Old Sport Sketchbook

[Old Sport]

Batman sketch -
Its cool to finally start posting some work on here, its always a humbling experience whenever I visit these forums. This place is indeed special ;_;


So I hope to get some feedback on one of my first sketches, check it out, its a stylized version of Batman. The inspiration came from a hybrid of Dustin Nguyen's penciling style for batman and Mike Mignola's work.


My goal was to quickly sketch something so I could experiment with the LightCap settings and just see what I could get from playing around.
LightCap is powerful and impressive thank you Pixologic.
I didnt use any BPR filters on these images so they are still very rough as they are just tests. I plan on completing a full Batman soon.


I used the wax material as a base material for my polypaint, I turned off the default zbrush light and I applied a total of 3 lights on specular mode. I used a red rim light with a slight falloff and aperture adjustment, a white light close to the rim light also with some falloff tweaking and another white light to bring out the details at the center of the model.



On these images I used a total of 4 lights

I used a white rim light to give it a nice fresnel effect, a red light to top right and a yellow light to the topleft, both with some aperture and falloff tweaks as well as some exposure tweakes, and a white light with a square alpha to bring out some specular contour.


and for this one I just moved the lights around a abit and lowered the intensity of the yellow light.
Also something I noted, I'm not sure if this is a proper way of rendering but I would use the best render and when that finished I would click the BPR and as a result this is how the images came out. I experimented with the create environment but I couldn't narrow down a subtle result.


i hope I'm using correct terminology although I trust someone will correct me as all comments will be appreciated

[Stefanos_Petras]

nice work,man. if you take suggestions, one that I have is to make his forehead smaller. the thing you said about rendering is what I do,too. first Best,then BPR.

[Old Sport]

nice work,man. if you take suggestions, one that I have is to make his forehead smaller. the thing you said about rendering is what I do,too. first Best,then BPR.

OK yea I see it now... the forehead is protruding a bit. I think I'll lower the forehead creases and push it back a little. Thanks mate.
Also thank you for confirming the render process.

update!
I just went ahead and did it now. Thanks I feel a little more satisfied with it now.

[Old Sport]

Hey everyone, its been a few days since my last post so I uploaded my latest projects since the Batman.


First up is Mordecai from the Regular Show, my recent addiction -_-.
I'm also hooked with their iphone game NIGHTMARE-ATHON.
I just made this cause i cant get his voice out of my head.


This is my Frogman study, I'm in the process of redesigning the head...maybe to make it look more frogy rather than fishy.


finally this from a modeling jam that I am currently doing with my cg group on facebook, the design was created by Fat Panda
heres the concept: http://i.imgur.com/XgSlG.jpg

well there you go, I got to go finish modeling a mock-up for a client. ;D

[SarpSerter]

Amazing work! All of it.. I still cant take my eyes of the batman.. It looks amazing giving that kind of style in 3D.. Thats genious and looks incredibly cool.

[Old Sport]

Hey! thanks man it means a lot, I didn't know if people were digging my stuff so I just been practicing on getting better.

[LewisMooreS87]

Hay man, it is fantastic! I like it so much..
but do you feel that there is something wrong in the back if Batman neck?

Nice work

[Old Sport]

Its been a while, but I've been busy... just slacking when it comes to posting my latest projects.
here is a quick layout of all the models I'm working on simultaneously
When I'm in Zbrush I feel like I have serious modeling A.D.D I cant stick to a model long enough :P
i know its not a significant update...