I’m proud to announce a new forum for Character Artists around the world.

The ambition of CGPuppets.com is to become a hub for professional Character Artists working in the Games and Film business.

Image credits: Angel Navarro; Design and Character Models. Jonatan Catalan; Prop Models and Render

Our goal is to make everybody feel at home and create a common platform to share ideas, technology, workflows and design-philosophies with other character artists.

Image credits: Character from Age of Conan by Vladas Zukas.

As of now we have about 25 forum members, most of them veterans of the game industry. We hope to see you join their ranks soon!

update: We’re closing in on 40 members, more industry vets joining up!

All the best,
The CGPuppets.com-team

(account registration is open, but you will still have to be verified by an administrator before you can contribute to the forums)

A late addition to my matcap library, it’s a new skin material. It does a decent job of shading textured models too.

Feel free to download the material using the link below. If you make something with it, please leave a comment!

Matcap skin 04 – Download

Nottingham – The city of Legends (apparently)

I’ve been a terrible blogger these past months, just posting lotsa 3d stuff and not talking at all about all the exciting things going on in my life!

I moved to the UK in September last year, to go work for Rebellion Developments (their studio in Derby, former Core Design). I’ve been living in Derby since then and just made the move to Nottingham this last week.

(more pictures after the break)

Still working out of Derby, so I go on the train each morning which is rather pleasant.

If anything seems unclear or poorly worded, give a shout out in the comments and I’ll do my best to clear it up.

On another note, this method works very good for baking occlusion on highpoly objects without UV’s as well, just choose to bake it to a Vertex Bake Set instead of a Texture Bake Set.

Above the beach, at the hot springs of Eftalou, Lesvos.

Just got back from my lovely vacation on Lesvos island, Greece. I’ll write some more about this great destination later, meanwhile I present you with a couple of photos from the trip.