About the artist

My entire life I have had two great passions: Video Games and Art. My goal is to meld both of these passions into a career. I use Maya, Mudbox, Photoshop, Gimp and Crazybump. I learn best from experience and getting feedback/constructive criticism from my peers. That's why I am able to use these tools and make these works of art without any formal training. When I was a teenager I discovered the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game and I was hooked. I liked reading about the fictional races and strategies, but most of all I loved painting the miniatures. It helped me learn a great deal about color theory, highlighting, shading and sculpting. While I no longer have time to paint miniatures, I feel that it helps me today with my 3d modeling and painting. I have a great eye for proportion and detail. I am happiest when I am close to my art, working on intricate details, blasting heavy metal music through my head-phones. I also thoroughly enjoy playing guitar, volleyball with my brother, video games with my friends, watching movies with my wife, and playing disc golf with my father.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Capillary Tower - Dawn of War: Tyranid Mod

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The Tyranid mod needed some more buildings, and a couple other "loose ends", to finish the art assets, and with some more experience under my belt I was able to do the next 4 models for them in just a few weeks time.

I started with this Capillary Tower. The shape of the model is pretty simple, so most of my time was spent painting the texture. I enjoy doing this kind of hand-painted detail so I took my time and had fun. This is also the first model that I painted using Gimp. A lot of people recommended it as a free substitute for Photoshop, so I thought it was worth the extra effort to learn how to use it.

The model was created in Maya and the texture was painted in Gimp. It has 630 triangles and uses a 512x512 texture.

Based on Forge World's resin model.

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