Action Hero - Silo

[Firebert]

SolidSnakexxx: Thanks!

kishar: will do for the fire and the hair. not so sure if i'll add onto the costume. i mean if you had this power, would you really feel like you needed to carry supplies around with you? gun, granola chewy bars, ammunition? i dunno, just my thought process on that.

- FoOD -:thanks a lot man!

Harmonic: the flames are tricky man... it is all about just feeling out the 2d graphic feel of them. if you haven't tried yet, get some ref on some graphic flames like they would do on cars and such, then just trace over them and feel out how they flow. it may just be a stylistic thing for me, but i found that practicing my flame work on paper really helped. here is a process on how i made the most recent flame body. maybe this will help you some too. i found that making holes in the mesh really added a lot more dimension, but this does take some time with zb's retopo tools. i think to retopo this one flame was about an hour and a half to two hours because it was so hard to see where to match up the verts to make the holes. i could have used mesh extraction to use as a template. May go that route on the next one.

Original Concept Mesh:


Re-Topo:


Adaptive Skin:


New Topology:

[Gohanf22]

nice work on the retopping of the fire mate. very nicely done. keep it up firerbert.

[JUPITER]

Can't wait to see them in action!!!

[SolidSnakexxx]

You are definitely keeping the fire under control

[goldo_O]

The new flames are impressive and really dynamic!

[AVTPro]

You hit your sketch spot on.

the beauty line are very dynamic.

[Moni-Poroni]

Great work
The fire looks awesome!
I really can´t wait to see the coloured version

[Firebert]

I really appreciate the support of everyone on here! Thank you so much for your crits and comments. I made it out to California for work and the place I am staying has internet. The company I work for rents out houses and internet is not always available. Also looks like the days will not be as long as originally expected and I should have some time to work on this thing and finish. Anyway, just thought I would send out a wave. I'll put up some updates in a couple days.

- Josh

[Firebert]

Progress has been ultra slow since I have been out of town. Kinda worked on a matcap for the fire, but I think it is a bit brash. In the end I may just poly paint this whole thing in a resin material to give it that maquette feel. If I take this approach I think it will also allow me to accent details that can get hidden easily. Not as familiar as I should be with materials and lighting in ZB as I typically use this for sculpting and base texturing. I would like to do a base if I have time with small flames coming out and her name on the front. We'll see. As with us all it is just a matter of time. Either way, I made fair progress with the hair. I also tweaked a lot of the stuff that was out of whack from using transpose master.





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[luis2008]

your final sculpt came out really nice. i really like your fire material. cant wait to see more from you