Hello guys , I'm RuN..maybe you've seen me stream some art here and there .
I am nearing my 100th post and thats the reason I'm making this blog post.
I want to convey how genuinely thankful I am for Team Liquid featuring my stream and allowing me to broadcast my trials and tribulations in the 3D sculpting world.
How it all started:
I was fresh off my anatomy course with Zbrush (the software I use), and somethings my teacher (Alex Oliver) said really stuck with me, mainly that we students thought too much about doing stuff and did not actually do them.
I pondered this for a good while and what he meant was that by the time we got the courage to face the software and test our skills he would have already done 10 models and that was why he was teaching and we were learning, its an interesting concept that not enough people grasp. DO STUFF, don't just think about it. Take action , its all in your hands.
So I took action !
Being a mod for several "high profile" streams led me to share my work with other moderators and one of them in particular Jeroen van de Pol (Miicr0) told me to stream my sculpting.
I was a bit skeptical about doing it but eventualy he convinced me, getting over 60 viewers in my first showing I was astounded and taken aback as to how many people were interested...it was short lived however since I was sculpting this woman, and she happened to be naked. And so Justin.tv banned me without a word or warning..shutting me down for good it seemed.
I could not stream my human work it seemed, so the logical next step was to help out my good friend Ben Nichol (MrBitter) who was doing a little show called 12 weeks with the pros. He needed a banner and he was zerg..I would oblige ! It would be a challenge and good practice.
The Show !
So I had this sculpt in my mind ever since I got to know MrBitter and his show. It was my first ever Sketch on this website and you can check it out below.
It was a two hour sculpt ! not bad and I got my good mod friends from MrBitter's stream to come watch and support me. A total of around 20 people came to watch my debut ! I was so happy !
Zergling Head:
24th of February
After this first foray I decided to make my blog post and the feedback was more than I ever expected. Such kind words and encouragement. Thank you all to those original posters/friends who bumped it and gave me an average rating of 4.8.
It was such a good feeling to sculpt and just not care, I just wanted to get better. I wanted to feel this again.
The next day I sculpted Tassadar, or at least what I thought he looked like. It was an interesting experience gathering reference understanding the best tools for each job and trying to get the best result possible.
Tassadar Bust:
The feedback was again overwhelmingly positive ! And I just felt like I needed to keep going. Maybe one day a few months down the road I could be featured as something different to watch !
So what better way to keep myself relevant than to try to do the Team Liquid horse logo ? With a twist of course
Team Liquid Horse:
I wont say that I'm in love with this piece but It was certainly fun to work out all the kinks with my friends on the stream, not perfect by any means but nice enough.
The question:
One thing crossed my mind, what if one day in the far flung future I could make an art event on team liquid...well how do those events work? I know..Ill ask Kennigit !!
And so I sent him a PM wondering how events worked and such as I just wanted to get a few more viewers, because not all tournament broadcasters are featured and such..could not hurt to ask.
A couple of days later...
The Answer:
"hihi, been watching your videos/streams and they are very nice. I do some zbrush sculpting myself as a hobby but im chobo ^^. Unfortunately admins/mods are the only people that can add events to the calendar. Instead we are going to feature your stream so that more people can see it.
Hope that helps
Kennigit"
My expression:
OOOOOOOOOOOO MMMMMM GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG O_O
KENNIGIT YOU SNEAKY STREAM LURKER YOU !
Keep in mind that this was 4 days after I started streaming or so. I could not believe my eyes. After this it was decided...lets start a SHOW ! and lets call it TIME FOR ART !
Nazgul and Kennigit responded to the thread and I remember to this day what both of them said..they kept me going !
I was pumped ! I was featured but now was the time to make a splash ! Still I had alot I needed to improve (and do still) but I felt everyone deserved to see a full character sculpted.
Enter the Mustalisk:
My first full character sketch ! Alot of rough edges but definetly promising I thought and so did alot of other intrepid folk who watched me and started following me .
We did not stop there tho, we wanted bigger !! Badder !!
Queen:
4 hours !! And I was so tired after this !! In the end I did not like this sculpt very much but it was a good experience in dealing with large characters and trying to match reference..not complete fail. Plus I had a power outage I get sympathy points at least...
I wanted to take it back a bit...I was going to fast. Burning myself out this early would not be good. So In the advent of dragon age 2 coming out , I decided to beat the first game again and maybe do a sculpt of an ogre.
Ogre Sculpt:
I really like this piece for a couple of reasons , one it was short and sweet. Two, It looked like the ogre from Dragon age. This was enough, I was happy.
And then came the true test...saturday..nobody home just me and the computer....
Hell, lets make a Dark Templar !
Ah this guy , I love him for so many reasons but Ill list a few.
It was a good complete process, of base muscles into armor , into detail. Very important to do at least once.
I meet Thundertoss! and Spazcraft they liked my work and he asked me why I was not in justin.tv......
3, he just looks like a boss :D.
Getting Unbanned from justin.tv:
Let me tell you comrades this was not so easy, but I had good friends in Thundertoss and Spazcraft.
I made 3D logo for Spaz and told Thundertoss he could have some big renders of my DT for whatever he wanted to do with it. Also I gave him mod cause he is a badass.
I held the logo hostage till I got unbanned and traded it for good unban bullets metro 2033 style.
And there we had it , Run_sc2 was dead but RuN__ was now in business and back on justin.tv.
So why not celebrate...and make...
A Hydralisk !
This thing was alot of work, but well worth it. I was quite happy and still am as were alot the people who helped me create him.
Then I took another step back and took a break...I was undecided..conflicted lots of things happening with my life....
A few days later we made a Corruptor !
I noticed something, I was getting faster..better at getting the shapes in...transforming concept to sculpt..it was moving forward..I liked that.
And then another challenge, no more gooey soft stuff..lets make something that is mechanical !
A Stalker !
To this day I still don't like this at all, but thats because hindsight is 20/20. And I know how that I went about this all wrong..its ok tho some peeps still liked it.
And then I failed: I promised an Ultralisk and I did not deliver. I am still very frustrated till this day about that Ultralisk...It just didnt go well and I don't want to talk about it. I will do him one day..when I am better.
I shook it off tho and started fresh..
Overlord ]
Believe it or not , this took one hour to do. Thats how bad it is..I still don't know how people like this one..but I hey to each his own...quick and dirty.. literally.
Discovering my new found speed...I just wanted to keep on it.
This led me to just sketch alot, get some basic cubes and make some characters...and here is the result. I needed to relax..not think about it.
Red Alien:
This guy was fun to do and alot of people liked him, he is different and has some really interesting details like his neck and the overall shape of his face...overall happy with this .
And then...we stumbled on...
Gruff !
So we started with this head that I really liked and one of my viewers told me to give him a body.. Still shaken up about that Ultralisk I was hesitant but I just felt like he deserved more than just a head.
And so we built his body and armor . Im also quite happy with this sketch.
And then came Tyler... Oh Tyler..your face still haunts my dreams every time I try to figure out how to make a bunch of clay look like you..
Tyler was nice enough to come into the stream watch , give feedback and get us some pictures of himself.. ALOT of pictures. He is AWESOME.
I then grew comfortable enough to use my webcam and to show my tablet/myself/my cat. A big step into the quality of the show.
After failing abit on likenesses I also wanted to change it up and so we did, Thundertoss came back ask me a favor for the boys over at Z33k
Z33k Coin !
I don't know how I did this..so don't ask.. I like it tho and so do the guys at z33k. Quite happy with this one ).
With being featured comes great responsability:
Responsibility 1: Be nice to your stream, always. FOREVER and talk to everyone. Be nice to trolls that way the don't come back.
Responsibility 2: Listen to good relaxing music...that way you can put people in a chilled state and they never see the dubstep drop coming ! RWAR.
Responsibility 3: Innovate !! And challenge yourself !!
And challenge we did... grab a few cubes and make a marine suit..
Marine Suit out of Cubes + Tyler.
This was so much fun to do, and quite hard as well, but I got my highest viewer count and that was 470 people. I said that If we could break 400 I would put Tyler in the suit..and so..I did.
This stream also instated the 100 viewers Sarah (my cat) appearance. This rule seemed to be popular as my cat is the cutest thing evar.
So after this grueling saturday we took a break and did another sketch.
Zsaz
Alot of details here..and the introduction to the golden material of epicness that makes everything look amazing O_O.
At this point I had it in my mind for a long time that I wanted to make a baneling..and so we did.
Baneling!
This was a culmination of everything , these last 2 months that I've been with Team Liquid have been incredible. I sculpted and painted in just under 6 hours. So very fast ! I was impressed and quite happy with the result.
Hopefully now through me reliving a little bit of my work you can perhaps see how much I improved thanks to Team Liquid and my Stream. I could not have done it without you guys and for that I can't ever express how much you all mean to me. I would never have gathered up the will to keep going if it was not for you, and never would I be considered a better artist either.
Thank you, so much.
So enough about the past..lets talk about now.
I am an artist, I am constantly learning, and I need to improve lots of areas of my work still as I am far from being bullet proof like some artists but as I always say.. I will get there. With your help.
Here is what we did these past couple of days. We are concepting a full mechanical character that will be very polished and high quality, this is the concept that we are making the detail for ..stay tuned during the week to see the process.
5/10/11 edit:
Today after all the heart warming comments in this thread we decided to sketch this infestor that we will continue and finish during the week.
7 hours for this one
I would like to take this last paragraph here to again thank Team Liquid for allowing me to display my art/stream my work. It has helped me grow immensely as a person and artist.
I never dreamed that I would get featured so fast and much less that I would have such a loyal and INCREDIBLE fanbase ! You guys make my days shine brighter and you keep me going I love all of you !
It is because of you guys that I now have 617 followers on justin.tv and 110 on Twitter ( a number that grew VERY fast, due to what I think is the quality of my work increasing. ) All of it cascades.. I just don't have words, thank you so much.
It has also made my career advance in more ways then one..having gotten more than one raise in a period of 45 days. It is truly incredible what you guys helped me achieve.
I've made many new and very good friends ( Austin you rock bro ! ) you all changed my life.
I pride myself in being the most interactive stream on Team Liquid so if you don't think thats true, come ask me a question. Come help me make my art better ! Lets do this together guys ! Maybe one day Ill be a big dog in this industry .
As a final note if you like my story and like my work you can track me down quite easily.
I am either being a MOD for:
MrBitter Sheth vVvTitan
Or I will be streaming with my cute cat ! justin.tv/run__
You can check out all the pictures and more of my work here:
Portfolio @magalhaes.carbonmade.com Stream: @http://www.justin.tv/run__ Twitter: @RuN_3D (brother mack follows me here, that means that so should you)
Your art is so crazy good. I remember watching the queen stream and was absolutely amazed at the level of detail and hard work you put into it. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to more!
Amazing progressions, I'd love to see more sculptures outside of the SC2 world. Unless that's your passion of course. Keep doing what your doing, it's fantastic
Wow. I've never seen your streams, but the quality of renders you're producing is phenomenal. As a fellow artist, I'm guilty of thinking on things but never getting to the point of doing it. Even though I wasn't able to watch you improve from your first stream, the pictures you've provided have done more than a sufficient job.
Hopefully within the next three days I can finally get better internet as to where I can watch you stream and improve even more! (Not to mention I like cats. Hahaha)
It's really inspiring to see you improve and feel confident in your improvement. I might just have to grab my sketchbook and take a moment to draw all the things I said I would.
But on a side note, I don't think you mentioned when you first started streaming. Or, at least I can't find the date. Lol. In either case, whether the improvement was over 4 weeks, 6 months or a year, it's still inspiring. Don't stop streaming so I can watch you next time! C:
I've never been into 3D rendering stuff, but it all looks really interesting. Hahaha.
Dude, it's been an honor to be part of your rising success. You have so much potential and your awesome personality will take you far. I'm excited for all the good experiences and gifts that will come to you and I am proud to be a part of it! ;d
I've always frequented your thread to see what you've done week to week and I'm always amazed at the detail and the sculptures you produce, they're truly amazing! Keep up the good work :D
i remember watching your stream for the first time sculpting that zergling bust, and since then you have come a long way sir you have great talent and i have no doubt that you will become very successful in your field of work. good luck! hwaiting 화이팅!
On May 09 2011 09:35 Wildfire619 wrote: i remember watching your stream for the first time sculpting that zergling bust
Haha me too, I'd spent the day playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R and I left the stream on in the background while playing for the good music (love that DJ shadow/RJD2/Nomak type instrumental hip-hop). I'd check back every 15minutes just to see how it'd changed.
Great recap of your work. I must confess that I haven't checked out your stream and your show in a long time. I should start doing that again, it's fun to see the process.
Congratulations on your success. It is well-deserved.
I told you before in your stream thread, but here it goes again
You are incredibly talented sir! Really nice change to tune into your stream after watching/playing Starcraft for hours and hours, I hope you make it big dude =)
You should get a partner in crime who is really good with coloring and textures to help place the finishing touches on the sculptures and perhaps even create a kind of environment for the sculptures to inhabit. This is some really impressive works and I honestly with I could work like this on the computer.
Also, could post perhaps are short info list of like what your computer specs are, what programs you used and perhaps some good tutorial stuff?
Run, I've been here since the beginning, and I'll be here til the end. Your art is fucking awesome. I'm so glad that you're painting now! I can't wait to see what you come up with next. + Show Spoiler +
Hey not only are you awesome and a definite true artist, I noticed something in your post that just shouts 'impending talent' to me as a longtime musician: self-criticism! You made these awesome ass models and on many of them commented with the refrain of a true self-prefectionist "good, but I could have done better." mad props and keep up the awesome work! The only one that didn't strike me as epicly cool was the overlord. I've been watching your speed-run VODs hypnotized by the virtual sculpting I think its so cool. I hope you get the chance to do something really cool/profitable with your work in the future and wanted to be part of the many people giving you glowing reviews. It's clear you've spent alot of time and effort on this lately (judging by the fact that many of these models take minimum 4 hours) and you definately deserve the featured stream for the uniqueness of your contribution to this site. viva la art!
If there is one thing I have learned in my life is that though we strive for perfection we will never know what it is and thats why we keep searching for it.
My heart warms to your comment, thank you so very much. I try not to make the mistake of some artists I know that finish a piece and say "Its crap, I hate it". I don't like that attitude at all.
I like my work and love what I do but I know my limitations and I most certainly know what is "wrong or needs work"
Its always best to take a day and rest your eyes, when you come back the answer is there.
I've watched this stream many times, it's quite good. It's an awesome break from watching and playing Starcraft, and I gotta say RuN is veryyyyy talented.
Your work is just so amazing and detailed, i'm really jealous of your talent....the dark templar is just insanely cool...saw the hydralisk live, loved it
I've always liked 3D modelling, even tried 3DSmax but I suck at it though so I prefer watching others do it, so if I happen to spot your stream I'll definitely watch it.
Which makes me think, the stream list only shows "Misc" so it's easy to miss cool stuff when the stream isn't that big, so I was wondering if the devs are planing to add a feature to allow streamer to tell what they are doing (HoN, LoL, pkmon, CoD...)?
On May 09 2011 16:22 zZygote wrote: Your work is so amazing! Your baneling and the overlord are so precise it's not even funny.
If Blizzard has to hire anyone for sculpting its this guy.
Seconded, you should be working in the industry (gaming) or any other you want to apply your skills too, its not every day that you see stuff like this
Movies are also a a very viable option for you, good luck in the future
I love art myself, would like to learn more, hope ill catch your stream someday. ART > ALL! Man that DT is so bad ass, LOVE it. Will be one of your followers on Stream. Keep the good work !
i love watching your stream at nights (well nights for me here in sweden :p) while im working on my own stuff, so i just keep your stream + chat on my external monitor.
what i really like is that you answer like 99% of the questions and you're always civil and polite and very good at taking constructive critisism (also you make damn fine stuff!)
@Gridline - Don't worry bro you wont let me down thanks for the help.
@robin19999 - I'm sure I could try but I would rather have some more experience before that.
@Nexi - Zsas is my original concept, we just freestyled him one day .
@Dartoo - I use a pen tablet. Wacom bamboo.
@ iNViCiOUZ - Difference is Zbrush is sculpting package that is slowly becoming very strong stand alone modeling / rendering software.while the others animate/rig as well. Its a bit of a complex question Im sure i can get you a better answer in the stream
@Nazgul - You guys really did change my life, thank you
so much <3 here guys.. thanks so much. It feels awesome !
I felt so sad and guilty when you got banned on Justin.tv after you just started streaming your art mostly due to my encouragement. This however, made me so much more happy when you returned and you thoroughly astonished me with the energy and happiness with which you RuN the show (pun intended).
After I saw your zergling bust come to live I had some second thoughts, it didn't feel right at first, but then you got into the details and you pushed back all the negative vibes I had towards it by just making him amazing and nowadays I really like that bust. Then you started throwing sculpture after scuplture together, the one faster than the other. Great work! I adore the hydra and the baneling!
Unfortunately I have been busy quite a lot lately and have been unable to keep track of all your sculpts but I tend to weave in from time to time just to get a glimpse of what you're making (and looking at your Time for Art thread to see the result/timelapses ofcourse on the next day!).
Anyhow, I want to congratulate on all your amazing sculptures, your progress and most of all, your kindness to not only me or the mods, but to everyone (even the trolls GRRRR - Cella invasion?!) that comes into your stream. I'd like to end by paraphrasing someone who dropped by in your streamchat one day. I don't know no more who it was, and we'll probably never know but here goes: "I came in here to troll, but after hanging around for a couple minutes I liked it too much to do so."
Your art, your work ethic...such an inspiration. Without exception, you deserve all the accolades and praise you are receiving in this thread while showing such humility.
You're an awesome guy and I wish you the very best for your future endeavours and career.
Wow great story. I'll definetally tune in to one of these when you go live. And I'll go follow you on justin.tv right now. keep up the awsome work! The baneling is my favourite so far
the only one I didn't like is the corruptor, but infestor, muta and Liquid Horse are really great! keep up the excelent work dude, i like this kind of work done on TL forum (besides from the games and idra talk everywhere lol )
The best part about this is that you are sharing even when you don't like your sculpture. The courage required to do so is impressive. Your passion is honestly an inspiration, thank you so much for sharing.
Run is a giant baller- Love watchin him do his stuff... It was just too bad that the hydra made into a figurine ended up bein like 250 bucks or whatever it was for 4 inches of glass =0\ I really wanted to buy one of those!
Stumbled upon your stream by accident really since I was getting kinda tired of watching SCII for awhile and I was hoping that the misc:ness on your stream would be something interesting.
Needless to say I was stuck until 4am watching someone sculpt a runner/mech thing.. Just stunned in amazement. This rocked! And I have your stream bookmarked just to follow your next endeavours
So I watched you yesterday create the infestor. I loved how you explained not only the technical part of the creation but also the thought process behind your choices. And you have good music tastes. Keep up the good work and gl hf for your projects!
I read this last night instead of getting some sleep before my exam. And coming back again today, I have to say both your work and attitude is awesome! Keep it up:D
Again thank you all for all the great comments. I finished the infestor and I thought I might bump this so that you guys could see the full rendered version at the bottom of the first post.
I am really really happy with it and again I would not have done it without you guys.
Also, I think the reason that Kennigit was watching your stream is because he needs to make sure no one approves a bad stream so in his free time he looks at the different streams that have been newly made by TL users. Those not about star craft gaming but instead about art are the ones that he has to look at the most since they can end up being even better than the gaming ones. This is one of the better ones
Watched the painting of the infestor today at work, even made my boss come over and watch for a second. Glad you went with green eyes (purple was too hard to see!)
I almost missed this thread, just now found it in Pony Tales.
Count me in as another sneaky stream lurker!
I didn't see the ultralisk show so I don't know what happened there. But whatever it is, don't let it get you down too much. Just learn from your mistakes and move on. You're improving quickly, so hopefully we'll get to see you give it another go sometime!
<3 you RuN your the man dood. I would rather tune into this and see the artwork than many of the streams here, not to bash, but to commemorate your awesome artwork as truly awesome stuff. Keep Doing it!
Its a pity you haven't thrown your new painted works in this thread, they look exceptional! Even the overlord looks really really good and I understand the design a lot better with your coloring.
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