Zbrush :: Olivia

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! (According to CalArts). Here are some screenshots from a Z-sculpt I made last night (errrr this morning) of my main character, sans eyes and hair. This was somewhat inspired by James Gurney’s visit on Friday– he suggests that if you want to get realistic lighting/foreshortening/etc of a fictitious character, make a Sculpey (or in my case, Z-brush) maquette of them to work off of. It really, REALLY helps!!!! oliviazbrush1oliviazbrush2oliviazbrush3oliviazbrush4oliviazbrush5oliviazbrush6oliviazbrush7

Tea Time

goat-coyote-tea4 Here’s my layout homework for this week. Assignment was to draw a coyote and a goat having tea. I’m liking the idea of making all layout homework a color adventure, and a character design one as well. It’s like… Layout/color theory/character design all rolled into one. Then again, throw in animation and that’s what [animated] filmmaking is all about!– Oh, and story too. Can’t forget that!

New Button Swag!



The Button-Bracelet converter allows you to wear any five 1″ buttons together as a bracelet!


The Button-Earrings converters lets you wear a pair of buttons as earrings!

And here are the latest button releases.


VALUE BLiND Buttons


Companion Cube Buttons… Sorry, you’ll have to settle for these because I couldn’t figure out the engineering behind a Portal gun.

Cartoon-TWO!

Cartoon-TWO!

That’s right, now you can get a Cartoon-YOU! featuring you and your sweetheart, or best friend, or whoever you want! Head on over to the Tahn-Emporium for your own charming, unique drawing! You send me pictures to a public online album of you and your companion (or, if you’re getting this as a gift for another couple, then link me to their album); tell me the expression/mood you want the piece to be and I’ll send you an 8″x8″ 300dpi fully-colored, fully-rendered drawing such as the one above of Tess and Dimitri. For a little extra, you can even have a tangible print mailed to you 🙂

Cartoon-YOU!

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The Tahn-Emporium now offers a completely unique, custom drawing of YOU! (Or any single person YOU WANT!) Bah, it won’t be any of that insulting stuff that you get at the county fair. You tell me what expression you want, and you send me a link to your online photo album(s) (so I can study your features and figure out a cartoon from there) and I’ll then send you a high-quality digital copy (300dpi, 8″x8″) and for a nominal fee, will send you a print-out of the cartoon YOU!

TAHN-EMPORIUM LAUNCHED!

tahnemporium You know you want to buy some hip buttons! Now at tahnee.org’s BrightEye Studios Tahn-Emporium, you can buy buttons to your heart’s content. Buttons are only 95 cents a piece and sell in packs of 5 or more. Shipping’s only 80 cents (FLAT RATE!!) to anywhere in the US!!!!

I Believe! Dont you?

I Believe! Don't you?



Where else will you find 1 Powerstrip buttons?

Where else will you find 1" Powerstrip buttons?

Waka Waka Waka!

Waka Waka Waka!

Feeling Puzzled?

Feeling Puzzled?

Really. Where else are you going to get hot buttons like these? New designs added as often as I can! I’m open to suggestions for any designs you may want to see, so post your ideas!

And a major-shout out to Daniel and the OC community, this would have been impossible without them!