Scared silly entry by Peter Butler

[fizzy]

Ok managed to get quite a bit done today on this little guy. I'm hoping ot finish of the fine details tomorrow and maybe even have him textured. Need to get on with the other characters otherwise I'll never get this done.




Pete B

[Harmonic]

That's Fantastic! Good progress

[fizzy]

Hey thanks Harmonic. I've been checking out your work and you've got an amazing amount of stuff done.

Here's an update, unfortunately it doens't really look much different to the last pic I posted...except I discovered some of the new really cool shaders that Zbrush 3 has to offer. I did spend a lot of today adding all the finer details some of which you can't see because they're in HD mode. I think I'm just about done with sculpting him now. I've still got to finish his foot but I really need to get on and texture him.

Pete B

[fizzy]

This is taking forever! Ok well I've got his face textured...well the colour map anyway. And his coatume. Just need to do his feet, hands, mask, urm yeah I think thats' it.

Really sorry for the slow process, but I am loving doing it, especially using the cavity brush .

[WoL_]

I really like it!!!

[inkskin]

Great concept, and I love this monster. Looking forward to watching your progress.

[fizzy]

Hey thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

Well I've finally textured him in Zbrush and I've been trying to get him set up for rendering in an external package but I'm having a complete nightmare trying to import UV's into the base mesh. At the moment I've textured him using Polypaint. I've UV's the base mesh in another package but when I try and import that base mesh back into zbrush I just get screwed UV's. Sorry you probably didn't need to know all that.

Anyway here's where I'm at. I'm meant to be doing abother two charaters but to be honest I think I'll stick to just another one otherwsie I'll never get it done.

Many thanks

Pete B

[XSI Apprentice]

Hey, both ideas sound pretty good, i think either would be pretty cool to do and setup, i can picture with idea 1, having normal people around looking at these two ugly old witches while they are talking etc, and maybe a lady with a pram or somethign quickly running away from them covering her childs eyes, i would love to see in idea 2 one of the monsters looking at the arm/leg with drool hanging out hehe

[fizzy]

Ok haven't posted for a whle, finally got some more time so I've now comleted the first monster and I'm onto my second. Realy need to get a move on.

Here's a very basic mesh of the new monster. As you can see he's only half a monster at the moment and hasn't got much character. Hoping to get a lot done tomorrow so Ill have an update then. I also have some background stuff done but I left it at work so will have to post it later.


Pete B

[XSI Apprentice]

That looks pretty cool, nice looking character , cant wait for the final piece

[dustbin1_uk]

Hah! that character looks great! I love the expression on his face! He's cute cause he knows he's ungly. Fantastic work.

[fizzy]

\Hey thanks for the comments guys. I need your opinion on this next monster. I spent today getting the basic model done. I was just ready for bed when I thought something about him just didn't look right. I thnk it's because I've made his body too human like and so in a way his face just looks like a person wearing a mask, which of course confuses the whole point of the gag. So I done a quick mock up using transpose to see what he'd look like with small legs and I think it works better, what do you think?

There' also a close up of his face, I'm trying to get the "I'm really cute, honest!" look.

Forgot to add, ignore the arm pose, I've put them like that so I can use the mirror tool. In the final piece his arms will be crossed behind his back.

Pete B

[Harmonic]

I like his face allot, but I think it would definitely help to exaggerate his proportions, maybe make his legs shorter, and make hip really wide and thick, it would fit his face.

[nightwoodwolf]

your first little monster is really cool .. a little creature with scary and silly expression ... keep the good work

[threetails]

good looking characters, my only thought is like your first one make the rest very expressive. really nice so far.