bifrons spider demon
polycounter lvl 11
Yo, so its been a while since i do any modeling or anything. And i decided that prior dw i would get the rust of my gears and what not.
Is not the greatest, but here is what i have. Any comments and cc is welcome!
So basicly, is insect like demon. No is not a crab...,i will rid of those crabby legs, i really dont like them that much. Also, i have retopologized anything yet.
Is not the greatest, but here is what i have. Any comments and cc is welcome!
So basicly, is insect like demon. No is not a crab...,i will rid of those crabby legs, i really dont like them that much. Also, i have retopologized anything yet.
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Cyberdemon
I agree with you on the crab legs, I don't think they work so well with that awesome torso.
i think you should keep the crablegs. if you blended the two together a little more it would look very nice
anyway. got some updates. I got rid of the crab legs.
Brilliant model.
Looks awesome... loving the turntable.
This is what i got so far.
This model has turned out to be a journy...sighs....i want to start another one as sson as i finish this one.
AnimeAngel - Thanx dude! I reworked it prolly 5 times till i got to where i understood that you really only want to sculpt the detail that you want the audience to spot from far away. Some of the parts in my model still need a little bit of tweaking, but that's it! im done! lol.
PopeAdam - Doom and hellboy were my biggest source of inspiration!
GOBEE - Thanx. Character Artits, in my opinion have the biggest load. Because their characters must look flawless since that's what everyone looks at. Not the cool tower behind them. Or the awesome texture in which they are standing. I would much rather also do enviroments. I honestly think doing props is more fun. Because i dont have to worry about if thing look right or not. At least not as much as when doing a character.
This is my 3rd pass, and i can honestly say it looks at lot better than the 1st one. lol. Maybe i need to just watch the video a few times.
http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/scott+spencer#watch%3Dv851708WcEQPerQ
and here is my preview
Texture. hmm. First off I see Red Yellow and blue, all equally saturated... I'd say that's a no no.
Try chosing two colors at first to flesh out the texture with, and then choose different values of those chosen colors to accent all of the details. Go back in after that with a third color to add interesting variation.
I'd suggest going with something like Yellow Brown (maybe some greyish for the bottoms of the teeth) and then adding in some greens or blues afterwards to add accent. Any color pallette would probably do fine.
Also, try to start defining the different types of materials (in this case flesh, wet flesh, bone, cartilage) with different colors so that we can tell what is supposed to be skin and what is bone. LIke the cool little nastyiness right under his bottom row of front teeth that look almost like fingerbones, they right now seem to be colored as flesh.. maybe transition them more naturally from bone to flesh?
I don't do characters and I don't do character skins or anything but this is just waht I might do if I was taking a hack at it
GL man, love the sculpt!
I will also say that these textures look awful, man, im serious ,character work is so hard! Well, again, thanx i will put some stuff up later when i get a chance to sit down and give it another go.
Also, i know i was told to use material and stuff, but i am going to end up taking this one into xsi to render. So i don't think i need those shades, at least not in zbrush anyway.
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As far as using this for my demo reel...i was thinking of going back and changing a few things such as
a) adding more stuff from zbrush. Like a polypaint turntable. or more screenshots
b) Maybe some retopology screenshots. Like from me building the mesh. I dunno. Is this something people look for on demo reels?
c) I definately need to finish my textures. That was a 4 hour texture jo bthere! All using polypaint. Didnt really use any textures or anything. Guess i should have...oh well, im still working on this..lol
d) My ligthing blows, need to fix that.
e) I want to play more with the sss shaders. And basicly all the other rest of the shaders. It was hard to get my normal map to show up properly in xsi 7.
f) I need to work on the content a bit more iguess. Put some music on and make it look more live. I dunno...
g) My ao pass for some reason dIdnt work. One of the guys at work told me is problably because i had already baked the ao to the textures. And i was not really setting up the ao intensity for the renders. Any tips on ao in general?
Originally i wanted to make this into a game model. but now i think i will go both ways and make a low poly and a high polymodel. See how that turns out.
By the way, the file format on which the competition requires me to render to made my textures look all washed up....errrrg! So everything on the video looks super brigther than it really is.
Again, thanx for the support guys!