Digital Art Masters: Volume 3

JACK STERN

BY PATRICK BEAULIEU

  

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the making of Jack Stern. I am going to show you how I created this character, from the design, modeling and texturing through to the passes and rendering. I created this cowboy using 3dstudio Max 9, Photoshop and Hair and Fur. For the creation of Jack, my only goal was to create something different to anything I’d made before (no fur, no cutesy look). I visited a lot of websites for inspiration, looking for Western footage, references to Clint Eastwood, Smith & Wesson guns, and sifted through ...