Skeletor-With Eyes

I wasn't sure which one I liked better, though I lean towards no eyes, so I thought I'd post both.

Skeletor- No Eyes

So I've had the urge lately to reminisce on my childhood and since He-man was such a big part of that part of my life I thought it would be fun to do something from that era, hence the totally evil Skeletor.

I thought it would be fun to do something in a film aspect ratio and I've been trying to work on more dynamic lighting as well. Hopefully the colors show up decent as it's hard to know how other people's monitors are calibrated. I also thought it would be fun to make it look like a movie poster as well, a fun little touch :)

I really wanted it to be like Skeletor was in deep contemplation, perhaps after just being defeated yet again by He-man.

One thing that I've recently thought is funny about Skeletor is that he's really an eternal optimist, always believing that he's one battle away from reaching his life goals (something positive that we can learn from him LOL)!

This took around 10 hours to complete from start to finish in Photoshop CS4, hope you enjoy!

Jack O Lantern WIPs

This piece shows my process through digital painting from rough line art sketch in Photoshop to final piece. Hopefully this might give some beginners out there one way that you can tackle digital painting, though there are certainly many ways and no one correct way out there. Hope you enjoy!

Witch WIPs

This piece shows my process through digital painting from rough line art sketch in Photoshop to final piece. Hopefully this might give some beginners out there one way that you can tackle digital painting, though there are certainly many ways and no one correct way out there. Hope you enjoy!

Heavy Metal Jack O Lantern

So here's a pick I felt inspired to do because of Halloween. I felt like doing a monster pic would be fun since I haven't done one in a while. Hope you enjoy!

Happy Halloween 2

So I felt inspired to do something that would capture the spirit of the season, hence a witch Hope you all like. I couldn't figure out if I wanted her with glasses or not, so you can compare and tell me what you think. Also, working with some different brushes as I've been trying to get more texture into my pictures. Enjoy!

Happy Halloween

So I felt inspired to do something that would capture the spirit of the season, hence a witch Hope you all like. I couldn't figure out if I wanted her with glasses or not, so you can compare and tell me what you think. Also, working with some different brushes as I've been trying to get more texture into my pictures. Enjoy!

3d Animation Final

This is my final for my first 3D animation Class. The specs for the final assignment were for it to be 20 seconds long, rendered to frames and tell some sort of a story. Since I'm not a master by any means yet with 3D I chose to animate two swords fighting.

Created in 3ds max, rendered with Mental Ray and com posited in Adobe Premiere CS4. Sound FX courtesy of Hollywoood Edge Sound FX. Music copyrighted to Nickelback.

Hulk Zbrush Sculpt

Woohoo! This is my 2nd Zbrush sculpt ever which I turned in as my final for my Hard Surface and Organic modeling class. I sculpted it entirely from Z Spheres too

It's definitely closer to what I was envisioning though certainly not what I wanted. Still, I learned a lot through the process and I look forward to continuing to build on my sculpting skills. Zbrush definitely makes 3D fun

Hulk is copyrighted to Marvel...hmmm, or is it Disney. Oh well either way it's theirs not mine

This Little Piggie Character Designs

These are some character designs that I'm doing for my next and final animation of this quarter. The assignment is to do an animation based on a nursery rhyme.

Ninja Character Designs

This is an old character mock-up that I did for my ninja animation. As you can see I was debating about which color palette to go with.

Fish Love

An animation that I created for school, my first attempt at lip syncing.

Beans Animation

This is something that I did for one of my animation classes, completed in Photoshop CS4 and After Effects CS4. Obviously the audio is not mine and is copyrighted to it's respected owners, as stated at the end of the animation.

Mr Quinn, I'm here for Harley

Here's a little something I whipped up while at a student to student learning seminar at school. It was fun to do while I listened. I kind of imagined the Joker coming to pick Harley Quinn up for a date. A fun little experiment. Hop you enjoy

5 hours in Photoshop CS4

Joker copyright DC Comics

Jawa Sandcrawler

An assignment for Hard Surface and Organic Modeling, the topic human transport vehicle. I chose the Jawa Sandcrawler from Star Wars A New Hope. About 20 Hours to model and render in 3ds Max with ambient occlusion. Once again, you just gotta love those render times at 300 dpi :(

Kitchen Interior

Here's a little something that I did for Hard Surface and Organic Modeling class. About 20 hours total in 3ds Max .(Rendering at 8.5"x11" and 300 dpi is a real pain :)

Ninja Animation

Here's my midterm for my animation class. Just something fun using a combination of Photoshop CS4, After Effects CS4 and Toon Boom 4.5. Sound effects courtesy of Hollywood Edge Sound FX. Music "Der Meister" by Rammstein.

Sketchin

I rarely do traditional sketching anymore thanks to my healthy obsession with Photoshop Here's a little doodle I did last weekend, just playing around with a concept and some new texture brushes that I created.

About 30 minutes in Photoshop CS4. Hope you enjoy !

Psycho Prom Queen

So here's my submission for the Psycho Prom Queen Character of the Week over at Conceptart.org. Sadly I didn't have time to work on the coloring but it was pretty fun and I learned a lot while experimenting with some new texture brushes.

12 hours in Photoshop CS4

Lich Dragon Boss Monster

So I just started up an account on Conceptart.org since I really want to take part in their weekly challenges. Here's my first attempt, a Litch Dragon Boss Monster. It was really fun to do and I was glad that I finished it in 10 hours. I keep trying to get faster and faster so it's paying off Hope you enjoy!

10 hours from start to finish in Photoshop CS4

Copyright Blake Henriksen