The making of Kim Jong-Il

[Gaarder]

Hi! I’m making a 3d cartoon character based on North Korea’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-Il. I made the basic shape in Maya, and now I’ve brought the geometry into Z-brush for creating details and textures. Later I’ll bring the character back into maya and create an animator friendly rig complete with advanced face set up. I thought it might be interesting for you to watch my progress here, and hopefully some of you will be able to help me with the problems I’m bound to run into. I’m also keen on hearing any constructive criticism.

Here is the model I exported from Maya:
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I’ve only started brushing the head so far. I now feel ready to work asymmetrically with the head and finish it off. I want the model to look professional and have quite correct anatomical details(not photorealism, but still good, you know what I mean). Any suggestions on how to improve the head before I go further? Any other suggestions?

Thank you for looking!

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[genc]

ahaha
Good luck on this project.Looking good already!

[Pooop]

yeah, can’t wait to see him textured!
keep it up!

[Gaarder]

Thanks for the kind words Genc and Pooop! Great portfolio Genc! I Also like the webdesign on your site. Another update coming soon!

[Gaarder]

Hello! I’ve now brushed all bodyparts except the shoes and hands, and brought them all back into Maya with displacement maps. Phew! That process can be quite hard for a beginner! I had to create at least ten different maps for the head before I was satisfied, and almost as many for the hair and shirt. I’m getting the hang of the displacement map to maya thing now, but I still experience random problems.

Here is the model in the Maya viewport,

Finally, here is the latest problem I’ve encountered, for some reason the displacement mapped head does not show through the glasses! The glass is a polygon mesh with a miaMaterial with the preset GlassThin. Does anyone have any idea what’s going on?

Next I’m going to create some nice textures and add buttons and a zipper for the shirt.

All kinds of comments and criticisim is welcome!

Enjoy your day!

Haakon

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[digitalsmithy]

America! **** yea!

[Disco_Stu]

haha great one

[gelfling_status]

I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.

[Gaarder]

Thanks for the comments! Nice to see you find it funny

[Gaarder]

I’ve now created all the displacement, bump, specular and diffuse maps with Zbrush and a little photoshop, and set up the shaders in Maya. I’ve really got the hang of bringing Z-brush stuff into Maya now:) I see the model and shaders as 98% finished now, please come with your critics!

Next up I’m going to rig the model so that he can get some interesting poses and facial expressions.

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[loki_22]

nice work. definately a funny piece and it definately resembles him.

[Am3D]

hehe funny guy.i loike

[andy.chen]

it’s fun
good idea

[FoxHound1984]

Hahaha! He looks awesome! Great likeness!

[Bas_Mazur]

Hhehe, funny!
If you plan to visit another country, take the right aeroplane and not the one to North Korea :lol:

[caffeineandpixels]

Almost as comical as the real Kim.

[Gaarder]

Thanks for the nice comments guys, glad you like him! :lol: More coming!

[Gaarder]

Hi guys! I’ve now made a nearly complete animation rig from this character in Maya, with 23 blendshapes sculpted in Z-brush, each expressing a different emotion. I decided to create a portrait picture for each of these emotions as part of my presentation of the rig. I hope you like them!

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[manzarek123]

hahaha so funny character !! fantastic job!!!

[DigitalDreamer]

Ha ha this is great. So many great emotions, my favs there are,open smile,smug,sceptical,sad grimace, laughing, tired, oh hell their all great. Good job. I would love to see an animaton of these.<img src=“http://www.zbrushcentral.com/upload/atn.gif”>