Jason Smith's Art Blog

Catwoman Dynamesh

2011-10-23T21:12:00.001-07:00

I really wanted to get into the Dynamesh feature of Zbrush 4R2 this weekend. Everything in this sculpt was created from a single sphere and Dynamesh.

New Batman Shot

2011-08-02T22:54:00.000-07:00

I just got some new photos from the guy who painted my Batman 3d print, some were pretty cool so I thought I'd throw one up on the blog.

Vampire Painted

2011-07-14T21:12:00.000-07:00

Did a paint pass on the vampire tonight. This was painted and rendered in Zbrush.

Vampire sculpt

2011-07-14T00:56:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to do a quick speed sculpt of a Nosteratu style vampire tonight, about an hour and a half spent on this. Might paint it next.

BPR Render

2011-07-12T03:51:00.000-07:00

Messing around with the Best Preview Render option in Zbrush 4 and a little photoshop on my Yellowjacket statue sculpt. This is actually Wasp's base, not YJ's, but hey they're married and both Avengers so for the purposes of this image they can share a base.

Koth of the Hammer

2011-06-23T23:01:00.001-07:00

This is a portfolio piece, based on a design by Jason Chan for Magic the Gathering. This was sculpted in Zbrush, rendered in Max at video game polycounts and texture sizes.

2011-06-06T22:17:00.000-07:00

Another statue for Bowen Designs of Marvel comics villain, Magneto.

Wasp

2011-03-31T18:21:00.000-07:00

Please excuse the watermark, my employer, Randy Bowen, likes to have it on images done for his studio that are publicly posted. This is the digital version of a Marvel Wasp statue I just completed, I have a classic version in the works as well.

Batman Statue

2011-03-31T18:18:00.000-07:00

This is a Batman statue I made for a project that was scrapped, but I like how it turned out.

Wonder Woman

2010-08-10T14:15:00.000-07:00

This is an 8 inch statue of Wonder Woman I sculpted for DC Direct earlier this year.

More statues

2010-08-10T14:07:00.000-07:00

These are more statues done for Bowen designs last year: Beta Ray Bill, Mystique, Yellowjacket, and Banshee.

Bowen Designs Statues

2010-03-31T00:41:00.001-07:00

Been a long time since I've updated my blog, but I've been super busy. About a year ago I started sculpting statues on the side for Bowen Designs, I'm a huge fan and collector of Randy Bowen's work and it was a real honor for me to get an opportunity to work for him. Not to mention I LOVE Marvel's characters so it was a dream gig and I hope to get the opportunity to do more if my day job at Sony allows me the time.

Sergeant Bad Ass

2009-09-24T21:19:00.000-07:00

Just a head sketch, testing out Zbrush 3.5 and it's features.

Overwatch 3d Print

2009-08-11T11:26:00.000-07:00

My buddy Des from Ownage.com created this marvelous 12 inch 3d print of Overwatch, I'm very happy with the results. I'll be getting a faux bronze version soon, and an electroplated gold version. I can't recommend Ownage enough, great quality and attention to detail at an affordable price.

Sabretooth

2009-03-09T01:51:00.001-07:00

Just a quick head sketch of Wolverine's arch nemesis Sabretooth. I'm just kind of exploring what I'd do with the character in a full body sculpt.

The Final Result

2009-03-02T20:13:00.000-08:00

Well the results are in, Overwatch was awarded First Prize (second place to the Grand Prize Winner) in the Zbrush Central Action Hero contest. The final judging was done through voting by the Zbrush Central community after the finalists were chosen by a panel of expert judges. The Grand Prize winner was Chris Moffitt with his Dr. Root model (a fellow Texan), Second Prize went to Martin Beyer of Germany and Hedgehog, Third Prize went to Canadian artist Adrien Debos and Captain Hornet, Fourth Prize went to my good buddy Yongkiat Karnchanapayap (Yong for short) of Thailand with Mantis Man, and Honorable Mention went to Furio Tedeschi of Austrailia for his Gra 'Nok model. It was a long two month haul, with a lot of late nights, but it was well worth the effort. I met a lot of great artists and made some wonderful friends through it all and I'm very glad I participated....now I need to find a way to scrape up some money to get Overwatch 3d printed! ;)

The Finals

2009-02-21T20:46:00.000-08:00

I was fortunate enough to be included amongst the finalists in the Zbrush Central Action Hero Contest. There are a lot of awesome entries, I thought I'd put an image together here of the 10 finalists...it's cool to see them all together like this, any one of these would be a great first place winner. Now the voting switches over to the Zbrush Central useres to decide who places where. I just want to thank the judges, and the great artists that made these outstanding characters, they all pushed me harder and inspired me to make Overwatch as good as he could be.

Overwatch Finished

2009-02-13T19:08:00.000-08:00

I've just wrapped up my final entry for the Zbrush Central Action Hero contest. It was a great experience, I learned a few new things about Zbrush, and met a lot of other artists. I may enter the Dominance War competition coming up shortly, but I haven't decided for sure yet. Here's a link to the model turntable movie on youtube... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_GhzuC6pTM

Overwatch Update

2009-01-24T22:38:00.000-08:00

Got the base, rocks, and such sculpted for the base and refined his suit and helmet further, also made his head a tad bigger. Then I started fooling around with lighting using the basic zbrush materials since the matcaps don't accept light information. Not sold on this lighting just experimenting.

Overwatch Update 3

2009-01-09T18:08:00.000-08:00

Added some sandbags to the base and some spent 7.62 shells, refined the arm poses, added a PDA to his left arm, some flares to his right boot, and a few other tweaks.

Project: Overwatch

2008-12-30T20:26:00.000-08:00

I entered the Action Hero contest on Zbrush Central over the Christmas break. The character I came up with, Overwatch, is a former Navy SEAL who sacrificed himself to save his comrades. Rescued and physically enhanced by a secret military project he's been reborn as a super soldier who can fire microwave beams from his eye reticle with pinpoint accuracy. Here's the concept sketch I did for him as well as a low poly posed turnaround. I wanted to block out the pose before I started the sculpting process.

Dark Elf Bust

2008-12-19T19:32:00.000-08:00

Another speed sculpt, the head and clothing started as 2 cubes. I'm a huge fan of R.A. Salvatore's dark elf novels and I eventually want to create a full sculpt of Drizzt Do'Urden and his trusted panther, Gwenhwyvar. This isn't any specific dark elf, just a head study.

Fat Mafia Guy

2008-12-08T16:46:00.000-08:00

Another hour-long speed sculpt from cubes, I originally started out wanting to sculpt a Kingpin bust, but as I got into it I just went for a big fat mafia type dude. Pretty fun.

Jim Lee and Batman

2008-11-27T13:30:00.000-08:00

Here's a photo of Jim Lee drawing on my Batman at the comic con fan appreciation party, he had just taken a photo with Mark Hammil in front of this moments before.

Batman

2008-11-26T16:29:00.000-08:00

Here's the Batman poster that we showed at Comic Con this year. It's a combo piece by myself and another artist at Sony. I sculpted, textured, and lit Batman, and Mike Pedro did the background and other 2d refinements.