JAGibson Character Art Post

JAGIBSON · November 19, 2009, 6:42am

Hi my name is John

I have been wanting to put some of my Zbrush work up for a while now, but I have been really busy.

I was the Senior Character Artist for Midway Studios Newcastle, responsible for the main characters in the game.
To start with here are screen captures of WIP heads I did for “Vin Diesel’s Wheelman” out earlier this year.

High end in game head was 1500 Polys
The Zbush head Models are under 2million Polys
We made the textures at 2048 resolution but they got knocked down to 512 in game, Diffuse, Spec, Normal and a combination map for gloss, Rim light and bloom.

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grassetti · November 19, 2009, 10:04am

Great work on the heads man!
Love the last one!

Thanks for sharing!
Cheers!

HellGrind · November 19, 2009, 10:20am

Nice heads, and impressive likeness on Vin Diesel. Good job !

sarakawa · November 19, 2009, 10:35am

man, i love this stuff! very inspiring!

Neosaga · November 19, 2009, 11:00am

I love your work!
somo much details! perfect! I hope see more works! :eek:
your name is (JOHN) I"ll remeber that!
keep rocking!

rodion_vlasov · November 19, 2009, 11:02am

cool heads man)))

DELTATHUND3R · November 19, 2009, 12:35pm

Those are awsome characters…Love ya textures…

tucho · November 19, 2009, 1:01pm

Great characters man, I love the style. The last one is pretty cool

show more!

O_MI · November 19, 2009, 1:46pm

Cool Heads ! Great Textur! NICE JOB!

Aberrant · November 19, 2009, 2:03pm

I sense a new top row… AWESOME WORK! I admire it very much. Great sculpts, textures, lighting, and rendering. Top notch!

Bruno.Melo · November 19, 2009, 2:06pm

Yeah!
Really cool man, the last head is very style!great textures too.
Good job man!

nero5150 · November 19, 2009, 4:35pm

Beautiful.

Teyon · November 19, 2009, 5:35pm

Cool beans. I have that game - need to finish it though. You’ve done a great job (if the cool beans didn’t tell ya).

julien_n · November 19, 2009, 6:23pm

awesome work

rad66203 · November 19, 2009, 6:51pm

Amazing work. Vin Diesel is spot on.

Is there a reason why the top head has a different typology? Is one better the the others?

gordon-v · November 19, 2009, 6:55pm

really good liknes! nice work!

Reedcsy · November 20, 2009, 12:03am

great characters, sharp presentation too.

JAGIBSON · November 20, 2009, 7:49am

Thanks for all your positive feedback Its very kind of you.

Rafeal; thank you for starting off, I am a big fan of your work so it means alot to me that you like mine.

RAD66303; Milo the Vin Diesel Character has a very smooth face, the others needed a different mesh to compliment their silhouettes but all facial animations worked well. So no mesh was better than another.

Here is some more Zbush works, this time concept pieces with a more comic book style. Each model took a couple of days, I found Zbush to an excellent tool to explore a concept playing around with variations with ease, using layers and sub tools.

[attach=167596]ZbrushConcept02.jpg[/attach]
[attach=167598]ZbrushConcept01.jpg[/attach]
[attach=167599]ZbrushConcept04.jpg[/attach]

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O_MI · November 20, 2009, 9:23am

Maaannn! Aaawwweessoommee …love The Style!

YOU´VE GOT A NEW FAN! ME!

majid_smiley · November 20, 2009, 9:29am

ahha ! great character ! hhehheh… i love it how he turned his eys to camera !