Hey guys, it's my first post here. I finaly have something that is worth posting although it is far from the quality thats around here.. But I think it is nice to show regardless and give it some views after all the work that went in. Based on various designs of Halo's elite, this character holds most true to its earlier appearance. I built upon it redesigning and reworking it to find shapes to create an interesting flow with curved lines. full version at 2400px http://artbyrens.com/elitebyrensback.jpg http://artbyrens.com/elitebyrensfront.jpg When looking at it you might not see it right away but I tried to have the lines and curves in the model flowing into eachother. It proved to be quite difficult as it needed to work from 360 degrees. During the concepting of parts it took me quite some time to find the right shapes for the armor. In the end the shapes seem very basic, but it was the learning experience of and trial and error that I like about it. There is a lot wrong with the model that im aware of as I've seen it upclose for a long period of time, but I will leave it for what it is and try to be better on the next piece. The material definition for instance is not great, though I tried a lot of variations it did not want to work well for me. Medium shapes are missing a bit, which is somewhat intentionally as I looked more for flow rather than having all the ingredients. I did add some but it became busy quickly, maybe that could be the next area of learning, how to make it all work together. I was quite new to rendering and got corona recommended to me. It is a super fast and straight forward renderer for 3ds max. Not having that much experience with offline rendering im quite happy with the result it gave, hoping to step it up a bit on the next one. It is at Ownage now ready to be printed as a sculpture, so I'm quite excited to see how that turns out. Hope I did it some sort of justice. Thanks for viewing

Step by Step. :) The model is created in ZBrush and exported to Maya. I took a picture of my hand, and imported it to Maya. I used Image Based Lighting with a sky sphere to simulate the light from the photograph and I created geometry to simulate the hand. I used an Area light to simulate the light in the picture The shadow of the character falls on the simulated hand. The character rendered in maya. The finished result! The character and shadow combined with the image. :)

It is Blizzardfest time . This time I'll go with the goblin thinker from Warcraft turn him into a hero. So after five lunchrunches the first goblin is there. Mad scientist type. The idea would be that he sits in a giant "robot". In that robot it is pretty hot so he has some water to drink on top of his head. Because it isn't easy to come out of the bot there is an improvised "toilet" just in case. . Will see where it goes from here...

Hi there, i'm still affraid by realism, it's not my way. but this French model, in my south France neighbourhood wrote me a very kind message about my Portfolio. so, chatting and so on, i tryed to make a 3d from one of her photo. notice that most of the time (not this one) she is photographer and model. https://www.facebook.com/natacha.kovachevski http://www.lunamodel.book.fr/ 3d view here: https://p3d.in/cpccb[/URL][URL="https://p3d.in/cpccb"]

Hi guys i have some Pieces i hope you like it i'm akram elfanid and i'm artist painting and drawing and artist 3d characters, i from morocco and this is my facebook : akram elfanid and this is my page : www.facebook.com/myrealmodels i remodeling this monster and i'm sorry if i do that date:2013/08 date:2013 date:2013 date:2013 date:2014 i have more just with .

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Yhago! Check out this: http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?170886-MatCap-Baker!-unofficial-Information-Installation And look into the thread for the latest versions, its VERY VERY good! What this does is it takes your sculpt, its polypaint and all the stuff you have done to it and bakes the matcap into it resulting in a FAR better texture map. What that means is that it will look MUCH MUCH better and more like it does in ZBrush when you get it inworld. Some (many) matcaps look fantastic in world and this tool improves things so dramatically I need to get rid of that old tutorial and start all over again. As far as I know you are the only one who used it, and that is either the result of you being extra smart or the result of the tutorial being crap.... The below image is a before and after shot using the MatCap Baker, before is on the left and after is on the right:

Hello to you all, I just moved to London from the Czech Republic (from which I stayed the past 1 and a half year, beautiful country). So I decided to create a sketchbook for the time I am staying here, which is going to be for a long time. I am going to post my personal work and the works I will be doing for the assignments of my course: http://3dclassroom.cgmasteracademy.com/ I hope you all like Here are some busts for the class with Justin Goby Fields:

Nothing too exciting to post this time, just a bunch of heads. I decided I should bust out some quick bust practice, this being the result. I sure needed it -- on the first try it took me *ages* to nail good proportions, whereas getting the third head to look good was almost painless. 1. This one started out as a riff on the frazzetta/shiflett bros barbarian. But in the end his eyes didn't look barbaric enough, so I gave him a 1930s haircut instead. Kinda reminds me of blaskowitz from wolfenstein now. Took me about 3 hours all told. 2. Girls are always tough because the forms and plane changes are so subtle. I used photos of a model called ryonen as a guide, some resemblance is there I think. She has a really interesting face. Sculpting took the better part of a day, as I was again struggling with fitting forms together. 3. This last one is the most 'generic'. Basically it was just to check whether I've learned anything with the previous two sculpts. Turns out I might have -- it took by far the least time to do, and was practically struggle-free. Too bad he's so boring, even with an iffy attemt at a patrick bateman haircut. Finally, I'm also including two more shots of that last nude I did, direct from zbrush this time, as I felt the vray renders softened the details too much. Hey, I didn't sculpt them for nothing!