Digital Art Masters: Volume 3

BUCKLE BUNNY

BY GREGORY CALLAHAN

  

INTRODUCTION

The Buckle Bunny character was based on an original 2D painting I did years back (Fig.01), which was inspired by the classic pin-up posters of the 1940s and 1950s. The pin-up style art is now long gone to the ways of photo retouching, but I have always found the light-hearted poses and hand-painted images to have more character and life. Originally, when I completed the Buckle Bunny painting, I had planned to take the character into 3D, but pushing polys around with the software that was available ...