THE GOON
October 29, 2009 by Atom

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I’m finally doing some personal work again. It has started very innocently. I was just relaxing at the Sunday afternoon and I opened the Zbrush and sculpt a head. It looked pretty good so a have decided to add the body. Ok, and then a hat. And the next thing I know is that I’m working on the full male character with the proper mesh topology, UVs and Hires textures :) ). I have also spoke with my friend loocas and set out a deal that we will try to make a short animation, some sort of teaser, together. So loocas will hopefully deliver the rigs and the animation and I will try to make it look as realistic and beautiful as I possibly could. Its pretty challenging in the light of the facts that we are making this project in our spare time and we dream about the quality somewhere between Blur and Blizzard :) ) . But who need to sleep when you can put your veins on to the coffee infusion, right? Heh, just kiding. Anyway I’m really looking forward to see this finished though the finish is somewhere over the horizont…

Here you have some WIP pictures to judge the quality and dont hesitate to write me some comments. Critique is always welcome :) )
BTW: If you’re not completely familiar with the Goon mythology you may find some information HERE

See ya guys

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  1. October 29, 2009 by Atom

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    I hope I will deliver some more freah images soon… :) )

  2. November 2, 2009 by Atom

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    I just cant wait and started to paint some textures. Its a very satisfying part of the work for me. All you need is a good reference, tablet and then you just bringing your character to life. Combine that with the foggy, cold weather, bottle of a good Rum and play yourself some Tom Waits music and you got a perfect Sunday :) )

  3. November 4, 2009 by Atom

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    Little test on the shaders and textures. The skin shader need some improvement and I also need to add some hair and fur on his head and arms and perhaps even on the chest. Tattoo would be nice :) . I will now try to focus more on the clothes and the rest of the body… see ya soon

  4. November 9, 2009 by Atom

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    So this is the update that I have made over the weekend. I have set up a goal that at the end of Sunday I will have be done with the textures. At least at some stage of the result. Looking on this pictures i have made I have to confess that I’m not very happy with the trousers, but not only with the textures, but with the whole shape. I think that the boots, the belt and the shirt works for now. But the another thing that needs some correction is the neck. The sinew on the neck is to strong and I will probably make it look more smooth or “fat” if you want. And of course those teeth is still not textures/shaded so I have to work on those also… I am thinking about some hair as well, specialy on the chest and the arms :) )

  5. November 16, 2009 by Atom

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    Just another quick render over the weekend. I was working on the wrench and during the work I just put some new lights in to the scene and make this picture. I hope you like it :)

    I’l be back :)

  6. November 16, 2009 by mousek

    Ahoj. neskutocne s detailami a vyrazom tvare …

  7. November 17, 2009 by Atom

    Oh…dekuji. Jsem rad ze se libi :) )

  8. December 2, 2009 by Rafael Grassetti

    Looking really great man! Again :P
    Just two things i would change.. The goon eyes are blue! And i would change the neck, is looking a little too much right now.

    Keep it up!
    Raf

  9. December 2, 2009 by Atom

    Thank you Rafael :)
    I’m glad you like it. You are right about the neck thought, it looks too much tight imho. And of course I will change those eyes to the proper color. Btw: I have find out that his left eye is blind…

  10. December 2, 2009 by sameh

    amazing work : )

  11. December 9, 2009 by Atom

    Hi guys,

    I haven’t post here for nearly a month so I have decided to show you guys some small update. The thing is that in the last month i have been working on the Storyboards for this Goon project and believe me it is not that easy. I was drawing, sketching a animating with bipeds like crazy and I ended up with the total bull shit :) Those scenes just doesn’t make sence and generally was a crap :) ) But THE GOOD NEWS is that one my friends, Jan Humpal, who is wayyy better then me in this film stuff things, offer me help and he is doing some off-line version of the storyboard right now! So it might be a happy end after all. Cool… :) )

    This picture is form the sotryboard so it might ended up little bit differently in the end. It’s more like a light test…light_tst_corridor_01_

  12. February 22, 2010 by Atom

    Hi there ladies
    I’m back from the death :) As usual I were bussy in the work and didnt have much time to do my own stuff but my kung fu is strong and here I am with some 3D environment „concepts“ to the sweet GOON project. In this seven pictures you can see pretty much the major space where will the story take a place. The next step will be setting up the cameras and render a very firts „animatic“ of this short film. I cant wait to see if it works. Comments and critique are highly appreciated…

  13. April 15, 2010 by Atom

    Finally I have start to texture some scenes…

  14. April 29, 2010 by Milan Tofel

    dobra prace !! drzim palec do konca, nech to dopadne.

  15. May 5, 2010 by Atom

    I start to work on some zombie hands for the scene where some undeath dude walks down the stairs to the rail. The camera here is set up as a P.O.V from the zombies eyes so we will see only its hands… I hope I will finish this shot very soon. there is tons of work ahead :) )

  16. June 9, 2010 by Atom

    Show must go on! Another update

  17. August 31, 2010 by Vlad

    This is a amazing work, you made my favorite character look awesome, good job. BTW, do you know who provides the best tutorials regarding MAYA, ZBrush, u know the stuff that u r good in.
    Thanks,
    V…

  18. October 5, 2010 by Loco El Duderino

    This all looks fantastic! The thought of making a teaser of the Goon cartoon makes me wanna jump to the moon and from there pee on the looneytoons XD. I’d love to stimulate my thoughts while the world shows me its beauty in a teaser. am i being deep? I will keep my eyes open for this project fur shawr.

  19. October 20, 2010 by jaro

    Ou what an amazing stuff! especially when i saw the zombie hand my jaw just drop to the ground
    really fabulous shader
    keep it up

  20. November 22, 2010 by Atom

    Brain! Braaiin! BRAAAIIIN!

  21. November 23, 2010 by virendra pratap singh

    Tomas….. your work is amazing man…….. outstanding work and i am your fan specially i like the skin textures and stairs textures.

    keep it up bro

    regard’s

    virendra

  22. December 19, 2010 by Daniel Buchsbaum

    F***ing amazing, love ur work

  23. March 1, 2012 by Atom

    I know it seems nearly impossible but this project is still alive! I will not bother you with some crazy details of what happened and why I have stopped working on this project for nearly a year! We can talk about this in a bar, bending over a sixth beer where you can hurt me in person and tell me that I am a lazy idiot :)

    Anyway, I am so happy whit this new update because this one is very important. Its….wait for it….finished animatic!!! I mean, nearly finished. There is no sound, and I will probably change some details once all the shots will be finished. But this is great. A huge step forward for me, and for this project…

  24. March 1, 2012 by Atom

    On there is even more! I have done some progress on the environments too… This is the one you probably know, but the latest version. And the other which you have never seen before this finished. I hope you will enjoy it, and hopefully I will give you more updates very soon :) But I cant promise anything, you know me :) ))

     

  25. March 14, 2012 by Atom

    All right boys and girls, I have done some work on another environment. I dont say its finished (thats nothning on this project, haha) but pretty far from the animatic version :)  PS: If there is some incredebly rich fan of this project send me a tons of money so I can work on this all the time and dont have spend my time on commercials :)

     

  26. March 23, 2012 by Atom

    From the hidden deep underground vault, where I am creating this short movie comes another piece of rotten and decayed stuff.  To be specific, one completely new image and one you have seen before but almost finished. Both of this images are from the “Zombie opening” sequence so I guess this will be the first one finished. Now there is only the Zombie it self missing :) but that is just a small detail.

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