Stéphane R. Richard - zanshine

The Butcher

2012-01-24T00:00:00+01:00

The Butcher, the imaginary portrait of a serial killer. Done with Blender, Zbrush and Maya 2012 in conjunction with Mental Ray.

I’ve started from a loose polymodeled head done witch blender some weeks ago. I then did the sculpt in ZBrush, pushing the details not too far (7 millions polys) because I wanted to spent time experimenting with maya fast mi_sss shader.

I did a lot of different maps, almost 10 for the head itself (scattering layers and specularity), and some few others for the eyes, the teeth and the shirt. I’ve displaced the base mesh from level 2 to 5 (exporting the base mesh at level 2) and then applied a normal map for the high frequency details (subdivisions 5 to 7).

The lighting use 2 portal lights as main direct illumination sources. I’ve also used final gather with an image based environment node and eventually global illumination.

Finally, I did the compositing and some overpainting in photoshop.

Sea creature concept art

2011-11-28T00:00:00+01:00

The space turtle concept art

2011-11-09T00:00:00+01:00

Sketched in Zbrush, painted in photoshop. Done in 6 hours.

Better late than never

2011-10-06T00:00:00+02:00

For many years I’ve tried to maintain a blog. Difficult thing, given the devouring passions that I live with, and unfortunately, writing is not among them.

But I felt the need to present them all in one place, so I’ll try to do it in this blog.

Cutting edge gimp in latest ubuntu

2011-10-05T00:00:00+02:00

If you want to run the latest development version of gimp (2.7.x) in ubuntu 11.10, here’s how to achieve that in a few command lines.

Note that the following has been tested successfully on Ubuntu 11.x freshly installed and updated systems.

You will not be able to compile the current 2.7 gimp snapshot on lucid, as it requires a higher version of glibc than the one included by the distribution. It’s still possible to compile it on lucid, but if you know how to do that, you don’t need me anymore :)

So, I’ve written a little bash script to automate the process of compiling the gimp’s latest development version and its dependencies, which should work fine on a fresh Oneiric install.

Just download the script or clone the git repository, configure if necessary, and execute.

If you don’t have the git command, you may install it. That will help you in keeping the script up to date:

sudo aptitude install git-core

Then:

git clone git://github.com/zanshine/gimp-razor.git
cd gimp-razor
./gimp-razor

Alternatively, if you don’t want to use git, you can download the script (https://raw.github.com/zanshine/gimp-razor/master/gimp-razor), make it executable and run:

wget https://raw.github.com/zanshine/gimp-razor/master/gimp-razor
chmod u+x gimp-razor
./gimp-razor

That’s it!

Out of the box, this script will retrieve the latest gimp sources and it’s unmet dependencies on ubuntu 11.10, wich are gegl and babl.

It will compile gimp under ~/opt/gimp/build_$build_id, where $build_id is a simple timestamp. So you’ll be able to make nightly builds if you want, without breaking the old ones. At the end of the process, your newly cutting edge gimp will be launched.

Please, report any issues you have with the script, and I’ll try to solve them quickly.