dancing girl

[snowkaren]

I´ve first rendered the whole scene with a medium poly mesh of her body/cloths. When I got the lighting/mood I wanted, I rendered the final composition in different parts, importing the highest subdision level for each of them from Zbrush.
I did that by separating the body in five different polygroups in Zbrush (left arm,right arm, torax, legs and head). Then it was easy to import the body parts separately in max to render not-so-long and without crashing because of memory limits.

that’s really a big project for me.
Thx a lot for answering my questions!

[ricardocr]

So, I asked my wife, she has some really good eye to see humans in motion. She used to pose to me for my characters

Our conclusions are:

• The pose is pretty off. The spine has an obvious almost 90 break at the connection of chest and ribcage are, that's very impossible, since the human body is always trying to follow an S curve to maintain balance. Also, the spine bends forward, while the rest of the body suggest another direction, bending backward
• The chest looks sunken. This is obvious on the shaded views.
• Her butt looks too big compared to her upper body, but yet she looks very feminine, so it's OK :)
• The face has a concentrating expression, but her eyes are telling a different story. I thing she should squinting, or her face has to have a different facial expression

Sorry that I don't agree wholeheartedly with the majority of folks here, but I think that it's an exceptional artwork, and the pose works against the level of quality. I'm pretty sure, that minor adjustment will help a lot, but I understand you made lot of efforts to get to here. At this moment I see that the unique elements are great, but they are not making up as whole.

By the way, do you have any particular reference image you used for this piece? It would be nice to see them

Thanks for the comments. I have a different vision, but that´s fine. I really think that, agree or not to agree is not the most important thing here. Good discussions like these always tend to make you learn something. And that´s unvaluable, really good

And about references, I´ve focused my research mostly on these dancing companies, which I´ve watched a few shows live, really impressive,

Here we go:

http://www.grupocorpo.com.br/en/index.php
http://www.ciadeborahcolker.com.br/eng/index.htm
http://www.loisgreenfield.com/index.html (fantastic pictures!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pina_Bausch (amazing modern dance choreographer)

Thanks again,
Ricardo

[vedanta]

beautifully done, congrats

[Jester]

Ricardo, I’m glad how you accept different opinions, your attitude is great. Keep on good work!

[jayrajkharvadi]

beautifully done…looks great

[3dmaya]

Very Interesting artwork, great job …

[Phrost]

She is a very ugly woman. Great CGI tho, but ugly woman eeewwww

[scowy]

this work is beautiful, great textures. good movements. i really like the way you capture the moment in this image.

Cheers!

[AutopsySoldier]

Hey man, this is great stuff!!..only thing though…is, why is she wearing her bra on the outside of her shirt?..Seems a bit odd to me…but besides that, I love the whole thing, great job dude!

[GRUNDFAST]

She’s beautiful. Phenomenal piece, I think her face is gorgeous and her eyes are piercingly real. Regardless of the critiques on the reality of the pose, I think you nailed the sense of movement and flow, which you don’t always need 100 percent anatomically accuracty for.

[piz]

Amazing!

[eboncollins]

Where did you get the female OBJ:D Or did you do it all from scratch? If so, what a work of art. How long did it take you to model the finished model?

[ricardocr]

Thanks everybody for the comments, critiques and compliments !

And eboncollins, answering your questions:

Where did you get the female OBJ:D Or did you do it all from scratch? If so, what a work of art. How long did it take you to model the finished model?

This time I did from scratch, but sometimes I re-use a base mesh I´ve done previously, changing it where it´s needed by any specific need. But honestly, Zbrush gives you such freedom (with re-topologize, zspheres, etc,…) that the base mesh should not be a concern, really!

And it took between 4 and 5 days to complete her modelling, mapping, sculpting and texturing.

Thanks again,
Ricardo

[KTOUCH]

I only have one comment, that i hope helps.

In a dance studio a dancer would wear a tighter bra, from the left hand side you can see the straps don’t touch her body, whereas in real life they would press against her.

And just an FYI, they don’t wear spaghetti straps, but ones that are thicker.

But all in all well done.

[ricardocr]

I only have one comment, that i hope helps.

In a dance studio a dancer would wear a tighter bra, from the left hand side you can see the straps don’t touch her body, whereas in real life they would press against her.

And just an FYI, they don’t wear spaghetti straps, but ones that are thicker.

But all in all well done.

Thanks for the feedback, really

Ricardo

[johneyrussia]

Great Texturing !

[ShinRaiden]

Love your work. So awesome!!!

[Ayden_Cross]

Wonderful work! Great sense of movement going on. I was wondering if you could show me how you did her hair?

[sumeet.zb]

Hi

[font=Franklin Gothic Medium]WOW !!! I have no comments really great work…small_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamond

i found this very helpful for anyone who wish to learn skin sss shader…

Great job

i shall be greatful if u could explain me the skin sss shader process… i also want 2 ask u that did u use any ref 4 this girl…plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz give me reply i am seeking 4 character artist job n u could help me…so that i could render my character with mental ray.

Thanx
i’ll wait 4 ur reply…plz help mesmall_orange_diamond:)