MARK DEDECKER

Anatomy Quickies

2012-01-03T15:28:00.000-08:00

Haven't sculpted all vacation :( Got a couple of quick ones in today before its back to work tomorrow.

Fur

2011-12-18T01:16:00.001-08:00

Maya fur Beret.

Eyes and skin for Jettie

2011-12-10T17:07:00.001-08:00

Now for reflection roughness and gloss!

small gig

2011-12-10T15:52:00.000-08:00

Did a quick 7 hour sculpt to be painted over.

New Wip Jettie and Nedward

2011-11-20T17:57:00.000-08:00

Still in the rough out stages

3D World Tutorial

2011-11-18T12:48:00.000-08:00

My 3D world tutorial is out! Collaberation with my students Jeremiah Ong and Nathaniel Morgan,
Concept by my dear friend Songgu Kwon. Thanks Fellas!

Cabbage Texture Update.

2011-09-27T18:34:00.000-07:00

Dropped in some textures still a lot of fine tuning and displacements left to do. It seems never ending:(

Teeth shaders

2011-09-11T18:04:00.000-07:00

messing around with teeth shaders Miss_fast skin and mia material. Shaders Only

Balls of Eyes

2011-09-07T00:02:00.000-07:00

The model isn't quite there yet but couldn't resist setting up some materials and lighting for inspiration.

Mia_material X and Miss Fast Skin

cabbage

2011-08-28T19:39:00.000-07:00

Lil Sunday chic's and guns action.Still very much a WIP. Fine tuning of anatomy and cloths hopefully soon. Thanks to Captain Morgan for the use of the AK (saved me a week)

Class Demo Character in Marmoset

2011-08-25T15:52:00.000-07:00

Althea WIP

2011-07-30T12:39:00.000-07:00

Concept by Charles Boston

1 hr doodles

2011-07-17T17:38:00.000-07:00

Dragon Cat

2011-07-11T15:38:00.000-07:00

Noodle.

Mousy is back for a bit

2011-07-07T23:22:00.000-07:00

Shader setups and texture block outs.

Loads of texturing and lighting to do still

hoping to get her done by the end of summer.

The last one I forgot to reload the displacement hahah!!

Althea

2011-06-24T01:25:00.001-07:00

New character rough out.

Same world as Ahmed.

More progress on Mousy!

2011-05-02T12:18:00.000-07:00

Demo for class

2011-03-25T10:41:00.001-07:00

SWAT Versions

2011-02-14T22:28:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Chance Clark and Steve Somples for the assist on the gear! You guys rock!

5 hour bust

2011-02-11T10:48:00.001-08:00

Class Demo Character

2010-12-28T00:27:00.000-08:00

WIP Day 3
Putting a character demo together for my character to games class this winter. Found the concept online.

Texture Wippage!

2010-12-02T10:27:00.001-08:00

Firts texture pass with zb mats.

Valentina Pose

2010-11-30T10:54:00.000-08:00

Val Posed out. Resculpt and textures coming soon!

Renders

2010-11-26T16:53:00.000-08:00

finishing up textures cant wait to render!

Karras Pose tests

2010-11-17T11:13:00.000-08:00

Poses before I start sculpting the finished piece. Have it in mind to make some miniatures.

Karras Wip

2010-11-15T17:13:00.000-08:00

Karras sculpt block out. Elfboys trusty companion! Going to render in the same style.

Nedwerd

2010-11-14T23:44:00.000-08:00

Some Sunday monster action!

ImagineFx Pics

2010-11-07T02:19:00.000-08:00

Zbrush BPR renders comped in photoshop!
Thanks for the help Duster and Alex!!

TextureWIp

2010-11-02T10:58:00.000-07:00

Elfboy Getting some textures. Gamemesh Normal and AO. Diffuse in progress! Getting him to the Rigger?Animator today! Cant Wait till he comes to life!

Elf-Boy is back!

2010-10-13T03:36:00.000-07:00

Threw some cloths and gear on Elf-boy. It was chilly being nude in the blog! Hoping to get the sculpt done soon! yey for slow weeks!

Robot girl

2010-10-11T14:08:00.001-07:00

A character I'm doing this term as an in class demo. This is the initial block out from a concept I found online.

ZB4 Noodles

2010-08-14T15:48:00.000-07:00

Couple of weekend Zbrush 4 Noodles! Loved Shadow Box and the elastic move tool! Spotlight was pretty fun as well!

weapons

2010-07-30T14:59:00.000-07:00

Texturing Bloxkout WIP for Val in Marmoset.

Theo

2010-07-13T16:43:00.000-07:00

Texturing DVD Character Wip

2010-07-09T12:26:00.000-07:00

This is the wip of my character for my up coming texturing DVD. they want it in 5 weeks but we will see:)

Final Aya models!

2010-06-17T14:15:00.000-07:00

Aya Pose!

2010-06-02T13:43:00.000-07:00

Well got her posed! Thanks Dan for the pose idea worked out nice i think. Wanna throw out a quick thanks to Axel Stanley Grossman for rigging this pain in the ass bunch of ztools and Max Dayan for making the gun (unfinished in this pic, Ill post C up's of it later) All thats left is a little clean up and rendering by Dan Malig and Dan McCrummen on som hair! You guys are great friends for lending your talents and time to help a honkey out! I owe ya!

Aya Turns

2010-05-30T11:58:00.000-07:00

DVD recording is done YEY!

Just need to edit and spruce up.

Here are some turns of the model.

Lang Spear

2010-05-14T10:24:00.000-07:00

This weekends character. wanna use him for some hair and skin render tests at some point.

His name is Lang Spear. A dimwit medieval kidnapper/footpad. He has the IQ of a turnip,

all be it a turnip of the smartest variety.

Aya

2010-05-02T17:04:00.001-07:00

Finished version for intro dvd. Still needs remeshing uvs and detail/refinement for future development of character. She will eventually be rigged and animated by a couple of awesome guys at Insomniac games (Steve and Axel). Weapons are being made by another friend Max.

Added chues! still needs detailing

and stuff

concept By Travis Bourbeau

Endoaclese

2010-05-01T01:54:00.000-07:00

A WIP of one of the characters my friend Gu and i had in our comic we did 15 years ago. Decided to bring him to life in Zbrush.

Speed likeness

2009-12-07T17:12:00.000-08:00

Last days in gville!

gunna do a couple of quickies to stay sharp.

not gunna have my comp for a while :(

LSA concept sculpts

2009-11-24T09:46:00.000-08:00

Bob wip

Tha Rigged!!

2009-11-15T05:49:00.000-08:00

Rigged and skinned! Some quick test renders

Texture wip

2009-11-03T13:23:00.000-08:00

Character: Tah (Last Secret Agent Man Project)

diffuse in progress 90% needs a little more contrast and accents

cyber glove and nade launcher coming soon

Tah Normal and AO

2009-10-22T12:05:00.000-07:00

21k.

screen grab from maya

Tah's Thumper ! WIP 14k auto uv and bakes

Jacket diffuse & normal

character diffuse in progress.

Tah wip update

2009-10-05T15:11:00.000-07:00

flushed out body
started on gear and cloths.

still lots of bits to add.

fun with 3.5

2009-09-16T13:32:00.000-07:00

Ta &

Goblin for class demo WIP

2009-09-14T12:58:00.001-07:00

Horace the Goblin

First image- Igo re-designed the legs to make him

more compact and hoppy looking! it has abetter sence of balance.

Second image. original leg design

Goblin for class demo

2009-09-12T07:13:00.000-07:00

This is the concept and initial character blockout/sketch that I am doing for the future Gnomon online course I will be teaching. Character Creation for Games/Zbrush pipeline.

It should be out in Jan. Waiting for approval then its off to recording.

the concept by the awesome Dave Igo! Thanks Dave!

Silk Spectre 2 sculpt

2009-09-11T15:17:00.000-07:00

Sculpt is done Think i got her at like 85% so calling it good.

some minor clips and stuff to finish. hair is just a block out.

Then on to game mesh!

Iron man movie suit

2009-09-04T08:39:00.000-07:00

This is the first suit from the iron man movie. I got the honor of going to the set and shooting Reference photos of the stunt man in the suit. It was amazing! Stan Winston guys were sooper dooper cool and did an amazing job. It almost felt like the ground was shaking when he walked! The digital dept. pretty much tagged teamed the modeling over at Gentle Giant. It was a complex job and had all but 3 weeks to do it. These pics are the un-smoothed version. my puter couldn't handle the poly load! this is one of 3 files that were comped for the final model.

willa posed

2009-08-12T13:49:00.000-07:00

posed gamemesh and touching up sculpt. gunna bring into MR to render after a few more tweaks.

FN Fal

2009-08-09T11:52:00.000-07:00

My favorite gun! bit of a hodge podge of different versions!

willa test animation

2009-07-13T17:01:00.000-07:00

Willa test anim. still needs some corrective blend shapes which i will do soon.
My friend Nikhil rigged her and the famous Cory Collins and a guy named Sam Baker are doing the Animations. Thanks fellas!!

Blanche Color WIP

2009-07-10T12:40:00.001-07:00

Base textures on game model. gots to dirty her up!

Desert Steampunky

2009-07-10T06:57:00.000-07:00

Blanche WIP from 'Blanche the Baby Killer' a comic by Songgu Kwon

2009-07-08T14:41:00.000-07:00

work vids

2009-06-12T11:41:00.000-07:00

These are all cut characters

UE3 Turns.

Dog isn't final.

I'd Like to thank my character team for an awesome experience!

Steven Stahlberg

Dustin McCulloch

Sarah Suh

Henrique Naspolini

Special Thanks to JP Targete! was an honor to work on your concepts!

Animations by Christine Morten

BugMonster WIP

2009-06-08T13:49:00.001-07:00

while Willa is off being rigged here is my cyber-bug monster I'm working on for a story idea.

Cut Character Stuff

2009-05-29T14:56:00.001-07:00

Willa Game Mesh WIP

2009-05-25T13:10:00.000-07:00

Willa

D&D NERD

2009-05-18T15:19:00.000-07:00

Making a game character out of my D&D character Willa. this is the hires sculpt at about 85%.

Cup o monkey noodles

2009-05-01T13:37:00.000-07:00

Personal work coming soon! all this stuff is a year old! since I've been out sourced to China i have tons of free time. But because of NDA's cant Show anything recent. Boo! Been working almost nonstop for the last Three years so a break feels good! time too put together some new stuff and get into the blogging! apparently its all the rage. Who knew!

credits

2009-05-01T13:00:00.000-07:00

These are all pieces i have worked on at my time at Gentle Giant Studios. Although i am taking credit by showing them on my blog some others may have had a hand in some of them. it was a collective effort on many fronts. so where credit is due id like to thank Scott Spencer, Jim McPherson, Subkomandante Rodrigo Carrasco, Ceasar Dracol, Mary Ibosh, Nobu Sasagawa, Stefano Dubay, Hector de Latorre. and a special thanks to Max Dayon, Ian Joyner, Zack Petroc, Ryan Kingslien, and Bryan Wynia. It was a pleasure and an honor working with all of them. and look forward to doing so gain.

some golden axe stuff

2009-04-30T19:41:00.000-07:00

mixture of pieces

2009-04-30T19:06:00.000-07:00

couple of pieces i did at GGS