mr_ace's WIP thread

[mr_ace]

Hi polycounters, I'm usually a GA poster, but I've been lurking here for years, I've probably made some shit threads here over the years.

Anyway, trying to motivate myself to keep a semi constant stream of 3d flowing so I don't drift off and not do enough work too often. So come on in and take a look.

To kick it off here's a model of captain America I made for GA's Comicon competition last year. I missed the deadline when he was mostly finished and I lost the will to do the final few stages once I knew it was too late to enter. So I finally finished that, and I'm working on some likeness and anatomy sculpts I'll hopefully post up shortly

Here's a bunch of renders:

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/4712/finalrender.jpg
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2096/finalrenderfile04.jpg
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8858/finalrenderfile05.jpg
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/923/finalrenderfile06.jpg
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/7404/finalrenderfilehp02.jpg
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/2917/finalrenderfilewires.jpg
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/5247/texturesheetsfinal.jpg

Let me know what you think, all crits are welcome no matter how harsh, I really want my next character to be a big improvement so any improvements you suggest is very handy

EDIT: I've added all my updated to my original post so you don't have to scroll through the whole thing. Cheers for looking

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/7559/tshirtrenderforum.jpg
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/4250/blackguyrender02.jpg
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4369/pantsman.jpg

[koufuyo]

This is most interesting indeed if I may ask, why is this one, one piece., just curious.
Also if I may ask, how did you render this one?

[Serenity4art]

Very nice work, this is my gaol by the end of this summer. To create a complete character. Sorry I have no words of advice that can help you improve, but thanks a lot for sharing.

[Walrus]

Love the texture work. Great model too.

[mr_ace]

thanks for the compliments.

@koufuyo, I don't think I understand your first question. Render wise, there's no settings, it's just max's default scanline settings.

[mr_ace]

updated with new bits and bobs.
Here's a shot of captain americas high poly i forgot to upload:
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/7404/finalrenderfilehp02.jpg

And some female anatomy stuff I've been doing for practice. this isn't for a full character or anything, just a bit of practice
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/8868/femaleanatomy01.jpg
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8329/femaleanatomy02.jpg

Let me know what you think

[frell]

was the belt of the first guy meshed on the whole time?

[Cooljay]

It appears that it is imposed on rather than a separate mesh from what I see.

[Oiban]

Awesome!! Great work with the folds in captain america! It really really feels like cloth! And the girl is looking great too! thumbs up!

[seth.]

fantastic stuff on the captain america mr_ace. The head on the female feels a little big to me personally, just from a stylistic point of view. I have a few 3dsk refs with the same proportions though so feel free to ignore me :)

[Death-a-Matron]

Captain America came out awesome! Also really like the folds. the girl looks good, but something about the shoulder area is bothering me. It looks like either her should and arm are too thin, or her upper back is too wide. Great stuff though :D

[mr_ace]

@frell: meshed on? if you mean is it a seperate mesh or is it just sculpted on, then yea it's a seperate mesh!

cooljay: meshed on? imposed? you kids are crazy with your jargon, i don't really know what you mean lol

@Oiban: Thanks man, your hallways looking badass

@Seth: Yea i'm pretty sure her head is way too big as are her hands! you live and learn, i might do another female study sometime soon, my female anatomy is kinda sucky

@death-a-matron: Cheers for the feedback, yea there's some janky stuff going on with her in general...

Anyway, here's a likeness sculpt i did, the likeness is pretty damn shitty, but it's good facial practice. If you think it doesn't look like him now, you shoulda seen my first attempt, maybe i'll post it up later. Tell me who you think it is!

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/239/finalrendersmall.jpg

EDIT: man i showed this to my friend and he had no idea who it was, i'm so ashamed lol. might look into making it less horrible but i might just scrap it instead...

[yodude87]

robert de niro.

i want the prize for guessing :P

[frell]

In your low poly it looks like the shoulder strap is part of the torso mesh?!, same with the belt

[mr_ace]

ahh right, sorry thought u were talking about the high poly, derp, yea it's all part of the same mesh in the low poly!

and yodude87, yea at least someone can guess it lol. your prize is in the mail, though i don't think your gunna like it...

[yodude87]

cmon, you got the face details nailed... at least for me looking at it and 5 seconds later already knew it hahaha xD

[PixelMasher]

I think its the upper lip are that is the only thing throwing it off, looks a lil puffed out kinda. Other than that its pretty recognizeable as de niro. Love the texture on cap!

[yodude87]

but de niro's upper lip is just like that, distorted xD something like stallone's distorted mouth :P

[frell]

ahh right, sorry thought u were talking about the high poly, derp, yea it's all part of the same mesh in the low poly!

and yodude87, yea at least someone can guess it lol. your prize is in the mail, though i don't think your gunna like it...
Howed you do that? retopo?

[mr_ace]

yea man, in topogun, though if you're a max user, max has some pretty solid retopo tools as of max 2010 (i think it's 2010)

[mr_ace]

Hey, haven't had much time to work on personal projects the last week or so, here's a head i made though, let me know what you think

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/4250/blackguyrender02.jpg

Bigger version (http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/4250/blackguyrender02.jpg)

[mr_ace]

t-shirt sculpt from reference. Some bits i'm happy with, some bits I'm not. Here ya go:

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/7559/tshirtrenderforum.jpg

[mr_ace]

working on a male anatomy study, getting close to finished, let me know if you see any anatomy problems.
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/897/body01.jpg
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/231/handg.jpg

[mr_ace]

i did a nicer render as that last one was pretty nasty, still learning to use polypaint for presentation, still don't even know if i should bother crudely polypainting skin tone at all, or whether i should just rely on flat mat cap renders. might just do both if i use this on my website or what have you...

gunna reduce the veins in his arms, gotta rework the head, and some other changes. crits would really be appreciated


http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/6724/bodycensored.jpg


EDIT: had to reupload it because it got removed from imageshack for violation of services. Someone obviously got offended by the slight specular shimmer of a pretend man's shaft...

EDIT AGAIN: this time it's fully censored as imageshack continued to be offended!

[TheWildHunt]

Still getting the deadly 403 forbidden mate, Keep trying, I want to see :)

[mr_ace]

for christs sake imageshack! he's wearing pants now, is that enough for you! godammit...

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4369/pantsman.jpg

[SSquir33]

awsum studies. keep this thread alive and give us moar !

[mr_ace]

thanks SSquir33. Seeing as you bumped this from the abyss, I might as well post some new stuff!

Here's how that anatomy study turned out:

http://peteradamson.co.uk/images/miscellaneous/male_anatomy_01.jpg

http://peteradamson.co.uk/images/miscellaneous/male_anatomy_02.jpg

http://peteradamson.co.uk/images/miscellaneous/male_anatomy_03.jpg

And an asian man head study I did a month or so ago...

http://peteradamson.co.uk/images/miscellaneous/face_study_02.jpg

[Hugh]

why are you blocking the nude areas. This is polycount,we'd rather see it all instead of blocking certain parts.

[mr_ace]

it's just from my website, being able to see his penis doesn't really add anything to the sculpt in my opinion, and i didn't put any time into sculpting it, so it probably detracts from the rest of the model.