StefanoBernardi Sketchbook - 2011

stefanobernardi · July 4, 2019, 5:59am

Hi guys, this year i’m starting my very first sketchbook.

I wanted to record a timelapse of my first speedsculpt, but i messed up things and recorded the full sculpt at normal time, so here’s just a turntable!

Modeled in about 1,5 hours.

SavageBliss · July 3, 2019, 10:19pm

As far as your recored sculpting session goes… you can change the FPS playback rates. If you recorded in a default 24fps, in most video editors, you can alter the play back speed by changeing the playback fps, 48=2x and so on, add music, or even clip out the boring sculpting portions. Windows 7 has a movie maker editor with it, that will work. I searched until I found an editor that would play on facebook. Don’t toss your Z-movie, just edit it in another app.

BTW Great sculpt. Do you have any concept sketches, or references you used?

stefanobernardi · July 3, 2019, 10:19pm

Thanks for the advice SavageBliss, but what worried me was the encoding time: for 1.5 hours of sculpting was 1,5 hours of video encoding, definitely too much for me!

Regarding the sculpt, no concept or reference at all, just an idea i had in mind that was developed in detail as the sculpt progressed.

stefanobernardi · July 4, 2019, 10:50pm

Not exactly a new job, but i never posted the finished 3d print of my bust of a chaos warrior…

The model is 13 cm tall (about 5,12 inches) and has been printed and painted by Ownage; i’m really satisfied with the quality of this piece; in the closeup shot of the helm you can see the tiny layers of the 3d print!

I hope to get the opportunity to print something new soon

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SolidSnakexxx · July 3, 2019, 10:30pm

Wow, the print turns out awesome!

huber · July 3, 2019, 10:30pm

good job man! and the print is really cool pity for the speed sculpt

IsaacSG · July 3, 2019, 10:30pm

Great sculpt on the warrior and the print is simply amazing. The painting they did was based on your request?

stefanobernardi · July 3, 2019, 10:31pm

hanks for the kind comments!

IsaacSG: yes, i sent some colored renders to the printer and he handpainted the model to resemble the texturing; here you can see the original thread of the 3D bust:

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=82370

rattus · July 3, 2019, 10:31pm

great 3dprint! must have been quite a moment holding it in your hands for the first time…

stefanobernardi · July 4, 2019, 10:58pm

I recently applied for the position of character artist at Naughty Dog, as many other fellas as a “Eddie Raja” google images search can reveal…!

Here’s my personal version of the pirate from the first Uncharted game: i tried to stick with Uncharted 2 tech stats in terms of polycount, face detail, edge flow, hair geometry and textures size.

Photos were used as a base for hair only, everything else is hand painted.

Realtime screengrabs taken rom Maya viewport.

Constructive critics are much appreciated and highly encouraged

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stefanobernardi · July 4, 2019, 11:10pm

Some time ago i joined a challenge at www.cgfeedback.com to commemorate Clement Sauvé and his art; here you can find the concept i based my model on.

I managed to add some bits to my character and make some renders with Maya playing with a bit of compositing

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Cral · July 3, 2019, 10:50pm

i love the look of your renderings the model looks cool as well
where did you do the compositing ?

Conniekat8 · July 3, 2019, 10:50pm

That’s some sweet and detailed work! Natural wrinkles, very neat looking cracks!!!

macaco · July 3, 2019, 10:50pm

Nice renders! I like those subtle bubbles you added, how did you do that effect?

sanketpro3d · July 3, 2019, 10:50pm

Really Dig the renders !
impressive work man.
Top notch !
could you plz share your render settings ?

_LOad · July 3, 2019, 10:50pm

Great character and presentation!
i love that bokeh effect on this renders complimenti!

stefanobernardi · July 4, 2019, 9:33am

Thanks for the kind comments, guys!

Cral, macaco: i made all the compositing and color correction in After Effects: it has some really nice plugins that make it a lot more powerful than photoshop for color correction and for adding some nice light effects.
For the depth of field effect, i used Frischluft Out of Focus plugin, a lot better than the built in DOF effect; lens dirt, bubbles and light effects were added with Video Copilot Optical Flares; finally i played a bit with the color correction using Magic Bullet plugin: this filter has an advanced built-in compositor that permit to add various effects like vignetting, advanced color correction, noise, white and black diffusion, lens effects and so on…

Conniekat8: thanks, those cracks come out from an alpha took from the zbrush library on this site, cleaned up a bit with a morph target.

sanketpro3d: thanks, man, for render setting, i used a quite simple clay-like mia_material, no subsurface scattering and advanced stuff.
In the scene there is a strong area light casting shadows from the left and a directional rim light without shadows from the right.
Final gathering is turned on with secondary diffuse bounces set to 1; the default is 0, but it’s really important to get a soft diffused light.

LOad: thanks, it’s nice to hear a voice from the italian community!

Below is a still with the raw beauty pass, the depth and the final composition: as you can see the final image is quite different from the raw beauty render!

thanks, it’s nice to hear a voice from the italian community!

Alagukahrthic · July 3, 2019, 10:51pm

AWESOME work

AjdinBarucija · July 3, 2019, 10:51pm

This makes me happy!
No really tho, great work dude. Im trying to research into ways to also present my work, i find pictures from the 1920s to be a great source of inspiration. Or some pictures by the camera Pentax look amazing, something you can not replicate with a digital SLR.
Yeh rant…so, this is a grea source of inspiration =)

sanketpro3d · July 3, 2019, 10:51pm

thanks man , m gonna try some on my models too soon…
keep up the gud work …

cheers !!