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Shaolin Monkey

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#1

Hi fellow zbrushers,
Here is an old concept of mine that I decided to flesh out in 3D. I used the usual suspects to create my shaolin monkey: Zbrush, 3ds max, and of course, Photoshop. He was modeled from low poly objs and some zbrush primatives. The diffuse textures were poly-painted in zbrush. The other textures were created in PS.
The rendering was done using mental ray in passes, and comped and touched up in PS.
Enjoy!
ZBC1.jpg
[attach=194790]ShaolinMonkey1600.jpg[/attach]

The head low/hi poly comparison:
[attach=194792]lowpoly.jpg[/attach]

Here is the zbrush model:
[attach=194793]ZBrush_grey.jpg[/attach]

and textured with polypaint:
[attach=194794]ZBrushTurn.jpg[/attach]

I posed my monkey in using … transpose master of course ;):
[attach=194791]zposemonkey1.jpg[/attach]

thx for looking.
j

Attachments

ShaolinMonkey1600.jpg

zposemonkey1.jpg

lowpoly.jpg

ZBrush_grey.jpg

ZBrushTurn.jpg

#2

Wicked nice man! Excellent Job!

#3

Awesome render! The pose and expression are really great, too.

#4

Cool…i like how you used the rear leg to handle the nunchuck.

#5

Whatahhh!!! :laughing:
nice work:+1:small_orange_diamond:+1:small_orange_diamond:+1: love the Jordanesque tongue.

#6

That’s pretty good! I’m not understanding the lighting design about the head and mouth area… is there actually a light right in front of his face?

Wonderful and whimsical, though! :+1:

#7

I love it. That’s a great model and popping final image. The fur is really pleasing to the eye in both the sculpted and rendered version. Painted fur in photoshop or Hair and Fur in max for the final?

#8

This is friggin’ awesome! GREAT character! great render! the only thing for me is the foot holding the numchuck looks twisted in a way that not sure a monkey’s foot could twist. would also like to see the other foot be a bit more flexed, toes spread, dynamic. Still though, all around awesome!

#9

:+1: :+1: :+1:

#10

too cool!

tops :wink:

brian

#11

That is one very kewl monkey!!!

#12

Great!!! send in the monkeys, keep it up man.

#13

Absoletely love it… something about purple monkeys …really very cool. I particularly love the pose with the expression.

#14

coooool idea
nice render
good texturing
wonderful sculpting
=top row

#15

Very cool monkey, great work!:+1:

#16

AWESOME JOB !!! this is texture or polypaint ?

:eek:

#17

The design of the character is very nice, but the end product (render, comp, etc.) is ridiculously good. Excellent work.

#18

thx everyone,
The monkey was poly-painted in zbrush, and the hair was painted in PS.

#19

That is awesome and inspiring. Such an eye popping render.

Those are the apps I hope to master to the degree you have to make some of my future projects.

A few questions if you don’t mind.

Are you using normal maps or did you decimate the character?

If you’re not animating how important is retopologizing your zbrush work?
Is it needed with a still image like this?

If you do retopo can you point me to any tutorials or the like for 3ds max.

Anything you’d like to share about the creation of this I’m all ears.

#20

I love this monkey. Everything about him screams awesome. Even the “Goku” color scheme.