David Rencsenyi

Anatomy Study

Dave — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:55:13 +0000

So these past few weeks and months I was really really studying Zbrush and the human anatomy. I was always drawn towards creating humans or characters and organic stuff in 3d, but I guess I just didn’t have the knowledge to be able to do outstanding work. Well, now I’m on the subject, and I am studying hard, and practicing as much as I can. Here below you can see my first finished sculpture. An anatomy study. It took me roughly a week to do this (working in my spare time, and over the weekend). And I am pretty satisfied with the results.

And I already have a huge list on what to do and practice next: face, hair, feet, hands, cloth and much much more. I am aiming towards making one sculpt every week in the next year. I hope I will be able to keep this!

(For the bigger version check out my deviantArt page!)

Hand Sculpt

Dave — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:51:56 +0000

Long time no see! I’ve been really busy these past few months. Working hard and studying as well. I jumped into learning anatomy these past few months, and I have to say that I enjoy it tremendously. I just love working with Zbrush, and I learned so much of the human anatomy as well. I’m hoping to master the basics soon, and be able to jump into this whole new and exciting world, and make 3d sculptures!

Now as a taster, here’s the model of my hand. Made in a few days for the sole purpose of practicing the of the human hand. Rendered with Zbrush, just to practice that as well – never rendered with Zbrush before, but it is interesting for sure.

Hand model

Demoreel 2012

Dave — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:05:12 +0000

Great news! I finished my demoreel on schedule, so it’s live right now, and everybody can share it and enjoy it! Please comment, I’m really curious about what you think. I’m pretty satisfied with the results, I think it reflects my abilities and expertise as an artist. Hope you like it!

Coming Soon

Dave — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:04:04 +0000

It’s been a really busy few weeks for me and as usual I’m bursting with new and interesting ideas. So hopefully I’ll have the time to write them all down, and make a few youtube tutorials and nice posts for the blog as well. I had a great project from Australia last week which really pushed me to my limits – due to time constraints, rendering time budgets and new and exciting challenges. But I’m happy to say that I was able to tackle all of those and had some really great results (images and a tutorial hopefully soon to be followed).

Also I learned a ton of new things and it’s helping me to optimize my rendertimes for my first demoreel! Yep, you heard it right, I’m making my first demoreel. It’ll be roughly 2 minutes, already have a rough sketch of what I want in it and how. I’m hoping to make this available next week. I’m going to show some close-ups and wireframes of my Buzz Lightyear model, the Cadillac I made and the goggles I did last week. Also there will be a new personal project in it, the Montezuma model and small scene I made. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell about this one. It all started as a submission for the CgSociety challenge (Decisive Moment). I wanted to make a scene Montezuma meeting Cortez for the first time… But it would’ve took too much time and I just wasn’t up for it with all this stuff going around me. But in the end I made a half scene – only Montezuma and a chameleon – for my demoreel.

For the bigger image click on the picture!

Also there will be one last model/scene in this demoreel, on which I haven’t decided yet. Hopefully I’ll have the time to make a new character I wanted to make, or just put in some old stuff. We’ll see.

I’m relocating to London soon, so thing are really exciting. I’m hoping to land a nice job in the booming VFX industry there, and I’ll learn a ton of new stuff, while doing what I like the most. I just hope to be better and better by the minute and show you guys some more tips and tricks, and be part of new feature movies or great and funny ads, or something like that. It would be a dream come true. I’m working hard on it. And of course I’ll keep you updated along the way! I’m guessing this blog will be as personal as professional, so you can expect some experiences from London.

Ok, this is it for now. Hopefully you’ll enjoy my demoreel next week, or at least the playblast of it.

Amazing Spider-Man Trailer

Dave — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:53:48 +0000

We are going to have a few really great movies coming up this year (MIB III is coming this week), and we already had some awesome moments (with the Avengers). A lots of movies this year are full of cgi, and the new Spider-Man movie is going to be one of them. To be honest I really looked at this film as something unnecessary – ‘cuz come on, we already had a Spider-Man movie back in the days, and it was awesome. But looking at this 4 minute extreme preview, it really looks nice. Maybe I’ll go and see it in the cinemas after all… Who knows?

Practicing Sculpting

Dave — Sat, 05 May 2012 07:37:53 +0000

So I had some time off from Zbrush – like 4 days – but now I’m back in the game. I made a new head model, and I liked it so much, that I decided to make a body for it as well. It’s been some time since I last tried to make a human body – and I failed miserably that time as well. So I gathered up some references and started modeling, then sculpting. I’m planning on making a big guy. And I plan to make it till the end – texture it and render it in the end. It will be set in a boxing ring, and our hero will be just “chilling”. I hope it will look nice, I’m actually surprised how well the sculpting part went, so… we’ll see it.

Sculpting with Zbrush

Dave — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:00:37 +0000

I recently had the urge to sculpt away some stuff in Zbrush, so I started to experiment with some faces and looks. Here are the first few practice heads I made. First there’s the 1920′s gentleman, inspired by one of my favourite eras, and Sherlock Holmes of course. And second I made an old man face – I also made an eye study of this as well. I’m planning on making mouth, ear and nose studies from some other reference, then a whole face again, I hope it will look good. Cheers.

Busy weeks and a showreel

Dave — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:15:40 +0000

So it’s been quite a while again. I’m constantly working these days and don’t have too much time for my own projects. And in top of everything the weather here is just awful and it completely destroyed me this week. I’m just trying to recover somehow from this tired melancolic mood I’m in right now. Slowly I’m progressing, today I even pushed myself a bit further and started to make some of my plans, so I think I’m finally getting out of all this grey and rainy, tired and sleepy mood…

These last couple of weeks I watched some really nice reels and I just tought I will share it with you, just to post something finally, so click and enjoy:

We Want FiberMesh Now.

Dave — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:12:52 +0000

In case you don’t know FiberMesh is a new update and possibility for the ZBrush using community. And it’s simple and unbelievable: create hair, fur, fibers right inside ZBrush with the same simple sculpting techniques you already know! It will be released as an update for Zbrush 4R2, and it will be free of charge for those who already have it. Sweet right? And it’ll be available on the 23rd of January. Check out the video on the link below and prepare for the jaw-dropping action (the ZBrush preview are always like movie teasers, so you cannot wait for the release date). This adds some nice improvements for ZBrush, slowly making the program an all-in-one package with sculpting, modeling, texturing, rendering, and now hair making capabilities.

Movie Magic in 2011

Dave — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:39:57 +0000

It’s the end of the year, everybody is looking back and looking forward. The CG and VFX industry had a great year, and the next is going to be awesome as well with some nice movies and special effects to watch, so for your enjoyment here’s a nearly 10 minute recap of the last year. Feast your eyes!