Big Day!

The day I've been waiting for!

Today I re-launch my website after 3 years.. It was really starting to look old especially with the "2009" showreel on the front page.. With the good help of my friend Neil Brinsdon who has been amazing with dealing with all my ridiculous requests at all sorts of hours making my website! IT'S FINALLY DONE!

http://kadiraksoy.com/  Click here to see it in all of it's glory!

There's content from my blog but also unseen content as well so be sure to check it out!

You can also view my blog directly through my website! As I know most of you have this page bookmarked... (Sarcasm) You can bookmark my website directly and have the blog there also! Two in one how about that!?

Ok so.. LAUNCH DAY GO!

Massive thank you to Neil Brinsdon for everything website related!

And thanks to everyone of you for looking! Please enjoy!

Steve Buscemi Head Bust

Ok so its been a while.. I have been busy though! Busy creating content for my new and improved website! Which will hopefully be launched at the end of the week! It'll have a section embedded where you can view my blog! Thanks to my buddy Neil Brinsdon for all the great work he's put in to developing the site!

Anyway's the guys over at pixologic have also been busy developing new goodies for us zbrushers to play around with! The latest tool to mess around with is the fibremesh tool, which is essentially a tool for making hair/fur and also really good for repeating a lot of one thing over a body of mesh (like leaves for a tree).

So here's the latest on the Steve Buscemi head.. I've messed around with some poly painting and gave him a bad haircut.. It's quite hard to get things looking right atm but I'll get there!  

Look out for the launch of my website! There'll be a showreel to see some of the animations I've been working on as well full turntables of some of the models you've seen on here! Have fun looking and thanks as always for your time!

Boardwalk Empire.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! First post of 2012 Hopefully this year will be full of content to show!

I finished watching Boardwalk Empire season 2 yesterday amazing finale! But this blog isn't about T.V shows so I'm not going to get into it! I did however notice a shot in the scene between Nucky and Jimmy that I wanted to re-create!

You're going to have to forgive the bad picture quality iphone+bad light+tv screen.. But that's the shot! I've been meaning to make a realistic attempt at a human for a while as a lot of my work is quite stylised.

So my first attempt is Steve Buscemi, a.k.a Nucky Thompson! Reference pictures are not the greatest but all I could find with the power of google.

I've started in zbrush again from a sphere.. Worked on it for roughly around 5-6 hours.

Here he is.. Without hair.. Or eye details.. I'm finding this one quite a challenge.. It's hard to get the likeliness exact but I want to get as close as I can! 

Hopefully I'll end up making the entire scene and have a flythrough so we can see it from multiple angles..

Thanks for looking!

Kadir

Weasel The Bounty Hunter

Today is a quick post just to show a snippet of what may turn in to a full character but will most likely stay as a quick bust sculpt.. I'm thinking about doing a series of quick sculpts with a 'Bounty Hunter' theme. The sculpts will hopefully get a bit more complex as they go! I'm going to throw this one in there for a start.

This was a sketch I did last night.. I was originally thinking of making a fish man of some sort.. But my sculpt evolved as I was making it.

This is my final render.. I like how it turned out, his character is a ratty scoundrel who's more of a minion then a boss type. The kind of guy to shoot his partner in the back to get what he wants.

I want to add a jacket and maybe a gun to this but I think this is going to be my stand off point. 

More to come soon! Thanks for looking!

Alien Sculpting Done!

So I've finally got around to finishing the sculpt on this thing! Took me a while finding the time to complete it but now all that's left are the textures!

Going to go with some SSS skin tone shader's for the body and from some of the video's I've watched on Zbrush central I'm going to give the seat that he's sitting in some real nice materials!

Hopefully I'll get enough time to add a little environment.. I have an idea about what to put him in... It's going to be a spaceship but a gritty one! But that'll be after the textures for now that's my priority!

Thanks for taking the time to check it out! Come back for more soon! 

Alien Creature... Evolved!

It's been a while since I last updated so here's the latest on the alien creature I've been working on!

It's still not complete as I've only detailed the top right half of it's body and still have to work in details and textures in to the rest of the model! And also pose it into the right position!

It's been really fun working with Zbrush 4r2 on this model! The whole thing was created from a few spheres and the great new insert brushes!

Thanks for looking and hopefully it'll be done real soon!

As usual let me know what you think?!

alien creature

Browsing through a few blogs I ran into this great 2D piece created by Phil Hosking over at http://www.phillhosking.co.uk/


  

It inspired me to start something off in 3D so using Zbrush I've begun to create the creature on the right! I'm changing a few things as I go on but I really like the general concept!

Still need to add in a few more details like the gas mask and a few pipes and things and then I'm going to begin on the mech suit thing that he sits in! 

Credit to Phil Hoskings for the concept!

Thanks for looking! And as always leave some feedback and let me know what you think!? :D