Playing with Sculptris

[Mr.T]

Thanks a lot for your kind comment Sculptrisnewb

I'm not sure about the dragonfly, I think I'll finish it another time I started
a new sculpt

(you sit a little in front of Sculptris and you can't stop making new stuff haha)

This is a quicky of a kind of evil pig, need lots of work I would like to try and
make a full character (with body etc..) and then build a lowpoly version to
rig him.

[Mr.T]

And the progress of the body, trying to get the general form. I don't have
good anatomical knowledge so I'm looking for overweight people reference
pictures.

[Mr.T]

I just couldn't resist I wanted to see a small render with him









And the dark side of his moon , I need to make more fat on his back.



I'm not sure about the size of his hands, going for a small looking hand
with fat fingers, or for the exagerated oversized one. I think a more
normal looking hand size would suit better the character. (and I'm
affraid hands are hard to make )

[Mr.T]

Some more progress on the body





Is it me or his knee seems really high?

[Mr.T]

I lowered his knee I hope it's better that way, if you see anything totally off or wrong I would be glad to know

[SeanJM]

That frog is beautiful.

For your demon there, check out some photos of obese people, it will really make this piece awesome.

[Mr.T]

Thank you SeanJM

I was searching for references with the keyword overweight and
obese was giving me better results in search engine





Should I make the feet a little bit smaller?

[Mr.T]

I did the low resolution mesh and it's around 7.500 faces, I baked a normal
map to keep the details of the high res version. Here is a render of the low res
mesh with the normal map and a quick color correction:



Still load of things to do like texturing and (ouch) rigging but before that I have
to think about putting some cloth on this bad dude.

[sculptrisnewb]

The Fat old Porker is looking good "T", How many Tri's was he before you Baked the Normals?

[Mr.T]

Thanks a lot Sculptrisnewb The model in Sculptris is 667.870 tris,
I have to admit it's not that much optimized but since my comp can handle it
I left it as it is.

I don't know if this was already told but there is also an alternative of the
optimize procedure of a model with a freeware called MeshLab.

It works fairly well, it can reconstruct, clean and optimize models.

[Tartan]

He is looking food T I mean good I think I better go get breakfast! Bacon and eggs I am wondering the scene you will be putting him in and the clothes. Meshlab sounds like a good program, I am going to have a look at it now.

[Tartan]

Thats a wonderful powerful looking program Mr.T I am betting it will help me out with some 3d scanner files I need to work on I have a Next Engine scanner and it can leave some nasty areas.

Back to your obese model. I am looking at the detail you have on the hands and feet and all I can say is really nice job. Those are by far the hardest areas for me in both sketch and 3d. Their shape fits the rest of him well.

[Mr.T]

Thanks Tartan

I'm sure you will find great use of this freeware with your 3d scans
It can fills holes/gap, clean noise, retopo! Might be interesting to have
feedback about this freeware with someone owning a 3d scanner
If you do some test I'm curious to see how good it handles/deals with
this kind of "heavy" imported mesh.

As for the hands and feet I totally agree, it's really hard to sculpt/model
and it can becomes a nightmare I'm sure the model have lots of issues
in these areas but I'm really happy about your comment, thank you

[Mr.T]

Slowly progressing on the clothing (he desperately needs pants )


Well he's somehow sexy now

[Mr.T]

Pants needs more love Looks akward.