Plague doctor mask

Maxilator

Hi!

I decided I want to do something I zbrush, so I decided to make a plague doctor mask, even though it has been done to death. So, I haven't started yet because I had a question right of the bat, namely, how do you guys do layered leather? In the past I have just sculpted out the seams but it might not be the best way, so I thought I might as well ask before I start driving a screw with a hammer.

I think I'm just going to do the basic version, something like a combination of these:

Tectonic

P-P-P-PANEL LOOPS~
seriously though go look up Group Loops, and Panel Loops. thats the good stuff

Maxilator

Here is what I have so far in zbrush:



I went with something like this:

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Maxilator

Tectonic wrote: »

P-P-P-PANEL LOOPS~
seriously though go look up Group Loops, and Panel Loops. thats the good stuff

Aw, Too bad I didn't see this before I started. I hope the method I chose works as well.

Tectonic

Maxilator wrote: »

Aw, Too bad I didn't see this before I started. I hope the method I chose works as well.

The thing is though, if you want to get the crisp smooth edges of panel loops, its easy to mask off parts of what you've made already and then create panels with an Elevation of somewhere between 0 and -100 so that you essentially replace the meshes you've made so far.

Maxilator

Tectonic wrote: »

The thing is though, if you want to get the crisp smooth edges of panel loops, its easy to mask off parts of what you've made already and then create panels with an Elevation of somewhere between 0 and -100 so that you essentially replace the meshes you've made so far.

I'll definitely check it out sometime though the thing I'm doing now seems to work pretty well. Thanks for the tip!

Maxilator

Here is what I got done by now, didn't really do too much more in it other than process a few edges and add the detailing on the "upper beak" part.

Maxilator

Update, Have some seams and stuff in place now, I'll probably spend some more time trying to refine the shapes in zbrush but otherwise I think it is pretty done here, tell me if there is anything that you think I have missed!

(I'll handle much of the leather texture and bump in Substance Painter)

Maxilator

Here is some more detailing, I think I'm going into retopo now.

Tectonic

it looks like you've make the bottom of the beak really wrinkly, but with the leather being so thick I don't think it would do that. and I don't see it happening on your reference image. you've done a nice job of the stitching, and I think its coming along well. you might consider giving the edges of the leather a bit of a bevel, if they're too straight it wont show up very well on the normal map, or will look flat.

Maxilator

Tectonic wrote: »

it looks like you've make the bottom of the beak really wrinkly, but with the leather being so thick I don't think it would do that. and I don't see it happening on your reference image. you've done a nice job of the stitching, and I think its coming along well. you might consider giving the edges of the leather a bit of a bevel, if they're too straight it wont show up very well on the normal map, or will look flat.

I don't know, I tried it without and it simply looks too plain without those wrinkles.

Maxilator

Here is some fast texturing I did, I will keep working on it but this is what I have so far!

Maxilator

Some updates:

MyattC

I really like what you've made here, good job, i would consider looking at the Strap parts, the Holes for the buckle aren't defined enough, they just look texutered, also the shape here is too blocky. the main part of it is really good tho, face / stiches (y):thumbup:

Maxilator

MyattC wrote: »

I really like what you've made here, good job, i would consider looking at the Strap parts, the Holes for the buckle aren't defined enough, they just look texutered, also the shape here is too blocky. the main part of it is really good tho, face / stiches (y):thumbup:

Thanks, I'll try to fix those things!