tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73935104000151572082024-03-12T21:43:34.115-07:00Julien Lefebvre 3D Senior ArtistUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7393510400015157208.post-11564178481290062922009-08-22T07:44:00.001-07:002009-08-27T22:34:45.181-07:00The Noobz is out<div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Finally</span></strong> Blizzcon 2009 is here and so is the project I worked on !!!!<br />"<strong>The Noobz</strong>" the 1st Art toys from Blizzard Entertainment. </div><div align="center"></div><p>I presented the idea last year to different people at Blizzard by doing a 3d print of the design I created.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs38yZhXaRKxtuipTeu5CWcoBukGeY9hGST8t33jRE7aA-QqJUfxuLQGxJ_c-ehRR2Eb2Yk9FwYN5ccJRKdrCSYfmkn5FGVnd5278I5bltah3hwpeIBlPMKRK6hSjD-f5OAgB9STXpLeI/s1600-h/IMG_0723.JPG"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSrn2i0jQoi-29RBjYjC25LHf5CS_r4s0BBhR-NCm1IW6Ffg9UReiEU3dB_vA_l75b_dnBVW4z2DYy2hPUc9ash0ADM83M62u3NseZOWrPR9lyJNQD7_mxE9_g8NFXAqK-nFnVKC3Fe10/s1600-h/Marine_proto_01.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 202px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372875706407158386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSrn2i0jQoi-29RBjYjC25LHf5CS_r4s0BBhR-NCm1IW6Ffg9UReiEU3dB_vA_l75b_dnBVW4z2DYy2hPUc9ash0ADM83M62u3NseZOWrPR9lyJNQD7_mxE9_g8NFXAqK-nFnVKC3Fe10/s320/Marine_proto_01.jpg" /></a><br /><br />The licensing team was quite excited and after few weeks of talks they decided to produce it.<br /><br /><br />Blizzard contacted <a href="http://www.bigshottoyworks.com/">Bigshot Toyworks</a> to clean, tweak and cut the model to make it ready for production. <span style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="headblack">Scott Wetterschneider rework the model and even</span></span> if few details changed I am quite happy that the overall shape is very close to my original model. </p><p>The paint design of the Raynor was designed by Brian Huang and supervised by Nick Carpenter from the cinematic team.<br />Then Bigshot Toyworks worked with Ben Mathis set up the UV's and laid out the graphics.<br /><br />For the internal contest I wanted to participate instead of being a judge to push my idea to the end.<br /><br />A group of internal judges picked the 3 designs they liked without knowing the name of who did the painting.<br />Lucky for me they picked my design :)<br /><br /><br /></p><center><img border="0" src="http://www.blizzard.com/blizzcon/_images/noob-thumb-3.jpg" /><br /><strong>Murloc Madness</strong><br />by Julien Lefebvre<br /><br /></center><center>I would like to thanks all the persons who participate to the contest check those links to see most of them, there is a lot of cool design.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/images/6215414/gamespots-live-photo-stream-blizzcon-2009/18/?feature=1&path=2009%2Ffeatures%2Fblizzcon-2009-photo-gallery%2Fblizzcon_embed018.jpg">http://www.gamespot.com/images/6215414/gamespots-live-photo-stream-blizzcon-2009/18/?feature=1&path=2009%2Ffeatures%2Fblizzcon-2009-photo-gallery%2Fblizzcon_embed018.jpg</a><br /><br /><a href="http://kotaku.com/5342950/101-ways-to-decorate-your-starcraft-ii-space-marine/gallery/">http://kotaku.com/5342950/101-ways-to-decorate-your-starcraft-ii-space-marine/gallery/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a2ENjORPpI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a2ENjORPpI</a><br /><br />Big special Congrats to John Butkus and Oliver Chipping the 2 others winners, I was very impressed by the amount of details they managed to put on it.<br /></center><div align="right"><div style="POSITION: relative; MARGIN: 15px 0px 15px 3px; WIDTH: 227px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 356px; LEFT: 10px"><div class="store_image"><center><center><img border="0" src="http://www.blizzard.com/blizzcon/_images/noob-thumb-1.jpg" /> <strong>Fury of Ragnaros</strong><br />by John Butkus<br />World of Warcraft team</center></center></div></div></div><div align="right"></div><div align="center"><img border="0" src="http://www.blizzard.com/blizzcon/_images/noob-thumb-2.jpg" /><br /></div><div align="center"><strong>Ghoulash<br /></strong>by Oliver Chipping</div><div align="center">Diablo III team</div><p>Big thanks to Blizzard Entertainment and the licensing team for make it happen</p><p>Thanks to the people that I worked directly with:<br /><br />Nick Carpenter<br />Cory jones<br />Jason Bischoff<br />And aswell everyone else who supported the idea and participate to the production of it.<br /><br />Thanks for the support and critics of few friends during the design of the 3d model.<br /><br />Shimon Cohen<br />Matthieu Schneider<br />Sebastien Paviot<br />Chris Ha<br /><br />And to my wife for supporting my crazy ideas and for following me around the world.<br /><br />Anne-Sophie Lefebvre /gac<br /><br />I hope that I forgot no one if it s the case let me know </p><p>Julien</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3