Bios
I began my computing life on a commodore vic20 and I started playing with 3d ray tracing programs in 1984 on an Amiga 500. In these days I run on Windows7 64-bit with an i7 and 12 gigs of ram and 1.7 gig 295 GPU video card. My programs of choice for 3D is Poser7 Pro, Carrara 7 Pro, Vue6.5 infinite, Lightwave 8.5, Modo 401, Z-Brush 4, 3D Coat3.5 . For the 2D stuff CS2, Painter 10, Particle illusions, Apophysis206_3Dhack . So as you can see I have a huge arsenal of programs to get the job done. One thing I do believe in is being able to model and customise your own stuff, and creating your own textures, if you can't then you are at the mercy of other people’s thoughts. I never stand on the one spot for long I’m constantly developing different technique and styles from 2D to 3D I want to learn it all, and my best advice to people is knowledge is you best weapon, in being a better artist. If you have to pay for good tutorials do it, live on the forums this is the best free source you can get, and never give up.
Screen Name
Where did the name Midnight_stories come from? Well I grew up reading comics like eerie and creepy I love the darker things, and evil fascinates me. I wanted to produce comic like those, ones that made you think. So I named myself Midnight_stories.
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Devil Dog Studios
I was member of Devil Dog Studios, it all started with Christopher Haigood (AKA) mestophales , contacting me about doing morphs for the Manitou and one thing led to another. They needed someone who could do morphs and rigging, I may have stretched the truth a bit about the rigging, but don’t tell Brent.  They gave me the Creech to rig from scratch, and it was sink or swim stuff for me. It was a 2-3 week deadline and I had to learn quick there was no help out there, I quit a few times but the guys kept telling me you can do it. We got there in the end and the Creech ended up being one of the best  figures in Poser 8, well I guess that a matter of opinion. We’ve all moved on from those days but still stay in contact and continue to work on projects together. I have a lot to thank DevilDogStudios for and they helped me to become what I am today.
These Days
These days I have my own store and do this full time, I’ve streamlined character development from a month into a week ,sometimes days. I have a big base mesh library thanks to mestophales and Vlk. I’ve been doing more modelling than rigging lately so I hope the quality is lifting. So that’s about it. If anyone wants to throw ideas at me feel free to contact me here or at my web site.
Well thanks for looking and I'll see you on the edge, when the time comes.
All the best !!!!
From the mind on the other side
Midnight.
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Comments (20)
lizard01
Fine image, great textures and mood
eekdog
Teriffic character and outfit, top notch!
saphira1998
cool
9841007
It looks great to me! ;)
rajib
Splendid !
Tracesl
excellent
rbowen
Excellent work!
skyvendik
amazing suit and its shaders
Cyve
What an awesome character... Fantasttic outfit too !!!
flavia49
fabulous
722
Love the suite
donnena
good one!
jif3d
Looking really cool and neat photo integration, you have put a lot of work into this project judging by this result. The only suggestion I have, is the spec is way too even, as I can see worn edges everywhere, just make a B&W fractal noise map in Photoshop or grab something off off the net and add it to your textures and that will also help give that worn in look.
~Cheers~
midnight_stories
Yes it's a first run in the textures I did the worn edges in Quixel Ddo 2 so will be doing a better job on the final version thanks for the feed back!
midnight_stories
Thanks everyone! think I will post a bit more here, you guys are way more friendly here !!!
pchef
nice armor
giulband
WOW !! Wonderful character and his texture, beautiful pose and scene's atmosphere !!
Crudelitas
Wow! Fantastic Armor. Love the Texture. Great done, my dear friend!
UteBigSmile
Leije
Very impressive suit, great work !
daggerwilldo
Wow, wonderfully done. I love highly reflective texture and all of the cut lines of integrated pieces. Well done.