My first sculpt evah.

Originally Posted by nightFlarer

Some progress. Learning more about materials, rendering/mentalray, and lighting.

Lol, is this Chie?

Finishing up on my attempt at a cinematic charcter rendered in mental ray. Rendering out his turntable now.

Still gotta finish up textures, but went ahead and rigged him. Just noticed I can see the "camera" text in his shoulder pad from printscreening out of marmoset. Heh.

JMyoung: That looks incredible! haha. I love the style and attitude!

looking good JMyoung!

I'm going to shamelessly crosspost my thread, hopefully I'll be able to finish him up this week - I'm going to add some white paint to some sections and possibly some glowy bits.

This fucking thread is always so humbling and inspiring at the same time... Gives me a headache.

@JMYoung and Justin_Meisse, very inspirational stuff! I'd love to see wires of those models.

Thanks guys! 9skulls, here's an old screenshot wireframe. He's 2500 tris + 512² color for the character and 500 tris + 256² color for the weapons.

Crosspost from my WIP thread, think I'll almost gonna call him done.

I think I´m about done with this scene, Might do another render and finalize it properly tomorrow.

had some free time so revisted another side project and played with polypaint + layers

JMYoung, that is so adorable xD xD

returning to a simpler age of furry-loins for manly-men

almighty_gir, That's a great dragon!

Putting stuff on fire in UDK:

UDK fire material with tessellation - YouTube

Originally Posted by DemonPrincess

You have a cool sort of pear-shaped silhouette going with the hips and the side pockets. I would further accent that by slimming down her waist. As of now, her waist seems to be about the same width as her ribcage, so it could definitely stand to be quite a bit slimmer.

On a side note, the way you have shaded her chest plate makes her... assets look a bit droopy.

Hey, thanks for the input. I'll try to avoid sagginess in the model.;) I'll spend some time tweaking the proportions. My concept skills are a bit on the clumsy side.

Update on the beetle.

JMYoung: Amazing work! The skin looks a bit on the flat side though, you should try adding some more painted in blush and "SSS" and of course play around a bit with some proper lighting&shadows to really bring out this fine chap.
Keep rocking man.

Justin: Absolutely badass. I love everything about this guy! My hat off to you sir!

TheDarkKnight: That turned out pretty good! Now add some proper lighting and a tasty background and you've got yourself a spanking nice portfolio piece!

Thanks Maph and Jessica! I updated the original image with a tweaked skin color and lighting. I've still got to polish up the texture, so any feedback is greatly appreciated.

ChristianB, his bicep area is looking a bit inflated. You could look at Scudz's post right under yours to get a better idea on what kind of shapes to use for that area.

Scudz, lookin' good! I feel like his hair could be a bit more over the top, though not sure if you've touched that yet.

Originally Posted by Maph

TheDarkKnight: That turned out pretty good! Now add some proper lighting and a tasty background and you've got yourself a spanking nice portfolio piece!

Thanks, unfortunately I absolutely suck at presentation, so was already quite happy with how he looked so far

Simple Marmoset render, Blue Sky dome and 2 rimlights/spotlights with shadows.

If you got any tips please!

And a (very) slightly different angle :

Maybe just something simple like a darker background, some subtle textural detail(I put "magical" smoke), and some rim lighting? Just some thoughts, maybe it'll give you some ideas.

Also, maybe more of an up angle?

TheDarkKnight: Change your camera some more, have him tower over you to create a sense of power. And if at any possible, create a more dynamic pose. Something down the lines of

The pose you have now combined with the current camera angle isn't very interesting in terms of silhouette.

- Play a bit with effects-cards rather then just a lensflare.
- As far as lighting goes, I would go with a cool blue as that's how he's mostly shown in the movies. And a cold color fits him perfectly. Try finding a setup where you can at least have some nicely defined shadows in it (which is hard with this pose imho).
- For the background, it doesn't need to be anything fancypants. Just a simple well made gradient sort to speak will do wonders. The background should complement the character without drawing too much attention from the main focal point (the character in this instance).
The thing with a flat background is that it effectively flattens your entire composition, which isn't good.
- Go a bit easy on the DoF.

Edit: JMYoung's paintover is a good example of how to complement your character with a background. ;)

EmAr: nice work! great candidate for a balrog type effect or a demonic apparition type sequence, really good use of the potential with tesselation effects.

Thanks Maph and JMYoung will definitely have a look at your tips, posing might be the hardest part, build a simple rig (my first so far from perfect) but will give it a go.

Thanks again!

will post updates in my own thread, to not spam this thread full with my stuff ;)