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Jupiter Jonah: The Queen's Right Hand, HMC #21

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#1

This was my entry for the recently ended Hardcore Modeling Competition over at Cg society. He is Jupiter Jonah, the Queen of the Rocketmen’s closest advisor/ lieutenant. I also like to think he is an adventurer in his own right. The idea for Jonah came from my brother Shobo Coker, and the concept and modeling was done by yours truly. I think I took a more stylized approach to the model than most of the entries. The base model was done in 3ds Max and then detail sculpted in Zbrush.
Jonah was going to have diffuse, normal and spec maps, but I ran into some trouble with Zmapper. Maybe someone can help me out actually. I posted the problem on the forum here.

Anyway, please let me know what you think.

[Jonah_Beauty.jpg]Jonah_orthos.jpg

The WIP thread is here.

Turnarounds hereand here.

Public voting starts on Wednesday. There are some great entries so check em out here. Fingers crossed :slight_smile:

Attachments

Jonah_concept.jpg

#2

Cool work Kenneth…I checked out the normal map problem, and it looks like you have a very high edge padding value. Try reducing the edge padding value on zmapper. Also, use the 3dsmax8 modified setting file for zmapper. It can be found easily if you search here. Anyway cool entry, I like the pose too.

#3

Hey Vikram, thanks for the comments. I did use the 3ds max 8 modifier hoping that it would work, but it didn’t. I’m not sure where to find the Edge Padding value though so if you could be more specific where it is within Zmapper, I would be very grateful.

#4

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Its been some months since the Queen of the Rocketmen Challenge over at CG society, but I finally scrounged together enough hours to complete a fully rigged and textured version of Jonah. Hopefully I will have his partner in adventure done before the year is over. For now enjoy this first hero shot of our intrepid space faring African, Jupiter Jonah!!

Attachments

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#5

The Model’s really cool and I dig the first pose very much! All around excellent job!

#6

This guy is great! Sooo much style! I’d love to see more like this. great work!

#7

Very cool

#8

It is nice to see someone do stylized work well - seems all I heard in back college from people that turned out crap (because they did not put in the time require to GET good) was “its stylized” heh - but seeing actual stylized work that is done well is a pleasure - NICE WORK!

#9

Nice one, keep up the good work reminds me of Timesplitters.

#10

pretty good!

#11

Hello Songai,

Just want to join the chorus here… love the Art it this piece. Crisp, stylized technique, but also a beautiful sense of rhythm, form, palette & character.

For my tastes a lot of CGI tries to hard to look like a photo… wonderful to see stuff that has the spirit of good drawing or painting.

great work.

Darrel

#12

amazing character!

#13

SO cool! Great style! :+1:

#14

This is really fantastic work, such great style and design. This reminds me a bit of the character designs done for Team Fortress 2, which is by no means a slam as I loved those designs and this would easily fit in with the work done for that game.

I really enjoy seeing the more stylized models like this here, they aren’t done enough, in my opinion. This is going straight into my Zbrush reference and inspiration folder! Really great. I’d dig it so see some more characters from this universe and style.

Keep up the great work!

#15

Thank you for the positive responses guys!

groBoto, I really do make a conscious effort to make my work look like my illustrations and I’m glad you noticed that.

Timbone, I love the Team Fortress 2 character designs as well and they were definitely a point of reference.

mutte696, Timesplitters was fantastic in its heyday, great character designs there too.

More coming soon

#16

cool post, has a cowboy beebop style to it :slight_smile:

#17

Excellent work and sculpt ! :+1:small_orange_diamond:+1:

#18

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As promised, here is Jupiter Jonah’s adventuring partner, Funlola! She’s super tough and tends to boss Jonah around a lot, and generally save his life over and over again. Enjoy the hero shot and let me know what you think.

Oh and the Zsculpt is here.

#19

hy, im doing a character that has about the same stile. can u post some wires on Jupiter for ref plz :D. great work, hope to see more
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sry didn`t see the wip link :confused: :rolleyes:

#20

Love Jonah’s pistol. It looks like a mod to the old Logan Run guns.