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I'm doing sketches for 10 bucks to get warmed up for Inktober so if you're interested in that, shoot me a line! ;D

Whats up guys I'm Nicholas Cato and I'm an Illustrator / Concept artist with 2 years experience in the independent game industry.
Most of the work I've done has been in the independent game industry working with small developers on board game titles. Ive also worked on a few very small game projects. My specialties are character and creature design but I am also adept at environments, 3D art and graphic design. Please take a moment to review my 2D portfolio here

Portfolio

If you think I'd be a good match for your project go ahead and shoot me a message on here or email me nicholas.cato@gmail.com

Hope to here from you soon!

At 9/23/13 01:45 PM, hreyas wrote:

At 9/19/13 02:34 PM, ArtDungeon wrote: Some 3D poop out of zbrush

I feel like the mesh is too heavy for a simple character like that , morever thisguy could be created in maya and then painted in zbrush

Thanks for the tip but that was not the final version the last version was around 800 polys

V study V

One last word of advice, I personally prefer to avoid using shiny materials while I sculpt since the specularity can hide imperfections.

Once again, keep at it! I want to see more from you.

Thanks for the advice! this sculpt start as attest to see how much of the face anatomy i could remember without reference so that why its a little off in area like the brow and the nose and extra long mouth

also i sculpted this in sculptris and in sculptris once you turn off symmetry you can go back :( and the shiny mat was just put on after i sculpted it for rendering purposes! :D

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side view

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business guy

3d head

Your model in zbrush had a subdivision or two worth of polys that it wouldn't need in Maya

I dig your sculpts though, keep it up.

remesher is my best friend right now :D

Well if this is his father, then I don't see why not

I was actually going for the stay puft ghost look, but who knows either one could be fins biological father ;)

do you even lift bro?

cartoon

sleep mode

At 9/19/13 04:06 PM, bigjonny13 wrote: Glad to see you start up an official art thread finally.

At 9/19/13 02:28 PM, ArtDungeon wrote: Hobo with a shotgun! love that movie

I'm gonna sleep in your bloody carcasses tonight!

thanks man!

lol i tripped balls when i noticed the hobo was that dude from Bladerunner

and steampunk batman

Just sent you a pm check out my work if you're interested ;D

Hand study done in sculptris rendered in zbrush.

yes there was a lot of masking done around those fingers! :p

moar 3d sculpts done in zbrush and sculptris

moar

same model all textured out. screenshot from maya

more

front wireframe of same model

Some 3D poop out of zbrush

study from life in Photoshop

My ART THREAD! thought i would make one of these since I'm new to the NG community :D

Hobo with a shotgun! love that movie

If you're going for a realistic approach to sculpting the "head wound" sculpt just looks like you took an alpha brush to a base head model and colored it

It would've been cool if you looked at some reference images of a skull and how muscles lay on the skull and tried to illustrate the different layers of facial anatomy

This sounds fun! :D

Horned Prairie Dog-

Grows rugged horn on head that resembles a rock. When sleeping it burrows under ground and uses rock like horn to fill the hole. Unsuspecting predators pass by thinking its just a rock.
Also males use the horns to fight each other during mating season :p

At 9/19/13 03:34 AM, Dastrox wrote:

At 9/13/13 02:25 PM, ArtDungeon wrote: crits please?

also i uploaded this and another image and im not seeing either of them in the art portal

.... my god

Whats funny? no one does crits on NG?

At 9/17/13 06:37 PM, justsomerandomdude wrote:

At 9/17/13 06:10 PM, LeeIsMyName wrote: If someone steals that image up there, and posts it somewhere claiming it's their own. No one will think twice. If you sign your work, and it's damn deserving of a signature, then someone can't as easily just claim it's their own work.

True, everything I upload now is signed and every1 who ever uploads anything should do it aswell

good point but nothing would stop them from just cropping out the signature.

and plus its pretty hard to sell a digital image. i could see if they used it in their portfolio to try and get commissions but even if they did do that and couldn't deliver the same quality it really won't do them any good.

also i have the original PSD file and a speed paint video on my youtube channel of this painting which is proof enough if this would ever happen

still gonna start signing my work if theft is common place on NG

At 9/13/13 06:34 PM, Jester wrote: That's really great, fantastic lighting.

On a side note, all of your portal submissions are pretty giant when you enlarge them. That's not really a problem, but it might behoove you to resize them a little for the web before putting them in the portal.

Really hope you keep it up.

Thanks for the tip i just wanted the high res version to be readily downloadable