Sketchbook - goast666

[goast666]

SIWEB - thanks, and yeah, a friend of mine said he looks like a wussy darth vadar.
DAnconia - thanks sir, i will try

anyway --- after an hour or so of working on his lower body and tweeking his upper body....Zbrush crashed while I was saving....so an hour or so of work, gone down the tubes.........after some swearing, and throwing of my pen, I went to sleep. After dinner this evening I was able to hit up a little more of his body and redo his head...still not sure on how his ears will work, and his jaw needs to be built, but over all I'm liking this alot better than the head I had last night.

thanks for viewing.

[goast666]

update
n color test 1

[goast666]

messed around with his under body.
It's my first real attempt at something that is a quadraped *sp*.
If anyone would be happy to tear apart his lower or upper anatomy, i would be happy to listen.

[goast666]

just a study.
he has no thumbs...i think his shoulders are too high, and his head might be a bit big.

[goast666]

just an update to the topo on this guy and some images to show this.

the first image is what I started with.
the second is the low poly before and after retopo
the third is the high poly before and after.

[goast666]

I found some time to sculpt last night and this is what came out of it.
Everything was built inside Zbrush. The head was a sphere. Shirt and hands where zspheres. All of it has been retopod.

Around 4hrs of work right now, including the retopo, unwrap, and sculpting.

This image is a render out of 3dsmax 9.
2 target spot lights. One red, one blue, 10% saturation on both.

He's a little over 4k tris right now, or 2k quads. He has 2 1024 normal maps on him at the moment, one for his head, the other for his shirt and hands. His shoes and pants will get another. So that leaves me with another 1024 for any extra things I want to add to him.

I'm working on his pants, shoes and under shirt right now. I hope to finish those up later today and have them posted as well.

Then it is on to painting.

[goast666]

So I finished his sculpt. Now I just need to go through and texture him
he came in at 8056 tris and I can cut that down. I haven't removed my mesh smoothing edges yet, so he should come in around 7.5k or so. Heavy for such a light character, but oh well.

Again, Renders in Max. I took out the colors cause they were bothering me. I'll drop him in a good lighting solution once I have his diffuse and specular done.

Anyway, CnC's if you please

[goast666]

Found some more time tonight, so here is what came out of it.
30min, give or take, zsphere base.

I'm thinking amputee with cybornetic body parts...He'll probably just have jeans on, or something else, maybe shorts, but I don't know.

I just want him to be some average working Joe (the plumber) or something of that nature. GITS type future where everyone is a cyborg type deal. I'll probably dink around with his head tomorrow.

I should probably open up photoshop and do some sketches as well.

sorry It's so small, I had on AAhalf when I exported the doc.

[goast666]

Here is an image of the wip of a Troll I am doing for a VFX shot. He's only on subD 3 right now so still alot of detail to add.

[goast666]

Well, here is some work that I am doing on a fat sherrif. I don't really know why I am doing a sherrif. Or anything old west for that matter as I find the old west kind of boring usually. Anyway, this head was just a quick 30min sculpt that I liked and it is going to turn into a project to keep me busy until DWIV starts up. I also can't keep working on just a blade for the GA mini comp. I don't really like weapon design all that much so I need something else.

Also, the troll is done and I will render out some shots from the VFX shot that he is in and post those up. Probably do a link to the final cut of the trailer thing.

anyway, here we go.

[goast666]

I'm just doing this guy up for the hell of it. He has a concept drawing that I am working on as well for his clothing and attitude and all that stuff. I think I'll give him spiky type hair, or something or another. He has a long blond ponytail in the concept, but I don't think that fits him well. So we will see.
I'll post up the character sheet when I am done drawing it. Anyway, his eyes are too far apart, his head isn't round enough, his head is too long, his lips are over saturated...his nose might be pointing too far downward. yeah. I was mainly playing around with doing textures. I haven't really done too much texture work inside of Zbrush. I usually set down my base then move it into photoshop for the detail work. I think this is coming out pretty well. It's a combination of Zapplink and Polypainting.

Oh yeah, he still has a lot to go. He was at 84k polys when I stopped sculpting and started texturing. I figure I will match his high frequency details to his texture....pours, hairs, veins, all that stuff.

[goast666]

Well, I've taken to calling him Edgar. Anyway, here is what the last couple of days have done. I've only had a little bit of time here and there to work on this as this month is a 200hr month...so no time for my projects, but at least the other stuff pays the bills. Anyway, these are straight Zbrush renders composited in PS. The only addition in PS is the glint in the eye (i forgot the high gloss pass and didn't want to open Zbrush again).

Next it's on to hair and actual eyes....and a body........sigh.

CnC if you please.

[goast666]

Well, I found some time tonight to play around in Zbrush. Here is an hour. Started from a box, retopo'd, and threw down some quick poly paint. He's unwrapped as well. The sculpt and color took 1hr. Probably a half hour for the topo and mapping.

I can't decide if it is what would happen if Yoda and a Gremlin got it on or not.

[wethand]

hi,

the goblin-face looks really cool! keep it up!

[goast666]

I started doing this head up as part of my nightly sculpts and I liked it enough to continue with it.

I am working on rendering him with MentalRay right now. I am guessing i've been working in game engines for a little too long now as I get a better render realtime than I do with MR....need to brush up on some HDRI I'm guessing.

Anyway, when I finish this piece I'll post up some more images and what not.
CnC.

I am uploading the Vid of me making this dude as well to youtube...i'll update with the link when it is done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky_1sXRhcBg

Damn AAhalf......grrrr.