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

Spore Chimney - Dawn of War: Tyranid mod

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The Tyranids needed a building to put on the control points. We considered it done as one of the other modelers on the team had done this same model already but he was missing in action for over a year and we never got it. So rather than wait and hope he came back we decided to move on and do a new one of our own. This is the last model I created with Gimp. I found the program to be great, especially considering the price, but my workflow is more comfortable in Photoshop.

The model was created in Maya and the texture was painted in Gimp. It has 1580 triangles and uses a 512x512 texture.

Based on Forge World's resin model.

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