A small update with the ‘Duke’ model.

-Kev

I decided to take a small break from the Duke Mudbox model to work on something a little more ‘realistic’. Since we’re currently working our way through Lost season 3 here at home, these characters have been on my mind and I decided Locke would be an interesting character to sculpt in Mudbox. Luckily there’s fairly good reference on the web for Lost, so it was easy enough finding good images. This is as far as I got today:

Take care,

-Kev

Here are two more sets of screen grabs for ‘Duke’, my Mudbox model. I spent a bit of time working on his hair, and I think it turned out okay.

-Kev

I’ve updated a couple of the galleries. The 3d character gallery had been updated along with the 3d objects gallery with this image:

-Kev

Here’s an update on my Mudbox model. This is proving to be quite a challenge, which 3d can normally be, especially if you’re trying to turn a 2d image into 3d. This has the added difficulty of being a caricature of a real person, and the initial 2d image has all of it’s ‘caricature characteristics’ for THAT pose in the 2d image.

It’s challenging, but totally fun and enjoyable as well.

-Kev

Thought I would share with you all what I am currently working on. It’s being done in Mudbox, an awesome piece of software for sculpting in 3d. I played with a demo copy a couple months back but didn’t really do much, so this is my first actual attempt at a Mudbox model. The image I am using for this piece is a caricature of a famous actor by my favorite caricature artist, Sebastian Krüger. I am really enjoying using Mudbox, it feels so nice to use and makes sculpting in 3d an enjoyable, fun thing to do. Hopefully I can buy a copy at some point (I’m using a 30 day demo copy), as now that I’m working with Mudbox, I just wanna carry on going, the possibilities are endless.

I’ll post more images as I get further along.

-Kev

Hey folks,

It’s been a while since I last posted anything here, but I have been busy. I’m still hunting for a job, so I’ve been rather busy with all of that, including creating some new work.

Here’s the latest image that I’ve completed. It’s an idea that’s been in my head for a while, as well as a simple sketch, that I finally got around to completing. It’s pretty much a matte painting illustration, combining photographs and digital painting. Hope you like it.

Later,

-Kev

Hello everybody,

I’m back in the UK. We migrated south for the winter. Well, it was only for a month and we’re back now to the freezing cold northern hemisphere. Freezing cold by South African standards, as that is where we holidayed. Temperatures in the upper twenties, was nice and hot and we had a well deserved holiday.

Anyways, if anyone has been trying to contact me I am back home with all of the usual contact methods, phone, mobile, email etc. It was quite difficult trying to keep up to date with email on holiday as I didn’t always have access to it wherever we went. South Africa is still catching up with the whole internet thing and is slowly getting bigger internet connections.

Take care,

-Kev

Hey folks,

If anyone has tried sending me an email at kev@kevinrichter.com please resend it to me. I’ve had an issue with it and was not receiving any new mail. I’m not too sure how long the problem has been going for so if you’ve tried emailing me and didn’t get a reply or got some other error please resend your email.

Apologies to everyone that has been sending me email and getting nothing back.

Take care,

-Kev

The website is pretty much finished now. I would still like to add more work to the site, old and new, but will get to that in the future. I will also be adding to the links page as well, when I sort out what links I will be using, and I have the images etc.

-Kev