Hideyoshi - oh, preview thumb works again :>

**Earendil** · November 15th, 2008, 02:16 AM

Those Hero studies rock! You're right, it's a beautiful film! Definitely would love to see more!

Honestly, with you kicking butt in the EOW, and your enviros...I'd really like to see you push one of your environment sketches to a finish. You've got speed down it seems.

Loving it all man, keep up the great updates!

**liam.c** · November 15th, 2008, 03:31 AM

unicorn vally is .. just wow ! allways great stuff in yoru sketch book man !

**Clochette** · November 15th, 2008, 06:41 AM

I want the Hello Kitty gun! Mummy pleaaaase!

**Victor B** · November 15th, 2008, 02:12 PM

Unicorn Valley turned out stunning!

**DanielC** · November 15th, 2008, 02:39 PM

awesome !

**Trashy** · November 16th, 2008, 03:24 PM

Man that unicorn valley piece is fresh. Loving the different studies!

**Jasper_** · November 16th, 2008, 04:01 PM

Hey dude your stuff is aweswome, love the way those fashion studies in pencil turned out. Keep it coming I love checking this sketchbook.

**Saturns Gate** · November 16th, 2008, 04:08 PM

Hey dude, I love your industrial stuff. Obviously its what you best known for and it shows you have spent a lot of time refining the style. Well done.

Good luck with your anatomy and human characters, I see big improvements already!

**young paddy1** · November 16th, 2008, 04:17 PM

really schweet works duder, I know its tiny but the unicorn looks wonderful

**destinyapocalypse** · November 16th, 2008, 04:32 PM

**Hideyoshi** · November 17th, 2008, 01:07 PM

destyinyapocalypse: lol, some others have pointed that out, but I don't get it. That guy is jumping out the plane beneath the wings far behind the propellers so he won't get in there. Those props are very large, so is the plane. Maybe that is throwing off the illusion...

youngpaddy: Thanks! I tried to make it catchy!

Saturns gate: hey man! Thanks very much! Yeah, need to try to get out my comfort zone

Pyroclasm00: thanks! Glad you like the pencils!

Trashy: arigatou!

DanielC: whee, thankies!

Victor B: thanks a lot, man!

Clochette: oh, someone noticed!

liam.c: thank, dude! Love your works!

Earendil: thanks! Yeah, I am think I am just lazy with rendering. Right now I am concentrating even more on getting speedies right. I'll pump some more refined enviros out for the EOW 100 thouh...

Wasker: thanks, man! That site is hel-looks.com
Sketchmeets, huh? Where do they have those?

JoshK: thanks, man! Appreciated!

daroz: thank you!

Baggend: thanks! Yeah, I do like doing comic stuff from time to time! Will see about more to come in the future!

Delmar: many thanks! The movie stills I did by blocking in direct color slobs. Actually i do that for speedpaintings in general, not only if I am looking at reference. I dunno why, but I hate coloring lineart. Tinting monochrome paint works for me, but the results always look inferior to using direct colors...

Mitchell: ho, dude! Thanks a lot, man!

chupa: you, too mate! Always glad to see you in here!

algen: whoa, thanks a lot, Hannes! Now I know better!

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Aight, I picked up my train station story again, here are episode 9 and 10. Thanks to Khan for the reinduced motivation btw!

Both are pretty crappy though haha! :/ 1h for each.

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CHOW#135, 1.5h, no reference (and it shows).

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The following was my contribution to the CGArtisans 'Unearthly' Challenge.
You had to pick your team, I went with the good side

Thus, everything is very bright...

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the one I went with:
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2 WIP shots. I was extending the frame a lot as you can see...
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final:

additional 'modelling' sheet as prompted by the contest rules:
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**Kan Muftić** · November 17th, 2008, 01:14 PM

you, machine of quality!

**BlightedArt** · November 17th, 2008, 03:05 PM

Looking very awesome. In the bottom sketch I'd recommend putting one or two more people walking around the structures (particularly having someone walking along the path towards the entrance of the top left one, as well as the little man to the lower left of it for scale).

It's just that it took me a while to notice the front door on that building, and to realise that there was a walkway, so an additional silhouette might help.

Keep up the good work.

**headlessAdi** · November 17th, 2008, 06:44 PM

Dude......awsum updates.....been waiting for some time now you know.......

Totally worth the wait............

Love ya........lol......

Adi

**dark eagle** · November 17th, 2008, 06:52 PM

love that cowboy-samurai, tis east but west. Where can i remember that from?

ahh Bruce Lee the movie.

I don't know what but something is bugging me about some of your works, the softness of it really throws off the better parts if the image, and its realy confusing because in places where not much attention is placed the edges are hard.
For example the automoton/chow
the arms lighting is soft but right on top it is hard showing the different panels of the arm with a line.
the face is too soft for me too
however there are really distinct hard edges on the window

Is it just me or have you heard this before? I don't know might be wrong I mean it's nearly 12 now so.

Great work though. I love that mountain scape with a unicorn a path, beatiful contrast.

**insane lemur** · November 18th, 2008, 11:59 PM

The train station story is rad, also loving your environments! Keep it up!

**Aslev** · November 19th, 2008, 01:22 AM

very cool as usual! your sense of perspective is just great.

those thumbnails for the unearthly challenge are really nice!

**JoshK** · November 19th, 2008, 05:30 AM

dude great thumbnails and final! I really like the colors in the thumbnails btw

**thirdeye** · November 19th, 2008, 05:52 AM

Lovin the enviros a lot. Last CHOW looks pretty sweet too

**D@niel** · November 19th, 2008, 07:39 AM

You my friend are a maniac!!

**Max Challie** · December 17th, 2008, 05:24 PM

Hideyoshi!

I'm getting quite the education from your environments. Is the environment for that train station on page 2, the same one used for your spaceship crashsite entry? That's cool!

**Vulgar`** · December 17th, 2008, 05:33 PM

Space architecture: Seek Hideyoshi Sketchbook. Commence advanced extraction ------- CONVERSION COMPLETE.

**hunchback** · December 17th, 2008, 07:25 PM

damn fine digital painting man
environments are top knotch

k k crazy awesome xD

**Clochette** · December 17th, 2008, 07:38 PM

Awesome to see your process, thumb etc! ;D
Great job so far!

**Hideyoshi** · December 22nd, 2008, 02:24 PM

Clochette: many thanks!

Glad the process shots are somewhat helpful!

hunchbackmagee: thanks a lot!

Vulgar: hey dude! Hehe, nicely put, as always!

Max Challie: hey, thanks a bunch! Glad you're having some insights! No, those environments are not identical. At least I didn't intend them to be similar or the same... oO

D@niel: you my friend, are as well!

thirdeye: thankies!

Josh: yo, man! Thanks a bunch!

notic: from Sijun? Heya!

Thanks!

insane lemur: ah, another familar face - howdy! Thanks mate!

dark eagle: Bruce Lee flicks had Cowboy samurais? oO No way!
Thanks for the crit! That hasn't really dawned on me yet. While I did pay closer attention to edge quality lately it's apparent that I need to work some more on it

Usually I like to render skin with the soft-round brush especially on female ones, hehe...
Sorry, I could reply in much more detail to this issue, but my head is empty right now...

headlessAdi: thanks! love ya, too!

BlightedArt: haha, I was waiting for someone to point that out. The Challenge brief didn't allow putting in any figures or vehicles! I would have loved to, believe me...

Chupa: big thanks, mate!

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Two 45 mins. Warbots:

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That hideous Bathory Chow.
I was trying to go really minimalistic and pay attention to carefully placed strokes...

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For that Skytrain piece that I did. Forgot these:

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Bumblebee Gunship illustrated! 2.5h

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and a doodle

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**Clochette** · December 22nd, 2008, 02:55 PM

Sweeet! What an update! Love the last doodle!
PS : I saw your work on the neverending story epic challenge! Waaah!

**algenpfleger** · December 22nd, 2008, 03:10 PM

Was about damn time!

Damn. Loving your brushwork man. And the skytrain piece is amazing. Can't get my head around how you come up with these designs and compositions.

The gunship is awesome too, but the guy looks like he's flying by setting his farts on fire, with the trail coming right out of his butt haha

**Dragonspit** · December 22nd, 2008, 03:39 PM

Nice to see new shtufff from ya. I always liked your machines, the bumblebee is no different. even though not quite finished, looks awesome. your enviroments well designed in perspective, as always, solid.

**Diabolique** · December 22nd, 2008, 04:33 PM

Your stuff is simply impressive.!

**TheGnoll** · December 22nd, 2008, 06:04 PM

that last doodle is really awesome, love it...

wish i was as confident as you with tech stuff-digital media, always fascinating

waiting for the next update!

ciao!