still alive but cant show anything new, all current stuff is under NDA

so i was searching my harddrive for old stuff, found this critter, nothing more than a lumpy conceptsculpt never finished but hey....:)

i am so damn busy atm no time for new stuff so we go with some old stuff from risen1

some more old risen1 stuff

click me for risen outrovideo with the armor

that was the armor you fight the endboss with

not much of an update...need more time :)

not so sure about that shield....

just experimenting.... body has some more details now ..... way to go

mhhhh..work in progress the body needs much more details

everyone has one! a "banana joe" ! heres my 40 minute version

more boredom on the way

same basemesh just a variation i call them SNOOOTHELS!

meditating with zbrush....

sometimes i just sit down open zbrush switch off my brain and see what happends.
thats what came out this time, its not any finished work maby ill never finish him but i dunno i kinda like him.

my tribute to bob.......this one is for you Jan! :)

another doodle .....my version of slimer

some more old Risen stuff

here is a scene where this beast is involved done by sascha henrichs

some weird thingy

i saw some weird dinosaurs on the net, i thought ill give it try :)

and more old doodle stuff never finished

just another old doodle found on my harddrive

startet out of a sphere

low level concepting

if you do concepts for heads you can just go grab a sphere and start sculpting to get an idea out very quick as explained in this blog before. but what if you want to do a creatures body to concept the shape , gesture and the appereance.

well here are2 pics of what i do....i use zspheres just to "doodle" around with them.
if you like what youve done you can than go and start sculpting or maby not, ill find this helpfull to get an idea around to other people in early design stages.

humanoid

here and there i try to train my self to sculpt human heads.
heres one :) i concentrate on basic details an anatomy and not getting lost in to many details. most important ist the foundation and thats waht i am concentrating on......

another one bits the dust....

hello world,

here is just a random doodle i ill did some time ago, another pure boredom installation that came out of my mind while relaxing sculpting in zbrush it took half'n hour or 40 minutes i think.

another risen creature....the oger

the task was to make him kinda human because you must be able to speak with him in game ,and be able to give him simpel facial animations, so i wasnt able to went crazy with his head :)

Risen Don Medium Rüstung

here we go again, here is a sculpt i did for the game risen.
it is one of 3 armors used for the so called "Don" guys.
the one showed here is the medium armor, the face is just a dummy face i used during sculting

just an 3d doodle of boredom

started without a goal, ended without a goal, maby some kind of ghoul :)

risen gnom with textures and sample animation

textures were done by thorsten kalka and all the animationstuff by dietrich magnus

lowpoly and highpoly as shown some post below

a mate of mine asked me to demonstrate him what i call concept sculpting, so i did this little video.
when i do concept sculpts ill mainly use a rough clay brush and the move tool.
the important thing is to not get lost in any kind of details. the only purpose to sculpt like this is to get an idea out very quick, and if you like it save it or go into detail, refine it and so on.... or basically make a clean mesh from the rough sculpt and use it as a base for further sculpting.

in the case of this video i wouldn't even mind to save what i created, its just....well nothing fancy or worth to keep but well...this vid was to show how i do quick rough basic sculpts, and not to show any kick ass design.

this vid is timelapsed it took me 10 minutes in reality

way to go

a mate of mine (Ingmar) who is a 2d concept artist asked me to do a very quick 3d sketch of a design he made.
he isnt into 3d and he asked me to demonstrate him how i was going to create fast 3d sketches.

i made 3 pics and we did a lot of talking but maby you could get an idea how my worklow ist.

this creature took me round about 20-30 minutes to make. i will deliver the original 2d design as soon as i have a glimpse where to find it on my damn harddrive (concept added) by the way if you like it you can see some of his works here www.ingmar-nopens.deviantart.com

Ghoul from the game "Risen"

this is the ghoul from risen sculpt and lowpoly from me textures from my mate Thorsten Kalka and posing by diedrich magnus

Gnom from the game Risen

the initial concept was made by Ralf Marczinczik it was lot of fun to make this little dude and he is one of my personal highlights in risen

some shields sculptet for the game "Risen"

nothing special but fun

some creatures i made for the game Risen

this is the so called "dragonfly" sculptet for the game risen from piranhabytes

this is...well something....

The Thing

well, i could not decide what kind of creature to sculpt :) so i morphed 2 in 1

the freaky

dont ask me what i had in my mind while sculpting him :) but it was fun and relaxing

i was bored, this is my ele of boredom

startet out of zspeheres

just a random doodle in zbrush

this is a test

test me i am a test