Recent content by Topher

Hey gang, About a year ago I introduced myself to your community. I was making a digital Din Djarin as a demonstration piece for a character modeling class I teach. I have since finished that model and got as little carried away with him. I decided to make him into a little game and then...

So, my kids are as obsessed with The Mandalorian as I am and have decided to share their love with the Elf on the shelf that visits our house around this time of year. I made the mistake of posing her in the tree with the Grogu ornament I made for my daughter. The scale actually was pretty...

Yeah, I can totally understand that. If my software wasn't paid for by the schools or the games I've made, I'd have gone the free router for sure. In the end, as I tell my students, the only thing that matters is the results.

Nope. Never touched it. The games industry doesn't really use blender. Every year I have a handful of students that dabble in it, but since the big studios use Autodesk software, they convert over. Thanks for the kind words, btw.

I started out in Maya, but when I went to school eons ago, I converted to 3DS Max. Once I got into the industry I became a character artist and now work primarily in ZBrush and Marvelous Designer. I still Teach Maya and Max to my students.

Actually, I have been just fiddling with this on the side. I use it as a teaching device. I started September 14th and Have just a little left to go. Right now, I am working on getting the belt done, which includes the holster. As such, last night I put this little guy together so I can create...

That's not too bad, I'm just outside of Toronto. How large are we talking? I have all the armor pieces complete and several would be nice to have physically. I don't want to dress up at all, but Mando's helmet on the shelf in my studio would look great. After last week, my daughter is also quite...

Thanks, Lazer, Where are you located. Very large prints cost more to ship.

Hey Ram, Modeling for games and modeling for print are definitely different beasts. For games, we worry about performance. That means trying to make things look more round and more smooth while actually being quite blocky. We often use images with greater amounts of detail to fake the shape even...

Hey all, I have been lurking this community for quite sometime and only just now decided to join officially to join in some of the conversations and give some of my opinions. My name is Topher and I have been a video game developer for 20 years specializing in character work. I teach this trade...