Turtle Power WIP

Hondo_1 · August 8, 2011, 8:47am

Hello everyone. I am a student at The Art Institute of Colorado studying Multimedia Arts and Animation. this is my first post on zbrush central. i fell in love with zbrush about 6 months ago or so. i used to do all my modeling in maya/max but i think zbrush is awesome!these are my turtles that im working on for an assignment in class. i still have a long way to go on these. critiques and comments are always welcome and very much appreciated
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Sparky3d · August 8, 2011, 2:17pm

He’s looking good dude

Sparky3d · August 8, 2011, 2:24pm

can you show his shell ?

Hondo_1 · August 8, 2011, 10:09pm

Thanks Sparky3D! sry it took me so long to get back. i got caught up in some western civ. homework…here is the shell so far. still struggling with how i really want to go about modeling it. havent really had the chance to work it out yet. any suggestions??? so far i just used spotlight on it. i feel it needs more work done. I will get to sculpting as soon as i finish with homework.

Sparky3d · August 9, 2011, 4:56am

Hondo_1 Yes you jumped the gun there and went straight to texturing, dont worry we all have that eegar streak,
Yes at the min the shell still needs a lot of work as it looks really flat at the minute, the edges need cutting in also. When I did my teenage mutant ninja turtle I used that same shell photo for the sculpting and well as texturing, sculpting the shell by hand would take too long, as well its a shell, how the imaged aided me in the sculpting was, I photoshoped the shell image and turned it into an alpha

Hondo_1 · August 9, 2011, 7:33am

Okay i managed to sneak in a moment and crank this shell out before class. do you think this is looking better? used spotlight along with the dam standard brush to push the the sculpt a little further.[attach=266382]shell detail.jpg[/attach]

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Sparky3d · August 9, 2011, 1:38pm

Yes looking much better, needs a few more battle scars and smooth the edges more

dragonogard · August 9, 2011, 2:00pm

very good. i wish i could dio that.

Sparky3d · August 12, 2011, 2:42am

The shell needs more scratches and also you need to improve your rendering they are far to dark

Hondo_1 · August 12, 2011, 6:02am

I like the darker shadows in the renders. gives me a better since of how lights and darks will read across the geometry and seems to make things more dramatic. :eek: I’m just now learning how to use the BPR renderer instead of mental ray in maya so i guess its just one of those things that i will have a better understanding of as this process continues. especially since i am a NOOB. At the moment, i’m just happy that i have something that kind of resembles a ninja turtle.

Hondo_1 · August 12, 2011, 6:58am

Interu2x · August 12, 2011, 9:46am

really like It

Sparky3d · August 12, 2011, 10:14am

Yes totally agree but fancy renders should left until the end when the model is finished the w.i.p.s should just be simple renders or screen shots where the model is easy to assess for crit

Hondo_1 · August 12, 2011, 12:05pm

I totally agree sparky3d. didnt think about how much the darker renders were complicating the critiques. :o in the future i will definitly try to keep that in mind. and thanks for all the help youve given me so far. haven’t changed the shell yet. busy trying to get these guys all posed up for an animatic.will add those scars asap.

Thanks Interu2x

Thanks dragonogard

Sparky3d · August 12, 2011, 3:01pm

No worries, Hondo keep up the good work

Hondo_1 · August 12, 2011, 7:49pm

I think i’m finally starting to get a little better at using the Transpose master. still a bit akward for me at times but I’m really starting to like it.

Framedworld · August 12, 2011, 11:45pm

tone down that SSS, but lookin good

Sparky3d · August 13, 2011, 1:38am

In the last pic the chains have a 90’ degree angle on them :S

Hondo_1 · August 13, 2011, 10:45am

@sparky3d - ha! yeah i havent really played with those chains yet right now im just trying to get all the turtles posed out so i can actually go in and detail/texture them. been noticing the need to do alot of resculpting after i use transpose master. so i guess I will probly start posing my characters out before i sculpt them in the future.(unless they are for animations of course.) :idea: BTW how did you get that link to your demoreel and your models added to your signature? cant seem to figure it out.

@Framedworld - yeah its definitly too intense but how do i turn it down? i turned it completly off in my BPR settings but it still seems to be calculating the Scatter effect. is there another place i need to tweak it? or maybe its just the material itself. i was using the sss startup .zpr as a base at the moment. any suggestions??? and thanks for the compliment

Hondo_1 · August 14, 2011, 12:11am

i know this is a little off my ninja turtle tantrum but after seeing the awesome 1 hr sculpts in Framedworld’s sketchbook i decided to try one of my own. as you can see i didnt get very far but hey, its my first time trying it. it was fun and i’m pretty sure i’ll get faster