Demoreel 2017

The modelling demoreel for 2017.


The projects in the reel include modelling work for:

Movies
- Doctor Strange
- Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2
- Geostorm

Cinematics
- Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt
- Witcher 2: Assasins of Kings
- Nitro Nation
- Godfire: Rise of Prometheus

Commercials:
- Kitekat
- Alivia
- TPSA
- Felix

Doctor Strange

Hi guys,

Recently Framestore - the VFX company I used to work in for the past 2 years - posted a shots breakdown for Marvel's Doctor Strange movie - which I was lucky to work on for almost a year in the company's modeling team. It was my first credited full feature film and a special lifetime ride where I learned a lot and worked with many talented and amazing people. Here is the VFX Breakdown:

My responsibilities on the project covered many very interesting tasks. The biggest one was modeling the digital actor's clothing for Dr Strange, The Ancient One and one of the villain's helper - it was pure fun to do the costumes :) I also had a chance to help a little bit with modeling of Strange's Cloak of Levitation. Very interesting and challenging was to build and simulate Strange's shirt for the slow-motion shot where he's introduced to his astral form by Ancient One for the first time. We also had a team for building a tiny helicopter for one "snowy" scene ;) There has been some background asset modeling done as well for few shots I'm going to mention once my demoreel is assembled... someday :D



It's important to remember that behind each asset there is a team of people and there is never a one single person working on an entire asset.

Cheers!

Female fashion model - finished

The model is finally finished and ready ...ish, as I didn't get the chance to pose her properly yet which makes the expression look a bit silly :) All the clothing was done in Marvelous Designer including shoes and all belts - there was a minimal polishing added on top of the clothes in zbrush but overall the software was able to handle a heavy layered setup and produced an almost ready result. Probably I'll try to make a reasonable pose and polish some bits and pieces in the upcoming months but for now I'm leaving it as it is :) Cheers!

Female fashion model

Body for Marvellous Designer cloth building done for a little project.

Salvador

First attempt on doing a complete drawing in Photoshop without any references... and it was great fun! Took about 4 hours total, done on Cintiq Companion.

Interview!

My good and talented friend Lukasz Bukowiecki from Framestore company We work in, decided to make an interview with my humble self on his Blog here

http://blog.lukaszbukowiecki.com/zawod-modeller/

I was very flattered to do it knowing I don't deserve any of the good words mentioned about me in the article. Thank you very much Lukasz!

The interview is done completely in Polish language.

Pencil photo practice

An exercise with internet photoreference (Nadyasonika), 9B/H pencils.

Torso planes exercise

This is the most recent exercise on understainding planes for a male torso based on references from "Figure Sculpting" book by Philippe and Charisse Faraut . Took a fair bit of time, sculpted from a sphere.

The professor

Today's lunch crunch subject was "Harry Potter". I couldn't resist to pay a tribute to one of the best actors this world has ever seen. Unfortunately I cheated - it took me 2 hours instead of the given 1 hour time.

RIP Alan Rickman

Drawing exercise

Here is a drawing exercise I did today, it took good couple of hours as I'm totally not experienced in drawing :) I used a photo for pose reference.

Biker girl WIP

Another work in progress based on Karl Kopinski's sketch - still before breaking the symmetry. A lot of fun with this one :)

Karl Kopinski sketch sculpt

Just recently I purchased Sketchbook Vol 1 by the amazing Karl Kopinski, which includes a collection of very inspiring sketches... so inspiring that I actually couldn't resist to sculpt something from it. It's a 5h work in progress that doesn't do justice to the original sketch but it's a lot of fun to sculpt it :)

Zubr: Wolves - beer commercial

Platige has just published a new Zubr beer TV commercial today. I did the badger and wolves models in this one more than half a year ago when I was still working in the company in Warsaw. Great job guys!

Doodling

Hey, it's been some time since I posted here. Too much time in work makes a man very, very lazy :) This time some doodles in Photoshop on my Surface Pro 3. First one 2,5h, second one around 3,5h. Based on photo reference with a small exception on Deadpool where I added the eye and sign.

Cheers!

Old stuff in new clothes

Simple studio re-rendering of my older stuff... it can't go grey forever, right? ;)

Happy nurse - studio render

A quick studio setup for my latest thing in Arnold. It was the first time I rendered something on a tablet :)

Happy Nurse

This one took waaaay longer than expected - it was supposed to be some speedy stuff for fun but I decided to spend more time on it. Based on a random character from "Deadpool" comicbook. Done on my faithful Surface Pro 3 :)

"Avengers 2: Age of Ultron"

It was the end of last year when my wonderful Platige adventure met it's finale. I moved to London and started working in Framestore company on movie VFX - which was my dream and goal since I started dwelling into CG.

What I wanted to share is barely a contribution to the movie - as I was borrowed from the main show I'm on, to "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" - only for a week to do a really, reaaaally tiny little piece of machinery for about 3 shots - two of them in defocus :) It's just beyond ridiculous comparing to people who really worked hard on the movie for months providing a tremendous quality, but it's kind of a big thing for me while this is the first movie I was a part of and it was a great adventure to be inside of something I previously got to see only on DVD movie making-ofs.

And yeah, seeing something own on a big screen was quite a thrill - even if it was watching something of a ping-pong ball size for couple of seconds :) Here's the old teaser for the movie - obviously it doesn't include my super small model :)

Cheers!

 I promise the next thing is going to be a major input ;)

Leto II

This is couple of months old work in progress of Leto II character from Dune. Heavily based on Devon Cady-Lee amazing art. Another piece waiting to be finished someday :D

Artstation

Just got my profile on Artstation - it's a fabulous place to share your artwork, really intuitive and works kind of like facebook :) See you THERE!