Darukin's Sketchbook

[Darukin]

Thanks guys glad you all like!

Here is a large render of Kimahri

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[MGebhart]

This has come along nicely. Great work.

[mutte696]

Sweet work!!! and nice renders, keep it up.

[Darukin]

Thanks MGebhart and mutte! much appreciated!

I plan to eventually texture Kimahri, but for now I’m taking a break from these complex characters and instead I’m going to revisit and continue working on this old character:

Hopefully will add more accessories, detail and pose her :

WIP:

[attach=236915]SakuraFront.jpeg[/attach]

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[Lizzard4000]

hey! cool stuff!

are you still using only a mouse for sculpting?

[Darukin]

thx Lizzard4000!

Yes I use a mouse for bloody everything, you can imagine my pain! But I'm basically a Zbrush mouse master by now I guess lol, there are special ways to use mouse to get certain results otherwise it's just painful. And I can't use certain brushes properly like some of the polish brushes which need a wacom for their intended use. Will hopefully have a Wacom soon, but I must save up. Any suggestions for a good reasonable priced one that I won't regret? I need to make a demo reel finally as I'm at the stage that I'm graduating very soon and must finally create demo reel and complete/finalise CVs. I'm conflicted between a pure programming job or an art job to begin with in my career. I can marry the two anyhow since I program 3d stuff mostly in i.e. OpenGL graphics proccesing and animation, new animation research from scratch also although I can't currently work on ZAnimator at the moment as its too limited and I'm too busy with OpenGl animation project. But I don't know if my CG art work's good enough yet to land a decent enough job in CG, for a fresh graduate that is. Or I could get a programming job, but I would hate to sit in a cubicle writing financial applications all day. What do you guys think? Cheers

[Lizzard4000]

think about it! u r damaging ur wrist with that mouse.
do ur hand something good and get a medium sized intuos4.

u wont get the “tenosynovitis” or anything similar to that. you will be faster and make better art.

as for programming: why not do some game related programming? Probaply Unity? thats definitely a “plus” for a game company to hire you.

I currently do lots of 3d/unity stuff at my work and enjoy that variety.^^

[Darukin]

Hey thx Lizard
Is good idea, Will think about it

I just got Ralf Stumpf shader from his latest thread and applied it to my latest model with a BPR render
It seems to make a great difference in the presentation =)

Here it is, a few angles with Ralf’s wax shader. Turntable coming soon with this shader and BPR on also.

[attach=237511]KimahriFrontWax.jpg[/attach]
[attach=237513]KimahriRightWax.jpg[/attach]
[attach=237512]KimahriBackWax.jpg[/attach]

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[3xtigy]

amazing stuff dude. This is the reason why i wanna get into Zbrush. maybe one day I can produce something that is at least half as good as these models. good work

[Darukin]

Hey thanks 3xtigy! You wiull get there some day, just put some dedication. Trust me, I’m not talented and if I managed to reach this point in 2 years, anyone can, just put the work, study and determination, talent is not the factor.

Question. Are the last 2 models I posted good enough for a demo reel, feline character and the bloodelf ??

Will post turntables soon, also have a third character coming up potentially for demo reel that I’m working on, a femal character.

I don’t know where I stand quality wise for demo reel is all…
Cheers

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[stumpf]

Great models, I really like the details.
Can’t wait to see the third one.

Cheers

Ralf Stumpf

[maxinkuk]

Fantastic models, marvellously iconic poses coupled with spectacular detailing.
Awesome!!!

[Arthaven]

Question. Are the last 2 models I posted good enough for a demo reel, feline character and the bloodelf ??[/ATT]

Yeah, these last two are bad ass! You probably want at least three though, would say that’s the bare minimum for a demo reel. Also keep in mind what job you are looking for. If it’s game art you will want to show that you can create maps and assign them to low poly meshes. On the other hand it’s worth putting together and seeing who responds. Oh and give polypainting a try.

Keep up the ridiculous work! :

[hoskins78]

Wonderful work - can’t wait to see more!

[Darukin]

@stumpf: thanks! Not to mention I’m using your wax shader and bpr settings for the last few renders so thx for that also!

@maxinkuk: thank you! great to hear, I was always a bit doubtful about my posing

@Arthaven: thx, I’m working on a third currently, and I might use cyborg from page 1 of this thread anyhow. I always fear to texture my work coz I fear that I ruin it as I’m not so experienced yet texturing but I do plan to texture Kimahri, at least one character so I can show off UVs texture maps and final renders and lighting for the reel which would be sweet just need to make sure the waulity is up to standard of my models though. Also I might make a low poly charactr like you said, wouldn’t be a bad idea.

@hoskins78: thx m8, hopefully it won’t be too long that u have to wait till next post

Cheers

[genc]

awesome models man! keep up the good work!

[piz]

Great Works Darukin!

[Darukin]

Thanks guys I appreciate your comments, genc and piz!

For a demo reel, I decided to texture and render Kimahri t show UV, texture and lighting skills

Here’s my progress so far, still more work to do but is getting there. =)

Finally switched over to VRay and I learnt it so much faster (in 1 or 2 days basically this is my first VRay attempt) and it’s giving much better results and quicker than mental ray ever did. It was the best decision for me as far as rendering, and doesn’t crash 24/7

[[attach=239286]KimahriProgressShotThumb.jpg[/attach]]

[[attach=239287]KimahriProgressShotCompressed.jpg[/attach]]

[guhhh]

like the colors and details! great work

[SpiritDreamer]

Great sculpting…Love the blue skin, lighting and color combinations throughout the piece…Excellent…