Action Hero - Stringeddon

[Agostinuke]

My name: Agostino Priarolo

Character name: Violet Oncello aka Stringeddon

Ok. Hi. I'm willing to give a try to this nice contest, still I think it will be a nightmare to model that cello, without mentioning the crazy lady behind it...bah!

So..this is my speedy concept.
She is a super-something I don't know yet if she is good or evil...anyway...she destroys stuffs and incapacitate criminals or innocent neighbors by playing her magic cello..and when she plays..she acts like a crazy girl and looks like she's been possessed by the devil or something like that.
So beware criminals and innocent people! Learn to behave or Stringeddon will kick your Eustachian tubes for good.

see you later :)

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[Agostinuke]

Ok. I know the rules thank you.
I'm pretty busy but I'm trying to find some time to work on this since I love comics and the contest is challenging. I don't use zbrush a lot even though I love it. I definetely should start to work on it much more. So this is a great opportunity, thx. Now remove that orange post in bold from my thread thx. :rolleyes:

I'm seeing a lot of fantastic entries in this contest, great job guys. ;) I'll definetely would like to be much more involved in this contest and in the community. I'm working on this. :confused:

Ok, now the wip: I roughed out the shapes..it's 100% zbrush stuff, mainly zspheres and cilinders flattened out.
I had to pose the girl a little to start the sculpting; later on I'll pose her and her props to the final pose with transpose master and record the movie.
The next step now would be to finish the cello and then to work on the character features. I want to work on this a little bit each day and hopefully I should be able to complete it. :p

Thanks guys, later on I'll pay a visit to all your posts :)

Best Regards

Agos.

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[Agostinuke]

Ok, guys, sorry if I'm updating slowly and my entry till now kinda sucks, but It looks like I've been totally unable till now to find any free time other than nights on week end. I'm pretty sure that I will be able to post much more this week. Please moderator and people bear with me. Thanks :confused:

Here I rebuild completely the topology of the model in Zbrush, since when I put the zsphere together I was too fast and I've met big big errors on the hands, fingers and in other places. The new topology took almost all my free time, but I managed to work a little on the cello body as well.

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[SolidSnakexxx]

Hello there, Agostinuke, Didn't see this new entry...You are really fast...and it's starting to shape real well.. the Concept is quite cool..I really like the idea. :tu:

[maxinkuk]

Gosh, I had completely missed your entry. Completely crazy idea, excellent!
And good modeling so far. Keep it up, I love it.:tu::tu:

[Agostinuke]

maxinkuk, SolidSnakexxx...lol Thanks! it's still so rough but I really appreciate that you like the idea... As we say, fra il dire e il fare c'è di mezzo il mare... between the say and the do there is a sea, but in english unfortunately there is no rhyme :P

anyway, I'm posting here a little little update; I'm working now on the rest and I think I will post something more between the say and...cough between today and tomorrow..
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[Agostinuke]

Posting a pic of the bow and my first video WIP.

This was a triumph!
I'm making a note here:
"HUGE SUCCESS!!"

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More coming hopefully tomorrow.

[Seavannah]

Really great cello and bow sculpt. I wish I was as fast as you. Keep up the good work and good luck with everything.:D

[SolidSnakexxx]

Excellent update....wonderful modeling especially on the cello part. This one is going to be great! :cool:

[Agostinuke]

lol guys thx
I'm posting another piece of video wip
cya later :D

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[spimmy]

Nice videos, and the cello sculpt it really nice, good work!:tu: :)

[wethand]

really nice chello modeling!
looking forward

[Agostinuke]

hey guys! thx a lot I'm posting here a couple of Wip-Pics and another Wip-Video

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It's hard to overstate
my satisfaction.

Aperture Science:
We do what we must
because we can.

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[Moni-Poroni]

Oh.. I´ve managed to miss this one:) .
Your Character and mine would be a good team ;).. dangerous!!! :D
Nice overall progress
and great work with the chello :tu:

[Moni-Poroni]

Don´t worry.. I´ve no problem with that.:)
Your charcter has a chello and my character has a violine....
it´s like a gun and a pistol...similar but not the same.
And if you´d have made a violine...that would have been ok too.. because
that´s nothing copyrighted...it´s just an instrument.
Good luck with the contest.
I´m looking forward to your next update:)

[SolidSnakexxx]

You are going along so fast, Agostinuke. The pose's forming well too. :)

[Agostinuke]

Mate, erhm fast eh? lol
Ok. one week later and one day before the deadline I'm still the busy guy and this boat is still in the middle of the ocean, so I'll just shrug and work on this as far as I can. (I could always make it sink eh eh).

Mental note: don't load a different document size while you are recording a video in Zbrush or your cello becomes a fat-cello.

VIDEO WIP:
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[SolidSnakexxx]

Thank you for sharing the vid. :) .and yeah...changing the doc size would result in this type of compressed view. Looking forward to your next update.

[Agostinuke]

Buddy, thank you for the continuous encouragement.... :tu:

Ok. I finished the violoncello, I'll post the pic here now.
I was recording a video of all the process but Zbrush had the GREAT idea to crash, and go to h..l with the video and everything.

MENTAL NOTE: NEVER touch deformation>size tool to resize the length of your cello strings if you are recording a video. Every time you touch "deformation" tools Zbrush crashes. Since you know that this is a common problem and there are no patches around to fix this bug, please don't touch the deformation tools while you are recording a video. Understand Agostino? Yes, I do. thank you Agostino.

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[SolidSnakexxx]

The violoncello is looking great. :) Yeah the deformation sometimes gives the unwarned crash....Glad you have made the mental note to yourself :)..