Once were warriors or something...

[Bolek]

It's been a very long while since I posted. I was browsing the forum yesterday and, seeing so many terrific things from the people who post here, I was put to shame and cried like a baby for a few hours. Eventually, I pulled myself together and decided to attempt something myself. Since I am working on a model in Silo, I detached the head, tweaked it and imported it in Zbrush, just for fun... and I got carried away.
Quite a few hours and a quarter of a billion projections later . Here is the result as well as a wireframe of the head in Silo and some ZBrush WIP.

Hope you'll like it.

(and to SouthernGFX: "Thanks for your help big lad, I owe you a pint!")

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/6794/maori9am.jpg

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3479/silomodel4bb.jpg

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/6676/wip4ke.jpg

I was unable to upload to ZBC so images are stored somewhere else. Hope that will work.

[vivien]

hi nice work there. the skin looks really good. maybe the first img was too big to upload, the max size is 200 k...

[pixelsoul]

Awesome :tu: I love it man :)

[vlad74]

Really good job. It has been rendered in zbrush, hasn it. I love it.

[jantim]

Great "skin-job" on this Maori ..Bolek, and a very good Zbrush render !:tu:

jantim

[filament9]

Impressive work. The model, skin texture and the render.

[Bolek]

Thanks for your nice comments guys. I'm surprised no one mentionned the fact that the guy has rubbish eyes... Reason was I was too lazy.
Had a bad time today trying to fit them in properly, but finally here they are.

I can't get the fibers to render nicely so the guy has no eyebrowse in the end
and I think he'll stay like that.

Oh and Yes Vlad it's been rendered in ZBrush.

MAORIeyes.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%2715877%27,%27MAORIeyes.jpg%27,1 ,0%29)

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

really beautifull quality of the skin, really transluced. I LOVE THE RENDER.
KEEP WORKING HARD,
Arturo

[Drummer]

fantastic work, man !!

great skin and render !!
5 stars for you :cool: :tu:

[pinkarman]

that is more than astonishing..
i think i will get really angry if i don't see it in the top row..
only one little little flaw, i think the tattoo borders are too blurry..
however.. six stars (or more) for me!!

[aminuts]

Excellent Zbrush render!!! I am jealous and I want your mat and lights!!!! Now!!

Just kidding...well not really but that turned out real sweet!! Great detailing too!

I don't know how you can cry...this is excellent and done in zbrush to boot so most deservedly should be top row!!

post some more!!

[Suzana]

Excellent Zbrush render!!! I am jealous and I want your mat and lights!!!! Now!!

Just kidding...well not really but that turned out real sweet!! Great detailing too!

I don't know how you can cry...this is excellent and done in zbrush to boot so most deservedly should be top row!!

post some more!!
I agree with this.
Excellent facial expression, texturing and lighting.

[odhinn]

Amazing work bro:tu::tu::tu:

[3dj]

Very nice work. Inspiring too. The eyes really pulled it together.
I am feeling like you too, I really need to sit down with Zbrush and give it a go.

-Jim

[dcmoutinho]

realy good work !!!
the render it´s great:tu:

[Bolek]

Thanks guys.

As a matter of fact. I've been struggling quite hard to put the eyes in their sockets... Is there any tutorial available to do something similar ?

[thomasphoenix]

Great face,Nice texture work! How do u set the full image for display, I havent been able to figure out.

[pixelsoul]

I would like to know to :rolleyes: only way i know is to fake it


Thanks guys.

As a matter of fact. I've been struggling quite hard to put the eyes in their sockets... Is there any tutorial available to do something similar ?

[lemonnado]

WOW
http://www.fullblownminis.com/assets/images/Jaw_Drop_x2.jpg
:tu::tu::tu::tu::tu:
LemonNado

[peonic]

Not bad, for a French dude ;)

Koz

[Bolek]

... only one little little flaw, i think the tattoo borders are too blurry... You're perfectly right. I initially started by making them very crisp but it did feel wrong somehow. I wanted the tattoos to look like original Ta Moko (traditional Maori tattooing) because I love that culture a lot. Originally, the Mokos were scarified (literally, which gives also a slightly bumpy aspect to the skin, kinda like scars) into the skin by using some specific bird's bones (can't remember which bird though) and vegetal oil dyes. Over the years, when the traditional Mokos age, the dye tends to sink deeper into the hypodermic areas to create that kind of slight diffusion (kinda the same as bad prison tattoos done with razor blades and other crap).
Modern tattos applied with a coil gun, if done properly, don't age that way because the chiseling itself is much more superficial and the ink is trapped in the derm above hypoderm and I should learn to shut my mouth.

I could go on forever and I should just shut up because people will think I'm a retard. :p

So yes, pinkarman, you're right, but that was by choice :)

I love tattos and I love maori culture, don't hit me...

[SNoWs]

awesome image. the tattoo looks like a tattoo should.:tu:

[pinkarman]

Bolek, i thought that was a Maori tattoo, once i saw a photo of a Maori warrior with a similar tattoo on the whole face..

..and he had also a very funny kind of nosering that was made of two spirals that each one came out of one naris!!

[Bolek]

You mean like that? :

Nosering.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%2715948%27,%27Nosering.jpg%27,1, 0%29)

Well, FYI, this is called a moustache. :D

No, seriously, I see what you mean. I didn't see the picture you're talking about but that must have been something like bone carvings... They made a lot of jewelry with it.

Sorry for the bad joke:o

[stumpf]

Great work, great render job!

Ralf Stumpf

[pinkarman]

here's what i meant more or less..
maori.jpg

don't worry for the humour of moustache.. i see you're a nubie.. too short time to see how many craps i wrote here around!! :lol:

[jantim]

Thanks guys.

As a matter of fact. I've been struggling quite hard to put the eyes in their sockets... Is there any tutorial available to do something similar ?
You mean an other way then the multi-marker tool..!?

jantim

[333666999]

Can you post the material ?

[pixelsoul]

But when you use multi markers, you cannot change the geometry of the different meshes untill you make it one polymesh right ?

Isn't there a way to change the geometry of the cavity to make it fit for the eyeball ?


You mean an other way then the multi-marker tool..!?

jantim

[MattHHH]

Really a great work!!!It reminds me KRATOS,main character of the Playstation game "GOD OF WAR"(great game and very cool character).

Greetings,HHH:cool:

[Bolek]

Considering that everybody seems to like the results, I find myself very stimulated :)

I definitely will be posting here more often in the future then. I've actually decided to go for a "world tour of traditional tattoing" series...

I think next one (I've already started actually) will be trad. Japan style...

I'll keep you posted guys and thanks again for all your nice feedback. :D

[Eighty8]

Nice render, love the detail in the skin, especially the tattoo(?). Nice work.

[MrLearner]

Great work, really inspiring.:tu:

[weyvin]

Fantastic Work Bolek!!!
I like the realism of the skin shader...Again, Great work!