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My works in progress (Sculpting Adventures)

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#21

mandark- i agree. i was doing some poses last night, so i could get a more natural feel of the body, and i did notice the head was a little out of proportion. i will address this issue.

elliott- nice to see you posting on here now! i do get a little carried away with one area, i have noticed that. i agree with you in the alien bust, but i have kind of abandoned that, trying to get this new character done for your class.

ill post more when i have some time, between school and maya tutorials, this weekend has been busy!

#22

Cool. Its hard for me to keep up with all of your projects. I look forward to seeing more.

#23

hey guys
i havent posted any updates in a while, ive been boged down with school work and some maya tutorials. well here is what i have been working on. i also posted the eye which i created in maya, render with mental ray. this is just a template i made, ill be adapting the pupil and eye color to make it look more alien.

thanks!
[wip_torso_4.jpg]eye.jpg

Attachments

legs_1.jpg

wip_back_2.jpg

hand_1.jpg

#24

i started a skull today from a polysphere

here is the work so far:

[wip_skull2_1.jpg](javascript:zb_insimg(‘86526’,‘wip_skull2_2.jpg’,1,0))

Attachments

wip_skull2_2.jpg

#25

Nice start. I can tell your looking at anatomy references and not just inventing it in your mind. I can’t wait to see more.

#26

here is an update. i am almost done with the overall shapes

used an Arran J Lewis material for the 3/4 view. excellent matcaps.

i think i am going to try to shape the lower jaw out of a seperate polyshere, i may model one in maya and import however

[wip_skull2_3.jpg](javascript:zb_insimg(‘86566’,‘wip_skull2_3.jpg’,1,0))

#27

hey guys,
here is a final render of my skull. rendered in passes out of Z3, compositied in photoshop. i hope you like it

[final_skull_mini.jpg](javascript:zb_insimg(‘86671’,‘final_skull_mini.jpg’,1,0))

#28

Thats a cool looking render. Can you show us how you did it?

#29

i sure can:

[render_tut copy.jpg](javascript:zb_insimg(‘86678’,‘render_tut copy.jpg’,1,0))

#30

When you get to the arms on the alien make sure they are longer. Also the hands and feet on the alien should be bigger. I would make the hands really big, kinda like abe from oddworld.

#31

Nice work there, you may have found it easier to render out a flat colour shader to produce a proper black and white alpha. Then you could have used this as a mask in photoshop, instead of using cut out tools.

Keep it up :+1:

#32

thats a good idea, and i would have made the hands bigger, but ive already been working on the textures and stuff, adn its for a class, so there are deadline :frowning: but i will probably do that for myself eventually

haha thats true. oh well, now people know 2 way :+1:

#33

hey guys! i was working on a torso study tonight. let me know what you think/what areas need improvement. thanks!

[front_1.jpg](javascript:zb_insimg(‘86850’,‘side_1.jpg’,1,0))

Attachments

back_1.jpg

side_1.jpg

#34

The neck muscle (not sure if it’s the sternomastoid or platysmal, or even if it’s either of those, but you know what I mean) is too exaggerated, so I’d say pull that back and smooth it out a bit. The pectorals should probably be a bit bigger on such a muscular model. The clavicle looks a bit too curved as well it seems, I don’t believe that’s suppose to curve. The right glut also looks a bit too large and inflated compared to the other. I think it should probably be somewhere in between the two. I can’t really help you on the back as it is a complex area that my understanding of is minimal.

My muscle terms were mostly double-checked, but if there are any errors I apologize.

#35

thanks alot. i will work on the chest. i am feeling pretty confident about the back, but i knew the chest was a little deformed.

ps- the shader washed out alot of the details and made the cavitys look shallower than they actually are. i will post with a regular shader tomorrow after i adjust the anatomy

#36

Personally I’d just keep the bronze material and exaggerate the cavities if they get washed out. The bronze material is absolutely crucial for great torso sculpts.

#37

Nice work Matt. I think the Sternocleido mastoid: neck muscle connecting ther sternum to the clavicle and relative to the mastoid process is not correct. A little square. I know your working on a bunch of projects concurrently. All in all this is a good start.:+1:

#38

hey guys. i did another torso study in the past two nights. i am slowly working my way out to a whole body haha. let me know what you think:

[front_1.jpg](javascript:zb_insimg(‘87044’,‘side_upper_1.jpg’,1,0))

Attachments

side_upper_1.jpg

back_1.jpg

#39

Looking good. I’d like to see some indication of the rib cage bones and muscles (Serratus anterior, external oblique ). nice work.:+1:

#40

On that first bust, what brush or alpha did you use? I like how it looks like a scratch brush.