Action Hero - Damage

[fluxist8070]

Hi Max,
The pose is looking nice. The boots could use some more detail, I think.

[maxinkuk]

Thanks Fluxist8070. I agree on the boots, I have been thinking of possible ways to improve them and I've come up with a few options. Recycled tyrethread is the frontrunner.

[dismantled]

I am liking what you have done..

[maxinkuk]

Thanks Dismantled .

Update!
I modified and retopologized the base, then another session of muscle sculpting, then adjusted his clothes, a bit of sketchy sculpting on his hands and finally recorded this turntable plus movie.



To accompany the movie I did this render and then I just could not stop fiddling with Photoshop adjustment layers.
As you can see in Photoshop I ventured into cheesy territory but hey, this is an Action Hero, and cheese is only appropriate.

[SolidSnakexxx]

I like the way your Turn table shows.. as usual a cool character with unsurpassed pose

[JHK3D]

very dynamic pose! looking good!

[- FoOD -]

Cool pose - looking good

[maxinkuk]

SolidSnakexxx, JHK3D and FoOD, thanks, I'm glad you like the pose.

I actually also tried to do some tweaks to the pose, transposing the torso, arms and head, but I didn't succeed to in making it any more interesting, so it stayed as it was at the start of the process.

[wethand]

its getting better and better
i like the render quality very much!

[MrHappy]

That pose seriously rocks, I love it

[Captain Sensible]

Looking really nice! The pose rocks!!

[Gohanf22]

pose is good max. thats all im going to say. and no need to ask cause im not going to say.

[maxinkuk]

Wethand, Mr Happy, Captain Sensible and Gohanf22, thanks.

Here's another update, I sculpted the wave and I feel relieved because it was something I was quite scared of.
I studied quite a lot of reference images (thanks google) for about an hour and then I took the plunge.
I ended up with 15 layers and I used the the clay brush, the rake brush, the flatten brush, the displace brush and the morph brush. A number of alphas from the standard library were also used.
The only thing I haven't yet sculpted are the frothy parts because I think it's more efficient if I add those directly with colour at texturing stage.





Here there's also a turntable of the sculpt as it stands now.

[Gohanf22]

bravo max. very well done. this is one of my many favorites.

[SolidSnakexxx]

Well done, maxinkuk! This is coming along real well.