Kristian Howald

This is a picture of the from the far end of the CNE at dusk (taken at the end of the summer).

Here’s ArtStation’s 2024 recap. Hard to believe we’re a quarter of a century in already.

#2024

Sharing some final anatomy studies from my sabbatical, completed in Scott Eaton’s intensive Digital Figure Sculpting course. Highly recommend it if you’re interested in anatomy! For these renders, I experimented with different materials and the Redshift Standard Material.

I can’t believe it—another year is underway, and Week 1 is already over!

We started things off with a familiar exercise: tribal-inspired masks for an ancient alien civilization. Just like last year, students can only use polygon primitives, the move, rotate, and scale manipulators, and the duplicate functionality in Maya.

I went with an alien species that ended up looking like a demonic bunny rabbit 🐰🔥, I’m looking forward to seeing what this year’s students have come up with.

A day trip to wine country. Our outing to started off with lunch at the 🍷🍷🍷It was a perfect day to enjoy good food and tasting.

A wolf pack in the mid-morning sun 🌞🌞🌞.

Space-cat at day.

Looking over the gawking tourists at the Niomon Gate. This was one of the many art installations set up for the Artist Fair in Kyoto. https://artists-fair.kyoto

Space-cat at night.

On watch at the Niomon Gate. This was one of the many art installations set up for the Artist Fair in Kyoto. I took this pic two days before the exhibit opened….I swear this guy looks white. But, as you’ll see in the next post he’s a black cat. https://artists-fair.kyoto

A pic from the grounds of the Imperial Palace.

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You can't have a stopover in without checking out the castle. Especially after binge watching House of Ninjas on . **un

What's he looking at? reacts to the Mario-cart racers in .