A character for my portfolio

brwnbread · Jan 2012

Hey,

I wanted some brand new art for my portfolio, so I have taken everything down and I am gonna start again

I have started sculpting this body over zbrush's own superaverageman. A mistake as its not so nice to sculpt on. But I will retopo it after anyway.

I am not sure where I want to go with it; I will do paint overs after I have the body done.. because I wanted to show the body on the portfolio too

crits are greatly apreciated

papagersi · Jan 2012

good character. it looks natural. I look forward to seeintg the next step with painting

KyleHickey · Jan 2012

I agreem the sculpt looks very natural. Just becareful not too spend to much time on the body sculpt if you might not need it for the final product.

You said you didnt know where you were gonig with it, it would be a shame to cover this nice sculpt in some clunky armor.

jeremiah_bigley · Jan 2012

You said you wanted to show the body... so this my be where you want to go with that.
http://www.selwy.com/2008/digital-sculpting-reel-2008/

brwnbread · Jan 2012

jeremiah_bigley wrote: »

You said you wanted to show the body... so this my be where you want to go with that.
http://www.selwy.com/2008/digital-sculpting-reel-2008/

Haha, yeah pretty much. I'd been looking at this while sculpting, amazing sculpts. I will probably detail him a bit before I start any other clothes or anything. Really want to make this as good as i can.

Thanks ThePolyZombie and papagersi

brwnbread · Jan 2012

Done some really slight changes to this guy. Progress is slow as I have other uni assignments aswell.. anyway:

(mainly the knee and the arm pit area)

Azkur · Jan 2012

looks good but i thik the body is a level further then the face in my opinion you should work the forms in the face a bit more but looks awesome otherwise

brwnbread · Jan 2012

Azkur wrote: »

looks good but i thik the body is a level further then the face in my opinion you should work the forms in the face a bit more but looks awesome otherwise

Thanks for the crits... motivated me to do more lol. Heres what I did:

Gonna do some paint overs, and see what I like.

JFeezey · Jan 2012

Im loving the detail on the face, i see this character as some kind of war general, cant wait to see where you take it

brwnbread · Jan 2012

JFeezey wrote: »

Im loving the detail on the face, i see this character as some kind of war general, cant wait to see where you take it

JFeezy! Thanks for the comment

Really cant think of anything I want to do with this character... preferablly something that shows a bit of skin. So far, I have come up with this Heissenburg inspired character (Breaking bad). But as I said.. really not sure?

I wanted to draw more before I posted, but i'm blank...

Seirei · Jan 2012

Haha wow this would be cool to see. I loved Breaking Bad so I'm realy digging this idea.

brwnbread · Jan 2012

finally made a start:

Seirei · Jan 2012

Looks like someone had a bad day, nice start.

JFeezey · Jan 2012

Ahh breaking bad ;p Liking the direction your going so far. Sunglasses/Glasses might be cool but also might be too Walter White. Give him a watch/id and he cud be a cop/spy after a rough night. Looking forward to seeing where you take this

brwnbread · Jan 2012

thanks for the comments

another update:

crits appreciated

erroldynamic · Jan 2012

Lookin' good so far. Definitely got that Heissenburg-ish thing goin' on!

dang87 · Jan 2012

Don't tell me he sh*ts bricks!

Whats that in his back...uh underpants? Its an interesting turn, that bum look lol
Keep at it!

almighty_gir · Jan 2012

looks like wads of money, good stuff!

brwnbread · Feb 2012

haha, it is wads of money...

i really want to try get as much done of this before next week... here is another paintover of where I am headed:

thanks for the comments everyone.

does anyone think body hair is worth doing in alpha planes? or should I just put it in the texture?

brwnbread · Mar 2012

I havent worked on this in ages... until today:

chrisradsby · Mar 2012

Yeah that looks really nice

brwnbread · Mar 2012

Thanks.

Here's a further update, I couldnt use the subdivision above this very efficiently for the detail of the skin, but I did what I could with the one below:

Tenchi · Mar 2012

I think you could still inflate a bit around the nostril rim. just where it meets the upper mouth perhaps? Other than that this looks good, will be good to see him textured ^^

brwnbread · Mar 2012

Thanks, I have done it slightly, but I will do it a bit more. I have just been experimenting with detail at the higher sub division. Its difficult because undoing take years and there's a small lag after you click down:

Darkleopard · Mar 2012

This is look awesome. Theres so much character in him

wolfonthehorizon · Mar 2012

one of those pieces of work where you keep slapping the refresh button just to see the next stage of development, inspiring

brwnbread · Apr 2012

haha wow, darkleopard and wolfonthehorizon! extremely motivating to get comments like these. I can be sure I am improving too

small update, because of uni deadlines. The shoes:

TheDarkKnight · Apr 2012

Looking great, really liking the detail you put into his face.
Looking forward to seeing this completed!

brwnbread · May 2012

I have retopo'ed a lot of stuff and unwrapped it... Still planning to put chest hair on as alpha planes and stuff like that. There are a load of errors I haven't fixed with this normal map, but I will probably re-project when I go to project the textures.

It is currently a 4096x4096px map and just under 11k tris

brwnbread · May 2012

texture WIP's... still gotta re-export stuff, fix the actual model lol, paint dirt, make him look a bit interesting.. at the moment, I was just playing around with colour schemes and stuff. Critiques will be really appreciated and really encouraged

This is the diffuse and normal so far, with a flat specular applied:

sltrOlsson · May 2012

Haha I love it, you need to come up with a story for him! I really want to know who this guy is :P I think it could be cool with an open bow tie, the ones you tie your self, lying behind his neck and those things that keep the socks up if your wearing suit slacks.

SA_22 · May 2012

looking sick pav!.. think you could add a bit more geometry to his skull tho.. unless your still planning on making a hat for him

brwnbread · May 2012

Thanks simon, yeah I think I will add more geo there to be honest, its been bugging me too

sltrOlsson, thanks! I already have a bow tie sculpted but I am totally working on the sock suspenders. Cool idea. Also, there is a bit of a general story for him, but its open to interpretation.. I will try infuse it more into him and maybe the enviro/pedastal..

brwnbread · May 2012

heres an update. Havent touched the geometry on the head yet

brwnbread · Jun 2012

and this is a WIP of his champion cockerel, which will be in the final pose

brwnbread · Oct 2012

ohhh, I am scrapping the cockerel.

AS you might have guessed, I stopped working on this for ages, however, over the past few weeks, I decided to finish it off. Here is the finished(?) textures... gotta figure out how to present it properly now

djoexe · Oct 2012

Really awesome model...love the idea of the pile of cash in the underwear XD.

SoulWind · Oct 2012

He's looking great, really natural shape and those shoes are phenomenal. There's definetely a sense of story to this character which is really what you want in any piece of art. I've got a good insight into what type of situation he's been involved in.

Deffo upload a high res vid when you get the chance.

The hardest part of any project is finishing it, it takes a professional attitude to manage it with a good end result. Well done and I look forward to your next piece! =]

brwnbread · Oct 2012

thanks alot guys. Here are some close up pictures, because you cant really see in in the gif

atm, its a 4096 texture, but i should probably 2048 it for the final images

brwnbread · Nov 2012

increased the geo in the skull and and changed the face shape, to something hopefuly better

praetor187 · Nov 2012

There is just too much win going on in this piece, sick work man!:)

Torch · Nov 2012

Amazing O_o

SA_22 · Nov 2012

sick as always pav!!... congrats on getting in the weekly recap aswell!

makecg · Nov 2012

haha this is pretty awesome

killnpc · Nov 2012

so much win!

lamar McHaney · Nov 2012

Great work

JesseEllert · Nov 2012

Hilarious! Nice work

Jessica Dinh · Nov 2012

Haha! This is such an interesting character!! Love the material definition too hehe xD Shoes looks awesome :0

Yeenke · Nov 2012

Nice man

Jeremy Tabor · Nov 2012

Very cool! What a story this tells!

But why did you axe the chicken? It was a good start!

ScoobyDoofus · Nov 2012

This is looking really good! Tho in that last turnaround...yikes the shading errors around the ears are pretty bad. Might wanna figure out some way to minimize that.
Also the hands look like they may be just a bit too for a man of that age & build.

A character for my portfolio

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