First attempts

[JohnnyDestroy]

It keeps getting better, and it looks like you're close to a finished still. But in case you still want pointers, I drew out some very basic guidelines on a screen of your first attempts, just to clarify what I was talking about in my post:



As you can see, when I talked about the jawline, I mostly meant the lower jaw muscles, where the angle of the jawbone is located. And the mouth can have the V-shape made less extreme and then pulled back a bit without loosing the overall "joker"-shape. If you look at your own mouth in the mirror and then grin, you'll notice that the corners of the mouth are drawn backwards as well as upwards, and even though the joker's mouth is deformed and extreme, it would still follow those same basic mechanics.

Also, you could define the ridge of the nose some more, and pull the nostrils back a bit. You have correctly translated the fact that nostrils flare and go upwards when grinning on your model, however, they do not go outwards very much. In your image the nostrils almost protrude more than the tip of the nose, which looks a bit off.

But again, these are just tips and pointers, and just in case you still feel you want them. I'm not trying to put your work down in any way, it's looking better and better for each screen.

Oh, and you nailed the hand. Very creepy and skeletal fingers.

[voodoodad]

Thanks Ezra! I'm really enjoying this one.

Johnny, my MAN! I can't begin to tell you how helpful your last post was. Seeing it in the diagrams you made was exactly what I needed. I was able to tweak the mouth and jaw into a good approximation of what you had although I didn't pull the mouth back quite as far as you had it because it threw a lot of other stuff out of whack. The nose and forehead were really bugging me too, although I didn't realize it until I saw your overpaint. And thank you for the nice comment about the hand. That was the thing I had the least confidence in, hating sculpting and posing hands as I do.

Here's where it stands now. Still lots of tweaking and I need to add another element or two before it's done. Any suggestions are very much appreciated.

[voodoodad]

After many lighting and material changes I think I can finally consider this one done. Comments and crits as always most appreciated.

[truubluu]

Nice job Voodoo, LOVE the background. I think the definitely help convey your comic feel.

[voodoodad]

Thank you Trrubluu! I'd still be sitting here frustrated as hell if not for you and Johnny and Kenny helping me out when I needed it. It's much appreciated, believe me!

[voodoodad]

Experimenting while waiting to be gob-smacked with inspiration for a new project. I was thinking of Harry Dresden's blasting rod when I did this.

[voodoodad]

Went back and added a funhouse effect.

[voodoodad]

I did this in about an hour tonight. Thought it looked interesting, so here it is.

[voodoodad]

Building some low-poly assets for an environment piece.

[blueferret]

Nice clean look to your candle sconce.....Melted man is pretty scary looking except for the nose cavity ( it looks a little strange to me ) but then that has been said about me too....

[voodoodad]

Thanks, Blue. The Melting Man is based on the movie "The Incredible Melting Man". I think it was made in '77 but somehow got a '50s era title. I watched one of my MST3k dvd's of this last night and just had to give it a shot. I think the combination of the angle and the fact that I removed too much "flesh" from that area is making it look wierd. I may go back and clean it up a little at some point.

Here's some progress on the environmental piece.

[nicksc]

keep up the good work

[blueferret]

looking good.....

[JohnnyDestroy]

Hey, looking good! I really enjoy that environmental piece, it looks very serene and I like the way you make the windowframes. Very Hobbity. Do have a special purpose in mind for it?

[voodoodad]

Blue and Nick; Thanks, guys!

Johnny; I wanted to reproduce a scene I did in max 4 or 5 years ago and I wanted to do a scene with several different uses of fibermesh. You're right, this is the front door of Bag End as it appeared in the LotR movies and I figured this would be the perfect project to use a lot of "planty" type fibers.