ZBrush 3 Beta Images/Some Zbrush 3 images.

[MouthforWar]

Hey Everybody.
My name is Jeff Feligno. Here are a couple characters I made using the beta version of Zbrush. This program is awesome. I have worked as a toy sculptor for about 6 years and now I am getting into digital sculpting. I have also taught figurative sculpture inside the computer graphics program at SVA. I'd like to thank the school and Pixologic for allowing me to take part in the beta testing. Hope you enjoy the work.

Titan2.jpg
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Titan5.jpg
Titan1.jpg
Titan3.jpg
JeffFeligno_Upstate Alien.jpg
SkinnyEvil.jpg

[fx81]

very nice works. are these going to be printed or turned into real models?

i graduated from sva and i wish i known about that class you taught. did you take those classes in 2005 or before?

[Patton]

Wow...Some of the best stuff I have seen here!!
Great Job!
Patton

[policarpo]

really beautiful work! i really like the style.

let us know when these get made into real toys...i'd love one on my shelf.

that new material in ZB3 looks beautiful. I love the feel of it.

Great and inspiring work!

[Whistler]

and the hits just keep on coming, sweeet stuff. great playing with mass and proportions. you deserve more praise than this actually, but I'm getting really jaded with all this great art ;)

[MattSilverstein]

damn, that is some stylish sculpting. i love it.
-matt

[MrLearner]

Great style, really inspiring.

[tez]

What great work and detail, thanks for showing us.

[CowboyBunny]

Insane level of control! Trully awsome work. You've kept the fresh/dynamic feel of a good sketch and tranformed it into 3d. Astounding!
I'd love to see more of your stuff, Do you have a website?

[rasmusW]

hey jeff!

really beautyful models. think it really shines though, that you've been doing toy-sculpts for some time (especially on the first one). love the bird skeleton on his helmet.

-r

[godlike27]

I like your alien.
Not sure about that titan, I think it is stretched too much, looks too wide,
big hands looks good but torso looks exactly what it is: "stretched in Zbrush"
---Tomas

[Antropus]

Wow! Those look awesome! Love the style man. Keep them coming :tu:

-Kris

[Lil'sister]

Yes! outstanding work!!! :tu: :tu: :tu:

[skello]

intersting sculpts...nice!!

[monstermaker]

Fun stuff! I like them!

[boozy floozie]

I love to see the first guy running.:)
Great playful touches and details in abundance.

[feureau]

Awesome details... :tu: :tu: :tu:

[nickz]

Very cool style to your characters.

Very fresh!

Thanks for sharing,

NickZ. :P

[MouthforWar]

Hey.
Just gave this guy a little more gear and some paint.
Every day I see great new posts so I felt like I should add to the pile.
He's not finished but feel free to crit.


-MFW


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[DigitalDreamer]

wow! love the look of this character! Love the muscle structure. Nice texture too! Curious, what toys did you used to make?

[calum5ZB]

I love the character,very brutal .The only thing that popped into my mind was how could such large fingers open his tiny pouches!Maybe fat buttons may suit;)

Looking forward to9 seeing more of this guy,
cal

[kyphur]

awesome work guy. Love the proportions and color scheme you have going on here. :)

[sylvain.b]

Cool work but the focal make me doubt -_-

[KrakenCMT]

Friggin' awesome character! Really nice sculpting!

[Whistler]

nice update, interesting and unusual color scheme. the more I look at it, the more I appreciate all the nice details. looking forward to more!

[womball]

The sculpting is incredible!

[MouthforWar]

Hey, just trying to get some images in before the new version actually comes out. This is a self portrait I had started in Zbrush 2. I tried to work in some HD sculpting and the lazy mouse.

-MFW

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[tez]

Wow, these new images are realy good. How many polys you working with there?

[SalmonGod]

I love your solemn expression in the self-portrait... great mood to the piece

[Remib]

wonderfull microdetailing expression this is masterpiece :tu: :tu: :tu:

[brettSinclair]

Cool character design. Great form you got on him. The male head looks great too.

[slashpot]

Love it all, but that last one is a magnificent sculpt! Absolutely brilliant. How do you get your skin texture? is that your own alpha? looks wonderful!

congrats mate! :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu:

[hyper1]

Your Self is a simply outstanding sculpt. It is very much on par with the best of the best in this forum, and that saying a lot! You must have developed at least some of your own alphas? Please, keep up your works and sharing your results!

[MouthforWar]

Hello, Jeez everyone is really nice.
About the work.
The details in the face were two or three things. The larger wrinkles were just hand scribed in. (and his beard, eyebrows) I have a clay background so I don't mind dragging the tool by hand. Then I put a skin of detail over him using the alpha brushes provided by antropus that can be found here.
http://www.antropus.com/freebies.htm
Also I used some from the gnomon DVD that Aaron Sims put out maybe a year ago that can be found here.
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/dvds/asi03.html
I didn't stick with any alpha. I would change the values or quickly make one in PS for whatever was needed. I think that shows as the skin gets a bit muddy.
Anyways, this was my first real attempt and I learned a lot. The beard was all done in HD and done one at a time. Mirrored at first of course to save time and then I turned that off and tried to make it look a bit more messy and natural.

Regarding my toy work. I have an online portfolio of my work here.
www.feligno.com (http://www.feligno.com)
This will hopefully be updated soon as I have to get my computer sculpts up!
Clay is great but Im feelin pretty comfortable with the digital sculpting.

Thanks everyone for the kind words! Back to Zbrushing.
-MFW

[StefanV]

Awesome work!
Keep it up

[godlike27]

MouthforWar (member.php?u=61659) Very cool works on your website, I especially like the Vulture sculpture, Ditko?

[itsalive]

Jeff thats is some Awesome & Impressive work right there, both in Z and in the real world.

Care to share your Wax Recipe? (I use Gary Wax, but would love to make my own someday)

I love that Green color, it looks like Castiline.

Also your comments on going all digital make me smile. I really hope the whole Toy Biz goes the way of Gentle Giant, and depends more on computer made 3d art then on real world toiled sculpts.

Z is so much more freeing!

You can create, tweak, and change your work so much easier in Z, and with these RP printers getting better with high end detail, like the Prefactory system. Clean up and reface detail work is also becoming easier.

[calum5ZB]

Fine work here,I like the evident late nights on zb:D !Really looks like a beta for 3!!

All the best,
cal

[slickytom]

WOw. Thats amazing you can get such a sharp edge inside the nostril area of your self portrait. If you wanted to smooth that area a bit and thicken it up how would you approach it? Would you have to step down in subdivision because you have so many polys or could you do it on your highest subdivided poly level?

Keep up the good work!

[MouthforWar]

Polycount: I think he's around 60 million polys. Though I'm not sure if I was using them all in the best way possible. That's an old mesh. He (I) have closed eyes because at the time I didn't know how to make realistic eyeballs. :)

slickytom: regarding the nose. If you have say 7 levels of subdivision I wouldn't do any sculpting of the form past the 4th or 5th level. The higher subdivisions are there to project alphas and doing micro-detailing like wrinkles and veins. So the nose would be done on a lower level. I'm sure I ran the pinch brush along the edge of his nose to make it sharp, and then the higher levels of subdivisions rounded that out . . . throw some texture over it and it looks a bit more natural.

itsalive: I enjoy the digital sculpting and have no bad words to say about clay sculpture. I'm not learning the software to keep up with the future of toys. I enjoy where the medium itself is going. Sharp looking organic images that can be used for gaming/illustration/toys whatever . . . My clay is regular old castilene. (hard)

godlike27: Ditko? yeah . . . Ditko.

[Defago]

Man jeffy... look at you talkin like a zbrush pro now.
The work just keeps getting better. The self portrait is phenomenal... though I think you may have a slightly larger schnoz than that.

All you sculptors scare me, breaching into the already closing digital realm.
Keep digital work like this up, and you'll be taking over the 3d modeling classes as well at sva.

jd

[MouthforWar]

Just a couple more things.

If you like these please check out my website as I just updated everything on it.

www.feligno.com (http://www.feligno.com/)

I have a bunch of clay work there too as I have a toy sculpture background.
Hope you like it.
-Jeff
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[brettSinclair]

Damn! You worked at mcfarlane! That must have been an experience. I may have one of the toys you sculpted. hmmmm. haha.
Love your work. Your character designs rock.

Cheers
Brett

[wdcstudios]

WoW this is some amazing work. I love the guy with the little legs wearing the WWII boots.

[Deocliciano]

The puppy is just wonderful