Action Hero - Pulse

[gordon-v]

Hey guys! Im really happy to be a part of that contest.
It took some time for me to develop my Hero, but now the backstory and concept are ready for posting i think.

Enjoy!

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Artist Name: Maximilian – Gordon Vogt

Hero: Pulse

Real Name: Quin Loose

Backstory:

In 1940 Quin was 45 and worked as a mechanic for a weapons manufacturing company. He worked on a prototype of a particle accelerator
tankcannon. Due to a malfunction he was called to repair the machine.
When he was inside the plasmatunnel to repair the enginecells, the machine started and overloaded. The impulse emitter imploded and the whole factory
was destroyed in seconds. There was just a crater left when the scienceteam got threre and saw the impossible. Quin layed in the middle of the mess, half disintegrated,
falling appart slowly with parts of his body changing the molecular structure. They brought him to area 51 and put him into a container that sustained his structual form.
They studied him for years and did tests on him,
trying to understand his condition and how he was able to survived the catastrophy.
They thought he was in a coma, but since they put him in that container he was at full consciousness but wasnt able to move.
65 years later they were able to build a system that could sustain his structural form. 56 cylinder were attached to his body.
Those „savers“ are storing the exact position of every single molecule in his body.
This system was build into a suit which is powered by three high performance reactors that can be worn as a backpack.
It was a torture when they drilled the savers into his body. When they had applied the suit and turned on the reactors he was able to move again.

Well, after that he was so pissed that he got nuts, attacked the scientists and ran away. Everything he touches in his way out of the building disintegrated into dust.
When they tried to catch him by force with military support he felt cornered and suddenly disappeared in a bright flash of light.
Since then he is on the run, trying to understand what has happened to him and mastering his abilities.


Facts:





Quins state of disintegrating is an instant. The savers in his suit are able to keep the molecules, as his body, correctly arranged.
When his sute is turned off, he has to use all his strenght to keep him self from falling appart. When that happens its even very hard for him to move.
If the saver system is down for a longer time spontainious impulses are starting to shoot out of his body, destroying his souroundings.
He is now 105 Years old.
Abilities:



disintegration of any material by sending impulse beams out of his body.
changing the aggregate state of a material by shoting impulse beams out of his body.
changing and rearranging the molecular structure of any material on touch.
Light speed traveling in a straight direction by accelerating his own body with a concentrated impulse. His own body disintegrates into every single molecule throughout that process.

[MindFX]

Nice start mate. Like your design concept and just can't wait to see him.

[Moni-Poroni]

Noch ein Deutscher Zbrush-Künstler :D
Cool
Ich mag Deine Skizze und freue mich auf die Zbrush Version
Nette Grüße

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Another german Zbrush artist :D
Cool
I like your concept sketch and I´m looking forward to the Zbrush version
Kind regards

[SolidSnakexxx]

Impressive gears you have placed on him. Can't wait til he's get converted to ZModel. :tu:

[Hamilcar]

Nice concept, look forward to your next post :)

[jar3d]

Thats a solid start and a great concept. I'll be watching your thread for progress!

[gordon-v]

Thanks everyone for the kind words!
I really apreciate it and hope I can live up to your expectations!

Here comes my next update! The Basemesh build out of Zspheres and then the progress from the rough adaptive skin to the basemesh.

Thank you for stopping by, cirics are apreciated as allways.

Zsphere meshcreation:
zspheres.jpg

(http://vimeo.com/2750272) From adaptive skin to basemesh (http://vimeo.com/2750272)
zs_to_base.jpg (http://vimeo.com/2750272)

Basemesh:

basemesh.jpg

Ho do I embed youtube or vimeo videos?
Thanx for watching!

[Lucky_1]

Great start on the basemesh !
Keep it up.

[Flack]

looking great so far. Great concept/drawing too!

[gordon-v]

Here comes just a little update.
I worked a bit on the anatomy and the general shape of my hero. Hands and Head are nearly untouched and are
the next thing to go for. Im in the middle of a freelance job right now and have just little time.
But that job is going to be finished around the 19th and then i will dedicate all my time on Pulse.
critics are more as welcome.

First sculpting session:

VIMEO LINK (http://www.vimeo.com/2791239)

I did some tweaks later on that i havent recorded somehow. I had
recocnized some proportion problems on a second view. I used the
anatomy reference model of Zack Petroc to get some of my proportions
right. Zacks model is just grate, and worth buying. I recommend it to everyone.
I also decided to make the shoes as subtools later.

So here is the current wip:
anatomysculpting1.jpg


thanx, gordon!

[SolidSnakexxx]

Wow, that's impressive update...Looking very tight.. :tu: I've got to look into Zack's tutorial..many who watched it seems to have real amazing WIP.

[jempix]

nice anatomy, great definition of muscle groups.. :tu:

[petekasim]

excellent work so far! The anatomy is looking very natural, the only crit I have is that the latissimus dorsi should be bulkier and more inflated to fit in with the rest of his muscles. Right now they are definately too small.

keep up the good work, the concept looks great :tu:

[Captain Sensible]

Wow... nice update. Good attention to anatomy. Try to work on the model as a whole and not leave the hands, feet and head until last. Lookin good though! :tu:

[maxinkuk]

Very, very good, excellent anatomy! It would be perfect if the nipples weren't that far apart. My eyes keep on falling there.

To embed Youtube and all other codes look here.
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/misc.php?do=bbcode

[JR_Rossi]

Nice concept and anatomy.
Good luck!

Regards, Rossi

[chindian]

Hmm - nice concept!! I'm interested to see where you take this... from the looks of the sculpt so far ... your zbrush-Chi is strong as well grasshopper... lol

Keep it up man! :tu:

[gordon-v]

SolidSnakexxx
Thanks alot man! Yeah that model helped me alot with anatomy.you can by it on his website.

jempix
Thank you, much apreciated!

petekasim
Thank you petekasim. The anatomy on your model look awsome too. especially the hands! I have to deal with em next. And your defenetly right with the latisimus dorsi. Thanks for the hint, I will fix that soon.

Captain Sensible
Thank you for the kind words. I know what you mean and basicly thats my workflow, but this time somehow i focused too much on the body. But the rest will be done soon!

maxinkuk
Thx max! now that you mention it I see it too! Sometimes another pair of eyes is all you need! An thank you for the link, do you also know how to embed vimeo videos?

JR_Rossi
Thank you Rossi!
Dankeschöön, und nen guten start in den Tag wünsche ich!

chindian
Thank you very much chindian! Im a fan of your art by the way. I hope I can take this as far as I wanted.
The only thing is I dont get that "grasshopper" thingy ;D

"tpose.. its soo amateur!" lool

[sazar26]

your anatomy is looking good :tu: keep it up

[Fess]

That's a pretty cool character, I like his back story a lot. Sculpting is coming along nicely, keep it up!

[fluxist8070]

nice anatomy. very clean.

[animastur]

Good luck. You will have lot of work with the details.. :)

[Drakelot]

Awesome entry ... good luck !!!

[jp_smith]

Good progress man, the front of the deltoid where it meets the top of the bicep seems a little off, it should overhang there. Also if you notice the attachment isn't directly in the center of the arm, it's pushed forward past the tricep which takes up 3/4 of the overall arm mass. Hope this helps. :)

muscular_arm_160.jpg

[Ammarkk]

Very nice

[gordon-v]

Thank you guys!

Hey Jp_smith. Thanks for the info. I really allways struggle with that area.
Maybe i havent understand that part of anatomy just right yet.
Thanks for your help. This will really help me!

[AVTPro]

Thanks looking great. Like the design of the suit and the anatomy is has good thickness.

[gordon-v]

Hello again!
Thanks AVTPro!

I had to work on my Hero again. even if its 3 oclock in the morning after work!

so here are some anatomy updates! Please give me some feedback!
Thanks a lot! here it comes!

(I hate the face)
face1.jpg

anatomysculpting2.jpg

[SolidSnakexxx]

gordon-v, excellent update man. I like the head shape/facial and the overall body structure is set :tu:

[gordon-v]

Thx SolidSnakexxx!

I d wished I had your zskills! your Matis Man rocks!

I wasnt satisfied with the face. So i did some little sculpting today.
here is what I have come up with so far!

greetings, Gordon!

anatomysculpting3.jpg

[SolidSnakexxx]

Hey man, gordon-v, I think your sculpt skill is really impressive. :tu: He does reminds me a little of Keanu Reeves...very nice result :)

[Moni-Poroni]

Good progress so far Gordon. I´m looking forward to your next update :)

Best wishes und Grüße aus Germany

[goldo_O]

Gordon you have made a fantastic anatomy study here! :tu: :tu: :tu: The arms are looking so great! From the front view though, the trunk looks a little bit too straight in my opinion. You might want to curve the ribcage a little bit to make the hips pop up more. The groin could be a bit lower and the belly button a bit more high too... nothing much, but you should have almost a hand length between these two.
Can't wait to see his outfit! :)

[gordon-v]

Hey Guys!

Thanks for the replys! Well Snake, i wont make a second Neo ;D, but thank you for your kind words!
Hey Moni! Noch ein Deutscher zbrusher! Super

Hey Goldo! Im glad that you like my sculpting. Still learning anatomy, and hope to master it someday! You were right about the problems in my Model! I worked on it. What do you think?

anatomysculpting4.jpg

[KiVanDi]

Nice work, hands look really great, torso must be worked on.

[SolidSnakexxx]

gordon-v, nice update..and man it looks ever better.... :tu:

The beauty of this contest is friends spotting for mistakes one might not notice...just like going to gym working out with friends would yield a better and faster result than staying home working out all by oneself. I'm so glad I decided to join the contest.

[fluxist8070]

NICE ANATOMY! Keep it up!:tu: The clavicles usually have more curve to them.

[goldo_O]

This is looking great Gordon! The face, the back and legs are awesome!
Here is what I meant in my previous post, I hope you don't mind the suggestion:

Pulse.gif

Keep up the excellent work man! :tu:

[Gohanf22]

dang nab it. another one i missed. TOO MANY ENTRIES! :eek: :eek: :eek: . :lol: . hey mate your doing a good job. gold-o has a good suggestion though. i think his model of the abs and the areas you need fixing are very good ideas. other than that i say this is a great piece of work. smashing job. :D :tu:

[rasmusW]

hey gordon!

darn, once more i didn't see until now. very nice progress. i especially like the back and posture of the hands. good going.

-man, i need to find time to get some work done on mine....

-r

[gordon-v]

Hey guys!
Thanks everyone for the critics!

KiVanDi
Thank you man! your right about the torso, but it will be covered with the suit
and thats the next thing to go for! Thx

SolidSnakexxx
Wow Solidsnakexxx! You are a speedposter ;D! Thanks, I try to improve with every post! And you totally right with what you are saying about that contest.
Your Mantis man is comming along so grate! and you post so much infos! GRATE! Man do you ever sleep? greets! -G

fluxist8070
Thanks fluxist8070! I added the curves!

goldo_O
Hey goldo_O! You totally opened up my eyes with that suggestion! I apreciate that! Its in my sculpt now! Big thx!
PS I just recocnized that you are the brain behind R´Zalka! Man this is one
of my favorie Artworks out there! I so hoped that one get first place on dw3! Damn brilliant work!

Gohanf22
THX Gohan! yup too many entries! I have problems myself not missing all
the grate work that is posted here!

abyss103
Thank you abyss103!
I hope to see more of your Icebuddy sooon!

UPDATE:

face3.jpg

sculptingsession5.jpg

I refined the head a bit and added hair! I hope you like it!
Ill try to be as close as possible to my concept. So i just started to
block in the suit. Backpack, Belts and the Saversystem comes next!
I also got some Ideas for the poses that I will post soon!
Damn I have to catch up!
Please give me some critics!
Greets! -G

[Harmonic]

Sorry no crits, its looken solid to me.

[Moni-Poroni]

Good progress :)
the hair and the beard add a lot to your character..great :tu:
and interesting to see how you´re going to make his suit.
best wishes

[pitchepuck]

hey, you are back ! what was up?
nice update! :tu: :tu:
weiter so ;)

[gordon-v]

Hey guys!

Harmonic
Thanks man! I hope it will be all solid in the end!

Moni-Poroni
Thank you Moni! Good to know that my beard is working! Will be fun to detail it in the final pose! best wishes to you too Moni Poroni!

pitchepuck
Yea im back! ;D Im a little busy right now! But I gonna make it! I want to finish modeling at the end of this Week.

So here comes another update. I Blocked everything in and created the savers. I made them out of the gear3d tool Im still not satisfied with them, but I will go with them for now.
Next thing on the line would be retopology. ( I hate that part)
Please give me some critics!
Greetings, gordon!

sculptingsession6.jpg

saver.jpg

[maxinkuk]

He's solid, will you show some disintegration in his pose?

[luis2008]

nice. you have some great detail going here. he looks like a civil war general thats been brought back to life ;)

[SolidSnakexxx]

Wow, I just love the suit work...simply awesome...(It's even better than the last post I saw.)

Thanks for your kind words for me, I'm no speed poster :), I just love checking out cool sculpts and learn from that. There are so much knowledge within each thread..and yours's got real cool stuff :tu: :tu:

[gordon-v]

Thank you very much guys!

Well I thought about disintegration, but it will be very difficould to do I think!
I will post some Poses tomorrow. I if someone has a good idea on how to make a particle disintegration in Zbrush pleaaseee tell me!

[Moni-Poroni]

Oh cool..nice update.. the suit is great... I like the direction you´re going :)

Keep up the good work.

[rasmusW]

hey gordon!

thanks for the pm.
great update. think the mechanical stuff at his back is gonna look great.
i only got a few crits for you.
i think you should smooth out some of the big creases you got on the legs, i guess it's fabric wrinkles from his suit, and maybe do some smaller "harder ones. right now it kinda looks like the suit is a number to big, which i'm guessing is not what you are after. try looking at how the upper body of him looks. think, that is more right.
then i got a small suggestion for his wrists. try doing a more angulare bend in the wrist. right now it's too soft, imo.
hope you don't mind i did a quick paint over, so you better can see what i mean.
forGordonV.jpg

hope this wasn't too harsh.

-r

[Captain Sensible]

Nice update. It's really starting to come together! :tu:

[SOLcreator]

Looking great! Love the node things all over him :tu:

[maxinkuk]

if someone has a good idea on how to make a particle disintegration in Zbrush pleaaseee tell me!Well, not particle disintegration as such but looking at the model those ridges made me think of the butchers' diagrams for cutting up animals into pieces.
I think it would be pretty neat if you'd cup up the model and scaled and moved various parts as if he was exploding. Boccioni's Unique forms of continuity in space (http://www.moma.org/collection/printable_view.php?object_id=81179) and some of Dali's statues with shelves flying out of the models come to mind.
You could use the morph difference technique to scale and shift whole shelves of the model building geometry that connect to the central core.
I can draw it if you want but I hope I explained the concept.

[gordon-v]

Thanks for the replys!

Moni-Poroni
Thanks Moni! your Sculpting is improving tooo!

abyss103
Hey abyss! Thank you very much for your suggestion. Your right with the
fabric folds. Its the first time for me creating such folds. I have to find me some reference and try harder! Thanks for the tip with the wrists, but I ll change the posture of the hands in the final Pose anyway!
And in my opinion critics can never be to harsh. Im just lerning from my own
faults. And most of the time I need another pair of eyes finding those faults!

Captain Sensible
Tanks man!

SOLcreator
Cool thank you! Those nodes are actually his Saversystem preventing him
from disintegrating into pieces! I also love your Knoweapon! Nice atempt on
building the hands.

maxinkuk
At first, gratulations on the Toprow! (even if it comes a littlebit too late, it defenetly deserves this credit)

You really make me think about doing this disintegration. Im a bit new to Zbrush, maybe you could explain me the morph difference technique? A drawing would be awsome!



Ok, here are comming my poses. These are just suggestions to find a good
and working dynamic pose for pulse. I have 2 or three other poses in mind that I will post soon. What do you think of them. Do you have an good Idea
for a cool pose! Dont hesitate to tell me ;D
Somehow Transposemaster isnt working for me. I cant get my Highres with Subtools back. Zbrush crashes in the process. Also my Transpose movie was gone to dilirium. Ive got the lowres mesh now, which I will use for
posetests.

So here we go:
Posetest #1
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Posetest #2
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[goldo_O]

Hi Gordon!
I can't see the videos, are they from Youtube, Veoh? :cry:

[gordon-v]

Hey goldo! they are from youtube, i cant see them eather, try to fix that!

[SolidSnakexxx]

Can't see the vids either....maybe something wrong with the board coding?

[gordon-v]

Now it works! yehaw
BTW: He is suppose to shoot an impulse beam out of his right hand!

[goldo_O]

So much progress since I last checked your thread! :):tu:
I like the second pose better, you should try to change the position of the head and left leg in the first pose to make it more balanced (you could also try to get him up on his tip-toes, maybe?). Keep the poses coming man!

[SolidSnakexxx]

Great video! :tu: Glad the vid's fixed. Really cool process.

[maxinkuk]

Hi Gordon,

here's a quick sketch of what I mean. Using those ridges as well as adding a few more to cut the model in pieces and literally explode it along its normals. In the sketch it's all a bit too dramatic maybe, probably it would be better if most of the chunks would not go too far from the body, actually, to make sense it should be that smaller chunks fly away further whilst larger one stay closer. You could then even sculpt the geometry between the shells and the core by for example carving out blobs to give the feel of some event at particle level going on there.

disintegration-sketch-suggestion.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27125283%27,%27disintegration-sketch-suggestion.jpg%27,1,0%29)

And here's a description of the morph method given by Kraken a couple of days ago:
http://209.132.96.165/zbc/showpost.php?p=530928&postcount=260

I look forward to hear what you think of this.

Cheers

[gordon-v]

Ok here are 2 more poses. let me know what you think. I will start doing the retopology now!

I hate this part but it has to be done.

Pulse posetest #3
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Pulse posetest #4
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[gordon-v]

Awsome maxinkuk! Just saw your post after uploading the poses!
I will think about doing this, even ths process of deintegraten is far away from what I originaly thought of. But its a damn cool idea and somthing i could achieve with zbrush! I ll give it a try! Thank you so much maxinkuk!!!

[maxinkuk]

I'm so very glad you like the idea. Of course the question is if you feel like taking this route at this point in time. Not an easy decision at all. It may be not too much work actually if done in the right way.

[gordon-v]

yeah your right
maybe i can just add this deintegration process later as an detail by pulling out some parts in a dynamic way. so it fells that he just have arived at the spot he is standing and gathering his parts. My initial idea was that he can travel with the speed of light. he disintegrates into molecules dravels his way and instantly building up his form again when he arrives. the saver should move in a little time delay and are attaching themselfs one by one to his body. I really could show that arriving state with the morph difference technique.
On top of that I really like the pic you showed me of Boccioni's Unique forms of continuity in space. (http://www.moma.org/collection/printable_view.php?object_id=81179)
So doing that would be kind of a tribute to Boccioni :D

[goldo_O]

I really like the 3rd pose Gordon! Nice work! Looks like he his ready to give a high kick to someone :) Maybe close the left fist or pose the fingers differently?

[SOLcreator]

gordon-v Im liking posetest4, though I would exaggerate the bend more and twist the torso more putting him off balance so he's got that look where hes dodging an attack and counter-attacking.

Nice work! :tu:

[KayDee]

I agree, the pose is nice and active but needs to show more of him attacking. Nice antomy and suit design!

[gordon-v]

Thanks for stopping by guys!

goldo_O
yeah thats my favorite pose too. but I wasnt my intention to showing of
a high kick! I just wanted him in a kinda backwards movment when he shoots
a impulse beam out of his right hand. Maybe I have to change the position of the leg so it transports that information better.
For the left hand, this is just a rough idea with what im going with. I defenatly will pose the fingers differently. Thanks for the critics!

SOLcreator
I will try that, thx sol!

KayDee
Im glad you like my suit design! thx!

Retopology:
So here comes my first poor atempt on doing the retopology for him.
I will make the hands and head seperate from the body, because my laptop
can handle higher polycounts better this way.

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[spimmy]

Lovely model and detailing! Very nice indeed :tu:

[gordon-v]

Thanks alot spimmy!

I worked on the topolines, and its a really hard thing! some how the magic
Behind Topology hasnt reached my brain yet! Maybe I need to take the same
retopolyskillpills that SolidSnakexxx have swallowed :D.
Anyway here is what i got so far!

I have problems at the neck area, maybe someone has an Idea?

topolayaout.jpg

Here is the timelaps too:
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[koyima]

since you have made a decent sculpt why not make a
topology that has some muscle flow built into it?

you are putting a lot of time into this so instead of
making the grid like topology you have chosen, try to poly-paint
around the muscle groups using an anatomy chart for reference.

hope this helps

cheers

kostas

[gordon-v]

yeah you are probably right kostas! I consider redoing the whole retopo. thanks for the help.
Time is running and i still havent got a good pose. Here are some more Ideas.
What do you think?

posetest #5:
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posetest #6:
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posetest #7:
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[gordon-v]

back in action.. but I think I wont make it to the deadline. I had so much to do the last week, and I have also prepare everything for my year at vfs, were I will start next week!

enought said, here is my progress:

I did a lot of poses. Somehow I wansent satisfied with Pulse shooting. Instead of that pose, I decided to do a "charging pose" before he shoots!
here it is, what do you think?

sculptingsession7.jpg

[Disco Stu]

wohoo vfs that great for u!

wie viel kostet es dich und wie kommst du dafür auf?

[gordon-v]

Hey disco Stu, I will write you an pm!

If I can manage to complete the modeling today, I will maybe make it to the deadline!

so here are my straps and belts!

belts.jpg

[SolidSnakexxx]

Wow, the pose's looking really great. This one's going to be one fine entry. :cool:

[- FoOD -]

Details looking very cool ..I like the design :D:tu:

[goldo_O]

Wow Gordon! That's crazy detailed! :) Love these straps:tu::tu::tu:

[gordon-v]

thats so sad, but I just hadnt enought time...
I doesnt wanted to rush on him, so I wont make it...
But I will finish him in the next weeks.
Here is my curent status:

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Turntable (screencast):

Click Here
(http://www.screencast.com/t/3707i58Vwv)
Thanks for the kind words guys, and good luck with your Action Hero!

[3d70mohamedaly]

u got talent man
love ur last character and it's pose a lot
keep up

[gordon-v]

hey mohamed!
nice that someone replyed on this thread again. almoast forgot about it! Im very focust on my vfs demoreel right now. I hope i will find the time to finish up my actionhero after school.

[dustbin1_uk]

If it gives you some encouragement, I'm sitting here waiting eagerly for the updates here too. :)

You've done amazing so far. So when you get the time.... :tu: