Weekly Sketch Group (Topic#1-The Forest King)

[Dribble]

I'll start this out since everyone has been waiting for quite a while...

The topic of this week's zSketch challenge is...
"The Forest King"
Feel free to interpret this topic in any way you see fit... Should be a lot of easy ideas off of this one.

The Deadline For This Topic Is:
Wednesday, March 18th
Post any work you are doing on the topic and please feel welcome to give constructive criticism to anyone who asks for it.

On March 18th, I will add a poll to this post that includes the names of everyone who has participated.
We will then vote for someone based on the work they posted.
I will keep voting open for four days after the deadline (Until March 22nd) and select the winner of the challenge.
The winner will then select the topic of the third week's ZSketch Challenge (which begins March 25th).

Thanks everyone! I can't wait to see your work.

[cemond]

Should get some cool results, I hope we get a good turnout.

[Dribble]

Me too!

You can take over for next week if you'd like to.
You proposed the idea from the beginning.

[cemond]

I've been pretty busy lately anyways, so I'm glad you took over, I haven't even had time to think about organizing it.

[Helixdnb]

About 40 mins so far:

http://www.1217design.com/pics/king1.jpg

http://www.1217design.com/pics/king2.jpg

I'm near 25k Polys now. Gonna be interesting to see what I can do with this one. :D

[cemond]

WIP:

http://zbrushcentral.com/zbc/attachment.php?attachmentid=132611

[Dribble]

WIP, I'm trying to make him like a bear man...
Still have quite a bit of work to do.

I like everything so far!!! Everyone's approaches are really interesting.

[Helixdnb]

Some updates:

http://www.1217design.com/pics/king3a.jpg

http://www.1217design.com/pics/king3b.jpg

http://www.1217design.com/pics/king3c.jpg

Been really working on the anatomy of him for most of it rather than dealing with any major detailing. Really digging this challenge. :D

[spaceboy412]

not sure how much time if anymore i'm going to spend on this(have something else to finish) but heres my 15mins worth, can't really see the crown in this pic.
unified skinning said it was going to take 45min so don't know if i'll bother.

[spaceboy412]

update, i waited the 45mins but the results were not good, what i found worked better was to make a unified skin off the adaptive skin instead of straight off the zspheres.
started to add slight detailing to face only, have to say thanks for this thread it was good to work on something else even if only for an hour or so. if i work on it more i might add leaves/bugs and some sort of bird/squirrel coming out of one of the eyes.
ZBrush-Documwent.jpg

[Dribble]

Really looking good!
The texture looks excellent.

[troy1617]

I like where your taking yours so far space really nice feel to it.. it will be interesting to see what people come up with by the end of this...

hey figured i would join this heres a basic block out...
forest king blockout v1.jpg (javascript:zb_insimg('132726','forest%20king%20bl ockout%20v1.jpg',1,0))

[cemond]

Looks good, I love the face!

I'm in the middle of reworking my entire concept lol

[Dribble]

I'm keeping my same concept but ditching my ugly model lol.

[cemond]

Forest King Update:

It's very much anatomy piece right now, but I'm going to be adding alot of subtools and things for the contest entry.

redo.jpg (http://zbrushcentral.com/zbc/attachment.php?attachmentid=132842)

[troy1617]

a little more progress..
forest king blockout v2.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27132886%27,%27forest%20king%20b lockout%20v2.jpg%27,1,0%29)

[ilusiondigital]

Hey!!! Supercool character... waiting updates, good luck!!

victor marin

[Dribble]

Wow, looking good. I'll post more WIP's in a while, friends stopped by for the weekend.

[spaceboy412]

wow looking great troy, can't wait to see him posed and colored(hopefully)
well i needed some zwarmup so i added a faery to my image, the FK really needs to be cutup for better resolution or retopped but i don't know if i'll have anymore time to work on it.i used the glow material on the faery, almost always you will get a crash during render but if you change the S1 settings it usually will work fine.

[sephirothsam]

hi guys, this is an sketch of my model for the contest, this is the sketch and the first part of the model....I have a lot of work this week, but still in the contest hope you like it;)

(http://attachment.php?attachmentid=133090&stc=1)

[sephirothsam]

here is another update:D

[troy1617]

thank you ilusiondigital..
thank you Dribble i hope turns out alright in the end....
thanks space im really liking yours also you have a lot of nice forms yeah i know what you mean by the crashing also yet another joy of zbrush...

little more progress...
forest king blockout v3.2.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27133126%27,%27forest%20king%20b lockout%20v3.2.jpg%27,1,0%29)
(http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27133124%27,%27forest%20king%20b lockout%20v3.jpg%27,1,0%29)

[Moni-Poroni]

troy1617 -- I really like your character.
His face looks cat-like -- definitely an interesting und unusual combo. :tu:
But I´m a little bit irritated by those sticks.
I think IMHO it would look better if you wouldn´t see them on the other side of the pedestal.

All in all-cool challenge!
Sounds like a lot of organical modelling fun. :)


Edit: Funny, you´ve edited your post while I was writing mine.
No more irritating sticks. :) :tu:

[LePan]

wow, i really like the set.

[Dribble]

Yeah! Everyone is doing some excellent work.
I expected good results but... wow! This is just great.

I'm still working on mine, just no time to do uploads.
Should have some up on Monday though.

[spaceboy412]

awesome troy! too bad i missed the annoying sticks, lol. really love the forest and shield.
wish i had time to work on mine...sigh.

[cetrian]

Ok guys, this is my entry for this week challenge, to be honest is my first project in ZBrush so it has been a nice exersice for me, pretty funny indeed, i'm starting so far, so a lot of work is still waiting for me :D this low poly model was made comletly with ZSpeheres, i hope you like it, is pretty rough thou.
(http://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kingx.jpg)

[spaceboy412]

i thought some of you might like these old z2 mats, you'll see best results using the light provided and at best render.
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=23394
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=22264

[troy1617]

thank you Moni-Poronii glad it is looking descent and hope i can finish in time.. yeah im glad i fixed those sticks also they were a little distracting..lolthanksLePan it still has a ways to go..

thank you dribble i agree there's a lot of people that are participating and coming out with some good concepts..

thanks space im trying.. yeah the sticks looked bad im glad i fixed them lol.. yeah the shield was just something i figure he would carry. not really sure about the forest yet.. i hope you get time to finish your concept... also thanks for the bark materials..

hey cetrian good to see new people participating the more you practice the better you will get soon after that it will become second nature to you..

here is something new i started that i may incorporate later...still pretty ruff...
animal sketch v5.2.jpg (javascript:zb_insimg('133332','animal%20sketch%20 %20v5.2.jpg',1,0))

[Tristikov]

Haha, nice goat! Looks good, but his head looks a bit too built out and muscular for a regular goat. Still very accurate though.

[Dribble]

Darn, didn't have enough time to get mine done.

I like the work everyone has done a lot though!
I was thinking about my previous post and about putting up the poll but instead it'll probably be easier to take suggestions from everyone.

I'm posting week two's topic now and I am open for topic suggestions...

[spaceboy412]

man did it go already? oh well, looking forward to the next one. glad there was some participation too, these challenges don't get as much attention as they did a few years ago.

[troy1617]

thanks trisikov i will look at my reference again... ;)

hey dribble thanks for putting this together it felt good to just concept.
as for suggestions i say you cant go wrong with animals i dont think you would really ever run out of ideas there are so many different species and each one is distinct from another.. or insects would be another good one..

hey space yeah it did go kind of fast. but at least we had participation from few people. yeah its to bad the challenges are not like the irc challenges of back then but im sure this will probably pick up a few each time.. and hopefully grow with time.....

[spaceboy412]

troy you should finish with a quick pose and add your goat, you already did all the modeling.
i started in the new topic, truely a sketch this time, lol.

[troy1617]

ok space this is the goat posed. to bad we ran out of time it went quick... ;)

forest king blockout mat test.1.jpg (javascript:zb_insimg('133535','forest%20king%20bl ockout%20mat%20test.1.jpg',1,0))
animal sketch v5..2 pose1.2.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27133529%27,%27animal%20sketch%2 0%20v5..2%20pose1.2.jpg%27,1,0%29)

[SolidSnakexxx]

Very nice character......very unique and cool :tu: :tu:

[Darukin]

yea I really like this one!

[PrayingMantis]

Great character, I really like the goat.
I especially love the clay look.
Good job!

[Dribble]

Yeah Troy, that character came out excellent. I especially like the goat and the shield.

Everyone still has the rest of the day to post their work if they have anything they didn't get in on time. I'm not real strict about the deadline either.

[spaceboy412]

good job troy, i was hoping for more posing in the king but thats okay, looks good though. love the grass and trees.

[troy1617]

thanks SolidSnakexxx really liked watching your work for the Action Hero Contest... ;)

thank you Darukin

thanks PrayingMantis have really been liking your submissions lately for the gnomon challenges some great work on that horse and rider really nice feel to it.
:)
thanks Dribble im glad the result came out decent wasn't really sure what to sketch when i first started.lol

thanks space yeah hope fully i will come back to this if it doesn't get buried before then. it was fun to just sketch for once... ;)