. I had to shoot out the window to avoid scaring the hawk. Does anyone know what kind of hawk this is?

   Thanks for looking,

        -Mark

Mary Jane

Mary Jane morph for My Michelle - WIP
Been working on a new sculpt for her in ZBrush.

Another Head Sculpt

Here is another head sculpt I did in ZBrush. I'm not sure what I was going for here but, it was fun.
  -M

More Sculpting

Here is a quick sculpt of a male head I did this morning.
                     -M

Fun Sculpt

Here is another ZBrush sculpt I did this morning just for fun. I like the creepy little fella. He has character!
 -M

Old Man Sculpt

This mornings head sculpt. I like doing this from time to time for the practice. I make a quick low-res head in Lightwave then, I sculpt it in ZBrush. It's actually a lot of fun!

More Michelle

 Just another update on My Michelle figure. She has been pretty successful thus far. I do keep trying to make improvements to her to make her more versatile. Here is what I am working on now. I have been re-working Michelle's UV maps. I have done the basic re-mapping moving one point at a time to sync up with V4's UVs. It still needs a lot of work. On this one I was trying out Sisterhood Skin from Alfaseed. Nice! Wow this opens up a lot of possibilities!

Product Credits::Myself, Netherworks, Traveler, RDNA - MyMichelle Figure/Myself- Raven FBM/ Alfaseed- Sisterhood Skin textures/ Littlefox- Barbarian Outfit/ Alfaseed- Desire Hair/ Andi-3D- Sword Prop

Star Wars - Art Nouveau Puzzle

  I just wanted to share a picture of this puzzle I just finished with my son Devin. We where at Barnes and Noble when a metal tin caught my eye. At first I thought it was the work of one of my favorite artist Alphonse Mucha. Upon closer inspection I realized it was actually a Star Wars puzzle set. There are two puzzles in the set. This one and, a Darth Vader puzzle. I decided to buy the puzzle sets because I loved this artwork and thought it would be a good project for my son and I to work on together. 
  This was the first big puzzle Devin has had the opportunity to work on and, he found it to be very fun. Not to mention, he himself is a huge Star Wars Fan too. Here is the finished puzzle. It consisted of 500 pieces.

  I looked up the artist who did this fantastic piece. He is renowned Japanese artist Tsuneo Sanda has been inspired by “Star Wars” since the original movie hit theaters in 1977. He is widely regarded as one of the top “Star Wars”-influenced artists around and has even been commissioned to create art for Lucasfilm. Brovo Mr. Sanda! Here is his original piece.

 

Thanks for looking!

 -M

Toon-Bot Tank Comic

This was a comic written by my son Devin and his friend Ben. It was part of a program called TREPS where kids learn to create, market and sell a product. Devin wanted to make a comic for the project and he did pretty well with it! Devin wrote the story and put together the story board. I did the renders for him. It was a fun little project.

 

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Little Red

Here is a new character I'm working on for the upcoming Michelle figure. That wolf should have never messed with Grandma!
Thanks for looking,
-M

Modeled in Lightwave/ Rendered in Poser

Little Red - Mark/ Michelle Figure- Mark - Netherworks - Traveler
of Runtime DNA

Michelle Update

Still working hard on her. Hoping for a summer release at Runtime DNA. Thanks for looking - M
Modeled in Lightwave and Modo, rendered and rigged in Poser Pro 2012.

A good day for a run!

Today I thought it would be neat to bring my camera with me running, that way I can share all the beautiful sights I see while running in a small New England town. I had a nice and easy 5 mile run, at the end of it I went "off road" trail running, I manged to get a couple pictures of a few lady slippers in the woods. What an awesome spring day for a run! There are a bunch of pictures. Five miles worth. The first picture is my run mapped out. Thanks for looking!
        -M