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!

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.

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 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.

All right. I keep receiving  questions about old-school characters and hand-painted textures., that's why  I  put this tutorials list here.



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 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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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

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!

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.

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:

[link]

Tutorial #4 Rendering and Presentation:

[link]

My interview for 3DTotal was posted on  the main page :

[link]

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

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.

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.

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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My new interview for Ryan Workshop:

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Watch on Vimeo:

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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:

[link]

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

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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