Wethand's character illustration sketchbook

[wethand]

hey there people,

i am still working on my machete. i think the clothes are done so far.
c&c appreciated

the machete is done with shadowbox.

[wethand]

hey there... my daily update!
still have to add some knifes and machetes.

hope you like it

btw: its all done inside zbrush

[zber2]

Looking very good! The only crit that I would have is that the legs seem too short for the body, and if you check, the total height of the figure is only 7 heads high. If that was intentional, then please disregard my crit.

[Eiad]

Wow! I recognized him immediately. I was about to ask you until I saw his title. Great job on the details.

[Nattawat_OBBI]

very cool !

[Pride]

I think his legs are the right length.....it's the pants that have wrong for the past few years. Everybody's legs look too short.

[wethand]

Hello there fellas,

many thanks for your kind replys!
the proportions are a little bit exaggerated...
i corrected the pants a little bit and gave him further knifes.
just one last detailing-pass and i can go to texture.

hope you like it.

[wethand]

hey there people,

i am finally done with modelling!
now its time to texture.

i added some closeups. i tried to get very close to the original.

btw: its all done completely inside zbrush... no other app needed for modeling... with shadowbox and zspheres its,... just amazing...

hope, you like it

[wethand]

hey there.
texture is nearly done... its very hard to find some usable reference of his tattoos... had to paint it all in photoshop... :-/

now its time, to retopo all...

c&c much appreciated

[wethand]

after some serious trouble with my system (defect graphics card) and a long time of abstinence i finally had time to retopo machete.
the first part of retopo is done... next step is giving him hair...

finally i did the step to low-poly (he has 17k tris for now), and now i want to bring him into the udk. thats my problem with giving him hair... optimized for the udk its hard to find a simple way.
anyway, i am happy to have a working pipeline!
still some work with his weapons.

btw this are 3ds max viewport shots

please tell me what you think.

[wethand]

Hey Guys,

i brought Machete into the UDK and it works with all the stuff...
of course it has much room for improvement, but the first and most important step is done: understanding!

btw. i made the barrels and stones inside zbrush, just to practice my pipeline.

hope you like it.

[wethand]

hey there,

2 hours playing... to get some distance to coding stuff... :-/
hope you like it

[wethand]

i started a new one.... heavenly inspired from the red terror tyranide from the wh40k universe...
for now its a slightly sculpted basemesh...

[wethand]

getting deeper inside low-poly techniques, skinning, morph-targets and such stuff... i am learning a lot during these low-poly tests.
yeah, still a lot to do... especially the hair.

i am trying to stay as low as possible in the polycount.
btw: these are 3ds max viewport grabs

phew, this is really time consuming... but hey, who needs sleep? still dreaming of getting into the industry one day... so i need a demo-reel... so i need some rigged and posed low-poly characters rendered in marmoset or udk... WORK WORK WORK... beside my apprenticeship...

if you have some tips, i would love to read them...

[wethand]

Hey there,

working on some stuff to bring it together in a showreel.
rigged and posed with the original ut-skeleton.
these are viewport-renders out of the udk.

still much space for improvement but i am working at it.
if you have some tips, let me know!