Crits n Grits - the starts of a gallery...hopefully

[Etcher]

Hey Herman, hopefully you'll find more Z-time soon, cause the stuff's looking great - great news about Next Limit on the project too !

[RawSunlight]

Thanks Geert

Had an hour at lunchtime while waiting for feedback on some work... managed a quick sculpt...really must make time to do more of these, just to keep my hand in! The Move Elastic brush is wicked!!!

[RawSunlight]

Got another sponsor for our Jaws project, and we're showing some stuff at a big show this week, on some stupidly powerful hardware. at stupid resolutions, gave me the chance to really dig into ZB4's rendering... will post more and if you're at the BVE at Earl's Court this week, hope to see you there!

[arsalanali]

this is real good..

[Julian_K]

damnit, now you got me hungry!

so, do tell what exactly is stupidly powerful hardware?

[sgrell]

makes me think that I havn't had steak in a while. Mmmmmm meaty goodness !!

[SuperHer0]

I don't really like meats at all but this is a great render

[EZRA52]

That last bust is just excellent for an hour of work. I wish I was that skiiled. I agree with you. You should do more of those. The slab of beef is exceptionally done as well, great texture work.

[Etcher]

Looks great !

[taalart]

Man your control over the details makes me want to cry. Does that take a lot of time to get done? Also i'd love it if you point me to some of the tutorials you've been watching, cheers mate, fantastic work!

[RawSunlight]

Thanks very much guys... the actual renders are over 4 times the size of the images here; i think the plan is to display and zoom in to show off details... not entirely sure but will find out tomorrow

Julian, some very high-spec'd i7 12core machines

Taalart, the whole thing took around a week and a half, that includes stitching textures together from photos, (to get only the most delicious details ), working the sculpt around those details, then adding extra sculpt details and polypainting those back into the texture...

I do think looking close up that you can see where i often got bored - the strokes are sometimes too broad, sweeping, generalised, some of the texture details aren't painted in where they were vblurry...but the whole works, so i'm happy enough to leave it at this

These new multipass renders have been great fun and BPR rocks!

Last one of the meat... a couple of shark renders coming

[cherub_rock]

Fantastic!

[HellGrind]

This meat is stunning... makes me hungry

[SpiritDreamer]

Starting to drool... I think i'll have to get a steak out of the freezer for supper tonight..

Fantastic Job..

[RawSunlight]

Thanks guys ... promise to pop by and see what you've all been up to as soon as this is all over!
trust me though, a week of looking at that was nearly enough to turn me vegtarian (i'm sure my wife'd love that though )

Here is another stupidly big render, this time of our shark:
Modelled by Darran Knight
polypaint/spotlight textured by me

Enjoyed doing a fake sss on tooth, but need to model more detail into it first before really going to town on that one



Show tomorrow...nervous, excited... wibble