@Bas Mazur: i was just noticing that as well…lol…
@Slice: pictures too big?..i can make em slightly smaller from now on…lol…
haha no man thats not necessary keep up the good work
as part of the new hardcore modeling challenge over at cgsociety i’ve started working on a self portrait.
the subject is “Classical Self Portrait” where you have to do a portrait based on a piece of art or sculpture. I’m just doing one of my head based loosely around the busts you always see of the various composers (Beethoven, Mozart etc) after 3 or so hours this arvo this is where I am…
I cant see your model?
maybe it still has to load or sumtin?
@Loveruna: is there a reason you reposted one of my previous posts (minus the pictures?)? lol…
@slice: the model loveruna’s repost is referring to is back on page 3
here’s an update…its really hard to get her face…something went wrong with the displacement on her nose…will look into it…i think its getting there though
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a few more hours spent tweaking the head…its getting closer…it needs hair though to help finally get it…
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had to redraw her makeup and edit out the eyelashes that came through on the zproject…
i think this is my most photoreal render ever…yay…
good work
@adampof: thanks
another tiny update, a different angle with a few little tweaks…edging ever closer…
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Hehe, it’s funny how you’re saying that you’re getting closer and closer and I don’t see any similarity to Dita yet bar the makeup. I’m not being sarcastic, it’s funny because I think the same of my works when I’ve spent some time on them, so I ask every single person I can get to check out my works when I think I’ve done it, and most of the times I haven’t done it 
but they help me to get a distance and I do it eventually. It’s all about people anyways 
@cherub_rock: well i know its not perfect, but its still heavily a WIP, do you have any suggestions on what needs attention as far as likeness goes?
Looks very good so far.
From what I can see to make her look more like what you want.
I think the whole front of the face needs to be thinner if you know what I mean. From the eybrows towards the nose. I think it’s too wide sideways.
Hope that helps!
i realised what my issue was with the likeness…cos i was always sure i had it in zbrush…but when i rendered in max it looked wrong…sooo…after realising my nooby (after all i’ve only actively used zbrush for 3 months) mistake of the different focal lengths i went back and forth between z and max (oh how i long for GoZ…lol…) and basically reworked everything…
so now it looks funny it zbrush, but better when i render…
i ended up matching it to about 3 or 4 photos of Dita and it all averaged out nicely to give me what i have below…
to help the look i photoshopped the hair from one of my reference photos of dita…
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been a while since i’ve done some zbrushing so i set myself a 1 night project to redo my dr house model that i did ages ago…
starting from a old base mesh head i had laying around…
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4 hours to do that, all handpainted textures too which was fun…
i’m thinking of adding the hair using the new hairfarm plugin which looks quite awesome…
EDIT: as a comparison here’s my old effort…
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added his beard…ended up just using hair&fur as the inability to save in the hairfarm demo was annoying…
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added the rest of the hair…alls left now is some clothes and a background…
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final image, i guess he’s a slightly younger house…cos i didn’t make his hair grey enough…lol…
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good attempt at realism, i know lots went into that pic.
haven’t had much time for zbrushing lately…but here’s a little something i was doing last night…
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some more progress
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