Finally decided to post a speed model.
Done in Zbrush. 30 minutes total work with likke 5 minutes comp.

Speedsculpt I did in the Google Hangout, went a bit further then originally planned, but happy with it.

Originally Posted by okno

I think it took about 30 mins to an hour. I used booleans + remesh modifier + smooth modifier in Blender. The great thing is it's totally non destructive, here is a 10 minute tweak:
Obviously it's only useful for this kind of explicitly shaped object, and it can lag a lot with lots of booleans stacked up, but it's fast, non destructive and you get a low poly almost for free

Hey is there somewhere that describes this method more thoroughly? Sub-d modelling isn't something I really have much experience in or really enjoy but is an area I feel I should probably develop in. I've also been planning to get to grip with blender soon so this is really interesting to me.

Here is another speed study. Cheers.

Speedy doodle.
Concept by Piotr Foksowicz.

very nice DeadPixel_, how much time did this take?

Thanks, Shiskebab. Somewhere around 90 minutes, lets say 2 hours including messing with it in photoshop.

30 mins

Originally Posted by Boozebeard

Hey is there somewhere that describes this method more thoroughly? Sub-d modelling isn't something I really have much experience in or really enjoy but is an area I feel I should probably develop in. I've also been planning to get to grip with blender soon so this is really interesting to me.

I haven't seen anyone else use this method in Blender, I just had the idea one day. It's not really sub-d modelling but you can get the initial shapes with sub-d, before doing boolean.

Here's another quick one:

Sculpt and polypaint in about 1 hr

Render took another 30 minutes

roughly based on this painting

Anatomy sculpting - head was already pre-built for something else I'm working on.
Body sculpting and posing around 2 hours.
Vray shader, lighting and render 1 hour.

Another 2 quick Blender pieces:

(Fire extinguisher robot)


(sculpt)

Been a while since I've used Zbrush.

Another speedy bites the dust.

Learning how to sculpt hard surface stuff. Having a blast doing it too.

A Lazarevitch like. Zbrush 1h30.


And a timelapse:

Speed 11: Lazarevitch Like - YouTube