Oddness

[Lead Balloon]

Hello all!

Tonight Ive decided to work on some sheer oddness instead of my standard fare. I will post WIPs as I go.... I hope you like it!!

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[Lead Balloon]

Hey, heres a quick update on my progress. Im having a bit of difficulty making my hedgehog's paws. Any advice would be very appreciated.

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[Pride]

Yes, this is just weird enough to be interesting.
Why dont you make the hedgehogs's hands as you have the other hands?

[Lead Balloon]

Cheers for the response, Ive nanaged to get the hands working to an acceptable standard (im just doing this for fun whilst drinking cider) and Im now moving on to detailing the meshes whilst still in zsphere mode so I can hopefully pose them without mishap. Knowing my luck, this will not be the case

[Lead Balloon]

Final bit of strangeness for the night... Ive started work on the sculpting now... off to drink cider!

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I still have no clue as to what I am making :D if anyone has any ideas for a background for this please let me know

[Lead Balloon]

Another update to my general oddness. Just some experiments with zsphere posing.

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[Jason Belec]

Well it sure is looking like it might be something sorta cool in the right frame of mind and with some of that cider you mention! ;)

This will be fun to watch.

[womball]

Great looking character! Will he be colored?

[Lead Balloon]

Thank you for your kind words. I will be texturing the whole model fully, hopefully today. I will be finishing my sculpt, then posing, importing to maya to separate the models. then I'll texture them in ZB and make a background etc.

[Lead Balloon]

Heres the general pose. I think im gonna go for a rollercoaster theme mibbe.
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[Lead Balloon]

Heres another update. I had to add some more Zspheres to fix a problem, so I lost all the sculpt detail, oops!!!

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[Lead Balloon]

Still need to resculpt, but heres a basic block-in of how it should look.

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Does anyone have any advice for me regarding materials in ZB....? I would like to create all my textures in ZB, then complete my final renders in MAYA. However, I have been having real difficulty getting to grips with using maya's SSS shaders using textures that have materials other than the skin in them. I know this is a ZB forum, and I also know there are a lot of users who also use maya in their work. So I am asking, do any of you know how to set up multiple layer, or mixed textures in maya, especially whilst using SSS and mental ray?

Cheers in advance for any advice you could give me!

[Lead Balloon]

Update on sculpting the girl.

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[Lead Balloon]

Another quick update. just finished making the template texture im gonna use to separate the materials on the girl....

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I sould hopefully get most of the texturing of her done tonight, and start on one of the other chars if ive got time.

[Lead Balloon]

Final post of the night....


I hate this thing :cry: For some reason I seem to be screwing it up every step of the way tonight. Heres a pic of more wasted time on this one.... my selection template is rubbish....big gaps everywhere....oh well, better luck tomorrow night. Have a good'un

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