Santis Sketchbook

[Santis]

Oddin: Thanks a lot man!
I appreciate that you like the skull, it motivates me to give away a more generous christmas gift this year




Talking about the skull: Here is an Obj for all the mac users:

[Capa]

I must say - your skeleton bust gives me an interesting idea. I think I might try to use that as inspiration to create a skeleton bust - but more of an alien bust as opposed to human. Could be an interesting study... The more I think about it the more I like it. BTW - Thanks for the free tools! This is a nice sketchbook you have here! Very good work!

[Santis]

Capa: Thanks
Good luck with the project, sounds like a cool idea

So this week I had some more time to do the final work on the devil character, I did some more sculpting on him, symmetrical and asymmetrical.






C&C as allways very welcome

[-Storm-]

Looks good, i really like the expression.

[Energise]

Great work man! the horns rock!

[mjolnir]

i think his eyes need an iris. thats the only thing that seems off about this model.

[DAYAS]

sweet devil head, I like the expression you went for

[Moni-Poroni]

I really like the expression so far.

[Santis]

-Storm-: Thanks a lot, glad you like it!

Energise: Thanks Jonas!
Glad to see you here again, have you been taking a break from Zbrush?

mjolnir: Yeah, you might be right... Wont have time to give him one now, but maybe in the future if decide to take him further. Thanks for you input

DAYAS: Thanks you, glad you like it!

Moni-Poroni: Thanks, glad you like it!



So now I have finally gone back to doing anatomy studies again.
The spine is more or less done now, and here's a breakdown of my C4D-Zbrush workflow (I know, I should be using Zbrush even more ).






1. I start of by modelling a rough mesh in Cinema 4D. Once I had the first mesh done I used that as a starting point when modeling the rest of them.

2. I subdivide each mesh and define it's form even more inside of zbrush.

3. I then use these highres meshes inside of C4D to build the spine. I do this using move, scale, and rotate to roughly place them in a good relationship to each other. In some extreme cases when they are too "off" I use soft selection to alter the shape of them.
I also added a spine disc between each vertebra.

4. Then, back in Zbrush I import all of them as one tool, but each mesh gets it's own polygroup, so masking and hiding the surrounding vertebras to the one Im working on is very easy.
A very handy function to use when doing stuff like this is Mask by polygroups found under Auto Masking in the Brush palette.
I then go over all of the segments to add some quick and unique details, I also match them as good as possible to each other and the spine discs.
I also imported the spine a little of it's own symmetry line so that everything I did in this last stage became slightly asymmetrical, giving it a more organic look.

Next up, the ribs!

[Maya_fanatic]

nice nice!

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi Santis
Wo...Lots of work there.. Looking GREAT..
Thank you for sharing your process. .Really useful for me to see how you work.

[Energise]

hehe no I have been zbrushing like crazy :P

Landed a super awesome freelance gig doing 3d characters for a comicbook

So I have been working my ass off haha.

How are things?

That skeleton is lookin freakin awesome!

Thanks for the breakdown, can´t wait for the ribs! :P

[Lucky_1]

wow, great start on the skeleton man !

[Etcher]

The spine looks great! !

[Moni-Poroni]

Wohoo.. what a nice z-pine.
It looks quite realistic. Great work, Santis!