Real-time Busts

Vidar

Just a couple of quickie models I've finished during the evenings of the last week or so.

They are rendered in xNormal (xnormal.net if you haven't discovered this nice 3d viewer/normal map generator yet).

Used maya for modeling, mudbox for sculpting and zbrush for parts of the texturing. xNormal did much of the baking.

First up, Marv







Secondly, Fallout-style Hunter






Hope you like them, I don't have polycounts or wires here at work but Ill up them if there is interest.

Cheers!

Japhir

wow they look very nice! wires would be nice. I really like the hunter, looks very realistic.

Jaco

Awesome work, welcome to polycount!

Geezus

great busts. I think that there may be a bit too much noise on Marv's hair and chin/stubble area. I really dig the hunter, especially his markings, though his goggles seem to not serve a purpose anymore, since they're scratched up beyond all repair. Welcome to PC! :]

ghost-d

very nice work. Could you post some wires?
Marv reminds me Patrick Swayze a bit.

CheeseOnToast

Love the texture on the hunter's nose, where the paint is letting the skin show through. Looks spot on.

Wells

Hunter is badass. Don't understand the grassy texture for the goggles lenses, though... fixing that and it'll be stellar.

Vidar

Sectaurs: Yeah, that's just me being lazy, xNormal got mad at me when I tried to alpha-map it, I'll fix it tonight.

mvelasquez

Welcome to PC
Nice work, especially the mudbox sculpt. I think Marv needs more specular variation. the level of shinyness looks very uniform right now. almost like it was sculpted out of rock and painted over. if you're using gloss i would also tighten up the highlights on the skin a bit. right now the skin just doesn't read as skin. I like the hunter, but yeah i would tone down the scratches on the goggles. Gorgous work overall

Vidar

mvelasquez: Spot on, I'll revisit Marv some day soon and these are just the things I'll be working on. I'll also use some photographic textures to further enhance the skin-qualities of his face.

Penzer

I love the hunter a lot. You say you went for a Fallout Style hunter, and I can totally see that guy coming right out of one of the tribes from Fallout 2. Great job on the nose and lips.

killingpeople

very amazing work. the fall-out style character is badass.

CataFa

Really nice work, specially the hunter (I would change the texture in the goggles).
Nice sculpting on Marv, but I think the texture could use some more work. More variations in the skin and also the jacket looks a bit noisy.

StJoris

Wow that looks good!
Only crit on the hunter that he has folds in his cloth, but the cloth pattern stays the same as if there weren't folds.

conte

i like it.

Vidar

Damn, seems like my webhost choose a very inconvenient time to go down on me.. I have some new screenshots ready, but I guess I have to wait until tomorrow to post them.

Anyhow, thanks for all the great crits so far!

ScoobyDoofus

Stellar stuff! I am also working on a Fallout inspired character.
I didnt realize XNormal supported realtime shadow casting though...thats awesome looking.

Vidar

Here's some quick changes to marv, mostly in his specular, but also some things in his diffuse has changed.

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And also, as promised, here are the wires for the hunter-dude.

mikebart

amazing

HonkyPunch

Now, I know that Marv is a character with a very rough life, and it makes sense that his face is all torn, and wrinkly, but somehow, when I look at his face, I can't help but think of dirt. Not that that's bad, Marv is a dirty person.

Mongrelman

Dayum.

conte

his beard color looks like dry sper.. milk.

jogshy

Very nice! I don't know what bust I like more... both are awesome!

CataFa

Looking better in a lot of areas, but his beard is not working for me. It looks more like is face is painted grey.

HonkyPunch

Just go with greyscale
Stay true mannnnnn

Vidar

Hehe, yeah - maybe I should just go with the grayscale. But where's the challenge in that?

I definitely see what you mean with the beard and all, I guess I got a bit blind doing color corrections on him. I'll fix that up and then I think I'll call him done, at least for now..

Got started on this fellow today, will try to finish him up this week (here to hoping, no overtime at work):



Excuse the shitty viewport screengrab from maya.

Jaco

Nice, very promising.

Vidar

Hi again guys!

I've been busy for a while; getting a showreel together amongst other things. Please have a look:

Here's another lowpoly (well, 1980 tris) head I've done recently, with 1024px^2 textures:



Hope you like it!

Btw, bookmark my blog if you like zbrush freebies, there are some more heading that way soon.

Rob Galanakis

The artwork is really great but I think you should try it with a better skin-shader. It looks somewhat rubbery. It looks really freakin good though, and I'm usually not a fan of sculpted-in hair because it can look very sculpted in, yours is done pretty well though (it gets blocky with lower-res textures and sticks out too much).

shotgun

your sculptures are fantastic
only crit is the both eyebrows and lips need a little *umph in the form, more meat. sorry about the crude analogy - but think of a swollen anus..

Vidar

Professor: Yeah, the shader sucks on the last one (just maya's high quality mode). The hair is really just a sketch so far, Im pleased you liked it anyway.

shotgun: Thanks for the praise! I agree that it's a very crude analogy, but I get your point. I will might go back and flesh it out a bit, but at the same time I rather like him having thin lips.

Gav

Very nice work...I would be interested in seeing your texture flats

Gav

jaalto

Very nice Marv! - but I think his scars are a bit too "deep" and "soft". Anyway dont trust me 100% 'cause I've seen Marv only in SinCity and it might be a bit different in comics .

For some reason I cant see hunter images at all

indian_boy

jesus "wowness" christ!!!!

ur kinda good. sense the sarcasm.

Vidar

Gavimage: Thanks, love your work man. I'll upload something when I get home from work today.

merecraft: I think I see your point, if I revisit this model sometime soon I see what I can do.

indian_boy: Hey, thanks