Sketchbook of Sangius

[Sangius]

Hi there
Update for the Cyngar Centurion:

Detailed the base for better size recognition, i said he would be a big Centurion, and he will.

Builded some destroyed buildings with dynamesh, gave the street a texture and cracks.
I made 2 sorts of fibers and the base alone without the centurion has about 500k polys.
Detailed the middle part of the body with IMM brushes, used some transpose-modeling and clipbrushes for hardsurface.

I love r4 ... it makes technical and hardsurface modeling so much easier.








C&C always welcome!

[Mahlikus The Black]

That looks crazy cool!!
Really nice man!

[Sangius]

Thanks a lot!

Your transpose-modeling tut helped me a lot!

[JohnnyDestroy]

Very nice! Love the base, it really captures it's size, just like you said.

[tonare]

Looks really good. Nice work.

[Sangius]

Thank you!

I'm really glad you like it!
In the next days i'll detail the whole body in that way.


Only thing i'm a bit worry about is getting my really many subtools managed.
I've made a hierarchy for the items, named most of them and merged some of them for better control, but my List has actuall about 150 subtools.
Sometimes i get a bit confused by searching a special one.


Is there a way to make Groups of Subtools without merging them?

Example:
One leg has about 100 polygroups and parts without any detail-meshes and splitted IMM-tools.
I wish i could group the Leg into one group and then choose within this Group the 'minor'subtools like switching brush-type by hitting 'M'.

Hope my english is not too bad for explaining what i mean...

[JohnnyDestroy]

I don't think there is. This was one of my biggest concerns during the Ork Nob project, since I also raked up a very large number of subtools. In the end I decided to say goodbye to all my subdivisions and just start to merge subtools, making sure they had logical polygroups for easy selection later on.

In general, the one thing I would like them to work on is compability issues between various functions in Zbrush. I often find that if I want to use a certain function, then I have to give up the ability to use another function first, and it gets annoying after a while. I love the IMM brushes, but since they don't work on subtools with multiple subdivision levels, using one means that I either have to remove the divisions or create a clone to work on, either way it'll break my workflow. HD geometry is awesome, but it also means I can no longer apply surface noise over the entire subtool using UVs and a custom alpha, and it stores it's histopry on a separate channel, meaning going back and unchanging things can be a real hassle. Those are just two examples, but when all these things are put together it means that I rarel, if ever, end up with a model where all the subdivisions are stored...

[Sangius]

Hi there

Found not much time for Z, but here's a little update.

I make my way detailing from part to part. The middle section is almost done.
Did a small BPR renderupdate too, tweaked the shadows a bit.

Have to build some believeable connections for the hands...

Hope you like it, C&C always welcome!



@JohnnyDestroy:

I know exacly what you mean ... in example i wish i could handle more than one curve on the IMMbrushes.
It's a bit tricky to arrange several tubes to avoid intersecting. But i love those IMMbrushes and the curvemode anyway.
The issue with subdivisions and IMM is a well known problem for me. I decided the same way and deleted all subdivisions.




Closeup BPR shots without shadows and AO:







Final rendersetting Update:

[Arthaven]

I really like this latest work you have here Sangius! I only have a composition note to add, the bottom render, there is a hard tangent being created on the right side of the image where the vertical line of the pillar aligns with the elbow and almost with the shoulder. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but it definitely plays trick on your eyes.

[Sangius]

Thanks Arthaven,

haven't seen this, i'll turn the angle a bit for the final render.

I have an Idea for the pose, but i don't know if i could reach my goal.

But my Idea is a scene of a destroyed and abandoned city,
the centurion rusted and abandoned too,
but still looking like a mighty sleeping god of destruction.

Perhaps i'll compose this later in PS... if my skills let me achieve this.

[Gary Komar]

really cool work !!

[Sangius]

Small update for the inner structure of the legs:



C&C always welcome

[Sangius]

Forget the last pic for the leg...
Had a critical error while saving and now i have to do the whole leg detailing again.

And i just finished the leg interior ...

Is there a way to recover a .zzz File?

[JohnnyDestroy]

Ouch, sorry to hear that. I've had the same thing happen to me, so I know the feelings. At least you got some renders made, you can use those as a reference. Also, it's looking very cool, great attention to detail!

[Promethias]

these look awesome... yeah i had a picture i was working on for a day have a error on me some time back here..its not fun for sure