What Are You Working On? 2010 Edition!

[sergeimoroz]

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/3364/paintoverpls.jpg (http://img338.imageshack.us/i/paintoverpls.jpg/)
my very first attempt to sculpt a human head... paintover pls

[Joshua Stubbles]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2355669/leonis_002.jpg

Working on some planet textures. The game engine is circa 2004, so we can't do anything fancy like EVE Online has done with their awesome planets. Clouds don't move, even. :( Lots of nasty DXT compression on the clouds, but it won't be facing the mission waypoint node in the final version, so it'll be better.

I actually made everything in this pic, including the starfields and Columbia.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLInRFmRfvw

Other than the UI, I made all of the content seen in the video, including particle fx.


And if anyone was interested in the process (click for large):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2355669/planet2.jpg (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2355669/planet.jpg)

[Razorb]

Vassago it still looks great tho :) so dont worry!

[JFletcher]

Looks awesome Vassago. :)

Well calling this finished and moving on,

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9171/giantp.jpg (http://img18.imageshack.us/i/giantp.jpg/)

[Eneyeseekay]

Awesome Golem, JFletcher. He looks like a painting! Do you plan on animating him?

[Dliskovecjr]

Currently working on the HP model for a decorative street lamp, here is what I have so far.


http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4691/scupltwip3.jpg
http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/2562/scupltwip1.jpghttp://img714.imageshack.us/img714/5066/scupltwip2.jpg

[Fuse]

http://thatpolygon.com/images/luka_3.jpg

[Zack Fowler]

Great stuff, Fletcher. Wish you hadn't mirrored him straight down the front though, maybe moving the seam a bit off to the side instead so the very middle has some uniqueness going on.

http://www.zackfowler.com/files/mech_silhouettes.jpg

Finally getting back to some personal work now that I've settled in, easing in with some concepting.

[Raider]

throw a gem on his forehead and see what he looks like fletcher, for some reason i want to see what it looks like :D but god damn you can paint man that's insane texturing.

[undoz]

Vassago, MaD, JFletcher, awesome!

Dado Almeida, Ravenslayer: Yeah, I tough that she looked similar with Kat when I was modeling, but it wasn't my direct intention. I think it's because they have similar features and style.

[pior]

Basemeshing!
Had a lot of fun with the profile, now need to try and do the same on the front view ... And ears are too high still ...

Quickly prepainted in Mud2011 (Diffuse values, Gloss and Spec)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/pior_ubb/pior_fbasemesh2010_003-small.jpg

[rawrsie]

beautiful jfletcher!

[Rumkugel]

Cool stuff pior!

[|Buddy|]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2355669/leonis_002.jpg

Working on some planet textures. The game engine is circa 2004, so we can't do anything fancy like EVE Online has done with their awesome planets. Clouds don't move, even. :( Lots of nasty DXT compression on the clouds, but it won't be facing the mission waypoint node in the final version, so it'll be better.

I actually made everything in this pic, including the starfields and Columbia.

I think that it would look better without normal map on the planet tbh. It would make sense, the planet would look generally flat unless its some really dramatic camera/sun angle like this one http://researchpark.arc.nasa.gov/lecture%20series/images/Earth.jpg

Other than that it looks cool.

[Slave_zero]

Great stuff, Fletcher. Wish you hadn't mirrored him straight down the front though, maybe moving the seam a bit off to the side instead so the very middle has some uniqueness going on.

http://www.zackfowler.com/files/mech_silhouettes.jpg

Finally getting back to some personal work now that I've settled in, easing in with some concepting.

Great silhouettes. :thumbup: Makes me want to play Mech Warrior.

[undoz]

pior: she's looking sweet! Love that style.

[DKK]

Basemeshing!
Had a lot of fun with the profile, now need to try and do the same on the front view ... And ears are too high still ...

Quickly prepainted in Mud2011 (Diffuse values, Gloss and Spec)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/pior_ubb/pior_fbasemesh2010_003-small.jpg

You've done it... You've built the perfect woman.

[felipefrango]

I'd say head looks a little small from the leftmost view, and the lips are a tad wide for my personal taste but other than that, I'd tap it, yeah. :p

[Snipergen]

Pior I love your style man. I also love your weird nipples.

Fletcher: Get outta here! That's going straight in the awesome3Dshit folder.

Zackf: Please paint the first one, that silhouette looks great!

[Japhir]

Trying to oldschool model a female head.
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/8306/chickheadwip.jpg

So any tips on making this more feminine? and are the loops ok? some areas I wasn't really sure about, I have quite a few poles in there now. but then again, I don't know what i'll be using this for, maybe sculpt or maybe just leave it as is.

ps: i stole almighty_gir's foto reference to work on this :poly128:. (if it's not okay please tell me, but it looked like you got it from somewhere like 3d.sk or something)
pps: this is the first time I modeled such a high poly ear ;).

[Eneyeseekay]

Hopefully if I can get past the normal map seam issues I'm currently faced with (I think plagued with would be a more fitting word since it's much less pleasant). I'm hoping to have this guy finished and hopefully rigged by the end of this week if I can work around those seam issues.

He currently weighs in at 5046 tris, I had him at 4999 at one point but he desperately needed more geometry in parts of his head/face, and a bit around his shoulders. I sort of set a budget for him, I didn't want him past 5000 tris originally but I'll settle for 46 extra tris. Oh, and the reference picture isn't going to be followed exactly, but the stitches will be in there for sure.

I assure you guys he won't look like Mickey Mouse when I'm done with him, hahaha. It's those damn ears. I really like them though, so I'd like to keep them there. Here's what I got so far.

http://boards.polycount.net/[IMG]http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8499/pingrenderforweb.jpghttp://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8499/pingrenderforweb.jpg
http://boards.polycount.net/%3Ca%20href=http://img696.imageshack.us/i/pingrender.jpg/%20target=_blank%3E[IMG]http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4822/pingrender.jpg

[roB0T]

sup'
http://b0t.thanez.net/m4is/2.jpg

[moose]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTbFc3LrxBc

went through some old files last night and found this old guy. While im not working on it actively still, i did recut the video :)

[pior]

Hehe moose I still have those neatly saved on my portable HDD, I'm sure
So good!!

[katana]

Moose : That was absolutely fascinating.

[StefanH]

@JFletcher

looks great. I would just fix the rorschach at the belly.

@MoP

Great shapes. Gotta love them nipples ;)

[MightyPea]

Hah, I still have that on a backup drive too, Moose :D

[ander]

Started with abstract blocks, turned out as Master Chief of somesorts!

http://anderavila.planet.ee/meedia/lolhjelov2.jpg

[r_fletch_r]

Basemeshing!
Had a lot of fun with the profile, now need to try and do the same on the front view ... And ears are too high still ...

Quickly prepainted in Mud2011 (Diffuse values, Gloss and Spec)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/pior_ubb/pior_fbasemesh2010_003-small.jpg

AWESOME.

[Japhir]

moose: what's the projection painting program? :).

[moose]

pior, katana, & pea : <3

Japhir: its super ancient, Painter3d (http://www.micro-wiz.com/painter3d.html), from MetaCreations. Its not projection like we know today, just straight up painting on the mesh. I used it as a way to view 3d models on my Mac, since i didnt have any 3d software, or the selection of 3d sofware for Mac os9 was very slim (and i couldnt figureout Lightwave). Its probably one of the most stable and easy to use ones - but has a few quirks and problems (such as not having projection painting, and odd ways of handling strokes across seams). They discontinued it when Corel bought MetaCreations :( I dont know if i still have the installer, even if i did OSx doesn't support Classic MacOS applications... so I'd have to break out my old G3 tower hahaha.

[Muzz]

wow amazing video moose !

[pior]

Re Painter3D : I have the PC installer somewhere, I can try to dig it out. The PC version seems nowhere near as good as the mac one tho - window size is limited to RAM, and the app (just like older painter6/7 releases) thinks you only have 256mb or something. The Painter patch/hack to go around that might work on it tho. Ill check it out...

Its funny to think that 3DSMax is catching up with that kind of workflow only ... this year hehe.

In terms of simplicity and ease of use I think Mudbox is the closest now (can do 3D paint, and export a flat screenshot to photoshop too)

Good times!

[Dado Almeida]

Some zombie faces studies...need more.

http://amonsteria.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dadoalmeida_zombiepage.jpg

[felipefrango]

Nice style! :D

[Kitteh]

sup'
http://b0t.thanez.net/m4is/2.jpg

What kind of gun is that? It looks exotic.

[Mr. Brightside]

Call me crazy but i think its an M4

...

[HonkyPunch]

I think its the kind of gun you only fire once.
or twice, depending on the caliber.

[Cap Hotkill]

Colt M16 without the Upper Handle/Diopter sight :P

[Cap Hotkill]

You've done it... You've built the perfect woman.

DKK, you only say that because you love her cookie like Nipples :poly131:

Edit, Sorry for double posting.

[Zack Fowler]

Slave_zero: Thanks! Seen that new Mechwarrior title in development? Could be pretty freakin awesome.

Snipergen: Thanks man, in progress!

Here's an update, switched to designing with lines for easier revision:

http://www.zackfowler.com/files/mech_silhouettes2.jpg

[Daniel Doerksen]

hk416 it is im postive

[Cap Hotkill]

Some fun simple stuff ive been making to kill time and practice a little ^^

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/894/shurikens3p.png

[Jeremy Lindstrom]

reminds me alot of the artist girl from Bones. :D

http://content9.flixster.com/photo/11/58/51/11585175_tml.jpg

Basemeshing!
Had a lot of fun with the profile, now need to try and do the same on the front view ... And ears are too high still ...

Quickly prepainted in Mud2011 (Diffuse values, Gloss and Spec)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/pior_ubb/pior_fbasemesh2010_003-small.jpg

[pior]

Zac I LOVE that rendered thumbnail on the top right. Fantastic readability! Care to elaborate on the steps? Gonna try making a design just the same tonight. Inspiring!!!

[commander_keen]

Some may have seen this in the Technical Talk section. Its a simple singleplayer space RTS demo. It currently has 3 types of ships you can build, fighter with blasters, fighter with beam weapon, and 1 frigate with torpedoes.

http://www.keenleveldesign.com/pimp/nullspace/nullspace_02.jpg

heres the current wip:

Windows Standalone (www.keenleveldesign.com/pimp/nullspace/demos/NullSpace_Windows.zip)

Unity WebPlayer (http://www.keenleveldesign.com/pimp/nullspace/demos/NullSpace_Wip_03.html)

[ScoobyDoofus]

Pior: Always makes the sexiest ladies!
Japhir: Sorry bud but...less than sexy. If you're planning on making her "hires" as you've said, how about showing us a subdivided shot? The sharp corners arent helping too much with her femininity at the moment.

Also: Zac wicked awesome thumbnails. You've gotta timelapse another of those for us!

I'm REALLY regretting not bringing my tablet with me to Istanbul....its kinda sucky here and I'd love to spend all the downtime I've got doing art.

[brandoom]

Keen! I am loving the progress on your game! I'm really looking forward to the final product.

I just wanted to throw an idea at you. What about implementing some sort of 3d grid. Kind of like so,

http://www.chromesphere.com/Tutorials/Other/Co-ordinates/xyz%20planes_full.png

but of course better looking - really faint lines or something.

I don't know, just a random idea that came to mind while playing your demo :D

Like I said though, great progress, looking forward to more!! :)

[Zack Fowler]

Pior: Hey, thanks! Nothing fancy really. I started by poking around with the silhouette until I felt like it was establishing not only proportions but a sense of perspective. Then I locked transparent pixels and filled it with a darkish medium tone and started blocking in volumes. Used a mostly-sharp round brush for that, and I tend to use lighter tones to rough out new surfaces and dark tones for refinement. Then at the end I switched to a low-opacity large soft brush for a little burn and dodge to reinforce the overall lighting. I like to drop a Smart Sharpen in the process of saving out the JPG too.

Scooby: Thanks man! I'll give it a shot when I next work on them.

[Racer445]

baked this down. 3914 tris. i'll split this off into its own thread tomorrow.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1725586/hicapa/hyphycapa.jpg

[zerafian]

small texturing up dates Only diffuse is being worked on at the moment

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4516478685_3964f3950e_o.jpg

Heres what it looks like with the rest of the scene.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31266066@N04/4517113534/sizes/o/

[BlackulaDZ]

kabutops bake, came in at about 1500 polys. still gotta pretty up the textures
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g75/Chaosdragondz/trjsrhjh5h.png
(xoliul shader)

[Nick Carver]

Great work always going on in here! Not much recent stuff to show. I'm working on a little project of my own, but I want to get a bunch of work done before I show it. Here are some studies I've been doing to keep things ticking over, trying to work on texture and colour a little more:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/oishiiniku/capps.jpg

And some quick figures from the other week:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/oishiiniku/figgles12.jpg

Cheers,

Nick

[konstruct]

Damn Carver!- your gettin all artsy fartsy up in huuur :P its just funny cause I equate you with super pro, commercial game art.

Your flippin it up!

[Zpanzer]

baked this down. 3914 tris. i'll split this off into its own thread tomorrow.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1725586/hicapa/hyphycapa.jpg

Crazy ass stuff as always Racer!

[Autocon]

Looks fantastic Racer

[Rumkugel]

Uhm Racer..... do you intentionally rebuild an Airsoft weapon?

Tokio Marui is an AEG Brand.

[sampson]

yeah he knows his guns. airsoft :D

[Valkrist]

Hey guys, lurker reporting. Lots of win in this thread.
Here is some girly alien. I'm actually pretty new to this Zed Brush.
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8022/aliengirl.jpg (http://img198.imageshack.us/i/aliengirl.jpg/)

[Growgor]

awesome job
thus you modelled it completely after your airsoftgun as the others just said, and forgot to change either the bullets in your clip or the brand name:thumbup:

[bowplane]

Hello, Genero knife action here. I'm looking for some advice on how to handle these cuts; feedback is greatly appreciated.
I am trying to make the spine of the knife to retain the square shape in the first rung without the pinching so my normal map reads clean or does that matter?


High Poly max render:
http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac294/bowplane/paintover_3.jpg

Wireframe Maxrender:
http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac294/bowplane/paintover_1.jpg

this pinching nonesense is killing me softly. I want to make the spine of the knife to have this square shape sans the pinch:
http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac294/bowplane/paintover_4.jpg

[rollin]

Some zombie faces studies...need more.

http://amonsteria.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dadoalmeida_zombiepage.jpg

make a t-shirt collection out of it.. :)

[Emil Mujanovic]

Commander Keen WIP:
http://www.artbyemil.com/images/wip/keen/wip-keen-009.jpg

[monkeyboy_garth]

Nick...you the mang! Beautiful colours and lighting and the figure studies are spot on!

[HAL]

bowplane, do this:

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z106/SoullanceHAL/Overpaints/overpaint4.jpg

Also take a look here:

How u model dem shapes (http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=56014)

[MightyPea]

I guess sometimes a thousand words is still the better option ;)

(but yeah, add extra cuts around the problem area to localise the change in surface. A large flat surface like that doesn't really support a sharp shape like that without some more supporting geo)

[roB0T]

Colt M16 without the Upper Handle/Diopter sight :P

m4 sopmod
http://b0t.thanez.net/m4is/3.jpg

[Massbot]

Nice Emil, good memories!

[hobodactyl]

This is AWESOME! I love it :D Moar moar!

Some may have seen this in the Technical Talk section. Its a simple singleplayer space RTS demo. It currently has 3 types of ships you can build, fighter with blasters, fighter with beam weapon, and 1 frigate with torpedoes.

http://www.keenleveldesign.com/pimp/nullspace/nullspace_02.jpg

heres the current wip:

Windows Standalone (www.keenleveldesign.com/pimp/nullspace/demos/NullSpace_Windows.zip)

Unity WebPlayer (http://www.keenleveldesign.com/pimp/nullspace/demos/NullSpace_Wip_03.html)

[downarmy]

wip first texture pass on my stuka JU86 B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e7HzC2CwJ4

[roB0T]

finished the handguard:
http://b0t.thanez.net/m4is/4.jpg

[Racer445]

Emil, nice Keen model!

B0t, accurate m4. I'd strongly consider cleaning up those ngons so it smooths correctly while you're still editing geo.

Uhm Racer..... do you intentionally rebuild an Airsoft weapon?

Tokio Marui is an AEG Brand.
Yeah I'm an airsofter. The Marui stainless Hi-Capa 4.3 caught my eye while shopping around for parts, so I decided to model it and change it around so it looked like it'd fire real bullets.

[Jackwhat]

Todays rehash doodle!


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2750/4518452528_7589c324f9_o.jpg

[Zack Fowler]

Great stuff, Jackwhat. I particularly like the palette and occasional outlines.

[dang87]

Here some stuff I did last quarter at school. I'll try and post what I work on this quarter. :)


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y134/DG_87/radon_FINALcopy02.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y134/DG_87/marm_POST.jpg

[Pedro Amorim]

Racer .. that gun is sweet as balls :D

[woogity]

female head base for upcoming project, the project will be mostly hard surface, but i needed a female base to build off of, making doing things this way mostly unnecessary, but i wanted to get back into modeling from scratch and less retoping fun shapes from Zbrush. 4 hours in 2010 without plugins.


http://www.mattdavis3d.com/photos/Speed-Sculpts/female-head-base.jpg

Crits welcome on both geo and anatomy!

-Woog

[disanski]

That head looks pretty good woogity. Could the ears be just a bit too small?

[Holi]

wipz
http://uppix.net/9/c/4/013640822af8eee7ba1a0eaea2a7c.jpg

[woogity]

I think you are right disanski, I was stupid and didn't use reference, so lots of things are probably a little off :(

Dadao Almeida: those are awesome! great colors!

Racer445: Awesome man! killer work.

[katana]

I took Duncan's great little Spaceman George SDK and turned him into a Buzz....still have some stuff to do, but it was fun. My tris count ended up about 40 more than Duncan's original.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/katana2665/buzzTop2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/katana2665/BuzzBack2.jpg

[Dado Almeida]

@Frango, Rollins, Woogity: hehe, I liked this one too. Maybe I'll have more kind of this to share. Let's see.

@NickCarver: man, great image. Do you draw directly on the tablet? The lines (rhythm and values) are beautiful.

@katana: Good conversion. You definitively need to work on the contrast (increase) and play with the Smoothing Groups (normals) in the helmet glass. But I'm sure you already though about that.

[bowplane]

Hal, thanks for the speedpainting ;) I was making cuts no man should endure.

MightP: thanks for the input.

[pior]

Lunchdoodling the helmet. To be properly polymodeled later...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/pior_ubb/pior_lunchdoodle_001-small.jpg

[katana]

Dado : Yea, thanks on that, made the contrast change and dropped a smooth on the glass. I still have a decent amount to do, but I'll get it finished. I've noticed that white is a particularly difficult color to deal with on such LP stuff. i do have a couple of light opacity colors in there to help, but it doesn't show up much.

[n88tr]

Working on a concept weapon... not finished

http://cahemdue.net/images/Railgun_WIP1.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Railgun_WIP2.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Railgun_WIP3.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Railgun_WIP4.gif

[Valandar]

small texturing up dates Only diffuse is being worked on at the moment

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4516478685_3964f3950e_o.jpg

Heres what it looks like with the rest of the scene.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31266066@N04/4517113534/sizes/o/

Don't kill me... but the first thing that popped into my mind was "A recognizer from Tron brought into the real world and camoflaged?"

[Eneyeseekay]

Holi, that statue looks like it's coming alive. So awesome..

Speaking of awesome, this thread is absolutely full of it.

[DKK]

Pior I really love your top heavy helmet designs, but I'm starting to agree with the sentiment that her head is perhaps a tad too small, its especially apparent with the helmet on. You could stand to scale it up a tad.

[felipefrango]

I like that helmet pior, reminds me of MDK in a positive way. But yeah, I'd try scaling the head up a bit to see how it goes.

[zerafian]

Don't kill me... but the first thing that popped into my mind was "A recognizer from Tron brought into the real world and camoflaged?"


Oh your a goner thats right, its over for you.:poly127::)

Its actually a piece from Alien 3, I have the basic corridor made as well, I just havent thrown up here yet. Most would probably recognize the hall way with the huge pipes, unless your under 15 years old...maybe

Dont want to clog the thread with small updates...so heres a link to a couple. This piece is all done. I'll be moving on to the thinner vertical structures on each side of the door.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31266066@N04/4520197484/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31266066@N04/4519913328/sizes/o/

[pior]

DKK and Felip, yup I totally agree!! I was about to send stuff back to Max the other night to do exactly that but I think I fell asleep before doing it :P
Thanks for the reminder!!!

[achmedthesnake]

pior - needz moar nipl tassles.......


good work - reminds me abit of evangelion head - but then just about every robot head does..

[marq4porsche]

I'm working on my website design, what do you guys think?
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/marq4porsche/Website_Design_02.jpg?t=1271222967

[Akiho]

Boring :) In the site portfolio is important your works not design

[premium]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_faKTw5SuxJk/S8WTzIEq8JI/AAAAAAAAAFw/SouIiah2Ho0/s1600/render1.jpg
Working on icehockey goaltender helmet :)

[limesimme]

I'm working on my website design, what do you guys think?
(Big ass pic)
Less gradients, you can make people 'awe' by only using the right colors! And the blue is making me.. Blue
I went for a straight white/black theme for my portfoliosite with easy-to-use navigation on one page (jQuery for the win!)

[Super]

http://www.splitpoly.com/dump/trol_capl.jpg

[Rumkugel]

http://www.abload.de/img/mutie_wipepat.jpg

sloooooooo progress... just work like 1 hr a day on it during lunchbreaks.

[MattBradley]

Pretty cool idea with the tyre there Rumkugel.

[Rumkugel]

Meh.. snagged from rage...

[woogity]

pior: it would be a shame to have the finale with a closed helm with the great face you've made for her, maybe make it so it can open, or at least with a partially open face. that said, the helmet design is pretty sweet, reminds me of a shark head.

[Nelis]

Been playing alot of sc2 beta recently, so i made an homage to a unit i love that got left out.

http://i39.tinypic.com/24p02nl.jpg

[zerafian]

You cant deny it was left out for good reason :D

Its a nice concept for sure

[Racer445]

Nice clean concept. Saved it, might have to give it a shot sometime. :)

[Holi]

Eneyeseekay: thx!

some progress:
http://uppix.net/9/e/8/f6dc1ea4ef1de695d8f2b69d5b3b7.jpg

[JasonLavoie]

Nice clean concept. Saved it, might have to give it a shot sometime. :)

Hahaha... I had the same thought :P

[_Calix_]

Making little scene props are quick and fun:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4520836591_93256b2b81_b.jpg

[god3ila]

Hey everyone!
This is for a Challenge on de french forum. The idea is : "What it would be if another species had dominated the earth?"
I thought about fish :

http://www.god3ila.com/Stock_Images/HommePoisson_Concept1.jpg

http://www.god3ila.com/Stock_Images/HommePoisson_Posing.jpg

http://www.god3ila.com/Stock_Images/HommePoisson_Silhouette.jpg

http://www.god3ila.com/Stock_Images/WIP_Sculpt.jpg

[Nelis]

thanks guys! would love it if someone had a go at making it in 3d.

[Cap Hotkill]

Lunchdoodling the helmet. To be properly polymodeled later...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/pior_ubb/pior_lunchdoodle_001-small.jpg

Looks like Evangelion to me ^^

Btw, why you put cookies in her nipples? its there a weird reason for it?

[Justin Meisse]

probably so photobucket doesn't ban the pic

[Pedro Amorim]

lego..
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93793/4185.jpg

[Tumerboy]

Building some Technics Pedro? Looks good.
You're missing the "Lego" text though. . .

[Cap Hotkill]

Nice piece Bitmap!

@ Justin, i dont think it would be banned, Artistic nudes are not considered as the same category as porn :P

I made A Kirby! i was bored XD

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2417/kirbyx.png

[Ruz]

I got permission to post this today. Took me about 2 and a half weeks

http://www.mikerusby.com/images/WIP/jakelit.jpg
you can check out the game site if you like
http://www.wayforward.com/LIT/

[woogity]

very nice Ruz really nice hair work on this!

[Pedro Amorim]

Building some Technics Pedro? Looks good.
You're missing the "Lego" text though. . .

^^

it's for this project :)

Lego Space Shuttle

[Dliskovecjr]

Alright so I just finished the HP model of this street lamp a few days ago. I really need some advice/ideas on what to put in the bottom, for now I just have the year since that is what the reference I was working from had. Other than that one section I am pretty happy how it turned out, I just finished the lowpoly version and will begin working on the textures tomorrow :)
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1329/hprender.jpg

[Mladen Jovicic]

was bored all day so i decided to practice some rendering....very painful, makes me wanna cry:poly122:.
creepy ass luigi/old model.

http://www.mladenjovicic.com/BAMJ3.jpg

[Eneyeseekay]

Still working on this guy.. Highpoly head and body finished, all that's left is the legs. Here's a quick render from the lowpoly version with the current maps applied. Cannot wait to have this thing done. Weighs in at 5046 and is staying that way, unless something goes horribly wrong :s.

I'll post the highpoly version after the legs are done, it's been fun to work on so far.

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/1896/4render2.jpg

[Autocon]

Hahaha... I had the same thought :P

ha me three :)

Great concept Nelis, such a shame they left it out of SC2 : /

[nilknarf815]

I wish I can 3d model like you guys, just started learning this month. Heres what I got so far.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9z4Z5IqYupk/S6sXJ2h0FkI/AAAAAAAAAIk/KoNYbNgNWEw/s1600/Geordie.jpg

poor attempt at texturing
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9z4Z5IqYupk/S7BAgHaYfbI/AAAAAAAAAIs/3x4myBZsj-Q/s1600/screenshot4.jpg

my concept on the rest of the body.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4505967220_116cb7f1c7_o.jpg

and then something I am more comfortable with, just finished yesterday.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9z4Z5IqYupk/S8VvsLRqHOI/AAAAAAAAAKo/gLelFLaz3Z8/s1600/Taeyeon.jpg

-Frank

[almighty_gir]

Building some Technics Pedro? Looks good.
You're missing the "Lego" text though. . .

it doesn't say "Lego", it says 4185, which is the part number.

[sampson]

Been playing alot of sc2 beta recently, so i made an homage to a unit i love that got left out.

http://i39.tinypic.com/24p02nl.jpg


really dig this style man, good work. any tips/ideas for how you went about it?

[pixelchaot]

nice stuff nelis and ruz!
nilknarf i like that japanis chick...keep it up!
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/102/6/2/demon_breakdown_by_pixelchaot.jpg
just 4 fun demon breakdown...
upper heads with normal map, diffuse and specular
middle heads only diffuse texture
lower heads only a 64x64 with 16 colours

[Neox]

yahyah but nor time for airborn :P

sweet, but the lowres is imho to pixelated, so cleaner areas would be ebtter i think

[conte]

haha that's cool, pixelchaot!

[JFletcher]

Wow, that's amazing pixelchaot!

His nose looks kind of like a dick though. :)

[TheArgyleKid]

Alright so I just finished the HP model of this street lamp a few days ago. I really need some advice/ideas on what to put in the bottom, for now I just have the year since that is what the reference I was working from had. Other than that one section I am pretty happy how it turned out, I just finished the lowpoly version and will begin working on the textures tomorrow :)
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1329/hprender.jpg


This looks cool man, curious how you did all the filigre. Is that just zbrush alpha stamps? Looks really clean.

[ZacD]

You cant deny it was left out for good reason :D

Its a nice concept for sure

Yeah, now they have banshees that complete rip ground units to shreds more than any SC 1 unit (besides BC's Y cannon (and have cloak)), and vikings which are great AA vs everything but muta.

[Japhir]

that's great work pixelchaot!

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6540/chickheadwip01.jpg
crits on topology/how to make her more feminine would be greatly appreciated :).

[OldDog]

I got permission to post this today. Took me about 2 and a half weeks

http://www.mikerusby.com/images/WIP/jakelit.jpg
you can check out the game site if you like
http://www.wayforward.com/LIT/

Crazy little game :S any I love the character you did great work on him ;) can't see anything wrong whit the model, so nothing to crit :) Keep up the good work

[Dliskovecjr]

This looks cool man, curious how you did all the filigre. Is that just zbrush alpha stamps? Looks really clean.

Yeah I made some alphas in photoshop using some floral brushes, than used them as stencils in mudbox. Once I got the patterns thrown on I went in with the sculpt brush to bring out some of the details I liked - it was a lot of fun to make.

[pixelchaot]

thx steffen! now i am not only ill i had a bad conscience too...:P
and yes the texture must take some extra attention i generate it from the big texture but for a ds screen with no anti alising works fine for now...

thank you conte !

haha jfletcher, yes you are not the only one with this obscene thoughts...^^

thank you japhir !
take some femal references...take the low lip back a bit, watch the eyes and cheekbones

[cw]

catching up with zbrush with the sculpting challenge on here - I will take it a bit further though and tweak few more things. comments welcome.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/chrissdawaller/wip_8.jpg

[Ruz]

woogity, piexchaot, OldDog - cheers guys

japhir that's a nice base mesh man, perhaps give her more cheek bone and smaller chin/
smaller ears maybe.
might be worth adding a few more loops to get the eye shape better also. they seem to end rather abruptly right now with an open edge.

[Crash]

WIP Armour set and guns for the engineer in Anarchy Online.

Pistol design by Pestibug.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1929512/Crash/engie_set01.jpg

[Kharn]

Mladen Jovicic (http://boards.polycount.net/member.php?u=30851) : Nice tash ^^

Dliskovecjr (http://boards.polycount.net/member.php?u=31170) : How long did you work on that ? its sveeet.


Started a Dwarf, obviously I started with the most important: his book of grudges :p
So I only got to spend about 5 min on the char >.<

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/6619/render2y.jpghttp://img526.imageshack.us/img526/2392/shape.jpg

[nilknarf815]

pixelchaot: Whoa...thats all I can say.
cw: That lion head is looking good.
Kharn: Those normals look good on that book man.

Heres a few more things I'm messing around with. My attempt at quick sculpting then some poly painting. Any advice is appreciated, really new to the 3D scene.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9z4Z5IqYupk/S8djix-V8-I/AAAAAAAAAKw/9gDEfBlq5W4/s1600/Fat-mohawk.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9z4Z5IqYupk/S8dlEtDiYaI/AAAAAAAAAK4/yXNsdUqHYEk/s1600/annie-sheet.jpg

-Frank

[StefanH]

@Mladen Jovicic

I do really like that. just a bit heavy on the SSS maybe...

[marq4porsche]

I've changed my main background to more of a mid tone cool gray blue, what do you think? Also, I do know that a portfolio website is supposed to be simple and show off the art as much as possible, but is this really too much design elements? I mean, I think my site should look good too as well as show off my art simply and easily.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/marq4porsche/Website_Design_04.jpg?t=1271362870

[Asteric]

Found a cool concept of a gun, decided to model it. Ignore the retarded wire, forgot to delete it.

http://i39.tinypic.com/vxc6dg.jpg

[MaD]

@marq4porsche: (http://boards.polycount.net/member.php?u=21223)

It looks like some kind of business site for a medical corporation in my opinion, dunno why.
Anyway, hope you dont mind, but i did a quick photoshop make-over.

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1838/folio.jpg

[ericdigital]

@marq4porsche

I have to agree with MaD, It feels really sterile over all. You just kind of have these gradients running in every direction with some basic text set on top. Maybe check out some of the big dogs sites and get your creativity going a bit more!

[marq4porsche]

Thanks guys and thanks for the paintover MaD, I'll work on it! :)

[zerafian]

Yeah, now they have banshees that complete rip ground units to shreds more than any SC 1 unit (besides BC's Y cannon (and have cloak)), and vikings which are great AA vs everything but muta.

ohhh man dont talk about :D I wont able to play it until it comes out.

[JasonLavoie]

nice stuff nelis and ruz!
nilknarf i like that japanis chick...keep it up!
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/102/6/2/demon_breakdown_by_pixelchaot.jpg
just 4 fun demon breakdown...
upper heads with normal map, diffuse and specular
middle heads only diffuse texture
lower heads only a 64x64 with 16 colours


Facccccckkk I love the style

[Jackwhat]

pixelchaot - those are so fucking cool!

Doooooodles

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4524588837_78c40b667e_o.jpg

[Ruz]

pixelchaot - is that a special shader or just max's default normal bump. looks great either way.

nice doodles jackwhat

[pixelchaot]

Thank you nilknarf!
and that is a really cool first 3d head…the hair is probably to undefined?!

marq4porsche….i think MaD nailed it!

Thx jason!!!

Thank you jack!
nice sketches!

Ruz that was the HLSL normal map specular 3lights world shader (http://www.bencloward.com/shaders_NormalMapSpecular3lights.shtml) from ben cloward…

[Niwon]

His last cigar.

http://home.online.no/~bjo.joh/tyke_final_mudbox.jpg

http://home.online.no/~bjo.joh/tyke_final_mudbox2.jpg

http://home.online.no/~bjo.joh/tyke_hair.jpg

http://www.bjornarj.com/img/tyke/tyke_final.jpg

[Ariel]

Here's a quick head sketch I made a few days ago:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9k-NJqRjWqk/S8iEJHay3pI/AAAAAAAAGLI/88hzDSo7ke8/s1600/male_head_sketch.JPG

[Dean]

that's great work pixelchaot!

*IMG*
crits on topology/how to make her more feminine would be greatly appreciated :).

Hey man, I am by far no expert on anatomy but here is a really quick paintover outlining the stuff I thought could be changed. I couldn't get the 3/4 view right with the liquify tool so I just made notes on that one hehe.

my 2 cents, hope it helps!

http://i44.tinypic.com/11qskmb.jpg

If someone could add something to this that would be great, just starting to get into anatomy myself hehe.

EDIT:: Reuploaded a clearer pic.

Success gast:)

[Piflik]

http://www.piflik.de/stuff/Lyell_Cloth0002.jpg

http://www.piflik.de/stuff/Lyell_Cloth0000.jpg

Still trying to figure out, what to dress her...and no, she's not Asari...(in fact she's not even an alien...I had the idea for her some 4 years ago...sue me Bioware...)

[Dean]

*IMG*

*IMG*

Still trying to figure out, what to dress her...and no, she's not Asari...(in fact she's not even an alien...I had the idea for her some 4 years ago...sue me Bioware...)

Not an alien?...Ok:P Anyway, looks good though the face could use some real changes. Right now it looks like someone botoxed it loads/is tugging on her skin, pulling all the skin back. Design is pretty cool though:). Study some facial anatomy and give some mass and weight to the skin/muscles.

NOTE: Don't take this as a personal attack, more as constructive crits:)

[Piflik]

Na...face stays as it is...I had her more human looking first (proper nose, more 'human' ears), but I wanted her to look different.

http://www.piflik.de/stuff/Face.JPG

(For her back-story...her species was concocted by a power-hungry corporation to churn out cheap, efficient and disposable soldiers...she has mostly human DNA, but also different animals, plants and even some alien DNA...)

[Razorb]

looks really nice that Ariel

[cw]

wee update

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/chrissdawaller/lionhead_skylit14.jpg

[nilknarf815]

My speed paint for today, I dub it Nom Nom (it just has that face).

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9z4Z5IqYupk/S8iz147BkMI/AAAAAAAAALA/P6se4I7zE2w/s1600/nom-nom.jpg

-Frank

[Japhir]

Thanks a lot Dean :). I'll work on that!

nilknarf815: damn that's cute, loving the face.

[Dean]

My speed paint for today, I dub it Nom Nom (it just has that face).

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9z4Z5IqYupk/S8iz147BkMI/AAAAAAAAALA/P6se4I7zE2w/s1600/nom-nom.jpg

-Frank

Someone.has.to.model.that.

[zxcman]

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2311/texturing1.jpg

[Sisqo]

Ive been coming to polycount for years now and I have never posted. not sure why but I'm here now :poly121:
I didnt think this deserved its own thread yet.

Magpul UBR stock, kind of in between low and highpoly. I havent been able to decide if i just want to do a low poly model or if I plan on doing a high poly as well. anyways its not finished yet.
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/831/ubrwip.jpg

[Joopson]

My speed paint for today, I dub it Nom Nom (it just has that face).

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9z4Z5IqYupk/S8iz147BkMI/AAAAAAAAALA/P6se4I7zE2w/s1600/nom-nom.jpg

-Frank



...Is that pigeon a Nazi?

[Zack Fowler]

Another update on the mech psuedo-thumbnails:

http://www.zackfowler.com/files/mech_silhouettes3.jpg

Did a time-lapse on this guy for Scoobs:

http://www.zackfowler.com/files/mech_progress_anim1.gif

Cheers!

[bbob]

3rd one for the win. I wanna see that one done in 3d..

[LEViATHAN]

Ive been coming to polycount for years now and I have never posted. not sure why but I'm here now :poly121:
I didnt think this deserved its own thread yet.

Magpul UBR stock, kind of in between low and highpoly. I havent been able to decide if i just want to do a low poly model or if I plan on doing a high poly as well. anyways its not finished yet.
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/831/ubrwip.jpg

...You're THE Sisqo (as in, the oldskool CS guy, not the negro)?

[eld]

The whole death of turnbased in xcom pushed me into a turnbased mood again, back to my colony project, brained through an algorithm to autotransition a land/water grid map, so everything becomes easier to handle:

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8798/transitionalworking.gif

[Sisqo]

...You're THE Sisqo (as in, the oldskool CS guy, not the negro)?

Haha yes I am "THE Sisqo" the oldskoool CS guy :)
I didnt think anyone would remember me since its been so long.

[Andreas]

and then something I am more comfortable with, just finished yesterday.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9z4Z5IqYupk/S8VvsLRqHOI/AAAAAAAAAKo/gLelFLaz3Z8/s1600/Taeyeon.jpg

-Frank

Tae Yon from SNSD...hottest woman on the planet! :D

[Ferg]

that's rad eld, what engine are you using?

[MoP]

Ferg: IIRC he's doing it himself! In SDL?

[Kitteh]

http://gabefink.com/bacondone.jpg

PS: if anyone knows any Source engine programmers, please tell me

[Vrav]

zxcman, that is looking tasty!

eld, it makes me so happy when people post cool stuff like that. If you do more... thread?

[Avanthera]

a building for a mod
http://i762.photobucket.com/albums/xx267/shrew81/Hunted/Building_1-front.jpg

for the unreal 3 engine, is 3 1024 maps too many for one building? I have a 1024 map covering the entire building atm, but I need a interesting base the player can walk up to...
also: sitting at ~700 tris

[Thegodzero]

"...3 1024 maps... sitting at ~700 tris"

As in a 1024x diffuse, normal, and spec? Either the building should be higher poly if you get close to it, or lower poly if this is as close as you get to it. I'm very confused by what you have there.

[Eneyeseekay]

So I knew little to nothing about "properly" mapping UV's, normal maps, high poly sculpting, spec maps, and all that fun stuff before starting this guy (I dunno, let's assume it's a guy). I learned a lot making this "guy", he was basically a model I used to learn all the stuff I mentioned.

One thing I reeeeaalllly need help with is lighting/rendering my scenes. What I have here is pretty bad so.... Yeah.. Any tips on presentation? I feel like I'm lacking the most in that area. Anything from people more experienced than me (which is probably 99% of the site's members I'm sure) would be a tremendous help.

He's still weighing in at 5046 tris. Not sure if that's good considering his shape. he looks good on many angles and when smoothed he stays relatively the same! So I think that's a good thing.

http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/4828/fullrendershrunk.jpg

[Amarth93]

a building for a mod
for the unreal 3 engine, is 3 1024 maps too many for one building? I have a 1024 map covering the entire building atm, but I need a interesting base the player can walk up to...
also: sitting at ~700 tris
try use this setup for the whole building:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6815/rhneaf.jpg

[StJoris]

Gotta love stopmotion :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez6Nla9Goyo

[Rens]

Joris+1
:D

[almighty_gir]

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/7500/womanh.jpg

[Aaagreen]

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/7500/womanh.jpg

Definately looking more feminine, I think what it's lacking is a bit more roundness in the backside area.

[kite]

cool work guys, that's a particularly good sculpt ariel
eld - can't seem to load your image?

[Japhir]

update on the female face I posted earlier:
http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/7220/chickheadwip02.jpg
now with a thread (http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=72046) of it's own :)

[hobodactyl]

I should spend more time on this guy... bleh :P

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa76/lordkhronos/merc_final.jpg

[dur23]

http://www.bjornarj.com/img/tyke/tyke_final.jpg

It's a good start. But right now as it stands, your rendering is killing your model. The hair has no shadows, the skin doesn't have enough thickness (sss too strong) and the detail from your zbrushings to your rendered have been mostly lost. Micro details that is.

[Target_Renegade]

ZachF: awesome mecha work

nilknarf815: Awesome, pretty cool in my book. Nice chick.

[WOLFREIM]

Here is my latest character:

http://uppix.net/9/c/8/750b82d3a91023a43dd4c2ead1f23.jpg
http://uppix.net/3/4/8/3d557acc5c6ac4511aaf7b41cb8b5.jpg
http://uppix.net/6/a/7/e9acdb9b57399969a8c8b4d4b14fd.jpg

[Emil Mujanovic]

This is looking pretty dope, WOLFREIM. My only crit would be the that the silhouette of the lower legs look chunkier than the rest of the character. It breaks the flow a little.
Instead of reducing the chunk around the calves, I would personally amp up the thighs (as they look shapeless from the front) as well as the shoulders.
Like the lower legs, the chest has some nice volume. So it would make it pop a little more if you brought out those other areas a little.
But that's just my opinion ;)

[Eneyeseekay]

WOLFREIM that model is SICK! Like Emil said, Fix up those legs a bit and then you're laughing. Really nice..

[felipefrango]

I don't see anything wrong with those legs to be honest, I kinda like the bulkiness.

[Zack Fowler]

bbob and Target_Renegade, thanks guys. :)

hobodactyl: Great style, I like it! Two suggestions: change the scabbard to a hue further away from red so it stands out from the pants better (the red bands on the gloves can stay though), and put some edge highlighting on the edges of the... what are those called... the metal hand guard things that sit just outside the scabbard on the sword and stop the other guy's sword from sliding down your blade right into your fingers. Whatever that is, edge highlights would make it a lot easier to read. But yeah, cool stuff!

So, here's the final version of my mech set:

http://www.zackfowler.com/files/zf_four_mechs.jpg

I'll have to do another set of them at some point, it was a lot of fun to work on these.

[Eneyeseekay]

ZackF, awesome work this mech set, they're all really nice! Are you modeling any of them?

The second one on the top makes me reminisce about my days playing Mission Force: Cyberstorm. Not sure why. Random brain triggers. Gotta love em.

[ironbearxl]

Awesome ZackF I like the bottom right one!

I got commissioned awhile ago to model and texture Timothy McVeigh's head for the MSNBC special "The McVeigh Tapes" which shows tomorrow night:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/mcveigh_flat.jpg

[premium]

I should spend more time on this guy... bleh :P

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa76/lordkhronos/merc_final.jpg

That is what I call awsome! :poly136::thumbup:

[jmiles]

started a lil sum'n sum'n tonight for shits and giggles

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/1659/frostmourne01.jpg (http://img685.imageshack.us/i/frostmourne01.jpg/)

[Mr Smo]

ive been working on a texture for killingpeoples sdk.

needs more skulls!

http://www.mrsmo3d.com/backup/wip6.jpg

still a ways to go

[woods]

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/2291/mountrender.jpg
Wanted to model a mount.
Model finished, going to texture now. Might post an SDK if anyone is interested.

[BlackulaDZ]

@Mr. smo, that is kick ass! what size is the texture?

[roB0T]

http://b0t.thanez.net/m4is/6.jpg
also:
http://b0t.thanez.net/photod/knarre2.jpg

[e-freak]

woods - looks nice though the sillouette is unreadable (where is front and where is back?). whatever - sdk would be cool :)

[StefanH]

gun concept is quite cool. some nice and bulky shapes in there. but where is the trigger for the main gun (not the grenade or whatever launcher) ?

[Neox]

woods - looks nice though the sillouette is unreadable (where is front and where is back?). whatever - sdk would be cool :)

front is where the knob of the saddle is, als also where the shoulders and knees are pointing to :P

[roB0T]

gun concept is quite cool. some nice and bulky shapes in there. but where is the trigger for the main gun (not the grenade or whatever launcher) ?
the launcher is the magazine and the trigger is the trigger. thanks for the 'quite cool' btw. :poly131:

[Zack Fowler]

Eneyeseekay: Thanks! I might get around to modeling one of them eventually, but right now I'm trying to keep my off-hours work light on commitment.

ironbearxl: Thanks man!

roBOT: Rolling your eyes is a pretty ungraceful way to respond to an entirely legitimate comment. The combination of trigger design, mag profile, and mag location/orientation all point to it being a grenade launcher. If you still want to stick with that design unchanged that's totally fine, it's your art, but at least act a little more pro about it.

[roB0T]

roBOT: Rolling your eyes is a pretty ungraceful way to respond to an entirely legitimate comment. The combination of trigger design, mag profile, and mag location/orientation all point to it being a grenade launcher. If you still want to stick with that design unchanged that's totally fine, it's your art, but at least act a little more pro about it.

thanks for the advice, mr. smiley officer. It was never my intention to act like a total douche. Sorry for that.

[Szark]

http://www.zackfowler.com/files/zf_four_mechs.jpg

Awesome work, Zack! I'm feeling the urge to model them up! :poly142:

[Zack Fowler]

Thanks Szark, knock yerself out! I'd love to see them modeled!

MacTom27: Totally, that one is meant as a lighter long range and recon mech. :)

[MacTom27]

@ ZackF, my fav is the one on the right top corner. It looks more nimble than the others.


Warboss for utIII :P

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3402/warfinal09.th.jpg (http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3402/warfinal09.jpg)

[god3ila]

WIP, again :
http://www.god3ila.com/Stock_Images/WIP_Pants.jpg

[killingpeople]

Awesome Mr Smo. Sorry about the mess, it was a rough time in my life. ;)

[arshlevon]

Here is my latest character:

http://uppix.net/9/c/8/750b82d3a91023a43dd4c2ead1f23.jpg


i think you should take the word "my" out of that sentence, or change the head, you did not design that.



http://dl.dropbox.com/u/503260/normal-bust-xyz-ogre-04.jpg

[Tyler]

i think you should take the word "my" out of that sentence, or change the head, you did not design that.


Ohh, snap! :P

Still, awesome sculpt!

[Joshflighter]

started a lil sum'n sum'n tonight for shits and giggles

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/1659/frostmourne01.jpg (http://img685.imageshack.us/i/frostmourne01.jpg/)


I really like it. Nice!

[jmiles]

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/2291/mountrender.jpg
Wanted to model a mount.
Model finished, going to texture now. Might post an SDK if anyone is interested.

do it man! looks like an interesting creature :)

[nilknarf815]

Speed paint that i got to squeeze in this morning. Thanks for all the replies earlier. I'll be sure to comment back after work.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9z4Z5IqYupk/S8zBppS9w5I/AAAAAAAAALI/ZUq5MnqXxBI/s1600/perimu.jpg

-Frank

[aesir]

I dunno arsh. I'm pretty sure I could find a bajillion orcs with that same basic facial expression. The proportions aren't copied.

[Disco Stu]

gazilliotrillion

[felipefrango]

Exactly my thoughts. It's not like the other head looks original anyway.

[Neox]

not really a speedie anymore so... now its here :)

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/chriss_03.jpg
added hands and feet and tweaked some other things, basicly arm flow, hips/thighs, a bit on the neck, well yeah

[Holi]

Neox;she's realy cute, she's giving me a smile :poly136:
What kind of base mesh did you use? Zsphere?

[OzMa]

Working on that little guy...

http://173.45.73.121/%7Ecarlosde/blog/zbrush/pulga.jpg

[marq4porsche]

My updated site design guys, what do you think?
Thanks for the paintover MaD, it's helped a ton.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/marq4porsche/Website_Design_07.jpg?t=1271721189

[ironbearxl]

working on the lvl 1 boss from muramasa demon blade:
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/bouzu_02.jpg

[ZacD]

@ironbearxl it needs a brow hanging over the top eye lid IMO
http://www.ultimatecoupons.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/cyclops2.JPG

[ironbearxl]

ZacD, here is the ref im using: http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/mdb-ao-bouzu.jpg

[Rumkugel]

Neox, that girls looks pretty nice, but those legs :/ Especially the shins, are way to massive in comparison to the rest of the body.
It would look better if they´d be more slender. She really has some "Wöchel" ;)

[Revel]

Hi guys, I'm new to Polycount.
So for getting started I would like to share my current WIP, a personal project to sharpen my 3D skills.
So here goes..

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7528/wipgo.jpg

Done in 3ds Max 2010.
This one is a high-poly model, and not planning on transform it into low poly model.
In this project I more concentrate on modeling hard surface objects, as well as texturing workflow.
Well, modeling and unwrapping process is finished, now time to do textureing.
Hope you guys like it :)

_Revel

[Neox]

@holi: i started with a very rough basemesh, changed it on the fly when needed and expanded it also when needed, hands and feeds are the newest parts, thankfully zbrush now can reproject details even if you change the base, thats really awesome :D

@rumkugel: yep i agree, at least from the front, but also i'll make the arms a bit thicker to compensate the thicker legs, its just part of the design that chris' girls hav some chunky legs, and i really like that. I'll see if i can find some better ref from the front to change it, so thanks for the feedback :)

[Ferg]

loving it neox... great style to translate to 3d

zbrush sketch that lasted a few hours, trying to decide if I should finish or not...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/bigmac.jpg

[Farfarer]

Think I'm pretty much finished on this fellow. A few more minor things I'd like to tweak, but at this stage they're far more effort than they're worth.

http://www.farfarer.com/temp/louGaroux_08.jpg

Couple of other angles. (http://www.farfarer.com/temp/louGaroux_09.jpg)
Jouste's original concept for reference. (http://www.farfarer.com/temp/louGaroux_concept.jpg)

[felipefrango]

Awesome model, Talon! Though 3x 2048 textures seem kinda overkill since the shader you used doesn't even look like it needs that much detail. Maybe you can make them 1024 without losing any detail.

Edit: Also, I understand you might wanna keep it secret, but I'd love if you could share shader/render settings, or at least show us your texture sheets to see how much of the toon look is in the textures themselves.

[Neox]

if you look closely you can easily see what is shader and what is textured

everything that is pixelated and not antialiased is either shader (the cell areas) or an inverted pushed model (the outline)

and basicly this is what i think could be improved, why is everything so aliased?
instead of a shader that uses an If for the cell shading you could use a ramp to tranform the shading and make it therefore less pixelated. And even if its just for the presentation, i'd capture it twice the size and scale it down so the outline looks softer.
at least thats what i'm thinking :)

[Cap Hotkill]

Neox, shes looking great, my only complain would be a technical difference between the hands and the feet, she only has 4 fingers in her feet while she has 5 in her hands?

[Neox]

Neox, shes looking great, my only complain would be a technical difference between the hands and the feet, she only has 4 fingers in her feet while she has 5 in her hands?

keen eye, i also stumbled upon this in chris' designs and kept it the way he designed all his characters :)

[Cap Hotkill]

Fair enough then :D
I cant wait to see her finished ^^

[Holi]

wornking on anatomy, any crits are welcome :)
You can find it on my sketchbook thread, so maybe, just post you crits there, thx!
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?p=1114930#post1114930

http://uppix.net/1/d/4/d4f9d280949fa4c26b18e229cc9d3.jpg

[conte]

great work, Talon!
on first look i couldn't understand why do you post Jouste's concept and say that you
are "pretty much finished"
at second - "holy shit! it's a model!"

really cool work, dude, congrats!

[Farfarer]

@Neox: Yeah, there's a lot more I could do with the aliasing, but it's straight out of Max viewport so I'm a bit limited.

The slightly fudgy edges on the toon shading is from xNormal's rubbish basic AO bake which helps drive the shading - the machine I'm on at the moment doesn't have enough memory to do a high quality bake. When I have access to my own PC again, I'll do a real AO bake in modo, which will help it loads.

I also found that using a ramp that blended a little gave me really strange artifacts around the blend, something to do with the filtering of the ramp texture I think. I'm unsure whether it's just this PC, Max's texture handling or what. So I've had to turn off filtering in the toon ramp texture completely to get rid of the artifacts.

@conte: Thanks, dude :)

@felipefrango:

Yeah, it's not the most efficient of shader set-ups by a long way, it's mostly an experiment.

If it was in a game, 1024 would do nicely, just that the line detail gets fudged. And I'd use a proper post-screen outline shader, too, rather than the dodgy copy/invert/push/make black method I've got going on.

Also, I'm aware that the greyscale stuff I've got could easily be combined into one texture or into the alphas of other textures. I just haven't done so for ease of editing them :)

Sample textures;
http://www.farfarer.com/temp/louGaroux_texflats_thumb.jpg (http://www.farfarer.com/temp/louGaroux_texflats.jpg)

Shader;
http://www.farfarer.com/temp/louGaroux_shader_thumb.jpg (http://www.farfarer.com/temp/louGaroux_shader.jpg)

[Rumkugel]

http://www.abload.de/img/mutietkey.jpg

slooooow....

not too happy with the guys face.. hes too pretty..
having thoughts about adding some sort of gas tank (of a bike maybe?) on his back as some sort of drinkin bladder, with a vac cleaner hose attached.

[Joao Sapiro]

that chromatic aberration melted my eyes :S

[jmiles]

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8103/frostmourne03.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/i/frostmourne03.jpg/)

a lil update from last night

[Cap Hotkill]

That looks amazing! great stuff!

[Jesse Moody]

jmiles... that swords looking nasty as hell man. Keep it up...

[Amarth93]

Jmiles..... Frostmourne ftw!! looks very detailed, you got Epic Weapon's replica of Frostmourne?? =O

[jmiles]

thanks for the kind words guys.

@ Amarth93-- no unfortunately ;), although I might like to invest in one. Just using the ref I get on the web, and I have The Cinematic Art of WoW: WotLK.. tons of good reference in there.

[oobersli]

awesome sword jmiles. I messed around yesterday to try and get a workflow on how to do weapons in zb. This is just a throw away model. Next is going to be based on an actual concept.

http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq332/oobersli/sword_custom02.jpg

[BlackulaDZ]

almost done with the textures on this guy
http://daphzart.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/kabuwip.png

[Super]

Study time

http://www.splitpoly.com/dump/chest_study.jpg