[P&P] - What are you working on? 2008 Edition

[EvilPixills]

Another Quick sculpt.


http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/2730/3windowbest2gn3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Looks awesome. Just curious, but are you using alphas?

[Spinks]

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/138570/charkurs4.jpg
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/138570/charkurs5.jpg

[TriggerHappyPuppy]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/TriggerHappyPuppy/tree.jpg

[Blaizer]

Really great spinks! mudbox fun :D

[Spinks]

thanks blaizer, i'm a fan of your work :)

the sculpt was actually made in zbrush and the images are maya screengrabs with brice's cgfx-shader.

[Blaizer]

ouch, i mistake then :)

thanks for the comment :D

[Funky Bunnies]

That rocks, Spinks! :D

[Joseph Silverman]

http://i37.tinypic.com/wbvxab.jpg
meh meh meh

[Popeye9]

Looks awesome. Just curious, but are you using alphas?


No most of those are made as separate tools and then placed with projection master to make one mesh. Most of the techniques can be seen here

http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/artistspotlight/

Its fairly fast to whip out. This model was made in about an hour with nothing pre-made.

[Racer445]

man i wish i was as good as the rest of you

slightly temporary shot while i go to sleep

http://i35.tinypic.com/51v955.jpg

slide scratches are a test to try and mimic this picture

whole thing is too dark i know

http://us10.pixagogo.com/S5ZftdXr3W74ekFo5lCkaaXsTOUxCGnqZ7ri4UcukvzsSgvVI6 d97Xb-5LfemYl72XisyIIxHLuwLvz7qZP-EzWJCWC0WqocSNktCG99Jx2j8_/ss-p226_left.jpg

[hobodactyl]

Spinks: Awesome, love the skin colors.

TriggerHappyPuppy: Looking great, I want to see where you take it!

[PixelMasher]

TriggerHappyPuppy - that looks great, love the bark details going on

[CookieKingHoi]

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee287/HoioH_bucket/pic.jpg

Ok, done, tricount is at 588.

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee287/HoioH_bucket/goomba-2.jpg

Any suggestions or something?

[rooster]

yeah, if you're happy with that end result then why not just make 6 or 7 tiny squares of colour and put each area's uvs inside the square. That, plus the eye texture should easily fit into a 64x

[CookieKingHoi]

Hmm, I dunno, Think I'm going to keep it like this, the engine doesnt support multiple uv's, a 256x256 works fine for this.

[MoP]

No, it'd still be one UV set. You'd just UV map it so that those areas you've got laid out now would fit into small (say 8x8 or 4x4 pixel) squares of colour. Just scale the UVs down and put each area inside one of those blocks.

So if you had a 64x64 texture, 3/4 of it could be the eye (48x64) and the other 16x64px could be a group of colour blocks.

The UVs for those areas would just be scaled really small.

Your current texture does seem very wasteful since you've got a full unwrap for stuff which is essentially flat colour fills. The only detail which doesn't need this is the eye.

[CookieKingHoi]

Ah, I get it, thanks.

[Rens]

Thanks katana,


Finished the base, now going for the real thing

http://rensedeboer.com/temp/portrait01.jpg

[ScoobyDoofus]

Great stuff Spinks. Love that face! I take it the diffuse colors are baked down from polypainting or did you do that on the flats? Maybe throw a shirt on him to cover up that lumpy upper body and you'll have a real winner of a bust!!

[Spinks]

thanks scoobs, yep the diffuse is mostly polypaint with some tweaks and ao thrown on in photoshop.

[orionburcham]

I'm finishing up the high poly mesh for this telescope today.

http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope2.jpg


http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope3.jpg

-Orion

[trevor87]

@ Racer445
Great job with the gun, if you think it is too dark try increasing you spec.

[karera]

Great stuff spinks and sebbolito as usual!

/Samborino!

Racer: like the gun so far, looking forward to the finished one!

[BrodyB]

My weekend project. Now I'm going to have to find time to UV this efficiently.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7721/helix1dp3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/helix1dp3.jpg/1/w668.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img523/helix1dp3.jpg/1/)

Tricount: 2638
http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=helix1dp3.jpg

[orionburcham]

whee- finished this high poly on schedule.

http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope7s.jpg
Large: http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope7.jpg

http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope5s.jpg
Large: http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope5.jpg

http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope6s.jpg
Large: http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope6.jpg


-Orion

[warby]

Thanks katana,


Finished the base, now going for the real thing

http://rensedeboer.com/temp/portrait01.jpg

you are making a bust of james cameron ? :D http://www.gameguru.in/images/james-cameron.jpg *G* thats awesome :D

[BeatKitano]

Or obiwan kenobi.

[DemonPrincess]

Here's something I'm working on for the Pokémon challenge at GA.

Prepare to face... the terrifying cuteness of DOOM!

http://www.wayuki.nl/images/forums/Faux-kemon_wip03.jpg

1250 tris, 512x512 texture, shown at 100% self illumination.

Wires: http://www.wayuki.nl/images/forums/Faux-kemon_wip01.jpg

[DeathKitten]

Here's something I'm working on for the Pokémon challenge at GA.

Prepare to face... the terrifying cuteness of DOOM!

http://www.wayuki.nl/images/forums/Faux-kemon_wip03.jpg

1250 tris, 512x512 texture, shown at 100% self illumination.

Wires: http://www.wayuki.nl/images/forums/Faux-kemon_wip01.jpg

Oh my goodness!!! That is soooo amazingly cute DP!

Well done, as always :)

-DK >^..^<

[DemonPrincess]

Glad you like, DK! Hope it doesn't scare off all the boys. :D

[DeathKitten]

No doubt... but I think they can suffer through a little cuteness here and there ;)


btw, is she fish or flower based?

-DK >^..^<

[DemonPrincess]

Flower, but I'm tempted to make an aquatic version as well.

[Rens]

Oh shit he does kinda look like obi wan XD

nah im sculpting my dad, the guy from my avatar :D
( Ill post a ref with the next update )

[TNO]

29min for this Skull
http://timurariman.jimdo.com/cc_images/cache_886023012.jpg?t=1223891347

[Funky Bunnies]

It's true, Rens... Obi-Wan is your father.

[Rens]

NOOOOOooooo!!

[Super]

http://www.splitpoly.com/images/work/mutant/mutant.jpg

[dummeh]

DemonPrincess, terrifying cuteness of DOOM is awesome! So cute and the colours/texture/shading/lighting is just perfect ;D Cool sculpture, Rens - looking really nice so far!

Finishing the lighting for the medbay - getting there slowly:

http://paradum.com/mv2/3/lightingfurther_thumb.jpg (http://paradum.com/mv2/3/lightingfurther.jpg)

[SHEPEIRO]

Oh shit he does kinda look like obi wan XD

nah im sculpting my dad, the guy from my avatar :D
( Ill post a ref with the next update )

ha you got some skills for a 6 year old (going on your avatar)

[onionhead_o]

candle stand. Im stuck on whether I should bake all the detail on the bottom of the stand onto several planes or actually have a low poly shape that resembles the detail.

plz help

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3285/2939332159_70fe41239f_o.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

anything that thin, id do it on two alpha'd planes facing opposite directions with backfacing turned off, in most engines that would give you a nice "drop shadow effect" (back faces pick up lighting from opposite direction) that makes it look 3d and will give you the nice curvy shape without spending shit loads of polys and having a ballache baking the norms

do it on the shapes at the top aswell

[onionhead_o]

anything that thin, id do it on two alpha'd planes facing opposite directions with backfacing turned off, in most engines that would give you a nice "drop shadow effect" (back faces pick up lighting from opposite direction) that makes it look 3d and will give you the nice curvy shape without spending shit loads of polys and having a ballache baking the norms

do it on the shapes at the top aswell

thanks for suggestion, i get on that rite away.

[EarthQuake]

anything that thin, id do it on two alpha'd planes facing opposite directions with backfacing turned off, in most engines that would give you a nice "drop shadow effect" (back faces pick up lighting from opposite direction) that makes it look 3d and will give you the nice curvy shape without spending shit loads of polys and having a ballache baking the norms

do it on the shapes at the top aswell

One thing to remember is that with backfacing turned off, one side is going to be lit incorrectly in most engines. So its best to just manually duplicate and flip the geometry. Its the same performance cost anyway.

[Swizzle]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3071/2940398015_3e139e265c_o.jpg

[|Buddy|]

Zombie Zidane Image




Nice Nice..

[SHEPEIRO]

One thing to remember is that with backfacing turned off, one side is going to be lit incorrectly in most engines. So its best to just manually duplicate and flip the geometry. Its the same performance cost anyway.

thats what i said wasnt it ;-)

[onionhead_o]

One thing to remember is that with backfacing turned off, one side is going to be lit incorrectly in most engines. So its best to just manually duplicate and flip the geometry. Its the same performance cost anyway.

so does that mean I have to have four planes on the bottom, where they are back to back?

[EarthQuake]

Shep: Was it? I read it again and it still isnt clear. You said turn off backfacing, which is not the same thing.

so does that mean I have to have four planes on the bottom, where they are back to back?

Yep.

[Farfarer]

Nice one Swizzle :D


The cloth beneath his nose would probably be more stretched out, though, down to his chin. Rather than sort of fold back under it.

[Josh_Singh]

Progress:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/nurbs_801/turtwig_wip4.jpg

[FAT_CAP]

Looking good Josh - love that yellow you have on there. I think adding some self-illumination would work great on this guy to stop the shadows from being too dark and fading to black.

[Neox]

oh josh yet again a great piece, really like your interpretation :)

[Baddcog]

Pokemon are weird

But you guys are doing some good work on em.

[onionhead_o]

first pass for textures

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/2942241480_7ac58050a0_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2942241358_01387eb639_o.jpg

[man_o_mule]

A little bit of a cartoon environment I'm currently working on. Those ice-cream cones in the background are supposed to be trees, in case anybody wondered.

http://www.bja-design.de/different/comic_house01.jpg

http://www.bja-design.de/different/comic_house01_wire.jpg

that is hot.............extreamly hot.

[TNO]

http://files.myopera.com/thenewone/albums/617457/1baby_ohne_sabbertuch_mit_ver_ndertem_hals.jpg

http://files.myopera.com/thenewone/albums/617457/1engel_196.jpg
the Texture is just a quick test

[GCMP]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n117/AimBiZ/Joker_2.jpg

You just blew me away, so much character, funkin fantastic man:thumbup:

Been pushing the backside of this eager whore...

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l64/GC3D/3d/Back3q.jpg

Hopefully it will be done this week, damn I haven't played xbox in weeks :(

[almighty_gir]

finishing this chump off.

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/4277/sephwi6.jpg

[Marshal Banana]

There's still something wrong with his lips. They seem to be pursed or something.

[Josh_Singh]

Finished it up. FatCap, thanks for the crit, upping the ambient really helped those shadows:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/nurbs_801/Turtwigfinal.jpg

[JasonLavoie]

Very very nice Josh, good luck with the comp.

[tacit math]

ha. too cute Josh

[Jackwhat]

Brushtest! hence the abuse of tree and bird brushes! Hrrrr D:

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Jackwhat/1015rakugaki.jpg

[trevor87]

Finished it up. FatCap, thanks for the crit, upping the ambient really helped those shadows:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/nurbs_801/Turtwigfinal.jpg

I know this might be a dumb question but you have four maps : a diffuse, a spec, a normal and something else. What is the the other one for? Other than that great job, this thing rocks!

[konstruct]

!!!SPEC POWAH!!!!

josh: I really like the folds in the legs-

[Josh_Singh]

trevor87, Konstruct is right, it's a spec power map, or Gloss map. It lets me make some areas of the specular super tight and wet, like in the eyes.
Thanks for the comments guys, I am glad you are digging.

[MoP]

very cute Josh, great work!

[vladino]

Amazing interpretation Josh! Love it.. :)

[EricV]

nice work Josh, very nice diffuse

[PixelGoat]

Can I take it come and cuddle with it?

[odium]

Josh, I can honestly say that looks so much better than any of the Pokemon game art they release. If they had the balls to release a game with that level of quality, it would be awesome to see from a technical standpoint.

Alas, Nintendo will just keep on releasing the same old game... Makes sense, it DOES print money for them, but damn, what could be eh?

[Neox]

Josh, I can honestly say that looks so much better than any of the Pokemon game art they release. If they had the balls to release a game with that level of quality, it would be awesome to see from a technical standpoint.

count me i'd work on that!

[caseofchill]

Great turtle josh

[Rens]

josh! maouww!!!

[Renaud Galand]

super awesome Josh ! :) Your diffuse is working damn well with the normal map and everything :)

[Blaizer]

very nice Josh :D

[Super]

Continuing with the self-portrait

http://www.splitpoly.com/images/work/mutant/mutant02.jpg

[Chunkey]

You're one sexy mofo Super! uNf! Looking good, reminds me of the inbreds in The Hills Have Eyes and also a really ugly actor that seemed to be used primarily as mutants in shows... dunno his name though...

[Vitor]

Been without modeling for some long time now, and today opened a some few month old models that I never finished and reworked it with what I've been learning. Added the old models on the image, even they were just start forms I believe the overall look and proportions got a lot better, at least hope so.

Feels good to be back :D

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/6209/rework1fr7.jpg

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/4192/rework2wx6.jpg

[fritz]

doin some hair tests....super frustrating at first....gettin fun now.
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/2757/hairsgb5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/hairsgb5.jpg/1/w1076.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img162/hairsgb5.jpg/1/)

[katana]

outstanding Josh....

[EvilPixills]

Brushtest! hence the abuse of tree and bird brushes! Hrrrr D:

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Jackwhat/1015rakugaki.jpg

Dude this looks pretty wicked nice job.

[Swizzle]

Vitor, your sculpts are pretty consistently good. The only thing that really bugs me about them is the ears. They always look the same and that's not necessarily a good thing. The look unnatural or malformed.

I did a little paintover animation to show you what I think you could do to make them look better. Hope it's helpful!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/earanim-1.gif

[Jalechah]

my game so far. its due in 2 weeks O_O
KILL DUCKS AND ROBOTS!!!

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XIdCHuMoZCs

[rawkstar]

http://www.t3h-v.com/WIP/lolsbust.jpg

[Mangled Poly]

rawkstar,
You are good with that play-doh

[itsover3]

Recently started trying to learn Zbrush heres one of my first heads tell me what you think everything is helpful :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/damos/Zbrush/ZbrushHead-1.jpg

I havent studied human anatomy at all

[Joseph Silverman]

it would help if you studied human anatomy, tbh.

[Mezz]

lol Yes, learning anatomy would be helpful. It should come before you start messing around in 3-D programs.

That said, it looks like you have some potential, so I think you could benefit greatly from some good anatomy studies and human face references for next time.

[erik!]

Based on Splash Damage's concept. The translucency is lame. Feel free to crit!
976 tris, working with 1024s right now

TURN AROUND (http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g86/ArdenGrey/3D%20WIP/Water_Tank_360.gif)

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g86/ArdenGrey/3D%20WIP/WaterTank01.jpghttp://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g86/ArdenGrey/3D%20WIP/WaterTank02.jpg

[Funky Bunnies]

that's looking pretty sweet, Rawkstar
bloody awesome turtwig, Josh

Just so I'm posting something, here's a speedy.
eskimo aliens are always smiling
http://www.funkybunnies3d.com/Work/2d/smilingAlien_oct16.jpg

[perna]

swizzle: wow that's a huge ear lobe!
Vitaliy: I don't know which is better, the sculpt or the photos, good job!

[Mr GetDown]

doin some hair tests....super frustrating at first....gettin fun now.
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/2757/hairsgb5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/hairsgb5.jpg/1/w1076.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img162/hairsgb5.jpg/1/)

Love that Hair can you share a few construction shots and how many varations of alphaa you have? I'm really into getting alpha hair looking good but it's a hard nut to crack, for me anyway.

[|Buddy|]

http://www.t3h-v.com/WIP/lolsbust.jpg


What kind of materials do you use for this sculpt? I was thinking about doing few real sculpts myself but I honestly havent had time yet to research it.

[Rens]

RAWKSTAR YOU SExY MoFo!!

It has alot of character, the white marbles look like a pare of dead eyes :)
It looks like regular clay but then again.. its too smooth and detailed, plus your plate is too clean. Im also curious what you used since i want to get rid of regular clay!

The 3rd shot is win, you should make the final shot from that angle+lighting

Buddy, for a start, i would recommend regular, its cheap and you have alot of volume to mess around with. Its great to get some exp with :)


on second thought, i can get my clay to look like that in a wet state

[AlexanderF]

hey all, Im working on a gun atm, but Im getting really wierd stuff on my normal map. Baking normals has never been my expertise so I was hoping someone could help me out. Im using Maya 2008.

here is how my normal map turns out

http://www.alexf.se/upload/wierdnormalmap.jpg

here's how it looks in maya
http://www.alexf.se/upload/wirdnormals1.jpg

any tips would be appreciated! thanks!

[dur23]

AlexF: Freeze translation rotation and scaling of both high and low.

[dummeh]

that looks awesome, rawkstar - really cool.

i'm still learning as i'm normally a programmer and just starting to work with a tablet - i have much to learn :|. some basic concept sketches for various props in my game, lamps, pots, trash, etc. :

http://i34.tinypic.com/19mizb.jpg

[Xaltar]

Just goofing around with the crazybump demo and lighting in max on a horizontally tiling texture I made from a CG textures' photo.

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/310/testyt0.jpg

Skylight and target spot incase anyone is interested.

[Massbot]

Rawkstar that's sweet!

Decided to get off my ass and start a personal project, going for a voodoo / shaman / witchdoctor kinda guy. Whilst thinking about exactly what I want to go for, i figured he's going to use a skull somewhere :D Bit rough + there are inacuracies, and the side view etc needs a bit of loving, as do the teeth.

Anyway concepts to come of the actual character!

http://www.curtad.com/voodoo/skull12.jpg

[AlexanderF]

AlexF: Freeze translation rotation and scaling of both high and low.

Hey thanks but It seemed to work after i unlocked the normals, dunno why they were locked in the first place but nvm. Anyway thanks for your response.

[rawkstar]

I'm using: J-Mac Classic Clay, its an oil based clay, so once i'm done i can just cannibalize it and make a new sculpt, it basically lasts forever, never dries and never sags and never hardens, all u have to do is warm it up a little bit occasionally, but even that isn't really necessary, i think i'm working with it in soft or medium hardness. i also have castiline, but it sux, so annoying having to always heat it up and then it gets all waxy, i hate it. the only downfall of classic clay is since it doesn't ever get really hard or whatever u can't make really small stuff with it, its good for busts and larger sculpts though. you also can't bake it in an oven like super sculpy, so the only way to get a cast of it and get it painted is to make a mold, but for practice its pretty nice. i need bigger beads for eyeballs too... :(

[Neox]

working on a Airbørn character i stopped working on almost a year ago http://nonpublic.airbørn.de/wip/neox/chars/Opa/oppa06.jpg
blocked the basemesh, nor heading for sculpting... ok going back to my job now, will work on this on the weekend i suppose

[Pedro Amorim]

hotness neox

[Funky Bunnies]

hell yeah, that rocks so far, Neox


http://www.funkybunnies3d.com/2d/PetersPan.jpg

[tremulant]

Finished it up. FatCap, thanks for the crit, upping the ambient really helped those shadows:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/nurbs_801/Turtwigfinal.jpg

Hey josh, this is looking phenomenal...One thing though...why does it look so washed out compared to the previous 3q render you did...Maybe it's just me, but I think it looked more vibrant.

dave

[kwakkie]

Hmmm for some reason I like the colors of the spec-color better than the diffuse for that turtwig,it seems just way too saturated! Anyway, awesome job!

Lol, now Im very curious on how it would look if you switched the spec-color with the diffuse :P

[Josh_Singh]

WOW, thank you guys for your positive remarks! I am glad you like it.
Tremulant, I had to crank the ambient to get rid of the black shadows. I wanted it to be on the more cartoony Pokemon side of things. As most things with normal maps, seeing it with the lights playing across the surface brings out the normal map and specular touches, maybe I'll make a turn around or something...
Kwakkie, don't fear the saturation, embrace the color! lol.

[Vailias]

First of 2. Try and get the other one (texture anyway) done overnight.
Click for full size 1440x900
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/th_Xan_InGame_Action3.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/?action=view&current=Xan_InGame_Action3.jpg)
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/th_Xan_InGame_Action2.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/?action=view&current=Xan_InGame_Action2.jpg)
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/th_Xan_InGame_Action1.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/?action=view&current=Xan_InGame_Action1.jpg)

[commador]

I need to start making more stuff. I'm going to try to spend at least 1 hour every day doodling either 2d or 3d.
This shall be the start of my newfound vigor!

Its a plant bug thingy. About half hour in PS7
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/commador/bugPlant.jpg

[vahl]

finally decided to go back to this one, had a lot of work and then my US tour thing that took the past 3 weeks away (but that was FUN !)

so I think I'll call it more or less done, unless I can stop being so lazy and fix the little things here and here that I don't like

(posted in the GA showcase gallery)
http://www.gameartisans.org/gamecon/galleries/artwork.php?uid=24&aw=1695

doubling the post :p
http://wip.global-illusions.com/AaylaSecura/Renders/Aayla_Render_1k.jpg

http://wip.global-illusions.com/AaylaSecura/Aayla_FaceVray.jpg

[Sage]

Vahl she almost looks like a real human model, as in photo. Real nice. Skin looks fleshy...

[bounchfx]

vahl that is incredible work. bravo

[ono]

Hoe lee Chow, Goood Jorb Vahl :)
Seriously.. Stunning :)

[Frozan]

Vahl well done sir! looks great!

[Cody]

you jumped your dirt bike over the uncanny valley! congratulations!
http://www.codywright.com/uc/vahl.jpg
sort of looks like charlize theron in the face

[Popeye9]

Wow Vahl thats spectacular! I love the sense of movement with the pose.

[cholden]

vahl you may have just won the internet. honorable mentions to Josh_Singh

[PixelMasher]

wow pure awesomeness abound lately, nice work vahl and josh, really inspiring.

[Rumkugel]

Someone please pass me a thick rope..
I want to die.


Great job Vahl!



*cough*

Care about an tutorial ?





*please*

[FAT_CAP]

Very nice eyes on that model Vahl. The subtle drop shadow and specular highlight on the bottom eyelid rim really help sell them as being real.

[Rens]

i hate you vahl



Nice one bunny,
only thing that bothers me is the bloom effect, makes it look a bit too blurry

[Super]

I'm not gonna jump on the vahl love-in..

Ooh it's too hard, amazing work. Riiiiiidiculous.

[Mr GetDown]

finally decided to go back to this one, had a lot of work and then my US tour thing that took the past 3 weeks away (but that was FUN !)

so I think I'll call it more or less done, unless I can stop being so lazy and fix the little things here and here that I don't like

(posted in the GA showcase gallery)
http://www.gameartisans.org/gamecon/galleries/artwork.php?uid=24&aw=1695

doubling the post :p

http://wip.global-illusions.com/AaylaSecura/Aayla_FaceVray.jpg

Looks fantastic. How many poly is that?

[Smirnoffka]

Awesome work there Vahl!

I think the real winner is the marmoset engine. Everything that that engine shits out is gold.

I'd so hit that.

[Neox]

yeah of course it's the engine that did this >_<

great work vahl, love the final presentation
good use of the engine ;)

[_Gr9yFox_]

Vahl and Josh_Singh, beautiful work!

[kunglao]

UPDATE.
Finally got round to finishing him.
Fairly pleased,as always coulda/shoulda dones things differently,but overall i think i got a likeness.

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/552/bro1kq8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/bro1kq8.jpg/1/w870.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img513/bro1kq8.jpg/1/)

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/7128/bro2cu6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/bro2cu6.jpg/1/w816.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img384/bro2cu6.jpg/1/)

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/8939/bro3rg7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/bro3rg7.jpg/1/w792.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img384/bro3rg7.jpg/1/)

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/5217/bro4lt3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/bro4lt3.jpg/1/w802.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img384/bro4lt3.jpg/1/)

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9633/bro5op5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/417/bro6ty1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
[URL=http://g.imageshack.us/img515/bro6ty1.jpg/1/][IMG]http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/bro6ty1.jpg/1/w915

[vahl]

thanks guys, I'm glad you like it, that's actually rendered in vray, not in marmoset (except one shot in the game artisans gallery, which is in marmoset)

the full character is something about 8000 tris

[Josh_Singh]

Vahl, she turned out great! Wow! Amazing.

[Rens]

I'm using: J-Mac Classic Clay, its an oil based clay,



See, thanks man, i was looking for something like this.
Working with regular clay was fun but its very limited.

Im excited to work with it!

[CookieKingHoi]

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee287/HoioH_bucket/pic-1.jpg

Model is not mine, I could've made it myself, but I didn't, becaus I'm practising some textures.

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee287/HoioH_bucket/texturemap.jpg

CC welcome, I'm going to do a specmap for it now (first specmap ever!!)
(512x512 diffuse)

[JasonLavoie]

More detail cooking... The sword should at least have some scratches / nics, as well as put some highlight and shadow information in your texture, you can get a base by baking out an AO map, but you really need to push this texture before you start anything else man.

Other thing is man, you should have just modeled this as well, be good practice :)

[Neox]

that's actually rendered in vray, not in marmoset
haha made my day :D

ok started with detailling

http://nonpublic.airbørn.de/wip/neox/chars/Opa/oppa07.jpg

[CookieKingHoi]

Old: http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee287/HoioH_bucket/pic-1.jpg

New:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee287/HoioH_bucket/fixd.jpg

Any better?

[Ferg]

lookin solid as always neox, thanks for yet another image for the inspiration folder :)

[oobersli]

Old:


Any better?


I can't tell the difference. it still flat and lacks any real detail except geometry detail.


looks awesome neox

[PixelMasher]

Cookie, look at some screens from a current title that has swords and such and look at what they have done with their texture and apply the tecqniues and style to your own work. study helps a lot.

[Xenobond]

Even looking at real life swords, in a museum or something would help.
And gold isn't yellow.

[Blaizer]

Really great work Vahl and Neox :D

[SHEPEIRO]

vahl- you talented bastard

[Vailias]

My Make Something Unreal entry for phase
Finished this up today. 2 complete characters, interchangeable parts like they should be. No voicepack yet, ran out of time, but it will be added to in the future. I've had bout 4hrs of sleep since wednesday, :D but its all worth it, and dumping this in every forum I visit, or would be interested, since I feel accomplished for once.


here's the download link If you want to grab the pack for UT3. Its about 220MB
http://www.fileplanet.com/193401/190000/fileinfo/Vailias_Corrupt_MSU_Update
Xan Kriegor
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/Xan_Minigun_Smaller.jpg

Tensor
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/Tensor_01_Smaller.jpg

Lots of in game shots. These are BIG. About 1MB JPG's 2880X1800
Xan With Stinger
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/th_Xan_Minigun.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/?action=view&current=Xan_Minigun.jpg)
Tensor with RuneStorm Lightning gun, an Awesome weapon.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/th_Tensor_01.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/?action=view&current=Tensor_01.jpg)http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/th_Tensor_03.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/?action=view&current=Tensor_03.jpg)http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/th_Tensor_02.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/?action=view&current=Tensor_02.jpg)
Other bot "dodging" a link gun shot
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/th_LinkDodge.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/?action=view&current=LinkDodge.jpg)
other bot flak cannon shot
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/th_Corrupt_FlakCannon.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/?action=view&current=Corrupt_FlakCannon.jpg)
Blue Team Bot on Viper (I love that vehicle)
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/th_BlueViper.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/?action=view&current=BlueViper.jpg)
FireFight
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/th_Missed.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/?action=view&current=Missed.jpg)
Flag war
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/th_RedvsBlue.jpg (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/The_Corrupt/?action=view&current=RedvsBlue.jpg)

[Xaltar]

Damn Vahl, that is some sexy work. Hot alien chick with lightsaber FTW

[etsuja]

I havn't done a lot of sculpting, here's the first model I've semi sculpted from a very primitive base mesh. Arms, hands, head, and feet all still need to be done but I reached a stopping point tonight and thought I'd share.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/4540/ladehkl6.jpg

[etsuja]

Been working on texturing my post apocalyptic chick with horns. =)

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n117/AimBiZ/Leolith_19-1.jpghttp://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n117/AimBiZ/Leolith_20-1.jpg
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n117/AimBiZ/Leolith_21-1.jpghttp://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n117/AimBiZ/Leolith_Diffuse-1.jpg

Might as well post the wires as well.
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n117/AimBiZ/Leolith_16-1.jpg

This is an awesome character, I love the outfit.

[Smirnoffka]

thanks guys, I'm glad you like it, that's actually rendered in vray, not in marmoset (except one shot in the game artisans gallery, which is in marmoset)


Well don't I feel stupid.

I love you Vahl.

[rul119]

great work Vahl, that is the best model i´ve seen in ages

[CookieKingHoi]

Ok, so what about this?

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee287/HoioH_bucket/beter.jpg

[Levus]

Neox, I really like your style:)

[perna]

cookie: It's difficult to crit without knowing what you're going for. If you want to make something cartoony then what you have probably works. When you think about it you know as well as the rest of us that gold doesn't look like that and blade metal doesn't look like that. If you want it to look closer to real, get some refs, use images.google.com

[IronHawk]

cool as always Neox. More Airborne stuff there?

[Jackwhat]

Quickish Dark City study thing, cuz the lighting rawks, excuse the lack of likeness.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Jackwhat/1018DCStudy.jpg

[CookieKingHoi]

cookie: It's difficult to crit without knowing what you're going for. If you want to make something cartoony then what you have probably works. When you think about it you know as well as the rest of us that gold doesn't look like that and blade metal doesn't look like that. If you want it to look closer to real, get some refs, use images.google.com

I dunno, I just got a model and started a texture.
Hmm, yes, the metal doesnt really look real, but I do look at refrence, it's just that I'm not really good at this, I need alot of practise, I think I'm going to make something else now, I'll try to do better and check some more ref, like oblivion.

I think I should stop using filters for metal, I'm going to try to not use them this time, or al least, let it look less spongy.

[SHEPEIRO]

I dunno, I just got a model and started a texture.
Hmm, yes, the metal doesnt really look real, but I do look at refrence, it's just that I'm not really good at this, I need alot of practise, I think I'm going to make something else now, I'll try to do better and check some more ref, like oblivion.

I think I should stop using filters for metal, I'm going to try to not use them this time, or al least, let it look less spongy.

use photos as base materials ( adsting levels and cleaning first) then paint over the top. deffinatly dont use filters. and for reference, use pictures of real swords only look at games when you want to steal their techniques

[LEViATHAN]

Quickish Dark City study thing, cuz the lighting rawks, excuse the lack of likeness.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Jackwhat/1018DCStudy.jpg

epic

[JohnnyRaptor]

Havent done any polypainting in zbrush till i figured to give it a go tonite, and damn its pretty sweet once you get around the settings, heres a quick doodle, about an hour on some half-finished head sculpt of mine..
http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/8475/franky1kh5.jpg

[ImSlightlyBored]

neox, thats awesome. Always liked that style of yours.

boring night ahead of adding pipes to this. Everything is done, resting on the maps, just waiting to be added in.
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7687/saw1if0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/saw1if0.jpg/1/w775.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img88/saw1if0.jpg/1/)

[etsuja]

Sculpted the face and arms.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1008/ladeh2pm5.jpg

[Ferg]

been trying to get better at acrylics in my free time, I need to do more still lifes (still lives?)... here's some random bits from the pile

My camera is dying and the colors are crap in the photo... I need a huge scanner or something...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/paintings_10-18-08.jpg

[orionburcham]

http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope10.jpg
http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope11.jpg

End result:

-2606 faces
-4300 tris
-1024 shader

Here's hoping I can wrap up the texture this weekend.
-Orion

[EricV]

neox, thats awesome. Always liked that style of yours.

boring night ahead of adding pipes to this. Everything is done, resting on the maps, just waiting to be added in.
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7687/saw1if0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/saw1if0.jpg/1/w775.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img88/saw1if0.jpg/1/)

Awesome... Nice looking lights and tiles

[IronHawk]

coolness Ferg.

[zerafian]

had to get away from the world of photosourcing...so I decided to start painting a bit. Startedit this evening and Im hoping to have it done by tomorrow night.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6168/rockdbg1.jpg

[DKK]

aside from the obvious tiling caused by some of those larger rocksin the middle that's pretty damn awesome.

[PixelMasher]

nice style zera, nice and crisp

[lupi]

another "Splashed water cooler" :)
Nice concept:) desided to make it for fun in the free time, couple of hours model and textures

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/luparata/wc_finishedWeb.jpg

[Davision3D]

yeah very nice style zera! Though i think you painted too much 3d in the rocks, if its only for a 2d style platformer that will be allright but if the camera also rotates it could look very strange. That gradient overlay makes it also look more unrealistic flat.

[commador]

45 minute mudbox doodle.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/commador/frank.jpg

[katzeimsack]

like it zera :)

did some rocks for airborn and added them in our testlevel.

http://bildupload.sro.at/a/images/2008_WIP_landscape_01.jpg

the seams and and textures are all wip, but i think it's still looking good :)

[vahl]

very nice style and lighting Katzeimasck :) seeing that project develop is a real breeze, so thank you and Neox (and anyone else on this project) to keep us updated with badass stuff :)

[Sa74n]

that looks awesome manuel :) keep it up!

[JohnnyRaptor]

so i kept messing around this a bit today too
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2813/franky3au9.jpg

[Jackwhat]

What a seriously pleasent change, it'd be nice if more games would take a different route with their graphics ala this! D:

[|Buddy|]

like it zera :)

did some rocks for airborn and added them in our testlevel.

http://bildupload.sro.at/a/images/2008_WIP_landscape_01.jpg

the seams and and textures are all wip, but i think it's still looking good :)


The rocks totaly... rock! I love the colors and rendering.

[Neox]

cool as always Neox. More Airborne stuff there?

It's airborn, nothing to do with air forces, it sounds like that which is intended but in means born in the air... as everything is flying, floaty, windy, no continents no real ground :)

as for more, there will be major update on moddb, don't know when but there will be new stuff in the near future

@manuel: love it

[zerafian]

Thanks for the crits guys, I plan on fixing the cliff side a tomorrow, breaking he repeat up a bit so its not so obvious.

Heres another small update for the night...I plan on working on it a little more before bed but I figured I would post before I forgot. Im hoping to have it done by tuesday....since its now a work week I'll only get a couple hours in a night :/.

lemme know what ya think
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/7553/zzenvoyt7.jpg

[Jackwhat]

Edit; zerafin that style is so dope!

Back into doin these daily! wai~

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Jackwhat/1019EnvStudy.jpg

[Slipstream]

School work and mod work.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/temetry/soldier3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/temetry/datarunPC3.jpg

[Armanguy]

Thanks for the crits guys, I plan on fixing the cliff side a tomorrow, breaking he repeat up a bit so its not so obvious.

Heres another small update for the night...I plan on working on it a little more before bed but I figured I would post before I forgot. Im hoping to have it done by tuesday....since its now a work week I'll only get a couple hours in a night :/.

lemme know what ya think
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/7553/zzenvoyt7.jpg


thats stunning!

[ThatDon]

Edit; zerafin that style is so dope!

Back into doin these daily! wai~

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Jackwhat/1019EnvStudy.jpg

I love these studies, MORE PLZ KTHNX

[Japhir]

this is going to be a zombified version of beast (x-men)

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/2285/zombiebeastlq2.jpg

[GCMP]

Looking cool JohnnyRaptor
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l64/GC3D/Sofarenderadvert.jpg

[Pope Adam]

GCMP - I like the spec reflection on the edges there. Looks awesome.

[MoP]

Yeah that looks like a pretty comfy sofa ;)

[kio]

hipoly bake mesh for a smaller train thingie. its kind of modular, well at least the roof is removeable :)

http://nonpublic.airbørn.de/wip/kioku/lokomoko.jpg

http://nonpublic.airb%C3%83%C2%B8rn.de/wip/kioku/lokomoko.jpg

http://nonpublic.airb%C3%B8rn.de/wip/kioku/lokomoko.jpg

[katzeimsack]

hurry, I want to USE it ingame :D

Tuuuuuut Tuuuuut!

[EricV]

wow, lotsa really great work in here!

kio: real nice hi poly work, your presentation is very clean and professional looking

gcmp: nice sofa, altho 5246 triangles seems a bit expensive
zerafian: that piece is looking ace! really nice painting being displayed

[etsuja]

Guess who this is I'm workin on.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1324/facevo5.jpg

[jlewis]

haha made my day :D

ok started with detailling

http://nonpublic.airbørn.de/wip/neox/chars/Opa/oppa07.jpg

me likey.

[itsover3]

Heres a quick acoustic guitar I did theres still a few things I need to fix up

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/damos/3ds%20max/Guitar-1-1.jpg

The strings got ruined a bit when in the pic

[Rens]

that airborn stuff is lookn so great!!

[orionburcham]

Jackwhat- Nice! keep em coming.
It goes without saying that all the Airborn stuff is incredible. Great work, from everyone involved.

http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope16.jpg

http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope17.jpg
http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope18.jpg

hopefully I can finish tomorrow night. woo!
-O

[Slave_zero]

@ Kia, Neox, Katzeimsack and the rest of the Airborne-Team:

really great work you did there. I chekced out your mod on MOD-DB and the style and quality your are achieving is just great. Very impressive.

BTW: Special greetings to KatzeimSack as a former comrade at 4Head-Hannover. :poly136:

[IronHawk]

Edit; zerafin that style is so dope!

Back into doin these daily! wai~

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Jackwhat/1019EnvStudy.jpg


nice work.. love that place. Once of my favorite climbers Dean Potter free soloed that sucker. No ropes.

[Toast]

Only about 40-50% done. Texturing at the moment is just placeholding so excuse the tiling and scale. Some objects aren't final.

http://kiernanmay.net/images/polycount/alienPrison.jpg

I hope to finish it off soon, just posting it in here for incentive to get it done.

I might think about adding a vehicle on the bottom right there so you get a better sense of scale too. Some might recognize this from a particular movie.

Great thread!

[vladino]

Looks promising Toast! Is this environment for a game or static image?

[Farfarer]

Haha, Alien 3? Looks really solid so far :D

[zerafian]

I definetly like it toast, being a fan of the alien series, Im looking forward to the finished piece.

I did something close to that about 3 years ago...never finished it though. I only got as far as the geometry.

http://www.zerafian.com/3DImages/ENVIRONMENTpic.jpg


Only about 40-50% done. Texturing at the moment is just placeholding so excuse the tiling and scale. Some objects aren't final.

http://kiernanmay.net/images/polycount/alienPrison.jpg

I hope to finish it off soon, just posting it in here for incentive to get it done.

I might think about adding a vehicle on the bottom right there so you get a better sense of scale too. Some might recognize this from a particular movie.

Great thread!

[Klash120]

Im digg'n the lighting Toast. Very awesome right there.

Zerafian you fkr :P Quit making so much random awesome stuff >. <
( I really need to pump out more stuff / random stuff) Edit: I really need to UPLOAD more stuff / random stuff ~. ~
Look'n good so far. Any new progress on that cartoony env?

[butt_sahib]

Excellent work guys.Simply stunning.
One crit tho, orion,i think you could lower the rust/wear on the telescope abit?

need your help guys:Its Dan hibuki from sf
http://pinoshare.de/bild.php/2772,danwip5KW7CP.jpg

[konstruct]

haha thats crazy, I immediately thought aliens 3 too, is that right>?

[Japhir]

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7552/zombiebeastfw7.jpg
color block in.

[Davision3D]

the Shawk:
http://www.vitamin3d.com/bilder/shawkut3.jpg

Here is a vid of his animations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgxKnR74a0E

Will be a monster in UT3 Invasion

[konstruct]

thanks for the new desktop Davision :P

[Master_v12]

That is lol amazing...

[Thegodzero]

So thats what they look like! My wifes dad doesn't say r's, so i always wondered what shawks looked like...

[Josh_Singh]

Davidson3d, that is brilliant! I think it deserves more exploration.

[JohnnyRaptor]

lol, badass davidson

[seforin]

been doing alot of these lately for work CHOO CHOO!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/seforin/choofakinchoo.jpg

[PixelMasher]

Davidson, thats awesome dude, is that captured from unreal ed? the slight stylization looks pretty neat. would you mind showing your material setup if it is unreal, looks like you have some cool fresnel action going on somewhere in there for the spec.

[Baddcog]

That is Shawking Davidson.

um, ermm, did I say that?

The animations seem a bit strange though. The tail wagging during flight seems to make me think he'd be turning back and forth.

The model is awesome though. I really like the head.

[kakikukeko]

wow so many goodies here!!
Neox, Zerafian, katzeimsack > great work! :thumbup:

very early WIP..
http://kakikukeko.free.fr/images/smokyJoe1.jpg

[Blaizer]

Davison that's very cool :D, you achieved very well the shark head, nice! :D

[orionburcham]

the Shawk:
http://www.vitamin3d.com/bilder/shawkut3.jpg


Fantastic, and great execution.

[Davision3D]

thx all :)

So thats what they look like! My wifes dad doesn't say r's, so i always wondered what shawks looked like...
lol

@ PixelMasher
Yea its captured from unreal ed, the material is based on an existing character material, it has a lot of nodes, so a screenshot wouldnt be very usefull. There is sidelight fx in it, that also most of the default chars have and yea i also added a slight fresnel effect. Also special is the transmission effect.

@Baddcog

The animations seem a bit strange though. The tail wagging during flight seems to make me think he'd be turning back and forth.

Really!? Not rather side to side? Should be a extra booster though, that makes him able to hunt some birds. ;)

[SHEPEIRO]

Davision3D- HAHAHA - needs a dive bombing into sea anim ;-)

[Jackwhat]

Here ya go Don!
Cheers orion
Iron! Awesome, the fact someone knows where one of these photos is from is badass (love terragalleria) - and climbed it? equally awesome.

todays \o/

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Jackwhat/1021EnvStudy.jpg

[dummeh]

That's awesome, kakikukeko. Love that chunky body-armour-looking stuff.

Been texturing the floor of my game's ship for the past hour or so. Getting close to finished, I think, but needs many many tweaks and things? Tired though and heading to bed now.

http://i36.tinypic.com/atu41w.jpg

[Toast]

Haha, Alien 3? Looks really solid so far :D

Alien 3 alright! The original scene was just a hallway, but I reckon the scale would look great if it were the side of a massive building or ship or something.

Looks promising Toast! Is this environment for a game or static image?

Static image. I really want to practice unwrapping and texturing skills.

haha thats crazy, I immediately thought aliens 3 too, is that right>?

Well spotted. I loved the design in that film...much more than the storyline.

Love the texturing on your ship dummeh, very sharp.

[Chai]

Davision3D that's awesome !
looks so cute when it wiggles its tails while flying :D

[etsuja]

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/4903/artsexyredmonika2ug8.jpg http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/3426/myredmf0.jpg

[Joseph Silverman]

honestly i give up trying to crit you.

[MartinH]

that's tits on

[Dante1217]

dummeh, looks pretty cuel so far, keep us updated ^_^

[IronHawk]

Jackwhat another nice climb there. Has to be devils tower.

Heres a shot of potter on delicate arch. They banned climbing on named arches 3 days after his accent. Climbing with bolted gear was banned on the arches previously. I guess the parks service thought that would stop people. Well everyone but Dean cause he just didn't use gear lol.

http://www.getoutdoors.com/goblog/uploads/potterarches.jpg

[Japhir]

update:
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/7377/zombiebeastfe7.jpg

[butt_sahib]

damn japhir, looking insanely hot. Wish i was improving at the same rate as you XD....:(
Colours, hope you like em. First time doing this in zb :)
http://pinoshare.de/bild.php/2780,danwip5colour20R5G.jpg
Kakiku and Dummeh, excellent work :)

[FAT_CAP]

http://www.samchester.co.uk/wip/feline_zbrush.jpg

Unsure of what colour scheme to go with for him - all accessories have been greyed out for the minute. Im thinking bottom right or top left at the minute - what do other people think?

http://www.samchester.co.uk/wip/feline_colours.jpg

[butt_sahib]

man, you guys completely overshadow my shit....need to make my own thread :P
TOP LEFT!

[caseofchill]

Bottom left looks most like a normal cat color, but I personally like the upper right. So basically we totally disagree. Good model though.

[seforin]

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/4903/artsexyredmonika2ug8.jpg http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/3426/myredmf0.jpg


L O L on so many levels.


I dunno if this approach is best for this kinda of exaggerated character proportions , I do believe that the bowling balls attached to her chest need to be brought closer together so they dont look...like bowling balls attached to her chest :P


lips need alot of attention to detail same for nose. Work on form and proportions and then details big recommendation. Keep it up, I dont see comic rendition character keeping to those crazy proportions often on here

[Davision3D]

I have made a vid of some crashtesting the Shawk in the unreal physic editor, it also includes dive bombing into the ground. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HtMTEHhJ_w

Have done that also with my egyptian warlord char, includeing bungee jumping. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5GS7oWjH7k

I have overdone that testing a bit but its just so much fun! :)

Davision3D- HAHAHA - needs a dive bombing into sea anim ;-)
hehe, yea that would be cool but wouldnt make much sense in the game.

Davision3D that's awesome !
looks so cute when it wiggles its tails while flying :D
It won´t be so cute when it bites your head off! :P

@ FAT_CAP
nice style, i would pick bottom right.

[dummeh]

Cool shawk, Davision3D. Amusing to see it flop about in the physics editor :D

Spent more time on the texture before deciding not to be so poly-tight. Bevelled some things out and made a high LOD mesh that gets toggled close-up and during cutscenes.

http://i34.tinypic.com/20k6fqt.jpg

[seforin]

im still currently playing with the shader but so far what im getting, I need to play with his spec map and the rim light right now the effects arent what I want...but is getting the softer edge look Im starting to go for....shaders are hard and free time is short ~_~

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/seforin/dudshadertest.jpg

[sir-knight]

hahaha that shawk is awesome... wish I had a flock of them to unleash upon my office right now.

[Jackwhat]

Shawk = awesome.


http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Jackwhat/1022EnvStudy.jpg

[etsuja]

honestly i give up trying to crit you.

lol, so soon?

L O L on so many levels.


I dunno if this approach is best for this kinda of exaggerated character proportions , I do believe that the bowling balls attached to her chest need to be brought closer together so they dont look...like bowling balls attached to her chest :P


lips need alot of attention to detail same for nose. Work on form and proportions and then details big recommendation. Keep it up, I dont see comic rendition character keeping to those crazy proportions often on here

Glad to see someone is amused by it, lol... not sure what you mean by "this approach". I adjusted her booblies a little but not sure if there's a way around the bowling ball thing though being the mass lumps they are.

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/5329/face2gf8.jpg

[orionburcham]

Man Jackwhat you're on a roll there. The gradient in that water is sweet. very serene. Looks like where I grew up.
--

Just wrapped this up. I'd love to hear any crits or advice you may have (this is my first projection model). I made a post:

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=56651

http://www.nickelcadmium.net/show/telescope/telescope19c.jpg

Thanks-
-O

[dummeh]

looks awesome, orionburcham. you reminded me that i want to buy an equatorial mount for my scope.

[Urthrese]

there is a lot of interesting variety here.

[zerafian]

heres a small update...I'v only had about 3 or 4 hours to work on it..which makes me kinda sad. Im hoping by friday it will be done but I wouldnt be surprised if it goes a little longer than that.:poly127:
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8233/envoonc7.jpg

[etsuja]

That's some nice texturing zerafian, only thing I don't like is the stream water looks like toxic waste or something.

[etsuja]

Nice beast Japhir, I see the beast but I don't see the zombie.

[commander_keen]

zerafian, looks cool, but why did you build the back part so flat when everything else has normal depth?

[Toast]

It looks like a side-scrolling type game. Colours are great!

[Klash120]

Was up til 1am again figuring out normal/bake issues….
Conclusion: Xnormal = rawks.

Wippiness for current art test.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2966215241_d1b2577164_o.jpg
"Defender" Spaceship wip. Ambient occlusion bake. 100% Lighting.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/2967062660_945dbb2c5c_b.jpg
Low poly, smooth shaded.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/2967062630_fdc35ba2a7_b.jpg
Low poly with normals + AO :D

_cisco

[Xaltar]

zerafian, looking sweet.
Japhir, loving the proportion.
Messing about with the mud 09 trial... Sculpted from the default primative mud head in about one and a half hours. I hate to admit it but its growing on me but still took at least twice as long as it does in ZB3.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9215/femhedce1.jpg

Excuse the really bad polypainting, had to mess with it..

[benclark]

Klash - looks good but could do with some small details imo. The form is excellent and you have some medium shapes in there but not much to really push the nmap

[Martin Henriksson]

http://martinh.se/wip.jpg

Very much a WIP, its a tileset for a gameproject we are doing in school atm. Not finished with any of the textures and going to add some more stuff, a doortile! ;p some more signs on the different floors and stuff and probably a couple of biiiig signs on top of the roof. Might also make some groundtiles for presentation when im done with the rest.

The black parts is supposed to be windows, they will have a high reflectivity/cubemap reflections when ingame.

[Neox]

@japhir: i'd try to give it more depth with another color right now it goes from blue which is like 50% brightness to black, give it maybe some brighter less saturated blue from top or something its just right now very blue and flat, yes the beast is blue but you could improve it alot with different colored shadows and highlights

@sephorin: if i understood right what you are trying to do with the shading, i'd definitely ramp the shading more