Sam Kaminski - Realtime Model

[Thomas Mahler]

Hail to the Sam, baby!

I initially created Sam as a design pitch. What you're seeing is the realtime model rendered in Mental Ray. I used three 1k textures. With all the replaceables, he's at 14k polys.

I'll post some more model shots, hiPoly Renders and so on when I find the time to comp it all together. Hope you guys like him, I even wrote a small story snippet before I designed him that actually explains his prosthetic and the missing finger.

My buddy Holger helped me with the Mental Ray setup.




And the turntables:

http://thomasmahler.com/portfolio/images/sam_mov.jpg

http://thomasmahler.com/files/sam_head_final_small.mov
http://thomasmahler.com/files/sam_sculpture_small.mov

Tools used: Maya, ZBrush, Photoshop

[Darukin]

Good job great work!

Poor guy's missing a finger I noticed

Keep it up!

[jafarcrystal]

great modeling and texturing. I like the textures and colors you choose.

[SolidSnakexxx]

Wow, this is a wonderful model and very great texture. Top Row material!

[rasmusW]

hey thomas!


nice work all over.
cool thing that you did the backstory and all. would be fun to read.
did you paint the textures in zb?

-r

[samar vijay]

I saw this on cgtalk too ,,nice character man !! great work..
top row stuff !! 5 stars frm me

[undoz]

Very nice design on the character

[smeagol]

good job man !

you have some style ... when i saw it first with out looking at your user name i all ready know its your model

[skulll_monster]

great character ! i love your works man !

[dustinbrown]

"My buddy Holger helped me with the Mental Ray setup."

Any tid-bits of info regarding the Mental Ray setup that you would care to impart?

[piz]

Very nice Character!

[rubent100]

Heya, can you show how you did the texture work, its simply amazing.

[Thomas Mahler]

@Darukin: Yeah, about his finger: I actually wrote a complete backstory for him and I came up with the lost ringfinger during that process.

@abyss: I used ZBrush for painting textures for Sams head, but the cloth textures were all done in Photoshop.

@smeagol: Haha, thanks, yeah, I hope that's a good thing I tried to copy what Frank Miller / KNB has done with the headshape a bit, to get an easily recognizable silhouette for the face. There's a lot going on detail-wise, so I wanted to keep the silhouette simple to make the whole thing still readable.

@Dustin: I'll try to get Holger to post some info about it here. I think it was a pretty simple setup in XSI, he did that in like... a night or something

Hope you guys like Sam, really appreciate the support! I thought about posting the character script too, but I'll probably do that next time around with another character of mine and present him in a proper way.

[Dryn]

Inspiring work

[IcemanJ]

I really like you work man, your style is nicely noticeable from this piece. I like design, sculpt, textures, everything. Masterpiece!!!