Adam McMahon's Experiments of the Cartoon Kind» Blog http://www.adammcmahon.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:41:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Respect the Mullet http://www.adammcmahon.com/2012/02/05/442/ http://www.adammcmahon.com/2012/02/05/442/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:30:39 +0000 Adam McMahon http://www.adammcmahon.com/2012/01/26/442/

Mullet: Part 1 from Adam McMahon on Vimeo.

Mullet: Part 2 from Adam McMahon on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.adammcmahon.com/2012/02/05/442/feed/ 0 The Middle Ages http://www.adammcmahon.com/2012/02/01/the-middle-ages/ http://www.adammcmahon.com/2012/02/01/the-middle-ages/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:28:51 +0000 Adam McMahon http://www.adammcmahon.com/?p=445 The first of three cartoon woman busts I want to digitally sculpt in Zbrush. I’m trying to sculpt them in a very similar method to how I draw, which is based off the construction method most popularly seen in the Preston Blair cartooning books.  Here is the first woman, whom I’m calling Lucy.

The Sketch

A turnaround of the digital sculpt, made in ZBrush.


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]]> http://www.adammcmahon.com/2012/01/08/pirate/feed/ 0 Woman’s Head progress video http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/12/18/womans-head-progress-video/ http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/12/18/womans-head-progress-video/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:56:06 +0000 Adam McMahon http://www.adammcmahon.com/?p=430 This is my first time recording my progress as I sculpt digitally in Zbrush. I didn’t know what I make as I started, I just hit record to try the feature out and before I knew it I was making this bust. I’ll post updates as I make them.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

]]> http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/12/18/womans-head-progress-video/feed/ 0 Scrooge McDuck turnaround http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/12/17/scrooge-mcduck-turnaround/ http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/12/17/scrooge-mcduck-turnaround/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:00:51 +0000 Adam McMahon http://www.adammcmahon.com/?p=432 This is an old model I had made in Maya as a study of an actual sculpt that I absolutely loved. The original artist had really captured a certain sense of appeal and I was trying to discover those aspects by modeling it in the computer myself. I recently went back in and detailed up the tree base he is sitting on and rendered out this turntable.

You can find the original sculpt at this link below. It looks like you can still buy it.

http://www.cartoonstore.net/en/product.php?pid=187

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And an earlier image I made where I had a little fun making it look ghostly. Halloween is soon approaching after all…

Click the image to view full size.

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]]> http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/10/05/anatomy-study-skeleton-rough-pass/feed/ 0 The Roaring 20’s http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/10/04/the-roaring-20s/ http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/10/04/the-roaring-20s/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:06:35 +0000 Adam McMahon http://www.adammcmahon.com/?p=412 That title will make more sense as these two characters progress further, and I fill you in on the backstory.  First, a couple of orthographic-front concept images I made.

An eager young fella…

(Click images to see full resolution)

And a sort of doe-eyed, innocent looking girl…

And my current Zbrush sculpt of the girl.  The boy soon to follow, ladies first you know.  Her design will continue to evolve as I work on them both.

Again, click on the image to enlarge.


I have the girl’s body modeled and a couple of possible poses worked out, but I’m having trouble settling down on her dress design.  Hopefully I’ll find the right look before long.  The guy’s head I started sculpting, but I’m still trying to find his look from the side.  Translating that long face into 3d and keeping that appeal factor is a bit of a challenge.

**UPDATE**

So I made some progress and on the guy.  Still don’t have that profile shape figured out though.  In fact, the profile gets so embarrassing to me at this point that I won’t even show it!  Just a slight three quarter.  There are a lot of changes to come on him, many micro adjustments that’ll eventually add up to a more appealing character.  Right now he is stuck in the Nexus of Goofy, where things look okay and yet… are slightly off.

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]]> http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/10/02/anatomy-study-skull/feed/ 0 Zbrush http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/10/01/zbrush/ http://www.adammcmahon.com/2011/10/01/zbrush/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:38:54 +0000 Adam McMahon http://www.adammcmahon.com/?p=396 I’ve been playing around in Zbrush a lot this past week. The new release, Z4R2, is absolutely amazing. It feels like all the technical restrictions are now gone and I’m free to just have fun without worry about topology or stretching polygons and such. The work below is me just having fun designing in 3d. Once I got to the point where I liked what was there but just needed to start refining the model is basically where I stopped. I just wanted to get the concept out of my head, not spend hours polishing it up.

Click the image to see its full resolution.

Below, I am trying to make an expression sheet for this character, so there will be more to come.

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