A painting depicting the volatile colors of war and conflict, and the effort to shield ourselves from the effects. I have added this to my online Art Prints for ordering. If you are interested in purchasing a copy, head over to this link: http://society6.com/SolomonWJagwe/prints
A 30 minute Zbrush 3D Sculpt of a Silver back Gorilla that I created during a break ~ Galiwango, and the plight of these great apes is always in the back of my mind ~ Conservation through Art
Modeling Progress ~ Below is a video of a time-lapse recording showing the steps I went through to create the above Gorilla sculpt in Zbrush, with Dynamesh.
Concept of a re-pulsar ship under repair after returning from an excursion into the border lands to ward off a flotilla of invaders
Here are some more photos of the process I went through, using crayola colored pencils.
a painting I created during a break from rigging and animation ~ Title, “Memories of a Past Future”
This is an idea that was racing through my head, no pun intended 🙂 ~ some type of mechanical cheetah on the run
This is a second version of my submission to our Uganda Cartoon Network Rendering Challenge. This was rendered using 3DS Max
A quick weekend concept sketch I worked on in a restaurant ~ I was imagining some kind of African Robotics program creating a line of mini bots that float around, with weapon options.
Drawing Stages
The more I work with the Arnold render engine, the more I love it for it’s ease of use and stability. These are the tutorials that I have found to be very helpful and which I highly recommend. I hope to create my own once I am done with the Nkoza and Nankya TV series
1. The Freelancer’s Guide to Arnold for Maya by MAXDEPTH
Whether you’re a freelancer starting a new job, or a seasoned artist who’s facility has decided to change their primary rendering engine, if you need to get up to speed fast on Arnold for Maya this is the tutorial for you! This video was created to be your quick start guide to rendering in Arnold, and I’m confident we’re going to get you rendering here on day one. In this video we cover everything from sample settings, Lights, shaders, rendering, optimization, and everything in between.
2. CGI Tutorial HD: “Arnold Maya Rendering – Basic Interior Sunlight” by – Jon Tojek
This is a VFX tutorial that demonstrates how to use Arnold and Maya to create sunlight illuminating an interior room. With the mtoa Arnold plug-in, he shows how to use the aiSkyDomeLight which reads in an HDR skyline image for simulating dusk sunset on a 3D model. Also covered here is Linear Color Workflow, aiStandard shader, and Arnold Ray Sampling.
3. Arnold for Maya Tutorial – Shaders by Solid Angle
This covers the Arnold Ai Standard, Ai Skin and Ai Hair shader settings and how to use them to render different materials. The tutorial also looks at glossy and transparent surfaces and sub-surface scattering.
This is a quick sketch I drew during my lunch break, away from rendering scenes for the Nkoza and Nankya TV series. I find it rather therapeutic to draw, helps me clear my mind, especially when software is refusing to work the way it should ~ pencils never disappoint 🙂
A quick concept Bot, I created using Adobe Flash and Photoshop. Yes, I know, it sounds strange to hear that you can use Flash for concept art, but I have found it to be very flexible for my personal workflow. I am able to retain the vector lines and shapes at a high resolution, which I can export to any DPI and take to my other painting programs.
Here are some concept paintings steps, from Flash (Vector).
