Heya all my deviant buddies.The past weekend I was fortunate to have had an advanced character workshop with Judd Simanotov.aka (lead technical guy at Naughty Dog) that includes concept,sculpting and texturing.
we had a total blast.Each of us had to come up with an awesome story behind our characters and then draw them out on paper. We then picked a name out of a hat and that person got a personal clay sculpt of their character while we watch.
Finally on Sunday we Had a video call with Rich Diamant. For those of you not familiar with him, he is the lead character artist at Blizzard Entertainment. He was also the creator of Drake and all the supporting character in Uncharted 2.
We ask allot of questions about the industry, as well as some technical questions.After that each of us sent screengrabs of our sculpts and he did a paint-over in Photoshop.The cherry on the cake was when he actually sculpted over my character.wow.what a special treat.I felt so honored. everything that Judd and Rich touch..turns to gold.You guys have shown me that everything is possible.