Project: Travis

Hi all, I have just began work on a new project and have been drawing up some concepts for it. My original idea was to create a stylised character. With this in mind I started to think up possible personalities for my character and ended up choosing a young skater/rocker. Below are the sketches I came out with. (Click the images to view it at a larger size.)


Here is the initial concept of the full body. Let me know what you think.

This is my initial rough ideas for my characters head shape, possible hair styles, and then the final sketch of his head.

Say Hello To Chipper!

Here is Chipper! This is a project I have been working on for some time now. My initial inspiration was Disney Pixar's Wall·E. The story behind him is that he is a gardening/environmental robot, so has been left outside and gotten rusty and dented. I used the fact that he looked a bit like Wall·E to create a similar style image which I have posted below. I created the model in Maya, unwrapped it in 3D-Coat and textured it in Photoshop. I wrote a complete MEL script to drive the tank tracks in relation to movement of the robot. The model is fully rigged and has several controls for various features such as his eyes and hands.

I will upload the animation I created very soon and I could upload another video taking you through what went into Chipper if people are interested.

Hope you like it. Let me know what you think, or if you have any questions.

Busy Busy Busy!

Apologies for not posting for so long I have been incredibly busy working on lots of projects over the last few months. However this means I'll have some new stuff to post up to show you what I've been getting up to. Also I have a HDRI tutorial on the way, this has been requested quite often and has been delayed massively by the awful weather we have had continuously over the last couple of months. If its not raining its foggy or snowing! Just my luck.


Hope you all had a great Christmas, and have a brilliant New Year from STFX Studios!

New Tutorial Coming Soon!

Here is a little preview of what we will be creating in the new tutorial that will be up very soon. The tutorial will take you through creating the bullet and matrix style trail in Cinema 4D and will then go on to show how this can be composited in After Effects.

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STFX Tutorials coming very soon!

Welcome to the site!

Hi everyone, welcome to STFX Studios.  I'm working on some tutorials which I'll post as soon as possible. Let me know any requests you have and I'll see what I can do.


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