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Quester's Sketchbook

That torso is perfect.

Pretty cool man! You did a nice job creating the exaggerated and stylized anatomy. Looks pretty balanced and cohesive. Looking forward to seeing him textured…

Yetzero - wow, thanks, man. Wasn’t expecting to read that, lol. Thanks for stopping by!

fattkid - Nice to see you back :stuck_out_tongue: And nice to see that you think he is balanced and cohesive. Your work is great, so its an honor to hear that come from you. I think this model is coming out MUCH better than my Hydralisk.

Okay, so the feet seem done to me, here are some pics of 'em. I tried adding a bit of wrinkles and stuff to make 'em more worn looking. I’m still fiddling a bit with 'em, but its just nitpicking. They are done. Tell me what you think! :stuck_out_tongue:



Now, on to the hands!

nice the armor is very interesting

sko25 - thanks, man. Blizzard designs are always awesome :stuck_out_tongue:

Okay, so here’s what I’ve done with the hands so far. They’re still a bit lumpy, but I like the direction in which they are going. C & C’s are welcome :p[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘133410’,‘handsThree.jpg’,1,0))

You know, at first when I was just browsing through your screenshots and not reading the text, I actually thought you were from Blizzard, haha

I’m new to all this cg stuff in general :o

You got skill man :smiley: I still need to get past the basics

Whiteash - wow, man, that was quite a compliment. Not only did you post on my thread first, but you thought I worked for Blizzard. Thank you :stuck_out_tongue:

Okay, so I deem his hands done :stuck_out_tongue: I need to move on now to UV him so I could finish this for the class. I still have a lot to do on him, but I ain’t gonna sweat that now. I got 4 weeks to whip up a reel for my graduation show, so I gotta finish this guy like it or not! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Great progress.

Are you going to pose the two when you’re finished?

Oh an other Zeratul.
And I was planning to do the hydralisk too.
Good job!

KillahPriest - I certainly will pose 'em. Thanks for stopping by!

PrayingMantis - Wow, your Zeratul is awesome :stuck_out_tongue: Thanks for stopping by. I’d love to see a Hydralisk from you. Your sculpts are awesome.

Well, I raised the shoulders a bit, not much, and raised his neck and rotated his arms so that his palms are facing forward (the before is on the right and the left is the after :p). I put a before and after front pic. Now I will spend the rest of the day UVing :stuck_out_tongue:

Hey, there again. Can you tell me how you made the teeth on the hydralisk / nails on Zeratul? I can’t seem to figure out how to make those on Zbrush <— new to zbrush >.< trying to self-learn

Whiteash - The teeth I think I used the snakehook brush and the move brush to get them the right height and then I just used the standard brush and the pinch brush to shape it and DAM’s Standard brush to make the crease between the gums and the teeth.

The nails where modeled that way and then touched up in ZBrush (I accentuated the crease between the nail and the finger with either the standard brush or DAM’s brush)

So he is COMPLETELY uved. Every inch of him. And my rig is almost done (needs weightpainting… which means its not done at all). But I’m starting to texture him. I posted a pic of the colors I been playing with his skin. Definiitely not done, but I have a direction now. Oh, and his loincloth and his foot bands are done. Won’t do anymore cloth (I don’t think I’m all that good yet, plus I don’t have more time to model)

Here are the pics

love it, your anatomy, the design, very nice :slight_smile:

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=68972&highlight=gegrazion

gegrazion_1 - Hey thanks, man. Thank God Blizzard provided enough reference for me to make this model.

Okay, so I been texturing and stuff. I’m pretty happy with the skin (it isn’t done, but it’ll have to do for now) and I’ve started on the armor. I couldn’t get the displacement map to work at first, so I’m using a normal map on his body to pop out the details in his 4 million poly model. His front armor has a normal mapped (I think I need to export another subdivision out of ZBrush to get it to look just right, but it looks great right now). I’ve worked on his shoulders (I like his bigger one better than his smaller one, the smaller one looks like dirt is on it, like he could grow plants on it). Oh, and some of the armor is clipping him cuz I haven’t finished rigging him completely.

So without further adieu, here are my Maya renders.

looks great :+1:

Great renders.

The only thing I think could use a little work is the texture of the head.

How many polys is the body? (without the armor)

badass! Are you bringing this into Maya or 3DS Max for rendering? I Can’t wait to see the finished piece.

nelothi - thanks, man!

KillahPriest - I agree, the head does need work (it was the first thing I textured, lol) And if I remembered correctly, he is around 4 million pollies without his armor in ZBrush.

JesseGraffam
- Those where maya renders (they were crappy, but they were maya renders). I got better ones now :stuck_out_tongue: Thanks for stopping by.

Sorry I took SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long to reply, guys. Was too busy graduating! But now that I’m done with school (at least for the summer), I can post some of what I have so far.

So I revamped the textures for the armor (I actually have some now!), I gave Zeratul an SSS shader on his skin, I made his gems look interesting, I textured his eyes (and made 'em glowy and I rendered a 360 of it (which I have no idea how to put up on here without clogging the system). Should I use the h264 compressor to put up my rendered 360? O gots two of 'em, one posed with armor, the other in his default pose with no armor. My teacher really liked it, but I wanna know what you guys think.

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Oh, the bottom two pics are a before and after. One is a render straight from Maya, the other is a composited shot that one of my classmates decided to do for me. He toyed with the armor and made me a WarpBlade and stuff. MY FRIEND ROCKS!

Hi Quester! I think you are doing a great job with this sculpt :+1: !