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

Gargoyle - Dawn of War: Tyranid mod

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Originally the Tyranid mod was not going to have this unit. But ever since Dawn of War Soulstorm came out and introduced flying units to the game the team has wanted to put them in. I've done a lot of models like this now so I knew it wouldn't take long. To make it educational I decided to make it with the fewest polygons possible. This forced me to really focus on the sillhouette and put as much detail as possible into the texture.

The model was created in Maya and the texture was painted in Photoshop. It has 1314 triangles and uses a 512x512 texture.
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