Inspiration

CGSociety have been talking with Ubisoft Art Director Mohamed Gambouz and Senior Character Modeler Nicolas Collings about the creation of Assassins Creed 2.

Paul Richards has posted some of the totally amazing concept work he did for Darksiders on his site.

Russian artist Andrei Pervukhin has created a fantastic 2d piece in Photoshop entitled 'Once in the woods'.

The Blender Foundation have announced the release of their newest training DVD ‘Chaos and Evolutions’ -  Digital Painting Course Using Free/Open Source Software by Durian/Sintel concept artist David Revoy.

The latest episode of Aaron Canaday's awesome Games Industry Mentor podcast has just been released.

Those awesome chaps over at 3DTotal have posed a great article that examines the whole creation of 'Papageno The Bird Catcher' by Alexis Van der Haeghe

Artist Jan Jinda has posted the fantastic Making of the Conall over at 3dm3.com

The piece was hand textured and sculpted in ZBrush with some very nice results

Artist and Evermotion moderator Edi_W has created a beautiful piece of work that has been based upon a concept by Iwo Widulinski.

Can't get enough Uncharted 2?

Head over to ZBrushcentral HERE for an inspiring thread showcasing work from characters to environments and how some of it was created for the recent Game of the Year award winner. 

The Durian team have posted a cool update () on the environment design for the open movie Sintel