depraved WIP

The depraved WIP. Just getting the base coat started, and I have a few more hours of sculpting before he is done. The Move has stopped all production for me.

water buffalo

A WIP of somethieng I was working on before the move began. I have alot more of his armor and clothing modeled out in Maya I just havnt brought it all into mudbox yet.
Probably wont get to him again until the move is complete.

God of War entry

so here is what I entered into cghub.com's God of War Drawing Jam. came down to the wire on this one (thats what I get for procrastinating). could use a bit more refinement, but over all I'm pretty pleased with how it came out, although I must say it looks pretty desaturated on cghub.com, stupid interweb always ruining my saturation. the flame needs a bit more work, really hard to draw believable flames

Aliens falling from skies on cowboys

Ive been watching Falling Skies on TNT and I also saw Cowboys and Aliens this weekend as well.

Ive had aliens on the brain so I took a hour break to sketch this guy out real quick like in Mudbox. I just wanted to get the alien menace out of my skull, so in an effort to purge the images in my head I made my own version of some kind of gray, with a weird neck for some reason.

nautalis update

here is a lil update for my cghub challenge "bio organic vessel" probably wont be able to finish it seeing as I havnt yet added any bump, normal, etc... nor have I begun the rider... nor have I found a BG to render against per the requirements of the challenge and its due in TWO DAYS!!!. Oh welst... I can still sexxxy it up and keep it for my own. I've also been having some weird "UV"/stretching issues on the seat... the color I paint in Mud stretches and warps when moving from Mud to Maya and vice versa

depraved WIP

One of the many projects Ive been working on. Built him as a zsphere model, did some basic forming in zbrush, retopologized to a clean base mesh in topogun and sculpting him in mudbox.

cghub challenge ideas

so this is my initial idea for cghubs monthly challenge 3d creature planets "bio organic vessel". I have'nt officially entered yet, and the deadline is 1 week from now but I liked the topic so I'm considering entering with this little number. It's a nautalis speed bike, complete with racer, let me know what you guys think. will post more updates later

chamberlain beauty shots

chamberlain turntable!!!

Here is the chamberlain all finished up (for the most part) probably gonna go in and tweak a few things here and there, but other than that... DONE!!! so a few insider secrets... the details on the "cloak" on his back... normal map, same with the cuff and spikes, everything else is high rez sculpt toppin out at 5,621,560 polys. No worries, my beast of a computer handled it pretty darn well. BINGO! BANGO! BONGO!

chamberlain update...AGAIN!!!

So here is the torn shirt! Maybe a lil bit of tweaking here and there, but is looking perty good so far, about what I imagined. All that is really left is the cloak over his back, which shouldn't take very long to finish. Once that is pau, gonna import them into the scene file with the completed chamberlain and render away!!!

chamberlain revisit/update

so I decided to go back into the chamberlain and finish him up. After a few long hours of continuing to fail at displacement implementation in Maya, I decided to "screw it" and just do it up fancy with Mudbox, so I begin with the color. It's funny, in my mind he is not that colorful, but in the film, he's got a pretty wide spectrum, I am also taking quite a bit of liberties anyway. So here is a render out of Mud with the default lighting, but with some tweaks in the material attributes, i.e. fresnel scattering, gloss, etc... so once I get the color to a good enough spot I'm gonna do a pose layer, export that lower rez posed mesh to maya and build the cloak, then send the cloak to muddy for texturing, as I said before I'm gonna try to do as much of the detailing on the cloak straight in Maya, just to keep things simple.

quick Sculpt and a quick paint (WIP)

Well I finally got the new computer up and running. Got my software, backed-up files and all my fun stuff back in place. Work, for me at least, has slowed down and Im not so exhausted anymore when I get home, so I was able to start sculpting again.

Trying out the newest version of mudbox. Did a bunch of sculpts that will never see the light of day as I tried and tested the newest version. Not alot of new features that are amazing or anything, but the way it sculpts and how it handles files is greatly improved from what I can tell.

Here is the first sculpt I did in Mudbox in a long time. I spent a couple hours total on this guy. Quick sculpt and a quick paint. Still A WIP as I want to finish his painting and there are a few things to work on in the sculpt.

slight update...

so here is a little bit of an update, as ya'll can see I got the pants and shoes ready to go. Already started mudboxin some details, but no progress shot on that just yet, am still a bit worried about that, seeing as I had trouble getting the displacement out the last time. Granted, I could do all the shader work in mud now, what with the new materials options and all. ANYWHOOO... as can see they share the same suit, ergo, I'm gonna use one mesh for the sculpt, and just vary them slightly and save out the difference.

some stuff I been working on...

So here is what I've been workin on for the past couple days... Been working out an idea for the fairy tales challenge. Thinking something along the lines of Red as a amazonian warrior or some sort of warrior chick. You may notice shes not wearin pants... thats cuz I hav'nt figured out what to have her wearing, or maybe I should leave it, giggity ;). Also decided to finish up some of the older stuff I promised to finish all those months ago, starting with Ol' Dafty McPunkbot here... as ya'll can see I got the jacket and belt goin. thiking I might do the zippers as part of the texture, or perhaps use the vector displacement in Muddy... tried making geo and it just doesn't read well(buzzing)

well thats all for this night... until next time sports fans!

Final Aughra Speed Sculpt - Paint

Here's my 'final' version based on Aughra. It took five months of spare time here and there to finish, but oh well. People are busy and life got serious. I was able to finish the on and off paint in Muddy 2012 in an hour, really just touching up color. I didn't intend to make an exact replica, this is a speed sculpt - paint, so its based on Aughra, and for the time I spent, 'good enough. I tried the Gesso material in Mudbox at one point a while back and this sculpt truly looked like a porcelain figurine which I thought was kinda neat, but it was too bright. I think in the future I'd retop it and 'do the hair in ReLight. Geo hair looks funky, but it worked good for a speed sculpt. I was thinking of making a vehicle eventually since a few of the boys were working on them, I really hope that gets me back in the groove.

chamberlain

so here is the "final" in quotations because its obviously not finished but the deadline was this past sunday, so this is as far as I was able to get it with all the problems I've been having with my computer, and with the displacement maps.

In Soviet Russia, tank models YOU!

So it's been awhile, I've just been lazy posting new stuffs up but I've been doing some R&D at home (mostly rigging and workflow stuff).  I'm pretty sure you guys noticed already that I'm a bit of a military weapons nerd, and I'm not sure why I haven't done this already, but I've decided to model a tank.  I'm planning to fake a lot of detail using normal / displacement maps so I'm thinking of keeping the model somewhat medium weight.  Though my biggest challenge is figuring out a good way to rig those tank threads - I figure it needs to be a sort of "rubber band" style setup but I have no idea at this point.  Anyhoo, if anybody cares, this is a real tank, a Russian T54/55, some references here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-54/55

ARRRGH!!!

So this is what the chamberlain looks like with the displacement rendered out in mental ray. LOOK AT ALL THE ARTIFACTS MOMMY!!! Have no idea why it keeps comin out like that, I mean at least its recognizing the displacement map now, but still this looks like crap, not to mention the loss of detail. So close to giving up on the displacement and just rendering in muddy. For crying out loud, this is holding me back from modeling the robe.

Aughra update

So far, so good. Took the 'ol gal up to level 3 in Muddy, she's getting closer. I think she'll really come together at level 5 or 6. I've been pretty strict on pushing each level limit as far as it can go so the economy should pay off; I should be able to paint it- with a good amount of layers. UVs were done in Headus. I'm really thinking hair in another program would really make this a good bust shot. We'll see.

Aughra progress

Dark Crystal Aughra is coming along slowly but surely. Haven't had all the time in the world, but I'm a DC (Dark Crystal) fan, so at least I'm into this sculpt. The base mesh was made in Maya with painfully simple indications of eye and mouth holes. The sculpt, at Level 1, is on the left, it's relatively close to the reference, and it's not clocking in at a high amount of faces- at that, so the detailing will definitely be afforded enough overhead, resources wise. I'll do what I can for the hair although I'm thinking this is a candidate for hair application in ReLight (!) what with hair being easier to apply in there as opposed to Maya. Will continue. "What is the Great Conjunction?!"