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Hey guys, I keep receiving questions about old-school characters and hand-painted textures, that's why I want to keep this tutorials list up as a default.

Epic Bible for cg-artists for FREE (no kidding), there is a few tutorials about hand-paint textures:
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:iconslipgatecentral:
Two videos with hand-painted female face:

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Tyson Murphy character artist at World of Warcraft team with old-school weapons tutorial:

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My Demon Chaser tutorials e-book:

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Can't wait to find my name in Credits :)

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Need some love here

Journal Entry: Mon Apr 30, 2012, 6:55 PM
Hey, guys. I've decided to participate in this cosplay contest   [link]
If you have some time, do not hesitate to vote for me.

Thanks for support!



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Dreams do come true

Journal Entry: Mon Apr 16, 2012, 12:51 PM
Hi guys, thanks a lot for all your B-day wishes.

This Bday is really special for me because I stated as a character artist in  World of Warcraft team month ago and this job even more awesome than I used to dream about.
I'm happy to work and learn from really talented people on this not less than legendary project.





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Pepakura lich

Journal Entry: Sat Jan 14, 2012, 10:27 AM
Hey there.
This Saturday started great so far, because  I got really great link on finished pepakura character 50cm/19,69 inches tall based on my old Lich 3d model


  

The author is :icondestro2k: and he totally nailed it. Don't forget to check wip [link] the rest of his gallery, he definitely knows how to use glue and paper, believe me.

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Old-school tutorials

Journal Entry: Fri Dec 9, 2011, 11:33 AM
All right. I keep receiving  questions about old-school characters and hand-painted textures., that's why  I  put this tutorials list here.


:iconslipgatecentral:
Two videos with hand-painted female face:

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Tyson Murphy character artist at World of Warcraft team with old-school weapons tutorial:

[link]

My Demon Chaser tutorials series.

Tutorial #1 Modelling:

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Tutorial #2 Mapping,AO baking:

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Tutorial #3 Hand-paint texturing:

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Tutorial #4 Rendering and Presentation:

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Sylvanas DD

Journal Entry: Wed Nov 23, 2011, 11:43 AM
It was crazy week, I just came back from 4 days Massive Black Workshop in San-Francisco when I found that my Sylvanas got a DD.

Thanks a lot to :iconwillowxd:

Sorry if I din't thank all of you for comments and favs, but my inbox was flooded by message these couple days, so thanks so much guys  for support and kind words!

Now I have to  get back to work. Cheers!

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Demon Hunter Cosplay

Journal Entry: Tue Nov 8, 2011, 10:00 AM


That was a great Blizzcon 2011 , I can say that my first cosplay attempt was successful, except of high heels :) But I definitely will keep cosplay as my hobby and I'm looking for the new costume idea for the next Blizzcon.

Here is my photoset for G4TV   [link]
That was really fun and I met a lot of great people there.

Another great picture:  [link]

And a Cosplay contest youtube video from Blizzcon's main stage. Me on 6:05, I just walked on this stage for my personal Achievement, not as a contest participant.

[link]

I also created a Facebook page - First Keeper,  there I post a latest news and sketches.

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Low Poly characters Tutorial #4

Journal Entry: Mon Aug 1, 2011, 12:33 PM
Full tutorials list "Creating of old-school 3d character". The final Part 4 speaks about rendering and presentation.
Hope you 'll find this tutorial series useful.

Tutorial #1 Modelling:

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Tutorial #2 Mapping,AO baking:

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Tutorial #3 Hand-paint texturing:

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Tutorial #4 Rendering and Presentation:

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Interview

Journal Entry: Thu Jul 21, 2011, 10:05 AM
My interview for 3DTotal was posted on  the main page :

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This week   - 1 year  since we moved to USA from Russia.

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Low Poly characters Tutorial #3

Journal Entry: Mon Jul 4, 2011, 8:34 PM
Finally, here it is, my hand-paint texturing tutorial for 3dCreative magazine:

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Second mapping tutorial:

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First modelling tutorial here:

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Tutorial #4 (final part) is gonna be about making of an eye-catching presentation of your model - turntable and renders.




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It's not for sale

Journal Entry: Sat Jul 2, 2011, 10:58 PM
I always don't mind if people ask or even don't ask my permission for using some of my Warhammer 40k fan-arts for sites or whatever not commercial with only one condition - credits on my DA.
Once, I posted a large wallpaper size of my Adepta Sororitas artwork for free and for personal using, but it seems that  someone has decided to rise some money here [link] of cause erased my site credits,  kinda rude.
Oh, well, gonna figure out what to do  with that small pile of crap.

UPD Report  has been sent.

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Low Poly characters Tutorial #2

Journal Entry: Fri Jun 3, 2011, 9:37 AM
All that you wanted to know about optimizing mapping for old-school character in  the new 3DCreative issue here:  

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First modelling tutorial here:

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Interview

Journal Entry: Fri May 13, 2011, 11:11 AM
My new interview for Ryan Workshop:

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Hakumen video turntable

Journal Entry: Mon May 9, 2011, 7:51 PM
Watch on Vimeo:

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Low Poly characters Tutorial #1

Journal Entry: Tue May 3, 2011, 10:07 AM
First issue of my very first tutorial. You can read there about my modelling pipeline and how to ask your hubby to use his concept.
Finally, a last part of our collaboration with 3DTotal was published, it has been since November when this project was started.
I wrote this series of tutorials, because I receive a very many similar questions on how I create my old-school  characters.

You can buy  this 3DCreative  issue here:

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Journal Entry: Sat Apr 16, 2011, 12:33 PM
Hey!

Thanks a lot for all your wishes guys! It's a big pleasure for me.

Hope my main wish will came true this year, I'll let you know for sure when it'll happen:)

Cool gift from :iconkano-kun:


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Hakumen Wip for Brawl contest

Journal Entry: Wed Apr 13, 2011, 2:02 PM


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Livestream right now

Journal Entry: Wed Mar 9, 2011, 3:40 PM
I'm going to try my Livestream right now. Join if you wish. It'll be  a speed concept drawing.

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UPD.
I like how it was, if you have  any variants for next time, leave a comment here. (2d and 3d) Also tell me a most comfortable time for Life Streaming, for me it's a 4-5 pm PST.

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