Ariel Diaz

Giulio Andreotti

2011-05-05T01:40:00.000-07:00

Not the real one, the fake one.

Bloody skeetch

2011-04-24T22:36:00.000-07:00

Character Sketch Timelapse

2011-04-13T21:33:00.000-07:00

It's been too long, so here's this doodle I made a while ago. Hope to update again in the next few days.

Portrait Sketch

2010-04-16T08:28:00.001-07:00

Arm Study

2010-02-16T00:28:00.000-08:00

Simon?

2010-02-07T00:54:00.000-08:00

I recently photographed one of my figure drawings from a long pose at the Gage Academy about a year ago. Until I remember the model's name we're calling him Simon. I swear this isn't me, even though there's a slight resemblance.

23" x 30" - Charcoal on Paper

Marvel vs Capcom2!!

2010-01-26T00:09:00.000-08:00

Did this a while back for a Capcom-themed competition:

Señor Roberto PepeJohnson

2009-08-11T00:42:00.000-07:00

Creature attempt using mudbox and zbrush decimation. Rendered in Modo.

Statue Print

2009-06-12T09:40:00.001-07:00

I was playing with my camera and took some shots of the 3d print, so I decided to replace the old ones.

old guy

2009-05-12T01:02:00.000-07:00

Playing around with an old model

quick sketch

2009-02-28T14:37:00.000-08:00

Random quick sketch done a few weeks ago. Testing how to upload images with picasa.

Paul Baudry Study

2008-05-06T01:47:00.000-07:00

Rubens Study

2008-05-06T01:45:00.000-07:00

Study after one of my favorite sketches by Peter Paul Rubens.

Bouguereau Study

2008-05-06T01:36:00.000-07:00

Master study from a few months ago, done after a sketch from William Bouguereau.

Cassical Statue

2008-04-24T23:12:00.001-07:00

Old model inspired by classical Italian sculpture.

Female torso sketch

2008-04-24T23:08:00.001-07:00

Quick Zbrush sketch of a female torso

Portrait Timelapse Modeling

2007-03-18T01:26:00.000-07:00

I captured a movie of several modeling sessions in Mudbox, where I modeled a portrait of an old man. The inspiration for it first came from a Chinese academic drawing, that a friend of mine scanned from a book. I didn't really follow it to a tee, but it did inform my work along the way. Needless to say the drawing is incredible next to my puny 3d sculpt, check it out: http://www.arieldiaz.com/uploaded_images/
old_man_drawing-717480.jpg

The videos are now on youtube and they play super fast, which is pretty funny since it looks like I'm on auto-drive (Wish i could work at that speed in reality. Doing the actual thing there were many pauses and moments of hesitation :) )

part1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMgBQMHBOX4

part2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDBau-s8SdI

Human wip

2007-03-17T04:31:00.000-07:00

Here's a model that I've been working on during my spare time.

Cruisin'

2007-02-26T16:22:00.000-08:00

Just got back from a vacation around the coast of Central America. The trip was both relaxing and energizing, even though I caught the Flu over there. Apart from doing the whole beach vacation thing I had a chance to look at other cultures with people and places that were just amazing. Belize, and Roatan and Honduras were probably my favorite of all the places I saw. I put up a web album with some of my favorite pics from the trip

PICS

Weirdo

2007-02-13T01:23:00.000-08:00

Here's an update on that last model. Decided to make him less 'average'. I'm begining to learn that this usually means that I need to use reference. Heads come in billions of configurations and working too much from memory can have the effect of always ending up with a variation of the same head. Anyway... Modeling in Mudbox can be very addictive. off to sleep now.

playing with tools

2007-02-12T01:44:00.000-08:00

Here's the result of playing around with the NEX plugin for Maya. I used the Quad Draw tool to re-create the topology of an old model into a new generic head mesh and then took it into Mudbox to test it out.

First (real) Post

2007-02-11T23:20:00.000-08:00

Still learning how to 'blog'. Here's a test upload of an old 3d model. This one was modeled in Mudbox and rendered in Modo.

Bloggin!!

2007-02-11T19:19:00.000-08:00

Let's see how this whole blog thing works. I plan to use this blog in order to keep track of my work and to force myself to sharing and updating a portfolio. Should be fun!!