dacamar's sketches

[dacamar]

this is my first post; My name is Dave and Ive been lurking aruond here for some time now.
Ive been playing around with Zbrush for about 8 months and have been intensifying it for the last couple of weeks.
I guess its time to face the crits....


Ghoulio's birthday;.... BPR, with photoshop composition

more info and images later on

Dave

[dacamar]

just a small follow up,...

I started out with the basemesh that I downloaded from Pointpusher; credits for whomever made it or mad it available!

brushes of choice are several move brushes for blocking out basic form, claytubes and smooth for roughing out the details, and damian standard, pinch and formsoft; combined with several standard alphas for the finer detailing.

partyhat is a basic cone primitive, the string and shirt are done with mask extraction, the stitches are done with a chain of Zspheres.

polypainted on the skinshader 04 matcap.

crits are welcome; and I could use some help setting up some sort of basic lighting and render settings.

thanks

Dave

[slocik]

blind birthdays, are sad birthdays ;((

[dacamar]

Just added the video timelapse

[dacamar]

this is the final composition for ghoulio's birthday
hope you guys like it, wouldnt mind getting some comments/ slash advice

dave

[Sparky3d]

haha love the final composition haha, you should put a birthday candle on the cake hahaha

[madhead]

love the expression.nice one (happy birthday)

[Dman3d]

haha weird and creepy (nicely done)

[dacamar]

@sparky3d: there actually is à little candle on The cake, there is a small molten red candle, with à glowing pit and a puff of smoke, as if it just went out, but its kind of hard to distinguish it from the grime in the background

@ Dman3d & madhead; thanks

This is the first time I produced a final composition, usually just made a
Single sculpt and maybe some polypaint...



Dave

[dacamar]

finished up a previous sculpt I did a few weeks ago
sculpting trom basemesh to Polypaint took about 3 hrs, spent another hour or so this morning finishing the composition in PS



final composition;





and a timelapse from the sculpting session




Dave

[dacamar]

this morning I decided to start a new sculpt; as many here I thought I would give it a go at some hardsurface mech like sculpting

started with a sketch for the undercarriage:




I figure I should first build up the volume and posture as a sloppy sketch and then use that as a placeholder for the seperate parts as subtools, wich should be sharp and clean...
any suggestions and input are welcom

Dave

[dacamar]

so the mechsculpt didnt work out; my basemesh was a mess and by the time I had anything half decent going my system shutdown... lost all progress... by the time I had everything up and running again I decided to leave it fdor now.

so I loaded the wellknown bust basemesh and did this character:




and here is the timelapse:



still a WIP, see if I can give this guy some arms...

Dave

[rodion vlasov]

i like the last one great expression

[dacamar]

small update:

been working on his arms and his tools, tools were made in shadowbox

pics:



thanks for watching

Dave

[dacamar]

made a juicy steak for the Chef




and a textured progres picture: