Came out pretty nicely 
Uplift Universe - Image Entry: Miguel Angelo CBT
MiguelCBT
#46
Thanks azazel!
And a close up:
Thanks and Congrats to everyone envolved in this challenge!
grooshka
#48
Hi,
Can’t believe I haven’t spoted it earlier. Great work. Pretty nice concept and amazing job on modelling and texturing your main character. :applause: Hair looks very well also.
Congrats, bro! 
claudiojordao
#50
Hey Malanjo, I’ve been trying to contact you by email and by phone but as I can see, you’ve been very very busy.
I’ve been very busy too, and I just found you here today by accident.
I wanted to get on this one too, but I didn’t find the time to even start… maybe next time.
I’m very happy to see some more of your great work, and this piece you’ve made is just fantastic… congratulations, and I hope you the best for the judging.
Diz qq coisa rapaz, gostava de saber o q andas fazendo e onde, se ainda deveremos pensar em ti como possivel colaborador ou não, enfim… something.
Estes são os meus contactos: claudiojordao@kotostudios.com ou claudiojordao@gmail.com
Não sei se já conheces o nosso novo site: www.kotostudios.com
See you soon.
Cláudio Jordão
DrFx
#58
Malanjo, muitos parabens pela menção honrosa!
A imagem tá muito forte, e a atmosfera está envolvente! Portugal Allez!..
Malanje, lots of parabines for the honrose mention!
The image is very strong, the atmosphere is involving! PortugALL go!.. 
Neubius
#59
how did i not see this one untill the winners were anounced??? awesome image.
nice one! coingratulations :)A
hfrymark
#61
your work is just awe inspiring, it was so nice to see the progression to the final piece of artwork, very nice
MiguelCBT
#62
Really thanks once again people!
I dig you like it!
Best wishes and have a nice day!
-Malanjo
Pollux710
#63
Ok, I’ve researched a great deal into digital art, especially when going from your sketch pad to the digital medium. Several pages here show very little concept art then jumping into major meshes and renders. My question is, is it really neccessary to sketch out your character or what have you in fine detail in order to move to the digital drawing board?
doffer
#64
@Pollux710:
Don’t be fooled by the great work of these artists in here.
If you don’t sketch down your character, or at least have a VERY clear understanding of the look of it, you will most likely waste a LOT of time, finding the right look.
It may take you about 2-5 minutes to rough down a sketch of a character, and that same thing could easily take a couple of hours on the computer.
If you spend lets say 2 hours on sketching characters down, you will probably have 2-4 good workable characters to choose from, instead of sticking with the one you started on directly in a cg environment.
(when you say the digital medium i assume you mean 3d, because if you mean 2d paintings, then you can just sketch down directly in photoshop/painter/whatever).
I know modelling has become faster with sculpting tools like mudbox/zbrush but it doens’t do magic, and if you aren’t as good a artist as Malanjo in this case, you will spend COUNTLESS hours, trying to make something look right, that may not even work with your concept in the first place.
So yeah, I would very much recomend sketching down before hand.
You don’t need to make picture perfect (in fact you shouldn’t!) characters, but loose vivid ones, with a lot of style and life. Because you do it so fast, you will be able to explore a lot more than you can do on the computer. A lot of them may not work at all, but some will for sure.
Hope it helps a bit.
Cheers.
Christoffer