Originally Posted by Zipfinator

Been messing around with some cliffs for my new UDK scene.

Woow, nice. You may want to post a breakdown of the scene, please? )

Originally Posted by Hazardous

Hey Its not a game model - Its for miniature production. Zsculpt only and goes straight to printers for 3d printing, then a mould is made from the master print, from which 100's of casts of her are made..... Cant wait to see her on my desk!

Ooooh! I'd like to get one of those, keep us updated!

Had this guy sitting around since Dominance War 4. Seems like about time I got some more done on him.

Cross posting with my thread. I'm almost there, I think.

Finished textures for Ak74m


more pics in this thread

Zipfinator, Hazardous, tacit math, jramauri, all y'all is crazy folk. Awesome work.


Got started on texturing this sonofabitch.

Some wips

Aweseom SvenY! that demon guy is tops.
the womans' arms look too short/hands too big to me... not sure.

Here is my favorite toon character .



Larger Image http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/...ng-d4nty5z.jpg
http://fusedgore.cgsociety.org/gallery/1032286/

@ Bonebrew22 thanks dude! yeah I think your right the hands looks a bit big I will fix that.

some zbrush sculpts for my environment!






teehee

MadnessImport - Thanks! I made a little adjustment... hope it looks a bit better.
tacit math -thanks! glad you like it

Fixed some normal map issues that were bugging me on the arm, and adjusted the tint a bit:



...more images and breakdowns on my site.


Swizzle - he's really comin' to life, lovin' those colors!
Hazardous - she's a beauty, wouldn't mind oogling over her on my desk

some evening mech modeling. stirdy and nice canon walker!

Originally Posted by SveinY

Some wips

Some sweet stuff there man, especially like the demon .. do you mind me asking how did you tackle the groin chain ?

The chick head turned really nice and I like how the fingers hold the 3d panties, the connection is believable
Sorry if you're not looking for crits, but I gotta say this ...
The pose feels way too stiff to me.
Is good you put a bit of pelvic rotation there but I'd push it even farther, make the panties follow the same pelvic rotation, and rotate the shoulders inversely to compensate.
On top of that her boobs seem like 100% silicone, would be nice if they were softer and less pointy.
(Edit: Oh and I gave her more ass)
What do you reckon ?

Originally Posted by Del

Awesome stuff Troy. I think the rhythms in the pose are really nice, and its got interest from every angle too which is something people often overlook with posed pieces (myself included).

I would say however that her weapon is gonna be under seeerious stress when its printed because it will be super thin as 37mm. If its gonna be pewter metal then it will probably hold up. I remember when I printed my model with a ribbon it came out tiny bit thinner than I actually sculpted it in relation to the model, and was exacerbated by the fact it becomes almost flexible at that size. Mine was 9inches too, so its a lot larger.

pics so you understand wtf i mean:


I'd recommend doing anything design-wise that you can to plump up that area were the Staff meets her hand. I promise it will seem unnoticeable to the character but will seriously improve the quality of the strength of the figure.

Hey man, you have nothing to worry about Weve been over this issue more times than you can possibly imagine, weve printed so many versions and spent money on wasted prints, working with our printer to find the optimimum sizes at the tiny scale.

Basically what we come up with is that at this scale, everything freestanding should have a join thats no thinner than 1.5mm square, we tried 1mm, down to .5mm and up to 2mm and even 2.5mm - we wanted to go as thin as possible without sacrificing the integrity of the mini, and 1.5mm was the sweet spot it worked a treat so thats the measurement we use for the thinnest free-standing parts.

The issue I can see with your model is that the ribbon is VERY thin and very long and has a large volume - If I were building this for 37mm scale it would need to be a 1.5mm 'square' piece minimum, or we would either do one of two things, make the ribbon much larger in width probably 4 - 5mm and probably 2-3mm thick, or if it was not a key feature - remove it alltogether.

There is one other point to make, which is the weapon is very flat and much easier to print / cast / mould - its not curved and taking up a lot of overall volume like your ribbon. What i mean by that is, it would take a larger square block of 'stuff' to print your ribbon than it would to print the Architects weapon. This is something we also spent a lot more money on trying, was overall volume heavy pieces that were flimsy - so for example a straight pole / staff weapon could be 1.5mm or even down to 1mm and survive the print / cast / mould process. BUT if we bent that same staff into a doughnut like shape it woulnt survive. Its also very difficult to package and post and survive all the way to the custmers greasy hands. So when we are cutting up the model, we cut it up so that each piece takes up the smallest volume of material ie make sure the model is pretty flat and easy to print / mould / cast.

Thanks for the heads up tho, we definitely become quickly aware of these issues at 37mm scale and spent a craptonne of money learning the hard way!

EDIT: I forgot to add jramauri that girl is awesome!!!!!!

@ Chai thanks dude! the chainmail was easy to make I made mine in Maya. Look at the picture. ofc always smart to get some ref on how the chains are put together.

And ofc am I looking for crits thats the one way to get good... you fail and you learn I will take some more time and try to make the pose more alive. Thanks for the paintover. When it comes to the boobs I not sure yet if I want to change them hehe

character based on Ram Singh's concepts..
waiting for a friend to texture him.. did some quick test poses today to try the skinning and rig out.. happy enough with the skinning, think I'll just go with it inb4 bite me in the ass in the future..

thatanimator.com/dump/boywips/boy_testposes1.jpg
moar of the same

thatanimator.com/dump/boywips/boy_storyboard_1.jpg
a quick storyboard - of sorts, of what I'm planning to do with him..
gonna go with the kinect mocap solution for the start and ending cutscene of my little "game previs" lol

Originally Posted by Hazardous

Hey man, you have nothing to worry about Weve been over this issue more times than you can possibly imagine, weve printed so many versions and spent money on wasted prints, working with our printer to find the optimimum sizes at the tiny scale.

Basically what we come up with is that at this scale, everything freestanding should have a join thats no thinner than 1.5mm square, we tried 1mm, down to .5mm and up to 2mm and even 2.5mm - we wanted to go as thin as possible without sacrificing the integrity of the mini, and 1.5mm was the sweet spot it worked a treat so thats the measurement we use for the thinnest free-standing parts.

The issue I can see with your model is that the ribbon is VERY thin and very long and has a large volume - If I were building this for 37mm scale it would need to be a 1.5mm 'square' piece minimum, or we would either do one of two things, make the ribbon much larger in width probably 4 - 5mm and probably 2-3mm thick, or if it was not a key feature - remove it alltogether.

There is one other point to make, which is the weapon is very flat and much easier to print / cast / mould - its not curved and taking up a lot of overall volume like your ribbon. What i mean by that is, it would take a larger square block of 'stuff' to print your ribbon than it would to print the Architects weapon. This is something we also spent a lot more money on trying, was overall volume heavy pieces that were flimsy - so for example a straight pole / staff weapon could be 1.5mm or even down to 1mm and survive the print / cast / mould process. BUT if we bent that same staff into a doughnut like shape it woulnt survive. Its also very difficult to package and post and survive all the way to the custmers greasy hands. So when we are cutting up the model, we cut it up so that each piece takes up the smallest volume of material ie make sure the model is pretty flat and easy to print / mould / cast.

Thanks for the heads up tho, we definitely become quickly aware of these issues at 37mm scale and spent a craptonne of money learning the hard way!

EDIT: I forgot to add jramauri that girl is awesome!!!!!!

Touché, brother. Touché

Great work as always PCers!

Hazardous: That figurine sculpt turned out great! Really nice rhythm through the pose.

Some layout tests for my ongoing artbook project:




There's a couple more on my blog. Also, a simple character concept for that sculpt I started last week:



Cheers!

Working on a highpoly Beetle, just the hood so for that is almost finiched.

My first full human male sculpt from scratch.



I got half way through this about a month ago, and coming back to finish it with fresh eyes I noticed some pretty massive issues with proportion and musculature, so I've tried to fix them, but I'm sure (to you fine artists) there are still glaring inaccuracies you can help me see

Nick .... As always, your posts are so awesome... It's always new screens in my ref folder

Originally Posted by SveinY

@ Chai thanks dude! the chainmail was easy to make I made mine in Maya. Look at the picture. ofc always smart to get some ref on how the chains are put together.

And ofc am I looking for crits thats the one way to get good... you fail and you learn I will take some more time and try to make the pose more alive. Thanks for the paintover. When it comes to the boobs I not sure yet if I want to change them hehe

Thanks for the image mate, ya it makes sense now .. Just clone the hell out of it, deform it and delete the unwanted links, sweet !

Np glad to help, looking forward to see it progress

Texturing progress on my low poly hero character. Still have some things to add, tweak, etc but should be done soon. Crits welcome of course. Unlit textures in maya viewport for now.

Flailing away at a pile of doodles. Crinkly old men and wee li'l beasties.