Hi Joe ,
It’s a fantastic character , a very clean mesh . Excellent work .
But man , how could you overcome the seams that appear in AUV texturing ?
I was working on it for a month ( fix seams , adjustment , …) and I could not find any answer ,
May I ask you AUV Master ?
Thanks .
Nice work dude,
The character has a freakish quality which is unnerving and makes you feel uncomfortable, yet you can’t look away and draws you back, great work.
Hey Joe, I’ve been a fan for a while ever since I saw A Man with a Habit. I love the humanity in your sculpts. And this guy captures the albino feel well.
So I feel a bit trite nitpicking.
Melanin does look a bit dry overall, but I wonder if that might be helped by making just the mouth and teeth a bit wetter? The contrast with a wetter mouth might give the dry skin some ‘purpose’.
And the top eye lashes look a bit bristle like, very short, straight and stiff.
I love his ribs. I’ve been fiddling with something similarly ribby boney for a while without satisfaction, so I’ll be returning for the odd peek.
Hey Joe,
It’s always great to see your work here, inspiring stuff! Keep rockin!
excellent job!!!
Best part is that it is 2000 poly.
The norm lately is over 2 million with results that
do not come close to this
WoW! Very cool. Excellent character and I love the facial expressions. I have to say that I’m not to fond of the skin shading though. I love the model for sure but the skin just doesn’t cut it for me. One thing I think is that Albinos may have a lack of melanin in there skin but they certainly don’t have a lack of blood. So, I would try putting some more sub surface red in there. Also, you might try and use a very pale blue base on the top surface layer of the skin instead of the current pink. And finally, I think you need more specular in there as well (using fresnel) to give it more of a waxy look.
Speaking of rocking, another Albino you might want to look up is Edgar Winter:
Hi great thanks so much everyone for giving me such great feedback.
I’ll reply to each one, but today was a long day and I didn’t have much time to focus on this.
I did look into some of your concerns about the specular, but maybe he’s too shined out now.
I hate shiney.
Here’s an animated gif image showing where it’s at, and how the displacement is affecting the model. (Hopefully it works in your browser).
I screwed some things up making changes, but I’ll put it back right hopefully.
The eyelids are too red, and I was a little sloppy with Projection Master in the ears, ect.
The lighting was tweaked and I think I lost some contrast. Whoever said this was easy?
Back to you:
Cassandra: Glad you like the expressions, I’m aching to make many more soon, once I nail these crits!
Ron: Good point about the teeth, I tried to spec highlight them, but maybe I’ve broken something. What do you think?
I think the secret to tartar is avoiding too much dark contrast in color and value where the tooth meets the gum.
But if your going for skanky nicotine stain that wouldn’t apply.
Clarksville, cool man, I was born in Nashville. Good to see a fellow Volunteer here in the thread.
You’re really prolific, keep crankin the z Ron!
Yainderidoo: Thanks for whispering so low, people are sleeping. Thanks man. I remember fondly a girl named Tjitske (who was from your islands).
Jantim: Hey there, I’ve been admiring your work! yes I imagine in the not too distant future we’ll all be modeling, texturing, rendering, and animating in zbrush… one day!
For the present though, I’ll try to get to know the z materials and renderer better. So much to learn!
Captain Nemo: Well if I were you I would go to talk to the real AUV master named Aurick.
Have you posted your detailed concerns in the Questions and Troubleshooting Forum, with some images?
Search around over there, I know you’ll find the answer. If not, email me and I’ll see where you’re at.
Thanks btw for your positive comments.
TEMPEST: Cool observation, I liked the way you put that. Thanks for the insight man.
Bonecradle: Yeah “Man with a Habit”, smashed to a thousand pieces. Thanks for diggin around in there.
Also feel free to nitpick away, I took your suggestion for focusing on the lips and teeth to heart.
Not sure if it’s resolved yet, but you got me started on that. Thanks for that nitpickin’!
Thomas: Hi, haven’t had a chance to really look hard at your new wip. I’ll stop by. Thanks. I’m still refering to that xcellent demo of yours.
Hope your scuplture class is going well.
bicc39: Thanks bicc
I suppose it wasn’t very clear earlier when I stated it, but the -Base- mesh is 2000 polys. Once divided up 5 levels it reaches the 2 million mark.
Then displacement map for rendering, ya know? Sorry for the confusion. Hope you’re not too disappointed there.
galenb: Great I’m hearing ya man! I’ll try your ideas and see how they work. Put away your forks now, not done yet.
Also thanks for the links to Edgar (orange?), but he was more of a Classic Rock dude… muunh
His brother Johnny though, now’s there’s the real deal.
will be back soon… and thanks again everyone, big help!
Well the gif’s working in Firefox…
How the hell did I miss this, awesome work fella, well deserved top row…
This is so good to see and soooo inspiring, you must be a very special person to create such a special errrr…person.
Did you see that? I called him “person”! This guy on your canvas has real personality. He’s someone with a background (no…LOL I’m not talking about the canvas…) a family and everything. He could be living down the block.
And you know what I think? He’s enjoying all the attention.
You’ve got my attention too! Great work…like I said: 10 out of 10
Greetings from Tjitske!
(and me) Jeen(deridoo)
ps…I hate to say it, but Fryslân is part of the Netherlands, which is part of Europe…so no Islands. Unless you’re talking about our Wadden Islands?
Take care.
amazing work.
maybe i missed it but will we hear him speak? will we hear how he longs for the warm sunlight to gently caress his checks?
soup nazi style no sun for you!
Would love to see a ten second animation of this char…i really love it. Nice work dude. You compliment this site well with your work…now enough of this praise!!! GET ON AND DO SOME MORE!!! heh heh;) excelllllllllllent!
excellent at two million, would have said stupendous at 2000:D
Joe. Great great work. When I get that good I’m going to top myself and die a happy man.
Hi, my girls were dancing around to the Black Eyed Peas last night so we keyframed this together for them.
Click Here for a Quick 22 sec. Test only 1,730kbs, so let it load.
Now they want me to do the whole song. I think it’s a go.
Really rough, just a playblast (rendered from the ui), to save all that slow rendering time
Needs tweaking, as always.
Buckie: Thanks mate, still working on it.
Yainderidoo: Heh-heh, no he’s not real. Yes I was refering to the Wadden Islands in the Noordzee. Thanks Jeen, I sense you have alot of energy.
1stbrother: Click the link, just a little speaking for you.
88 finger louis: Thanks, well, here’s 20. Trying to fit it in between other projects. (I’ll probably have it finished when this is on page 29).
bicc39: yes only 2000, but it could be alot lower too.
Blaine91555: Thanks for the support Blaine. Did you finish your Brain?
jamesleaburn: I’m sure you’ll die a happy man nevertheless. Keep working hard and stay fascinated. Thanks.
Sorry for the lack of updates, but Jason Belec’s Little Challenge has captured my attention for the moment.
Still working on the list of improvements you all have given. Thanks again.
Yainderidoo…speechless and in awe…thanks to your girls too .
Thanks Joe…great site btw. Man, your talent is mindblowing in all the mediums you use. Some amazing work…Thanks.
joe-
man that last animation is hilarious.
awesome.
I must also say you’re the best ‘replier’ on zbrush ever. I’ve never seen anybody answer questions so thoroughly as you…must be the teacher in you…
If I’m ever in chicago I’m going to make it a point to see some of your sculptures…
-tiktok
Supoib.
Hey just wanted to catch these comments quickly…
Yainderidoo, yes kids are inspirational (and the best critics too).
Thanks 88!
Moochie: hehe is that your Curly from the Three Stooges voice? Thanks, ear challenge underway i see.
tiktok: no best repliers go to the mods here, not me. Went to your site the other day to show some friends your work btw.
Well if you ever visit chicago send me an e so I know.