Alex Roman

This guy makes it look so easy

The Third & The Seventh
(watch it full screen)

A short behind the scenes

A demo of his workflow

Art Test

I took an art test for a company in the Chicago area recently. Here are some renders. Comments welcome.

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky...

What's that you say?
You want to see all of the Blitz injuries in alphabetical order?
Set to Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World?
In HD Youtube quality?
Ta Da!

New Demo Reel Posted

The games have shipped and I need work so I finally updated my reel as well as the portfolio page in general. Head on over and let me know what you think.

http://chadportfolio.blogspot.com

Messin' with Zbrush

I finally took the plunge and jumped into Zbrush this week. I don't know what I was waiting for. It's actually pretty easy, and using a Wacom tablet brings you closer to the feel of real life sculpting. Modeling in Zbrush in general feels very natural and intuitive. That helps keep your creativity flowing and not get caught up in tech. It's definitly different than modeling in Maya.

So, I took a base male head and turned it into a monkey. It only took me about a day if you don't count the few times I had to start over. I kept getting trapped in different modes and making ireversible changes. I think I'm past most of that now. I also made some alpha brushes for the finer details. I'm not 100% satisfied, but for a first go it's not bad.

Seattle/Vancouver Summer Trip

No 3D work, just pictures. I should be updating my demo reel soon so there's that...
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Photo stitches

Winter Work

Yes, it's been a while since I posted. I've been busy at work and that stuff can't be displayed until the games are released. Until then here's something I modeled over the weekend for a student sci-fi film. It's a 2001 type computer eye that is located in many of the rooms in the film.




They are in post production now and the stills they're coming out with look great. Some pics can be viewed here.