JimmyLev's sketchbook

[jimmyLev]

Hi guys,

Here is a tiny update on the fat guy

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[jimmyLev]

Hi guys,

I have posed some of the characters I made back in 2007 for the Danish animation movie ‘Sunshine Barry and the disco worms’. They were just collecting dust, so I thought I would do them justice
More to come soon!

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[skinnybonez]

These are GREAT!!! small_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamond

[jimmyLev]

Thanks, glad you like them

[boozy_floozie]

I’ve dug up some worms in my time but these are the sweetest :-)

[jimmyLev]

Thanks Boozy

[jimmyLev]

Hi guys,

Here is a model I did last year. He is a educational’ish character for a public Danish site

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[jimmyLev]

Here is Minna, a character I did for a movie pitch a couple of years back.

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[jimmyLev]

Hi guys,

Here are some of the models I made for Lego Chima some years back

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[jimmyLev]

Just very subtles tweak to this guy. His “fantasy” proportions were the design frame I got. Then I had to fill in the rest with fat and a walrus’ish texture and so on.

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[jimmyLev]

Hi guys,

I have made an updated more feral version of the Centigor. Been really fun to touch up older projects

For the fibermesh I have used the standard approach. Splitting the scalp into polygroups and having a bunch of main hair bundles to start out with. When I was done posing those, I split them again and so forth.
When working with fibermesh, I tend to use only ‘Move brush’ with fibermesh mask off, pinch brush to control the volume of the hair bundles and the tip of each bundle, and for last I use the smooth brush to smoothen out “crooked” hair strains. Though be careful when using it, as it removes volume to the actual hairstrain in the BPR render. If you guys know of a better way of smoothing a fibermesh curve without loosing volume in the BPR render, I would love hear from you. The reason why I dont use the ‘groom’ brushes is because I think they “pop” the hair strains in a way that makes them a bit uncontrolable. They very quickly gets jacked and weird in their form IMO. I might just be using them wrong hehe. Also if a solution for this is out there I would love to hear about it

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[jimmyLev]

Hi guys,

Here are some WIP poses of some of the characters I made for the Danish animation feature Albert. I also made the blendshapes for the characters.
As for Zbrush, I tend to start in maya and follow the modelsheet and block out the character shapes, then I export the meshes out to Zbrush, where I smooth and tweak.

When working on a feature, I prefer to present the characters in zbrush, because the design supervisor and director usually have some shape feedback they want to test out. I can very quickly go in and edit the model with them, and there after go back into maya and apply the changes.

As to the blenshape stage, I block out all of the shapes in Maya and later export out some of the facial shapes to zbrush, which need som polishing. There I can very quickly get the look I want, and transfer it back over to my shapes in maya.

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[jimmyLev]

Hi all,

Here is a WIP I’m working on at the moment. There is long way to go yet, but its a pretty fun project

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[Polyjunky]

Nice work, Jimmy. Very clean.

[Dawlerento]

Hi!! its really impressive. This Model looks quite accurate. Keep it up.

[jimmyLev]

Hi Polyjunky and Dawlerento, thank you. I will keep working on it, and post some more during the week

[jimmyLev]

Hi All,

Here is some vis dev I made for the Danish animated movie Albert.

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[Jhon_Erick1]

Uau very cool man

[jimmyLev]

Thanks Jhon

[boozy_floozie]

Loving the chubby folds on Baby Albert - sweetly played on all designs.

Having now seen the work created and passed by committee with consideration to “appeal” , I’m most looking forward to seeing the work that pleases yourself