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DawnyDawn
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[2006-05-30 21:34:54 +0000 UTC]
"Dawn"
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 367; Deviations: 266; Watchers: 81
Watching: 192; Pageviews: 19333; Comments Made: 730; Friends: 192
# Interests
Favorite movies: Ratatouille,secret garden,shawshank redemption,AmelieFavorite bands / musical artists: lots and lots
Favorite games: Final Fantasy 7,curse of Monkey Island,
Favorite gaming platform: Playstation 1
Tools of the Trade: Maya, Photoshop, Watercolours,gel pens, caran dache prismalo pencils,acrylics, lots of glue, mudbox
Other Interests: Drawing, Painting, Digital art, Nature Photography, Paper MachΓ©, Reading, Music, Stargazing, Ca
# About me
I'm a multimedia artist, specialising in children orientated character design and illustration. I can turn my hand to various styles, and enjoy combining realism with fantasy and whimsical themes.I currently work as a design/illustrator in the card craft industry, however I am always striving to improve the level of my work to make it as a concept artist one day!
I love my sketch book, scanner and photoshop. I also occasionally use maya and mudbox to create imagery
# Comments
Comments: 102
Hey Dawn, I just passed by one of your aceo's and thought, I know this style!!
Turns out I bought three from you on ebay!
You named one of them Sookie after my wee lovebird!!
They're up in my living room in wee frames!
=oD
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Hellooo, I do remember doing that! Thanks for stopping by. I've not had anything on ebay for a while! Hopefully will be starting again soon.
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Hey, thank you very much for adding "Descendant of Earth VI" to your favourites. I would be happy if you would like to check out the rest of the series at [link] as well .
Have a wonderful day and greetings from Denmark,
Ina
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I adore your mermaid and faery paintings, will be keeping an eye on your profile for definite!
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Thank you so much, your devwatch and llama are very appreciated ^^
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Do you trade any of your ATC/ACEO's? I would really like to trade with you if I could, you have some great ones.
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Thanks for the watch. Your atc cards are so lovely.
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No problem your work is amazing
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Hehe no worries. I really like your work!I want to be a concept artist myself and have applied for your vacancy advertised on your site ^^
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Hey and thank you too for the fav on [link] ^^
Here take that llama wuaaaah crazy llama !!!
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You're very welcome, I love your style! ^^
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Thank you so much for the fav! You've got a lovely kitten there! ^____^
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Hehe thats no problem! I appreciate how much time and effort goes into modelling and rigging something like that. And lol, thanks about the cat comment, he's a big boy now!
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This is a reply to your last comment.Don't know what happened,but I couldn't see it suddenly so I'll paste it here.
" Sounds cute!Casper seems to be a great name. I have 3 bandits at home,a real gang,running, fighting and turning the house upside down
I'm using Maya,though I'm learning it myself. I've used zbrush a little bit and I've got mudbox too (didn't try it yet though). What do you think is more comfortable to use - zbrush or mudbox?Which is better. I saw at forums people rather prefer a mudbox."
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Since I model mainly in Maya, I find mudbox a lot better to use for adding detail onto a simple polygonal model, since both programmes are compatible with each other. I know you can bring zbrush models into maya but I'm not sure if you can do it vice versa, whereas I know for mudbox it is possible to transfer the model backwards and forwards into the different programmes. You have to export it as an .OBJ (or something like that) from maya (you need to tick this in the plug in section I think!) and then for ease of use model the image and add extra subdivisions etc as you see fit until you get what you're after.
Zbrush is excellent for quick sculpting of forms, it's just tricky to get used to the interface- I always have a habit of locking the model in place, if that makes sense, and I can no longer model it in 3 dimensions. Mudbox has the same rotate function as does Maya so it's a nice transition ^^
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hmm..Now you gave me an inspiration to try it ^_^ To be honest I never sculpted with zbrush - I did what you did with mudbox - imported objs and exporting normal maps. But navigation is a pain indeed. I want to try sculpting too though 
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Yep,and I am a newbie at 3d >_<
Cats grow so fast,don't they?
I've got one of year and two about 4 months old
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he's about 1 year old and approx 2 months now I think-his name is Casper because he's all white :-D. He just wants to be outside on the prowl all the time now!
What 3d software are you using? I did an animation design degree, so was maya trained, alongside mudbox and a bit of zbrush. I should really get back into doing some 3d designs!
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I love your ATCs and your gallery is wonderful. I'll be watching for new works in the future.
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No worries, that piece was awesome
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Hey 
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WOW! Your work is AMAZING!! So many of them would be PERFECT for children story books and posters! They are so colorful and imaginative!
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thanks a lot for the
I really appreciate it
I must say, your gallery is sooooo cute! 
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hejj !
"Anyway if you like or not please comments.."
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Thank you very much for 
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your work is so cute! i like the way you use texture in your drawings.
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Things are quiet at the moment but I'm getting on with my own thing at the mo. looking into doing pet and child portraiture for people as a 'pot boiler'. How's life in scotland treating you?
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Those pet examples you did were fantastic :] Cool to see you've got a plan, seems a lot of the others have been veeeeery demotivated.
Scotland is awesome. I can't complain at all really, the job is amazing, as are the people. My only issue is not being able to tell anyone anything, show off my work, or finish my iphone game without it belonging to the company >.<
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Ah yes, I totally understand that frustration, I have the same problem regarding the kids book I've just illustrated and the animation I did for an american company. Their site launches end of this month though, so i can show people what I've been yapping on about, and regarding the book- well, we shall just have to wait and see if it actually gets published.
It's nice to know you're enjoying scotland, albeit it a bit chilly I'm guessing. Sounds really cool too, the stuff you're doing ^^
Apart from doggy portraits I'm just selling ACEO cards on ebay. Great fun
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