When 2D and 3D art collide, an unexpected challenge

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Ben ‪@Follygon‬ reached out with a collab idea... this is that collab.
Ben gave me a secret prompt, I needed to make a character design out of that prompt, and then he's going to sculpt that character in zBrush.
We talk all things character design, art, 2D art, 3D art and I had a great time!
Here's his video where Ben sculpts my concept on his Follygon YT channel: • 2D to 3D! Sculpting a ...
Check out his Drawbli KZbin channel where Ben and his wife Abby are learning to draw and paint in 2D: ‪@drawbli‬
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Time Stamps
00:00 The Big Interruption
00:30 The Prompt
01:09 Introducing Ben (Follygon) and the key idea
03:10 Frank Cameo (Gumroad Tutorial)
03:39 The reveal/conversation begins
04:18 Timelapse starts (References)
04:40 Using Reference
06:15 Integrating the prompt into the design
07:44 Black and white values
09:07 sculpting chats + colour block in
09:40 Ben's journey into drawing
11:25 If I could gain the artistic ability of any artist, who would it be?
14:21 Working on the details, for nothing?
14:48 Recording in Photoshop Trick
15:37 Layer structure for colouring
16:40 Breaking the silhouette
19:38 My deep thoughts on picking her colours
22:20 Final look/breakdown (Hello you video skippers✌️)
24:31 What dream IP's would we like to work on?
25:05 Doing the thing to get better
26:09 What would we be doing if we weren't doing art?
28:23 Follygon sculpting my concept
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[@beneblendesign]

If you enjoy this kind of stylized stuff, I think you'll like my full deeper dive walkthrough tutorial www.beneblen.com/tutorial It includes... a 🎥8+ hour real-time walkthrough, 📚 40+ page Field guide, 🗿3D models to study from, 📁PSD files & a Procreate tutorial to reference from

[@Follygon]

This was an awesome collab, thanks for joining me on it Ben!

[@beneblendesign]

Mate, it was an absolute pleasure! Thanks for reaching out in the first place 😄 keen to do another one, but next time I choose the prompt 🕺

[@PDD555]

It's so cool to see this collab. Both are awesome artists

[@DazzlingAction]

you two should do a monthly colab ;)

[@Pipubbles]

I have been following both you and follygon for a while now. I love when these perfect collaboration happen

[@KantonFigtree]

officially my 2 favourite Bens ❤

[@purplefyrus5370]

Big fan of Folly, glad to be introduced to you Ben, gonna go dive into your artstation now 😊

[@KillerTacos54]

This was a collab I never would've expected! Fantastic stuff man. Two of my favourite Bens together on screen!

[@travisanderson771]

I can’t wait to see an animator collab with these guys, they’d take over KZbin for sure 😊

[@M_k-zi3tn]

Hi Ben!! Thank you for your awesome videos and livestreams! It's awesome to see you collabing with Follygon. His channel is very educational and taught me a lot about sculpting in Zbrush

[@beneblendesign]

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed this one

[@estelav7876]

It was really fun to watch the process and the whole conversation

[@beneblendesign]

Glad you enjoyed it!! 😊🙏

[@ZainZebun]

Fantastic artwork, insight, and quality as always!

[@beneblendesign]

Appreciate you Zain! 😊🙏

[@Amieee]

10/10 collab, both pieces turned out amazing

[@beneblendesign]

thank you!

[@Topcatyo.]

Leyendecker is one of my favorite illustrators, that's a great answer. Great interview.

[@kiblinflinn]

love this

[@dplj4428]

I looked up. JC Leyendecker. Quite a few youtube videos about him. I saw one the art of Frank and Joseph Leyendecker. - What happened to Frank? Also, JC’s pictures, well, i’d seen before but i thought Norman Rockwell.

[@SavMortem]

Love your work! It's really cool getting to see your process. Your characters have so much life and, well, "character" it's awesome You talking about wanting to implement coding into your art and the fact that you like sculpting and that being similar to 3D modeling, have you ever considered making a game? I feel like it implements all of those things and a game in your style would be really cool! Just a thought 😊

[@nasrokhelil8675]

Fantastic artwork

[@KristianNeeTV]

Sick vid dude!

[@emelbi]

Enjoyed this conversation. Thanks.

[@dplj4428]

The statues are they call maquettes or something like that? I’m reminded of concept artists doing models, even scenes.

[@gucciprison7640]

FFS That's intro is me every time I talk to someone with notoriety/clout/a following lol

[@beneblendesign]

🤣🤣

[@GNobelA3D]

a couple of bens 🤣🤣🤣

[@beneblendesign]

👯

[@mojoryse7836]

Ben Elben 😤

[@prodRegularDude]

audio seems very low

[@KantonFigtree]

Ben I’ve been looking for Jay artist you talked about what’s his name? 11:33

[@sowmyabharati8842]

J. C. Leyendecker

[@KantonFigtree]

@@sowmyabharati8842 Thank you you are a hero