Piece 2

I began blocking out my next portfolio piece and threw them in UDK. Next step is doing paint overs of this stuff to liven up the dead spaces and begin to think out my colors.

Furry Bird

Furry Bird - Made some fur that I liked, I was not able to figure out how map colors to the fur.

Colors!

Textured that bad boy, I then masked out the colors and added color adjustment / saturation layers ( still tweaking those fellas.

Rat Bird In Maya

I moved into maya and blocked out the shape of  Rat Bird, I then went back and Retopologized him (it?) I created feathers and placed those, and extruded out planes from existing edges and manipulated them back to use as cones for smaller feathers.

-Edit I am now going back to add geometry for the eyes. and clean up the small feather planes.

Rat Bird Begins

Starting from a sketch by the wonderful Steven Kosanovich: http://stevendraws.tumblr.com/ I began Ratbird. Really brief overlay of my lines of where I wanted geometry for Orthos.

Its a Rat - Its a Bird! Its RatBird!

Really man, I have a plan.

Piece one: Rat Bird
 Rat Bird is a flying enemy from Battle Fortress Tortoise

Piece two: Three Pillars
 Three Pillars is the end sequence of Battle Fortress Tortoise 

Piece three: Tortoise Village
  I will be polishing my tortoise back village from last semester.