Vinyl Toy concepts based on my 'Bubbles' characters. I'm working on many different ideas at the moment, which is why these posts keep jumping from one idea to another, I will be putting up some images of the vehicles I'm creating, but I like these characters as well. I want to expand these vinyl toy ideas a lot more so I hope you like them.
Here are some new renders of the chopper with new materials [I'm learning] added. I'm now working on a very, very large vehicle, a sort of monster truck military style for the blokkbot. To give you an idea of the size, there'll be a door in the wheel rim and the tires would be approximately 40 feet in diameter. Its a good project to give me more experience with texturing and materials, I'll try and post some 'in progress' files to show development.
It's a bit late for this competition, the rather excellent Teetonic competition. Take a look at this one, there's only three days to vote, give me a vote if you like it [or not]. I'll be entering next month, so keep taking a look. Thanks
Merry Christmas one and all from The Blokkhed. I know these BotHeds aren't exactly Christmassy, but it's the thought that counts. There'll be more from Blokkhed in 2009. . .
This is the first test image of a new character I'm working on. This is 'Lord Darkk', he's modelled in Cinema 4D and textured with Bodypaint. He is my first 'organic' character and I'm pleased with this so far, he's going to be somewhat Gothic and a bit of a Dandy. There's clothing and environments to work on and I'll post more versions as he develops, this could be a major project which I'm looking forward to working on.
More manic Happy Heds. This time someone is shocked and surprised, well who wouldn't be with all these crazy little men? I feel like putting more of these images out and I'll try to do more before Christmas. I'm also working on a book of Blokkhed designs which I'm hoping to produce in the new year.
Here are some ideas for T shirt designs. I've put them in National colours, England and Italian. I have a number of designs and ideas in this work and I'll post some more in future weeks.
I like these patterns made from my early Hed designs. I've worked on many 'theme and variations' in my work and a common theme has been the head form. This simple head shape was quite a bit inspired by Art Deco [not that it shows particularly] I have many variants on this work and rather than it languishing in my files unseen, I will be putting some of it up here and over in Coroflot and Cpluv.
Ps: Spot the unhappy Hed in all this manic happiness.
Another still of the Little Red Hed being intimidated by these evil steel men. I'll keep putting up some images from this project. Carrara is a good software and is nice to use. It's a good one to start with so I recommend it. This scene show the little man in the steel world, he also lands in a stone world a water world and an ice world [among others]. This is one of those 'unfinished' projects that i seem to have, I'm too busy with the Blokkhed Robot at the moment [working on more vehicles and environments at the moment], but I hope to resurrect him one day.
Yes, "Zoltan plays a trick". He will dazzle and amaze you, you won't believe your eyes, it can't be true, but it is. Is he simply a magician, a master of "Leger de main", or is he something more?
This is a little red man and he's having trouble with these steel men. I worked on a now [temporarily] abandoned 3D animated film telling the adventures of this little Hed. The story has him landing on a world with Heds made of different materials-stone, metal, ice etc. In this image he is in a world of steel heds. I worked with Carrara software which is a good one to work with. I did an enormous amount of work on this project but other things got in the way so I hope to go back to it one day. I may continue with this project at some stage and I'll post some more examples as and when I get the chance-and maybe some clips.