World's Largest and Most Complicated Rubik's Cube

An interesting article relating to 3D work.

Progress 2

The pawn's cowl has been finished and have started building his vest. Contemplating using a cloth modifier rather than hand modeling the wrinkles as on the cowl.

Character Model Progress 1

I decided late Sunday evening that my head was being lost in crappy edge loops and starting to build up too many faces, so I scrapped it and built it all anew. I was rewarded with proper edge looping and a low poly count.

Here's the first test render of the face.

Eugene Station Composite

Back to the old grindstone

 

Chess pieces made with a 3 point lighting system (sun light as key, and two area lights filling the scene) with a spherical sky map to enhance reflections.