What Are You Working On? 2010 Edition!

[Froyok]

"The Room"

Made in 2 month. I discovered the world of the modeling (and texturing) for the first time (under XSI) and the UDK too. I tried to make a library with a huge staircase.
A lot of textures are wip (staircase, books on the shelves, window's ray, ...), I'm too lazy to redo them, one day maybe... I just updated my scene for the june bêta render (redone lighting for adapting to the new increase contrast).

http://uppix.net/7/1/5/f26458b4ef225786e71ee1ed8a86ctt.jpg (http://uppix.net/7/1/5/f26458b4ef225786e71ee1ed8a86c.html)

http://uppix.net/2/b/0/8c70734317d9d7e7f28b19bdee142t.jpg (http://uppix.net/2/b/0/8c70734317d9d7e7f28b19bdee142.html) http://uppix.net/4/0/1/4e55a9405a67ecff2ea29746f1f8ct.jpg (http://uppix.net/4/0/1/4e55a9405a67ecff2ea29746f1f8c.html) http://uppix.net/9/7/2/4908633c920900bd43094d50b184ct.jpg (http://uppix.net/9/7/2/4908633c920900bd43094d50b184c.html)
http://uppix.net/d/f/a/65adaaa0017ac5c85e28234383b15t.jpg (http://uppix.net/d/f/a/65adaaa0017ac5c85e28234383b15.html) http://uppix.net/d/f/d/1129594d4986cfae019513f0c8018t.jpg (http://uppix.net/d/f/d/1129594d4986cfae019513f0c8018.html)http://uppix.net/0/6/6/394c0f4744b526119eb7303fafc85t.jpg (http://uppix.net/0/6/6/394c0f4744b526119eb7303fafc85.html)


That was a good training for me, for trying lighting, mapping, modeling, etc...

[Swizzle]

bbob:
Thanks!

HonkyPunch:
Gently. Last time somebody touched them, I ended up chafed and bruised.

ScudzAlmighty, Y_M:
I was going to put some goggles hanging around his neck, but I decided it'd make the already busy upper chest way too noisy.

Zack Fowler:
Funny, I was thinking about that movie as I was building this guy and I couldn't figure out what was making me think of it. Interesting.



Got it imported into Source as a static prop. Mmmmm, phong.
http://imgur.com/cstmi.jpg

[ScudzAlmighty]

I actuall meant on his head, like on-top, just for a little more visual variety, but it looks more than fine as is. though i was just going to ask if you were going to add the logo to his sleave as well.

shit that was quick. now you get(re: HAVE) to start up a thread for all of them y'know...

[JohnnySix]

Wow Swizzle! Can imagine him fitting right in with a wild west era TF2. :D


Since Orge/Torchlight hates me I went back to modding UT2004, very basic modular pieces for a flying vehicle ONS map.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/184/2/4/xe9guh45g54_by_JohnnySix.jpg

Team coloured lights are modified banners, so when you capture a node the whole thing changes colour.

[Y_M]

/demands a thread just for appreciation of this new engie.

imho the moustash should come up a little bit in his philtrum, would give it a nicer shape overall.

@scudz on the head would ruin that lovely hair!

[Swizzle]

/demands a thread just for appreciation of this new engie.Done. (http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74716)

I considered putting the goggles on his head, but I guess I just didn't get around to it for some reason or another. Maybe I'll add 'em.

[mradamw]

Swizzle - woah thats awesome man! Whats that for?

Here is something I've been working on a bit in the last few days (also working on an entry for the low poly Time Machine comp) Gave him a 5k limit and hit that nail on the head! UV unwrap is done now so just gotta tighten it up and then start to texture.

http://adamwhitcroft.com/images/3d/warlord/warlord-wires.jpg

this is my progress for the LPC#3 Time Machine (http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74389) comp. 2k on the nose, 512x512 diffuse with alpha channel, GI. Not 100% sold on the orange so if you have any suggestions please shoot!

http://adamwhitcroft.com/images/LPC/Polycount_time_machine/lpc_timemachine_col_2.jpg

[n88tr]

Here we go

http://cahemdue.net/images/BorderSniper_1.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/BorderSniper_2.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/BorderSniper_3.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/BorderSniper_4.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/BorderSniper_5.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/BorderSniper_6.gif

I don't particularly like it but I'm satisfied for now.

Shotgun and other things tomorrow.

[kjell]

i see some rly big pinching issues all over your model mate

[StefanH]

@Froyok

thats pretty awesome for a first timer. well done!

@swizzle

cool as hell :)

[katana]

After years of modeling in Maya, i finally took a couple of days to work with Max. The DT tutorial proved helpful, and I'm pretty happy with the 'monkey see- monkey do approach. It's also interesting to note the different names for functions in the comparison of the two apps.

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

*and i just spotted the chain link I referenced...lol, oh well.

[Acumen]

ohmai, that tf2 character is just....umpf.....im so jealous, swizzle :D
rocks my socks off !

working on a concrete mixer for tf2 - just simple ao bake so far:
babyblue version can be found here:

http://www.acumen-design.de/projects/show/concrete_mixer_wip3.jpg

http://www.acumen-design.de/projects/show/concrete_mixer_wip2.jpg

[evillair]

Just messing around; Zbrush, 3dsMax and Photoshop.

http://evillair.net/v3/media/.gallery/image57.jpg

[OzMa]

Well... this (half)character it's finished for me... It's my first "serious" model with normal map and I have learned a lot... Now it's time to do more characters to have a good portfolio! :)

http://173.45.73.121/%7Ecarlosde/blog/wip/marmoset.jpg

[HAL]

Will finish that suit promise :poly122:

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z106/SoullanceHAL/tank1.jpg
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z106/SoullanceHAL/tank2.jpg
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z106/SoullanceHAL/tank3.jpg
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z106/SoullanceHAL/tank4.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

HAL- not perfectly sure what it is (some sort of GITS style mech) but i likes

[Slaught]

@Swizzle, mradamw, n88tr
Very nice work!

@evillair
If I was a Deathmetalband I´d hire you for my album covers!

340 tris
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1671/pantsm.jpg
I made some pants.

[boeba]

This is a quick render from modo,just for fun..
I did a little pose test on my dragonsculpt.
Next step is retopo.
http://i49.tinypic.com/29v0agx.jpg

[ENODMI]

Bobo's demon from the sdk thread. It's my first time projecting painting and it went ok.
http://enodmi.com/posting/bobo.png

[Razorb]

real nice ENODMI, what program did you use for the whole projection texturing stuffs?

[Rens]

little start with the bake and some color

http://rensedeboer.com/threed/portraitwip2.jpg

[n88tr]

Awesome polies Hal. I like the mag chutes the best. Very Metal Gear as well as GITS

[build.]

Awesome progress so far Hal. Is that the 'tank' from the first GITS?

[Mezz]

Nice so far Rens!! :D
Does she have the goosebumps? :P
And if it is a she, you gotta thin out that neck, cause she has some man-neck going on right now!

[evillair]

@evillair
If I was a Deathmetalband I´d hire you for my album covers!


Thank you!

[HAL]

SHEPEIRO,n88tr, build. : thx, and it is the tank from the first gits movie :) (without the leg section which I still need to do :/ )

[glynnsmith]

SHEPEIRO,n88tr, build. : thx, and it is the tank from the first gits movie :) (without the leg section which I still need to do :/ )
Fuchikoma, I beleive :) (The smaller spider tanks being Tachikoma)

Looking great so far.

[Bal]

Nice Start HAL, I don't think I've ever seen this mech done properly, despite it being so popular.
Oh and it's not a Fuchikoma (which are the smaller ones, like the Tachikomas, but from the comic), it's the T08A2 spider-tank.

[CheeseOnToast]

You're talking about albedotint, which is, according to valve, a "work in progress feature" which is "unsupported."
I thought "unsupported" might have just meant they dont offer any help on using it, so i tried it out anyway, but it didn't seem to work.
Did you ever actually manage to get it to work?

Yeah, I did. The DoD guys used it a bit as well. It's a bit weird though. As I said, you really have to crank up the spec map to be very bright to notice any real effect.

[Muzz]

Nice hal, you might want to pay a bit more attention to detail, especially to the subtle changes in edge hardness.


Going to try and polish this one to finish, still really early days though.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e305/muzzoid/rockdevils_polish22.jpg

[felipefrango]

Damn Muzz, nice use of color.

[Simmo]

HAL: Looks really nice, can't wait to see more :)

I think I've been over-estimating my skill and experience level and getting frustrated and not finishing things.. taking on things too ambitious and not even getting close to completing them.

Finally realised this and it feels great to be making things, and it's fun again :)

So my current asset is this crate using this concept art by Colin Geller (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2v8PX7tZi7k/S3p2cnH_RqI/AAAAAAAAAp8/uNNgsbuqoJk/s1600/RCF2_SpaceCargo):

http://imgur.com/vlXU8.jpg

Hipoly render

[butt_sahib]

Looks pretty nice. I know youre trying to follow the concept to the T, but those inward rectangular bevels are kinda boring. Some things just dont translate that well/cool from concept>3d.
This warrants its own thread i must say, youve got some work ahead of you :)

[Kharn]

Gentlemen,

First part of Destiny, from Stargate Universe(UDK):
(Finding it hard to predict what Lightmass will do to my textures, so Im just testing )
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7507/destinyudk2.jpg

[vcool]

Yeah Stargate!

[Lonewolf]

^Looks great, nice colors

[OBlastradiusO]

Simply badass evillair. Reminds me of the Overfiend from Urotsukidoji.

[slave_one]

achmed - cool stuff that is! is if for something specific?

endomi - looks great, polypainted or not :P

hal - !! nice one, been wanting to do one of those for a while now, keep posting!

muzz - nice start! i would call it done :) anxious to see it finished

simmo - good choice! finish stuff and move on! much more satisfying!

kharn - nice start. There was a post from kevin johnstone a while ago that milky textures work best with lightmass, not really sure exactly what else he posted about it, but it might be worth to look up his threads (they're worth looking up anyways : )

[maze]

Looks pretty nice. I know youre trying to follow the concept to the T, but those inward rectangular bevels are kinda boring. Some things just dont translate that well/cool from concept>3d.
This warrants its own thread i must say, youve got some work ahead of you :)

yeah I do agree on that. They look "ok" in the concept, but they give me the impression they are a bit forced, I`ll dare to say that even a flat surface well textured might look better. You can think of small compartiment doors or something like that might look good. If not modeling, follows well the concept. Keep on!

[seth.]

awww....soo much goodness on the last few pages...spider tanks, Devil chicks with guitars, dragons, pants, demons......ace stuff.

I started this today cos I have one on my desk and it stares at me waiting to be made....I gave in.

hi poly in Zbrush atm...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QS6WO_XZe7Q/TDJLmTUPnnI/AAAAAAAABO4/-tt4etAx-zo/s1600/gasmaskwip1.jpg

just working on tidying up the seems on the rubber bit at the moment.

[Neox]

swizz, they are great!

so back from a nice few days in denmark i started sculpting on wubbo

http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/scribbles/neox/animals/wubbo_thecat_02.jpg

[Zwebbie]

I rarely ever do 2D, but when I do it's a lot of fun. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned...

http://www.joeyspijkers.com/Sketchbook/Paint_Bernini_GregoriusXV.jpg

[Warren]

Hi, i'm new to polycount.net so far i love everyones projects and showcases i think you're all amazing.

I myself am working on various projects which i was recomended to show on polycount so i'll give it a try i guess!

Midgar from Final Fantasy 7 (70 to ground):
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii284/Shadow0fIntent/70toground.jpg

The beggining of a house im working on:
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii284/Shadow0fIntent/new-4.jpg

More of Midgar:
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii284/Shadow0fIntent/platform2.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii284/Shadow0fIntent/bigjpog.jpg

Thats all for now folks, enjoy and keep up the amazing work!

[tacit math]

fuck dude. if that's what you get from rarely doing it. . . you bastard

[tacit math]

and sweet scene Warren

[Simmo]

Wow, great looking scene Warren. Will they be put into a game engine eventually?

sahib, maze: Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I was trying to follow the concept, but the bevels aren't that great on the model as you've pointed out. I figure if I make the concept, it's much easier to make changes that fit the design, which isn't really a strength of mine.

I'll play around with it some more.. maybe make the indent as long as the case? I'll start a post as you suggested sahib!

man this place is invaluable, thanks :)

[Warren]

Wow, great looking scene Warren. Will they be put into a game engine eventually?

Yes, actually i'm working with a small group of developers that are making a game and would like to use it im abit worried about law suits that can be bring being a very famous game but its a risk im willing to take haha i've always wanted to walk around midgar and some of my models in 3d and stuff.

[mcunha98]

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/5610/vensurwires20100705.png

[Uly]

Neox: I love Wubbo lots
Zwebbie: Cool painting, man. great face!

[Medestruit]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/Impetual/design%20stuff/sharkbitewip.jpg

Little design I'm doing for a friends band.

[Ferg]

really cool med

some more paint-poop quickies from a couple weeks ago (I'll post some 3d art soon, promise)

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/brainvein2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/yeller2.jpg

[Medestruit]

really cool med

Thanks =] . Pales in comparison to your canvas stuff, but I try to make due :p Kinda have a theme of a chick with a shark bite(my friend is a bit infatuated with sharks, and wants it incorporated into the design in 1 way or another).

[Ferg]

Dude I've tried doing artwork for friends' bands, and lets just say I've moved in other, less disastrous directions since then. It's harder to do a solid screen-printable design than most people think. That linework is badass and reminds me of a few mean punk rock tshirt designs I've seen. Smooth chicas + skeletons is tough to pull off and oh-so-hot when you do. Definitely post up that final design when it's done.

[BlackulaDZ]

its always awesome to see your canvas stuff ferg!is it acrylics?

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g75/Chaosdragondz/PROTANipargpg.jpg

bawss challenge. meh.

[GoSsS]

I rarely ever do 2D, but when I do it's a lot of fun. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned...

http://www.joeyspijkers.com/Sketchbook/Paint_Bernini_GregoriusXV.jpg

Waw ! Moare, We want Moare ;)

[Spatz]

really you should do more 2d zwebbie...great :)

[Muzz]

Awesome paintings ferg, and zweebie. Blackulza, awesome creature!

Just starting to tighten up forms and correct anatomy, but nothing is close to being polished yet.


http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e305/muzzoid/rockdevils_polish2assd4crop.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e305/muzzoid/rockdevils_polish2assd4.jpg

[Jackwhat]

yay, loads of 2d shiz goin down~ s'lookin nice muzz.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4768267950_c025425bd4_b.jpg

[Jesse Moody]

a master material i'm currently working on.

Has some major issues right now and some stuff going on that i'm fixing but figured i would share anyways.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6602456/shader_setup.jpg

[Jeremy Lindstrom]

real nice ENODMI, what program did you use for the whole projection texturing stuffs?


yes, do tell. :)

[slave_one]

cool jesse, i for one would like to see stuff like this posted more often.

[PixelMasher]

Jesse, it might be a good idea to use a RGB channel texture for your spec, spec mask and variation, having 3 textures in one map could make it a bit more efficient. looks like there are lots of options for that material, should prove pretty versatile.

[build.]

Great stuff on this page.

haha nice Jackwhat . Zombie Hawking?

[Jesse Moody]

PixelMasher,

Yeah already updated it with that after fixing a few other things that were bugging out.

But thanks for the heads up.

Slave_one... glad ya like it... def more to come.

[Neox]

http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/scribbles/neox/animals/wubbo_thecat_03.jpg
changed him a bit, ehem :D

still a lot to clean up

[ironbearxl]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/olive_hs_01.jpg

Very cute Neox!

[aesir]

that looks like the stupidest animal in the world neox.

(not saying your art is bad. I'm saying the intelligence of that animal appears to be very very low.)

[Uly]

cat's got mad peripheral vision, now
med: Nice start man. :) reminds me a lot of Charles Burns
ferg: so nice, love the colours
blackula: neat design, looking forward to more

[Zwebbie]

Zwebbie: Cool painting, man. great face!
Credit where credit is due, the face is pope Gregory XV's (as immortalised by Bernini).

-

I'm genuinely baffled at getting compliments for 2D; I completely screw up when I have to make something from the top of my head, so I do thought I'd practice by copying to maybe one day get good enough to partake in the Concept Tag. That's where the good artists are.


Anyway, have another quickie pope:

http://www.joeyspijkers.com/images/2D_Bernini_UrbanusVIII.jpg

[TheDarkKnight]

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4987/68416969.jpg

Been working on this, basing it on a celebrity.

Trying to see if I can sculpt a hooded vest and an army cap to get a better likeness.

Any tips on modeling caps are appreciated :)

[katana]

cool jesse, i for one would like to see stuff like this posted more often.


me too.

[Marshal Banana]

Goodness, Jesse. Materials look to be incredibly complex.

[Y_M]

Some great work on this page.

Darkknight - those are some pretty big ears


Still mucking around in zbrush. Started with some zspheres here, I'll do some retopology soon with this since it's something I should probably learn to do.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2126504/preretoposaurus.JPG

[naturon]

Man! there's some awesome art in this thread :) ... here's what Ive been working on for a little bit.
Rendered in Unity ... 2*1024 textures
http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab252/saxondixon/OLD_RUIN-1.png


http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab252/saxondixon/WireandAO.png

Was going for something along these lines ...

http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab252/saxondixon/power_of_trees_22.jpg

[Sectaurs]

yikes, that is not a kind presentation

[naturon]

bit better?

[Medestruit]

Thanks guys. Here's a little more work on it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/Impetual/design%20stuff/sharkbitewip2.jpg

[StickFigs]

I'm working on a relatively simple paintbrush model for a game and I've ran into some trouble:

http://stashbox.org/945918/paintbrush.jpg

I keep getting ugly smoothing groups around this area and I'm not sure how to get rid of them.

[Millenia]

Just move your previous loops so that you have more uniform density there?

[StickFigs]

Just move your previous loops so that you have more uniform density there?

You mean the ones on the top or the ones towards the handle?

[Neox]

that looks like the stupidest animal in the world neox.

phew and i thought i was strange when people told me that its cute, when i saw the overpaint by one of our concepters Artur, i thought its the most retared looking thing ever :poly142:

small cleanup update, not sure i spend that much more time with it, as its pretty small in game and doesn't move a bit :D

http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/scribbles/neox/animals/wubbo_thecat_04.jpg

[ENODMI]

It has such wide eyes! ha, i like it:)

[ironbearxl]

It's like a snarf from thundercats :D

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/olive_hs_02.jpg

[Papa_Austin]

phew and i thought i was strange when people told me that its cute, when i saw the overpaint by one of our concepters Artur, i thought its the most retared looking thing ever :poly142:

small cleanup update, not sure i spend that much more time with it, as its pretty small in game and doesn't move a bit :D

http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/scribbles/neox/animals/wubbo_thecat_04.jpg

that cat is PHAT lol

[rollin]

I say no to this face
fatcat (http://thetrawbros.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/fat-cat.jpg)

eyes are pointing forward and sitting well above the nose and a lot closer together

assuming you go for the head-up-pose (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2246/2225702996_b0da05337e.jpg) you still should put the eyes closer together.. looks good from side view

[Marshal Banana]

http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/scribbles/neox/animals/wubbo_thecat_04.jpg

Tail looks a bit odd. Normally, if a cat's tail is big 'n fluffy, it would either start smaller and get bigger near the end or it'd be uniform.
http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/cats-dogs/long-fluffy-cat.jpg
http://www.thecatgallery.com/images/Fire-fluffy-tail-2.jpg

[Neox]

rollin: far apart eyes are intended and make him look more stupid, thats what we wanted, a bit like totoro, i know it looks stupid, but it is intended that he looks stupid, maybe i'll test making em bigger moire like the cat bus in totoro, but i'm not sure

yes his head is pointing a bit upwards as he would touch the ground if he doesn't xD
but basicly he will just be lying around, you will never see him move, but he will always be around, like ninja cat or creepy watson in that sherlock holmes game

as for the tail i i had it thinner in the initial blockout, but we dexided to make it thicker and more pointy to the end, it could be more evenly thick, i agree i'll do that but its going to stay pointy and not rounded :)

[Mio]

http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/scribbles/neox/animals/wubbo_thecat_03.jpg
changed him a bit, ehem :D

still a lot to clean up


so cute

man i like this! haha

[Razorb]

thats super nice Neox!

Ghoul model for my little game that im doin!
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Razorb/StealerGuy_GhoulModel.jpg

[Joao Sapiro]

neox , id tottaly buy a sculpt of that cat . As always it oozes character . Rock on man.

[A Rabid Moose!!!]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3NztIFqFlEo/TDRcvMBC_8I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/KuAzNsHDyo4/s1600/lionwip.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/94/258729552_1c2a888a78.jpg

First post, just thought Id show something random I have been making. I have been recreating the fountain in Leicester, England. Just a few hours work so far.

[OzMa]

Yep, good cat neox! A sculpt from that model would be great :)

Razorb, cute ghoul there. The texture is great :)

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Working on this guy now... Texturing :)

http://173.45.73.121/%7Ecarlosde/blog/wip/procesoalien1.jpg

[Super]

3 hours anatomy practice.. figured it may aswell be on a 10ft green bloke.

http://i46.tinypic.com/53v1w4.jpg

[TNO]

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[Nick Carver]

Neox: I really like the overall shape of that cat (the tapering tail is very cool) but I think that a couple of the facial features are tipping it over from quirky to creepy-looking. I think that having the eyes far apart is fair enough, but making the lower lip so pronounced and human-like feels kind of odd to me. It's pretty cool looking otherwise though! Good to see you still trucking along with Airborn!

[butt_sahib]

Raz:
Hey buddy! :)

Finally seeing 3d pimpage from you! :D
The model looks great and the texture is down right wicked! Eye seems abit flat :P

[HonkyPunch]

thats super nice Neox!

Ghoul model for my little game that im doin!
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Razorb/StealerGuy_GhoulModel.jpg
I love the texture on that, reminds me of Vagrant story for some reason, probably the texture style.
Good job.

[OzMa]

I almost finished with the texture... maybe I'll add a gun.

Anyone can help me with some suggests? I'll very apreciate it! Thanks :)

http://173.45.73.121/%7Ecarlosde/blog/wip/aliencomp.jpg

[Neox]

Neox: I really like the overall shape of that cat (the tapering tail is very cool) but I think that a couple of the facial features are tipping it over from quirky to creepy-looking. I think that having the eyes far apart is fair enough, but making the lower lip so pronounced and human-like feels kind of odd to me. It's pretty cool looking otherwise though! Good to see you still trucking along with Airborn!


will play around a bit more with the lower lip thanks, do you mean the general shape, or the reddish coloration or the combination of both?
As for airborn, yeah we have been slowed down by a hell lot around the E3 thanks to brink and crysis2 and some other productions our people work on, so it got pretty silent - besides the registered trademark that we now own.
But now slowly but steadily we start to get back into business, having a second coder to support us will hopefully help speed things up a bit :)

[jmiles]

yo.. did a lil speed sculpt last night

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2965/progress01.png (http://img408.imageshack.us/i/progress01.png/)

[felipefrango]

@OzMa: you should do a specular map, it looks good but at the moment it's uniformly glossy, kinda plastic.

[OzMa]

@OzMa: you should do a specular map, it looks good but at the moment it's uniformly glossy, kinda plastic.

Hmm.... I never did one before but I will search for some info. Thanks! :)

[premium]

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/5044/renderk.jpg
still need to work on textures...

[TNO]

@ OzMa the lips look well (is there a chance to see a wire picture?)
you need to make nails on the hands

[OzMa]

Here it is! :) (2868 Tris)

http://173.45.73.121/%7Ecarlosde/blog/wip/wirealien.jpg

[Medestruit]

I'm kinda stuck at the moment on a few things. Not sure if I want to "zombie" up the skin or leave it clean as the current outlines are, and I'm not sure if I wanna stay color or not. I like the particular colors I've chosen(especially in regards to a shirt design, as it's only 3 colors other than linework). In either case I will probably keep the blood at the very least. But other than deciding on these 2 things, I just need to do some typo and it's done.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/Impetual/design%20stuff/colorandnonETB.jpg

[premium]

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/2564/retoporobo.jpg
Gonna be a robot (:

[TheDarkKnight]

Y_M (http://www.polycount.com/forum/member.php?u=33423)thanks for the comment, I agree and will def take a look at it :)

Started some work on a hooded vest today I think it's looking quite alright ATM, only thing I don't like is the hood so far, might look for a different way to do that part

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/3748/vestk.jpg

[Nick Carver]

Yeah, I meant that the combination of the lip shape and the red colour is making it feel a bit odd to me.

I look forward to seeing the Airborn project develop!

will play around a bit more with the lower lip thanks, do you mean the general shape, or the reddish coloration or the combination of both?
As for airborn, yeah we have been slowed down by a hell lot around the E3 thanks to brink and crysis2 and some other productions our people work on, so it got pretty silent - besides the registered trademark that we now own.
But now slowly but steadily we start to get back into business, having a second coder to support us will hopefully help speed things up a bit :)

[an aggressive napkin]

I'm kinda stuck at the moment on a few things. Not sure if I want to "zombie" up the skin or leave it clean as the current outlines are, and I'm not sure if I wanna stay color or not. I like the particular colors I've chosen(especially in regards to a shirt design, as it's only 3 colors other than linework). In either case I will probably keep the blood at the very least. But other than deciding on these 2 things, I just need to do some typo and it's done.

Siack lookin creepy thing
ahh the mark of the dark trinity (three cuts) Ghost hunting shows ftw

[makoa]

neox - that cat is awesome! i like how you imbue your characters with lots of personality
razorb - cool ghoul! i really like the color palette

power slap!
http://www.kensofresh.com/images/45.jpg

[Medestruit]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/Impetual/design%20stuff/ETBfinal.jpg


Well, I think this is final. It's what they wanted, and I think I'm ok with it too. I attempted zombifying the body some, but it just took so much away from the shark bite and the face, which are the main focal points. Text wasn't really what I wanted to go with, but it's the font they wanted, so I was a bit handcuffed there. All in all, I'm fairly happy with it I think.

[Muzz]

Line for her back just in front of the elbow looks really weird man, it doesnt match up with the line below the shirt/towel.

Looks really good otherwise

[Ferg]

Came out great med, good call on going with the clean body design too, hit the nail on the head in regards to keeping the focal points clear.

edit: agree with muzz about the back

[Medestruit]

Hm, yeah now that you mention it hah. Would it work if I thinned out the body area above the shirt, i.e. bringing it further toward the face side of the image from the elbow? From the angle the body is twisted, that line was more to suggest the back muscle.

[Neox]

awww damn and i thought it would be skin and not a dress, with muscles and flesh underneath

[Medestruit]

awww damn and i thought it would be skin and not a dress, with muscles and flesh underneath


Haha, that woulda been pretty sweet too. Maybe I'll do that as a personal piece, even though I'm shit at anatomy :p

[Holi]

cool design!
agree with muzz as well, i did a little photoshoping to make it clear:

http://uppix.net/3/4/0/d667207670d17dd30deeb69783946.jpg

[Muzz]

Yep holi's photoshopping is exactly what i meant :).

[Rumkugel]

http://www.abload.de/thumb/18ezl.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=18ezl.jpg) http://www.abload.de/thumb/2tfst.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=2tfst.jpg)


would like to spend more time on it... commitments :/

[ScudzAlmighty]

Im going to take this out of Swizzles awesome thread and put it here where it might have a chance of being noticed. Doing a sculpt-interpetation of the John Henry Heavy from the 1850`s tf2 portrait,

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/mrsunfish/1850HeavyWip3.jpg

[Simmo]

WIP of Invader Zim for the lowpoly time machine competition. First character model, not unwrapped yet, just coloured materials in Max.

Lowpoly is too much fun hehe

http://imgur.com/3mrI2.png

[Medestruit]

cool design!
agree with muzz as well, i did a little photoshoping to make it clear:



Well, it wouldn't be exactly like that. Bringing it that far over to the left is too far. I think I have it figured out though. The reason it couldn't come that far is because first, the shoulder strap of the dress would just be floating there when it's supposed to be tighter fitting, and there's a sight line of the lower back floating. Here's what I mean.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/Impetual/diagram.jpg

But from there, is it better?

[OzMa]

Added gun... Maybe I'm going to do a backpack and some stuff :)

Any suggestions?

http://173.45.73.121/%7Ecarlosde/blog/wip/aliencomp2.jpg

[SpeCter]

Fix the weights on his leg :P

[OzMa]

Fix the weights on his leg :P

Well, yep, it's a quick rig :P

[Moels]

Hello everyone.
I'm new to polycount, and i am very impressed with the work the community is presenting. Ihave rescently lost my job, and therefor i'm getting started on some old projects for tf2.

This is aa replacement for the huntsman, if i ever get it finished

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/yy66/Moels_imgvault/TF2%20stuff/crossbowFinal.jpg

still needs work: uv mapping, baking, rigging and compiling. got issiues here and help would be appriciated

best regards
Moels

[Medestruit]

Ok ok, enough with me crowding the pages with my banter. I am calling this done(the border and stuff is just for show, it won't be with the final design...just didn't want the background being so boring :p )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/Impetual/design%20stuff/sharkbite.jpg

My friends have been happy with it, so it should be nice. I get a free night of drinking and a first print shirt when they run them, so should be cool. -.-

[garuda]

my litle demon
C&C are welcome :D

[Bal]

Been messing around with UDK quite a bit recently, making some tech-ish environement as an excuse to learn it.
It's all still very WIP at the moment, no texture work yet (just baked normals and AO to be sure they look right in unreal). It's gonna be one of those weird diagonal elevator platform type things, my main inspiration is the one in Akira (although I'm not being faithful at all).

http://born-robotic.net/stuff/platform_01.jpg

[rollin]

bal: nice! (but the rock is tiling really heavy ;) )

Medestruit: nice line work!


this is more then just a model.. it will be a project
thx ruz for "inspiration" :)

http://www.maginot.eu/space/mgto/projects/demoon/buke/buke_zbrush_02.jpg

[mheyman]

Started blocking out a gun I've wanted to model. Never modeled a gun before so hopefully I learn alot from it. Had to take a break from my gem mine, I was getting tired of it. Once this is finished I'll go back and finish the mine.

http://i811.photobucket.com/albums/zz39/mheyman/gunwip.jpg

[PogoP]

Been working on my first environment, never tackled anything like this before. A few assets are normal mapped from sculpts, but nothing is set in stone yet.

Pick it apart! :D

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7557268/blockout2.jpg

[3d_devil]

creature [ based on Alex Oliver's concept ] posed
have to fix the nails
and add the snakes
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b25/3d_devil/AlexOlv_Creat/posed.jpg

[meador_forest]

After an additional couple of days refining this model, here is the finished high poly sheet for the samurai helmet.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7804856/vegito-33/sammy-high-sheet-04.jpg

[shotgun]

projection painting tryouts

http://www.shotgun-graphics.com/pimp.jpg

[maze]

...cool to see awesome stuff as usual!!!

....here....grimlock (foot) concept wip... ;) any crits are well appreciated!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4138955/drop3d/grimlock_pie_wip.jpg

[Harry]

Ok ok, enough with me crowding the pages with my banter. I am calling this done(the border and stuff is just for show, it won't be with the final design...just didn't want the background being so boring :p )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/Impetual/design%20stuff/sharkbite.jpg

My friends have been happy with it, so it should be nice. I get a free night of drinking and a first print shirt when they run them, so should be cool. -.-

you think the text might be a bit tiny and intricate? imo size it up and make the line widths consistent.
I dunno what the standards are but I wouldn't sign it. I mean, you'll be credited in the jacket

BTW rollin that's fucking amazing, you're a true boy

[tacit math]

maze. i'm diggin' where that's headed. if there was any crit. well. more a suggestion. perhaps some sharper / more aggressive aspect to the talons ?

more noisy ' concept ' blocking here :

http://www.orderindebris.com/images/kToff_CHEMS_GRAY.gif

[Medestruit]

you think the text might be a bit tiny and intricate? imo size it up and make the line widths consistent.
I dunno what the standards are but I wouldn't sign it. I mean, you'll be credited in the jacket

BTW rollin that's fucking amazing, you're a true boy


Hence why I said the border and all that jazz was only for show, and won't be on the print. It's a standard frame I have saved out(with the signature on it). I have another similar frame with a stamp logo of mine as well. The only thing that gets sent to the printer on this is the girl and the typo.

As for the type, it's really the style of music that determined that. It's the font the band wanted to use, was pretty much out of my hands.

[shotgun]

that bunker model's been lying around on my hard-drive forever

http://shotgun-graphics.com/34front.jpg

[spitty]

cool work shotgun, what are you using for projection painting?

here's a flying monkey i did for the wizard of oz contest on game artisans. i recently did more work on the texture and posed it. it just has a diff map.

http://www.ericspitler.com/images/3d/flyingmonkey01.jpg

[BlackulaDZ]

sooooo much sexyness on this page!

[Harry]

Hence why I said the border and all that jazz was only for show, and won't be on the print. It's a standard frame I have saved out(with the signature on it). I have another similar frame with a stamp logo of mine as well. The only thing that gets sent to the printer on this is the girl and the typo.
Ohhh right, so its like a t shirt or something. I was thinking CD cover, thought the whole image comprised the cover.

As for the type, it's really the style of music that determined that. It's the font the band wanted to use, was pretty much out of my hands.

I get what you mean, but you dont think the linework looks weird being so thin compared to the linework on the main piece?

[tacit math]

that monkey is awesome spitty

[rollin]

tacit math: do finish some of your awesomeness man

shotgun: hehe, nice 1

spitty: flying-propeller-monkey = pure win!

[OzMa]

Spitty that monkey rocks!

[Y_M]

Love the style of that monkeyplane. Just brilliant really.

Still messing around with sculpts. Wondering if I'm improving much.
Arms, lots of arms:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2126504/mrhandy2.jpg

[AimBiZ]

Spitty, Loving it! :D

[c0ldhands]

One of the coolest character design ever Spitty! Its like what King Kong would look like if he became a pilot.

[Neox]

spitty its bloddy awesome!


ah quick retopo video from 3dcoat

http://vimeo.com/13201033

[ceebee]

Hot damn Neox 3DCoat's retopo looks even a bit better than Topogun. Have you tried both and stuck with 3DCoat? Also curious as to what kind of hotkey setup you're using in that video if you don't mind divulging <:]

[Neox]

i used polyboost first, then topogun, never really liked it that much and used zbrush instead (there is still one feature that zbrush has, that no other app has) and then tried 3dcoat and since then i'm with it, it has a great toolset, as for the shortcuts, strangely i only use space for the menu and no other shortcuts at all, dunno never really changed the shortcuts in 3dcoat, besides the ones for sculpting- which i dislike in 3dcoat

[katana]

Neox : Thanks for showing that vid. It was really informative. The mixture of tri's and quads I am guessing is to bring more support to certain area's of the mesh? Since the HP has already been sculpted it doesn't have to stay all quads....is this right? Thanks again.

[Disco Stu]

What feature would that be?
3dcoat looks very quick indeed.

[Neox]

zstrips! very awesome for large areas, well you could create one large polygon in 3dcoat and subdivide it as needed but its just too unpredictable what the projection then does

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/4904/zstrips.jpg

Katana: its the lowpoly mesh, why would that be quad only? :)
i optimized some stuff in max afterwards and kreated more tris even, be it for supporting the shading or be it if aquads would just waste polies in certain areas

[Mouldtooth]

http://i29.tinypic.com/30hne4g.jpg

High and lowpoly of a trainwagon for a scene im working on. Lowpoly is 15000 tris.

Critics are welcome!

[dfacto]

Spitty, that is AWESOME! That guy is begging to be animated. :D

[shotgun]

spitty: heh, cool character. for projection painting - deep paint 3d.

[A Rabid Moose!!!]

Hello again! Update on the fountain sculptures! The job hunt goes on!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3NztIFqFlEo/TDb7MxkyjZI/AAAAAAAAAfY/UxBWK4AXW78/s1600/lion3.jpg

[Disco Stu]

Say what ...
Never even heard about the zstrips feature.
Something i always missed.
cheers

[maze]

tacit math, thanks for the suggestion, yeah I`ll maybe experiment a bit more with that talon,
I am sort of blocking out the whole body now.... let`s see how this goes.... next time I'll try to do some nicer hp render..... you character is looking good, I wish I could see it in higher res.
do you have a concept for it?

spitty, ur monkey rocks dude, nice colors there.

[hawken]

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z106/SoullanceHAL/tank4.jpg

nice start on Tank! always loved this particular mecha

[katana]

Katana: its the lowpoly mesh, why would that be quad only? :)
i optimized some stuff in max afterwards and kreated more tris even, be it for supporting the shading or be it if aquads would just waste polies in certain areas

I just always thought that things were more predictable if done in quads, but since Airborn is in UDK, I know that the mesh has to be in tris, as opposed to Zbrush, where it works smoother in quads...So I guess in the end, it goes back to whatever gets the job done...nice cat btw and I like how you arrived at the name/concept...congratz on the 'R'.

[Neox]

I just always thought that things were more predictable if done in quads, but since Airborn is in UDK, I know that the mesh has to be in tris, as opposed to Zbrush, where it works smoother in quads...So I guess in the end, it goes back to whatever gets the job done...nice cat btw and I like how you arrived at the name/concept...congratz on the 'R'.


well in the end everything will be tris in the game engine anyways, no matter what engine it is going to be triangulated :)

[TheMadArtist]

So much cool stuff the last few pages in here. Here's something I started playing with in my free time at work between projects. Very early, just blocking stuff out and such. Don't know if I want to go realistic and go for more detail, or keep it pretty low poly and more Guitar Hero style.

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/5363/bhwip.jpg[/QUOTE]

[felipefrango]

NICE! I love Buckethead man, I've been meaning to model him Guitar Hero style since playing Jordan frantically in GH2. Keep us informed, I wanna see how it goes. :D

[TNO]

.

@ OzMa
i like the model more and more

@ Neox 3dcoat looks nice in Retopo... is it possible to do the stuff on the tail in topogun ?
(i cant decide wich program i should buy)

[Tumerboy]

When we took over the building we're in now (it was Netflix before us), wandering around the completely empty building, "Buckethead" was scrawled across every whiteboard in the entire building. It was creepy as fuck.

[ENODMI]

Spitty - Awesome job

just got back to working on this guy, making him dirty now and buiding some more parts for him (feet are unfinished). Going to place him in a scene once i get finished, weeeee:)
http://enodmi.com/posting/robopet.png

[Jesse Moody]

enodmi... care posting some texture flats... Looking really nice

[AimBiZ]

TheMadArtist: Nice idea. Proportions are off though. Calfs need to be longer, perhaps even the thighs and arms slightly shorter. Put alot of focus on his hands and hair and of course the face, though it's fairly simple. If you want to have him guitarhero-style then you should definately exagerate his proportions alot more. Make him super thin and his hair and bucket huge.

[TheMadArtist]

TheMadArtist: Nice idea. Proportions are off though. Calfs need to be longer, perhaps even the thighs and arms slightly shorter. Put alot of focus on his hands and hair and of course the face, though it's fairly simple. If you want to have him guitarhero-style then you should definately exagerate his proportions alot more. Make him super thin and his hair and bucket huge.

Cheers man, thanks for the crits. Yeah, gonna go the Guitar Hero style now, so messing with proportions at the moment. Your right, the main thing I'm looking to exaggerate are the bucket, his overall lankiness, and his freaky hands and super long fingers:
http://images.thegauntlet.com/pics/Buckethead.jpg

[OzMa]

http://timurariman.jimdo.com/s/cc_images/lightbox_1253406012.jpg

@ OzMa
i like the model more and more

@ Neox 3dcoat looks nice in Retopo... is it possible to do the stuff on the tail in topogun ?
(i cant decide wich program i should buy)

Thanks might! You're good too! :)

[Neox]

@ Neox 3dcoat looks nice in Retopo... is it possible to do the stuff on the tail in topogun ?
(i cant decide wich program i should buy)

nope thats pretty unique to 3dcoat, while it was basicly also a part of claytools but afaik topogun doesn't give you any slice/spline tools at all, haven't been using it pretty much since a few weeks after i bought so, i might be wrong

[TheMadArtist]

I dig slow Fridays at work where I can work on whatever. Ok, rounding things out, getting proportions right...and gave him his nunchucks. Don't mind the crappy hair planes at the moment, those are more just to give me an idea of how far I want his hair to come out.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/858/bhwip4.jpg

[Laughing_Bun]

This should probably be filed under "what I was working on" since I lost it in a hard drive crash but I wanted you all to see how awesome it was going to be. These images are all that remain RIP.

http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/1291/screenshot00003a.jpg
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/9840/screenshot00000f.jpg

[Sandro]

Cool atmosphere Bun, reminds me thief II

[felipefrango]

Shit, sorry to hear about your heard drive, it was looking great. As least there's a couple of shots for your portfolio.

[Jesse Moody]

So much in this still wip... but here...


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6602456/unreal_shot_07.jpg

[Orb]

still playing with the demon sdk

wip

http://saroulman.free.fr/demon.jpg

[keizza]

workin on a char. "plan" on taking this to a model once i finish.

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/14/far.jpg

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6316/closeuplp.jpg

[Massbot]

MadArtist Woo buckethead! Hats a bit tall maybe?
Trying to speed up my workflow, had fun with this today!

http://www.curtad.com/poly/fatcake_001.jpg

[rawrsie]

Loving it orb!

[Shiv]

I dig slow Fridays at work where I can work on whatever. Ok, rounding things out, getting proportions right...and gave him his nunchucks. Don't mind the crappy hair planes at the moment, those are more just to give me an idea of how far I want his hair to come out.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/858/bhwip4.jpg

for some reason i see the white bit on his head as a popcorn bucket :|

[d1ver]

Hey, MadArtist, reminds me of Bucket Head. Looking good so far
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC4fVX604mE

Laughing_Bun, holycrap buddy I mourn with you. Looks realy good. I imagine how great will your next be!
I have two hard drives and I keep all the important stuff copied on both of them plus I have an 8gb usb flash to make backups from time to time.

keizza, nice concept. Reminds me of edea from Final Fantasy 8.

Here's a little something I am working on
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8682/postcardsmall.jpg
a bigger picture and some text here:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74884

have a nice day)

[TheMadArtist]

Hey, MadArtist, reminds me of Bucket Head. Looking good so far
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC4fVX604mE

I hope so, because that's who it's supposed to be. :D

[felipefrango]

MadArtist, I think you exagerated the height of the bucket a little too much, maybe that's making it look like a popcorn bin.

[Sparkwire]

im not smart enough to use zbrush, so i beat up snarks all day
http://sparkwire.thanez.net/OPMESA/snark/idle_bite.gif

[sampson]

for those fullas who only check out waywo:
http://samroberts3d.com/images/newpillar_shot2.jpg

[Rens]

hahaha! very nice sparkwire

[ScudzAlmighty]

little bit of clean-up/polypaint to finish, then weapon time:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/mrsunfish/1850HeavyWip5.jpg

[achillesian]

lose the vest, lose the sleeves, keep the overalls or whatever they are underneath, doesnt give off much of an 1850 to me atm

[katana]

Sparkwire : there was that brief moment when scrolling my screen when i thought, what the hell is that moving on my monitor? lol.

[Famouz]

Massbot: Trying to speed up my workflow, had fun with this today!

What just one day oO

[mcunha98]

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/671/operionwires2.png

[TNO]

http://timurariman.jimdo.com/s/cc_images/lightbox_1253490212.png
some progress on the dude

(I will try 3dcoat soon)

[ScudzAlmighty]

lose the vest, lose the sleeves, keep the overalls or whatever they are underneath, doesnt give off much of an 1850 to me atm

well, both of those are in the concept and in the real heavy, so I'd rather not but if more people agree than I'll try it without.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/mrsunfish/1850HeavyWip7.jpg

[vcool]

I like the outfit, it's different from the Heavy which is good. One could argue that it's a bit too detailed for TF2, but I still like it. I'm not really a fan of the beige/sand colour belt, to be honest, but probably the biggest thing to work on, imo, would be the head. Ther'es just something odd about it, I think it's the eye area. Like circles around the eyes from sleepless nights or something, which has no place in tf2. I can't explain it :(

[ScudzAlmighty]

it's definatley meant to be a bit more detailed than reg tf2 (it's probably going to stay just a sculpt), somewhere inbetween the game detail and the concept sketches. the belts and bandanna are still placeholder right now so colour/detail is completely up for grabs.

I find with the head that the details read differently depending on how close it is,
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/mrsunfish/1850HeavyWip8.jpg

so while the eye's probably are a bit too baggy underneath, I think they work up close.
or at least I think they do...

[vcool]

The face certainly looks better up close.

I think what I found weird were the eyes themselves. I think you painted them on? The fact would feel different with actual eyes.

[katana]

He looks great..it's almost like a claymation version of TF2...might be interesting.

[ScudzAlmighty]

real eye's you say? yeah I could give that a try...

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/mrsunfish/1850HeavyWip9.jpg

[pixelchaot]

cool work shotgun, what are you using for projection painting?

here's a flying monkey i did for the wizard of oz contest on game artisans. i recently did more work on the texture and posed it. it just has a diff map.

http://www.ericspitler.com/images/3d/flyingmonkey01.jpg
spitty that monkey is awesome :thumbup: !!!!
late but i have to say that ^^

[dfacto]

Scudz, the eyes need way more depth, they're closer to being a plane than being real eyes at this point. Pretty sweet model otherwise, pretty cool how the old fangled tf2 team is coming together.
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/6733/scudzheavycrit.jpg

[Neox]

did a quick paintover, don't have much time so only one half of the face

http://www.polyphobia.de/nonpublic/op.jpg

[ScudzAlmighty]

k, I'll have another go at the eye's when I get home, thanks dfacto.

Neox, man that paintover is awesome, but it looks exactly like a Neox, if you catch my meaning, and I'd really like people to think it looks like a Scudz... maybe I can find a nice middle ground though.

thanks for the feedback guys

[ZacD]

I liked Neox's paintover so much I wanted to see it mirrored, of course the face is a bit squished, but I really like the head shape and style and thinks it fits much better in the TF2 universe.

http://i25.tinypic.com/2h6ark9.jpg

[dfacto]

Nah, it's a nice concept and all, but the eyes let it down. They're way too cutesy for TF2, which has serious or borderline insane eyes.

[n88tr]

Traditional Shotgun. I think it's a Mossberg 590.

[img]http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4807/tradshottywip1.gif[/img

Still needs work on the stock, grip, etc.

[Kewop Decam]

Traditional Shotgun. I think it's a Mossberg 590.

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4807/tradshottywip1.gif

Still needs work on the stock, grip, etc.
fixed

[vcool]

Nah, it's a nice concept and all, but the eyes let it down. They're way too cutesy for TF2, which has serious or borderline insane eyes.

Agreed.

[Neox]

I liked Neox's paintover so much I wanted to see it mirrored, of course the face is a bit squished, but I really like the head shape and style and thinks it fits much better in the TF2 universe.


hahaha oh my yeah mirrored sucks

here is a better one

http://www.polyphobia.de/nonpublic/op2.jpg

scudz i'm not saying you have to do it exatcly the same way, but i hope i can give you enough points you can look at, basicly you have a lot of random appearing shapes going on, you need to clean that, tf2 is all about simplicity, my overpaint could even be more cleaned, no quesions about that

also you need to focus on flow a bit more, it doesn't matter if you copy my eye or the mouth or the nose, but your mouth is super straight, has no organic feel at all and the eyes are very almond shaped, very symmetrical and wall-eyed

[Massbot]

Famouz - Yea but I did have a base head with some pretty nice uv's + topology so that took a big chunck of time away!

Haha Spitty that's great!

[ScudzAlmighty]

naw I get that, and sorry I didn't mean to sound ungratefull or anything, you've got some very good points and I fully intend to copy as many of them as I can, I just meant that when I look at your paintover (more the first one) there very first thing I would think if it wasn't my sculpt is "Neox made this."
And while that speaks volumes for your signature style and talent, in the same way that you could spot a Kolby Jukes or a Tim Applebee a mile off, it might just leave me as that guy who isn't Neox. If that makes any sense.

and of course it's much more likely that I'm just insane and over-thinking it to begin with so I'll shut-up.

For now.

[Zwebbie]

Neox/Scudz: I think the lips in the paintover don't look like TF2 lips at all. The cheeck shading is also too dominant if you ask me. Quuiiiiickie paintover:

http://www.joeyspijkers.com/misc_img/NeoxPaintover.jpg


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In other news today, some more dead people:

http://www.joeyspijkers.com/images/2D_Bernini_ScipioneBorghese.jpg

http://www.joeyspijkers.com/images/2D_Bernini_InnocentiusX.jpg

I miss the sketch thread.

[Swizzle]

Sensors detect Bernini.

[Slipstream]

Finally getting around to finishing up this guy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/temetry/daleD05.jpg

@Zwebbie:
Those are some really awesome paintings :)

[n88tr]

Is it bad to post more than 1 or 2 images of your WAYWO thing? sorry if so

http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_1.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_2.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_3.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_4.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_5.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_6.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_7.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_8.gif

Piece above the grip is screwy. I re-did it twice. Maybe a third time is what it needs.

[Sisqo]

High poly WIP of a bushmaster ACR.. Low poly will come once this is finished.
http://joelacroixonline.com/acrwip.jpg

[EarthQuake]

High poly WIP of a bushmaster ACR.. Low poly will come once this is finished.
http://joelacroixonline.com/acrwip.jpg

Looks nice so far, edges may be a bit tight in spots. I'm not sure what else you have done, but this seems like a sort of silly way to work, just detailing one side of a mesh before doing anything else? You should make a proper blockout, and then work on stuff in sensible peices, what you have now is going to be a pain when you put everything together(joining the two sides and any other work) it would be better to start with solid chunks and get your base in there, otherwise it gets really hard to make any changes when you've got a mesh this dense but dont have the rest of the gun in there...

[Sisqo]

thanks for the crits.
the other side of the gun is a mirror minus the ejector port.
I do have a block out of the weapon as well but its hiding in the render.

[Kitteh]

Is it bad to post more than 1 or 2 images of your WAYWO thing? sorry if so

[img]http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_1.gif[img]
[img]http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_2.gif[img]
[img]http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_3.gif[img]
[img]http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_4.gif[img]
[img]http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_5.gif[img]
[img]http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_6.gif[img]
[img]http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_7.gif[img]
[img]http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_8.gif[img]

Piece above the grip is screwy. I re-did it twice. Maybe a third time is what it needs.

The grip itself is messed up too. The side of it should be pretty much flat and meet up nicely with the piece above it. Look at your refs.

[beezul]

still playing with the demon sdk

wip

http://saroulman.free.fr/demon.jpg

Bobo's demon from the sdk thread. It's my first time projecting painting and it went ok.
http://enodmi.com/posting/bobo.png


awesome... and jawsome........

[prolow]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/palohman/Scarabe01.jpg

[ScudzAlmighty]

okay, here's an update and a comparison, tried to follow your pointers as best I could, still more to do though
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/mrsunfish/1850HeavyWip10.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/mrsunfish/1850HeavyWip11.jpg

[ceebee]

Much better dude, now you've just gotta clean everything up and make it TF2 level clean :D

[I_R_Hopo]

The Heavy is looking awesome Scudz, but he looks too intelligent for a heavy replacement, if you know what I mean? When I look at the TF2 heavy, I think of a giant dopey looking guy. What you have now looks like he's really deep in thought, not really one to run out risking his life with a gattling-gun.

If you were going for a more intelligent looking heavy though, then nevermind this :P

[dfacto]

Yeah, this guy looks like an erudite east coast campaigner for emancipation, not someone in the desert west driving railroad spikes. Make him look mean.

[GCMP]

Hey peeps, been having a little break from web design and came across a tutorial on cg textures about the blend if function in photoshop. Never messed with it before and strangely enough it was always in front of my eyes! Anyway I decided to test it out on a rock sculpt I did in zbrush a while back, some results...

Sculpt baked to plane
http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu196/GCMax/19.jpg
Version 1 textures
http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu196/GCMax/Stonev1.jpg
Version 2 textures
http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu196/GCMax/Stonev2.jpg

This should save some time from painting masks so it's all good :)

ps: site will be up soon http://www.gcmax.co.uk

laterz

[Frogfish]

I realise now that I should've sculpted more of the details onto the face rather than just painting them onto the diffuse map : |

http://i.imagehost.org/0944/wat.jpg

[Massbot]

I'll never get tired of looking at that SDK. Frogfish theres always time to resculpt and rebake :P It's looking pretty good anyway, the specular needs breaking up a bit he looks a bit shiny.

Added another view and play with a lighting a tiny bit,
http://www.curtad.com/poly/fatcake_002.jpg

[Ruz]

looks really nice Massbot. the only thing I would say is that it seems a bit liney in places, perhaps focus a little more on volumes.
Also I am not sure if they are wrinkles or scars.

[ScoobyDoofus]

A little old now, but decided to show this here.
Started as a Voxel sculpt in 3D Coat. Retopo/UV'd in 3DC, projected vox details, finished & polypainted in Zbrush.

Also trying to get displacement to work nicely from ZB3.5-->Max but not getting sharp results. Any tips in that area would be appreciated.
Expressions are just a few test targets, not rigging.
**Credit and thanks to Cman2k for the eyeballs/shader.**

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44379/bald_whiteguy_mid_res.jpg

[Muzz]

Scooby that is kickass!

[Snowfly]

Here's a piece I'm bringing with me to SDCC...working on the colors next. It's based off a story written by my gf.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/chrisdejoya/homecoming_onesheet-1.jpg

[The Flying Monk]

Finally managed to get some more of this gun done.
Kind of crappy renders, but its late.

I ended up spending too much time screwing around with the forward ejection port. But I've got it pretty much where I want it to be now. The shells now get ejected out to the left instead of over the barrel in the line of fire. This also has the added bonus having some details in the FPS view.

From the reference pics I found this gun seems to use the same magazine as the AK-47 so I went with that, and made an extended clip for the hell of it.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2528431/WIP/TKB-011_wip02.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2528431/WIP/TKB-011_wip03.jpg

[butt_sahib]

Nice gun :D

YUSSS
http://i30.tinypic.com/mhsle.jpg

[n88tr]

Nice gun thing

thanks help, kitteh, I will work on that.

[vcool]

Nice gun :D

YUSSS
http://i30.tinypic.com/mhsle.jpg

the rimlight is blinding me.

[LeoJr]

Awesome job, Monk! Makes me think twice before posting this.... but ah well.

First attempts at hard surface/highpoly in max... I wanna see how far I can push it by, say, tomorrow.
<3
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y175/LeoThunderJr/SPAS12_HP_01.jpg

[EarthQuake]

A little old now, but decided to show this here.
Started as a Voxel sculpt in 3D Coat. Retopo/UV'd in 3DC, projected vox details, finished & polypainted in Zbrush.

Also trying to get displacement to work nicely from ZB3.5-->Max but not getting sharp results. Any tips in that area would be appreciated.
Expressions are just a few test targets, not rigging.
**Credit and thanks to Cman2k for the eyeballs/shader.**

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44379/bald_whiteguy_mid_res.jpg

Ryan you've stepped up the quality on this, there is a very noticeable improvement here over your past work, sculpt, texture, presentation, everything man. Whatever you're doing differently its working man. Now give the dude some hair!

[Psyk0]

Scooby that is pretty cool man!

One small nitpick is how you connected the sternomastoid muscles, they should be more V shaped at the center and part of it splits and attaches further away on the clavicles...of course the form can change depending on the fat and skin hanging.

http://www.yaharatherapy.com/images/scm.jpg (http://www.drwhitey.com/AP/ManPix/SCM.jpg)


(http://www.drwhitey.com/AP/ManPix/SCM.jpg)

[ScoobyDoofus]

Joe: Thanks man! Thats high praise coming from you and I appreciate it. I'm a bit lost as to what I want to do re: hairstyle so that's why he doesn't have one yet. Hair is a major weakness for me. Im a bit surprised at the positive response to this guy as yet again for me...not a scrap of reference was used and I just freeballed this guy out of a voxel sphere.

Psyko: Good eye. Yeah, I noticed that myself. Truth is though, the shoulders and such are going to be covered by clothes/armor/whatever and I just added all that in so the neck wasn't just floating there like so many other heads I've done. I wouldn't have lazed out and done better work if I'd actually bothered with clavicles but again since its going to be covered...fuck it.

butt_sahib: Yeah man...that rim light is way too strong and the aliasing its causing isnt doing you any favors. Also your reflection map is a bit sharp and does not appear to be masked by your spec. It just looks uniform across the surface, which is not good. Otherwise it looks like a pretty good job. Keep at it!

Massbot: I always like your heads. The lips seem a bit thin or lacking interior volume especially as they go toward the corners of the mouth, making the cheeks appear paper thin. This character is hard to read, not having any additional information. He could be a REALLY messed up human, or a very human looking monster of some type. Its kinda hard to tell. I think pushing him more in either direction will help him stand out and tell his story a little better.

[Sparkwire]

its a bit stiff atm, need to fix it up some.

http://sparkwire.thanez.net/SendPresents/uploads/poppinpills.gif

also i love that gun flying monk.

[Lonewolf]

haha nice animations!

[JohnnySix]

Spark - is that omething for TF2? Animations are really lifelike, perhaps more antenna movement though. :D



WIP Untilted UT2004 project, trying to make quick modular assets that light well when vertex lit and fit with existing theme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5UW46yqq0

[Ruz]

I like the way you are feeding him monkeynuts after beating him in the last animation.
This shows great compassion Sparkwire:)

[dansher]

I like the way you are feeding him monkeynuts after beating him in the last animation.
This shows great compassion Sparkwire:)

that or he just wants to keep him well fed and healthy so he can beat him some more lol

[n88tr]

Fixed shotgun

http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_ver2_1.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_ver2_2.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/Moss590Concept_ver2_3.gif

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TF2-style sentry guns [Tier 3 I'm still working on]

http://cahemdue.net/images/TF2StyleSentries_1.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/TF2StyleSentries_2.gif
http://cahemdue.net/images/TF2StyleSentries_3.gif