Working on a body groom for Krampus. Dialing in that "Disgusting old creature" vibe

www.artstation.com/artwork/y4dWqx Finally getting around to posting my Kain re-imagine! I grew up on the Legacy of Kain series of games and owe a lot of my journey to Amy Hennig and gang. Also currently looking for my next role as a character artist, so signal boosting is much appreciated!

Hi #PortfolioDay I'm a Senior Character Artist working out of Denmark. I've got 10+ years of experience as a 3D artist in the games and toy industries. Currently available for freelance, as well as long and short term contracts. 🎨 www.artstation.com/larsbundvad 💼 www.linkedin.com/in/lars-bund...

Stitching along the edge of every goddamn leather strap on medieval and fantasy costuming. Why is it there?! Stitching has a purpose, like all mechanical fastenings. It can be decorative, but then the kind of fussiness that puts buck stitching on all straps better live in the rest of the design.

Regardless how it all pans out I cannot wait for Linkedin to move on from formulaic "this gen AI platform is about to [vague post about how some visual industry is about to be disrupted]" posts. At this point it feels like 95% of ai throughput is tiresome Linkedin posting.

So, I do wonder if people who didn't play any of the Legacy of Kain games know that this is how the vampires there canonically feed. Super janky proof of concept, but still makes me smile. Insert own slurping noise!

Having a lot of fun getting Kain finally set up for presentation. Might not be able to include all the blendshape stuff in the initial post, but I really did have fun building this dumb face rig :D

Small sneakpeek at current project. Getting started on texturing the various belt doohickies on Krampus

Working on my Krampus. Belt danglies a'plenty!

There is such rich value in references. Immersing yourself in the depth of human culture, history, and art makes your art be better. It is always beneficial for artists to learn how and why something works, how that informs design, shape, and colour, and how they can reflect that in their work.

Replacing the phase of a production that is supposed to be about thinking and quickly communicating specific ideas about shape, colour, and design with a workfloe that utilises generative ai betrays a fundamental lack of understanding about what things like concept art are there for.

Playing with the topology I made for my Krampus. Reasonably pleased with the level of form fidelity I'm getting out of it. Here it is at 9.5k, 38k, and 150k aprox.

Remembered I had a Krampus sculpt sitting around from last Yule. Did it a quick retopo and reprojected. Bit of stuff to fix, but liking where he's heading!

Guess it's time for everyone at a WB studio to start making sure their CVs and folios are up to date. These massive corporate buy-outs always end up in layoffs. Having to live in the dumbest least cool version of cyberpunk sucks.

Last month a group of soldiers from the #KalinouskiRegiment had to evacuate after their Humvee was hit by enemy fire. Now they are in need of new gear, as much was lost in the attack. Support here: send.monobank.ua/jar/9DRS46QXP6 #Ukraine #SlavaUkraini #ZhyveBelarus

Still making a bit of slow progress on this war wizard lad in the evenings. It's presenting a bunch of fun challenges

Having a quiet evening in noodling on a little personal project, based on a concept by Nick Bray. The coat promises to be a nightmare to rig :D

Occasionally you'll do an art project you end up not quite doing justice to, and when that happens it's nice to sometimes come back and fix that. Harriet the swamp witch is getting the texturing and lookdev glow-up she deserved years ago :D

#TrustJusticeFreedomAndReasonablyPricedLove #Glorious25thofMay #HowDoTheyRiseUp #AndaHardboiledEgg

Sculpting a sad sad man who would much rather get off the ride and go read a book of equally sad poems #LockedTomb

So, I think Hank has this wrong, and I think he ends up doing a thing that smart people often do where he ends effectively batting for one side of a dichotomy in the name of trying to make things nuanced. LLMs can have limited usefulness while still mostly being low quality.

A movie you've watched more than six times, using only GIFs

Post yule days are being spent eating my weight in leftovers and relaxing. Also been sculpting a little on this Krampus

Not my usuall stuff, but had a crafty time and hand stitched a pain of nisse hats for my wife and I!

Still doing rig tests on Kain. The armour and head are about ready to go. Still haven't found a neat way to attach and drive the skull and mask to the hooks on the belt, so that might be a thing I just end up manually animating if I do any animations with the full kit.

Kain's rig is coming close to being finished, so soon it'll be time to figure out presentation shots! Been a busy year, but glad to see this one coming to a close! #gameart #characterart #legacyofkain #rigging

This evening was spent fiddling with rigging, getting Kain's armour to play along. Took ages to get the drivers for the tasset plates and pauldrons to play along so they move right (more video in the comments)

The ideal alternative to a silly little guy is a silly big guy

Will be reposting things and bits from projects of mine that existed on The Bad Site. If there's something people would like to see as far as breakdowns, feel free to chime in! #CharacterArt #Gamedev #3DArt

Welp, think it's time to finally get off The Bad Site. I'm Lars, a Character artist with over a decade of experience in the Games and Toy industries. Currently I'm Senior Character Artist over at G-Space Studio. I tend to post stuff about art and game dev, sometimes music, and sometimes ✨Opinions✨!

Somehow Palpatine returned

Tapping into some creativity and trying some new things. The idea is a Belarusian folklore / history / style - inspired tarot deck. I make no promises of actually getting there, there are too many projects and too little time for it all. #tarotsky #art

Hello hello! Coming over from horrible bird app (which I guess is now just horrible app) Looking forward to sharing art and thoughts! Here's what I'm noodling on at the moment