I was going through some old models and decided to give my boxer character a new skin and lighting treatment. I liked how he came out, so I thought I’d share.
121 and questions always welcome…
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Nice to see you back!
I still like this guy, he looks more street fighter tough…heck more like the old bare fisted fighters…sullivan…fight for a week kinda guy…some battle wounds would top him off rather nicely!!!
have I mentioned…nice to see ya back? :rolleyes:
Glad to see you’re finding time to play again! And, you’re definitely getting better with your texturing. But, is he wearing lipstick?
Andreseloy
Heya Aminuts! Damn fine ta hear from ya. Im’ glad to be back, but I’m still busy as hell at work, so I don’t get a chance to post like I used to…
I’m glad ya dig him. My boss likes him too and bugged me to post him so I did. He definately looks like a street fighter. I was thinkin’ of
duding him up in 1920’s gangster clothes. I also have to figure out how to do
some good hair on him. On top of that I still want to tighten up the model around the jawline and sharpen up the rim of his nostrils a wee bit.
All the amazing posts lately inspired me to play again. We have the BEST community here on the Z-Brush forums and it’s an honor to have so much work to inspire us.
Wow! A lotta folks up late this evening. Greets to you all!
Andre: Glad ya like him. I see you been busy modeling a lot lately too. Sweeeet. I loved your sir allien. Nice model and cool texture. The more ya play, the more ya learn…
Ctrl-Z: Ya got that right about the lipstick, Bro…LOL I was looking at him at work and it suddenly hit me that he looked like he’s wearing it, so I have to tone the red down a wee bit in the map. I’ll be tweaking him this weekend, I
hope, so an update will be forthcoming.
Thank you all for the comments, they keep me going somedays…
Update: I just desaturated the red a wee bit in his lips. I like the level now. Now I just gotta tweak the map this weekend to fix it in the model.
hahaha it’s funny you mention the 20’s gangster clothes thing…cuz my first thought was…pinstripes and hat. I actually saw him as a left hand man to Capone…I know…i have a far off imagination but…that was actually my first thought…then because of your boxer theme…the old bare knuckled fighters came into the play. those were some truly tough old fellas.
if you go that way…add the hat and really you won’t need hair for this fella…the hint of shaved hair like you have now with the five o’clock shadow would suffice.
I hope that soon your days may be filled with zbrushing and less of gotta have it done yesterday stuff. your boss apparently is a wise man but don’t tell him less it goes to his head!!
I am glad you had a moment to play!!
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the skin is too pink, but I like this rendering… Its a bit like sub scattering… Cool!
This guy needs a cigar! Very nice modeling.
-TL74
cool character
Hi Dickie, now that guys got some attitude. 50.
Heya Folks. First replys then I’ll post lights, Materials and what i do in Photoshop to add a wee bit of OOMPH to my renders.
Mike: Glad you like the look. Now stay off the floor so you can read this post, as it’s mostly for you, Bro…
Sebcesoir: Indeed he is quite pink. This is actually the look I’m going for, as a lot of my other work is less saturated. I got tired of that and am playing with making my work a lil more colorful. I’m not going for photoreal, just an illustrative kind of look. The first version of this character I made the other night was less saturated and looked more real but I like this look better for now. Thanks for the input…
Tom: the cigar is coming soon.
ilusiondigital: Thanks!
Rich: Indeed he does. I’m going to be refining him this weekend. I can’t wait…
And now for the materials I used and the 3 light rig I use a lot now.
The material is a modified Sokar Skin shader that I’m always futzing with. It’s similar to the one I used on my orc but I play with the Blend setting on the S1 channel to allow the underpainting to show through more or less according to taste. It simulates how “thick” the skin is in a way. The more
of the underlying painting that shows through the "thinner"the skin is. Lower
values make the skin “Thinner”.
As for my 3 point lighting rig, it’s kind of standard. 1 Neutral sun type light
in the upper left, 1 warm sun in the lower right and a neutral sun with radial turned on for the rim light. Shadows are turned on for the first two lights and z-mode and Uni turned on for the first.
I render with shadows then export the image as a PSD. I then bring it into photoshop and duplicate the layer. This new layer I then lighten up and add a gaussian blur set to 7. I then switch the blurred layer to overly mode.
This tends to blow out the highlights in a nice soft fashion and adds some saturation to the image. Depending on the look I want, I then adjust the hue and saturation to taste.
This latest image I duplicated the layer twice. One I set to overly mode and the other I set to Screen mode which really blows out the highlights and lightened up the image overall.
Here are the light and material files for anyone interested.
Kewl boxer…and thnx for the setups in the .zip…mucho appreciated…I have a friend who is a boxer and trainer here I want to see this image…He should get a kick out of it…he doesnt like my monsters…go figure…
thnx
ron
He doesn’t like yer monsters?? HAH! He’s just scared of them. I LOVE your monsters. Any zombie fan is a friend of mine. I can look at a thumbnail of your work, Ron, and I know instantly it’s one of yours… Artistically that’s a hell of an achievement. Oh, and have you seen Shawn of the Dead yet? I thought it was going to be all funny and fluffy, but it turned out to be a VERY good zombie flick. If you haven’t seen it yet I HIGHLY recommend it.
As for the setups, anytime. I’ve learned so much here that sharing is the least I can do to repay the inspiration and hospitality show to me here. You
guys ARE the best community and it’s such a joy to be part of it…
If any has any questions about the materials or lighting rig, just ask. I’ll be
happy to explain them.
Yeppers…have seen Shaun of the Dead many times…I live for the horror flix…esp zombie flix…Have you seen the 30th anniversary edition of Night of the living dead? There was quite a bit of new/extra footage added…watched it again last night…George Romero my hero…and his 4th installment of the dead series “Land of the Dead” aka Dead Reckoning is due out in theaters in Oct 05’…shooting it now…major drooolies…thnx again and thnx for the compliment… 
ron