Sketchbook: NGS616

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Hello, my name is Nathan. I have been 3d modeling a little over a year now. I am self taught and self motivated. i have also been creating levels for games periodically through my life. I have recently been viewing these forums, the responses here are extremely valuable.

With my most recent project I feel I have achieved a milestone in my short CG career.
I decided i would start posting on here, because the criticism is very informative.

I use Maya and Zbrush. I am a novice at them both; especially Zbrush. I have books on them both (introduction and creature creation[for both programs]) that i have recently gotten and am about to begin reading.

Anyway, my most recent project! just over 5k low poly, around 1.5 million high poly:






3d Turntable: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpCQVivx-Rc[/ame]

It is supposed to be around 4-6 feet tall. (average)

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All criticism is welcome.

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I made the base mesh for this yesterday and I sculpted it today

uneditablepoly

Your images are very dark, it makes it hard to comment on small details. A little more light and contrast would help greatly!

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I reworked some things and did some more detailing. I need to texture it. I'll be making a couple of different versions of it.

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A little more texturing:

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Still working on the variations of the soldier but i've also started working on this

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I'd say that the ideal looks cool but little details like the hands look like you used the snake hook brush to pull the fingers out when they should be existing geometry before you bring it into zbrush, if they were existing geometry I'd say put some more support chamfers so when you smooth it zbrush they dont become toothpicks.

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Thank you!

Yes, it was existing geometry, It's just like you said the smoothing deformed them. But i'm planning on detaching them and making new ones. he's gonna need some pretty well sized claws and the hand on the base mesh won't do.

For the base mesh i modified the base mesh i created for the soldier above, yet didn't modify the hands. I wasn't sure what i was going to do with them. I'm gonna have to do the same for the feet.

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Update: The arms are going to be detached and im going to make armored ones.

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I made this wall panel today using Zbrush's projection master. The texture is offset a little in a few spots.

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10 Mins: 1k triangles



I'd like to detail and clean it up. There is a large barrel in the middle (you cant see it in this shot) that i am thinking will spray ammunition like a shotgun.

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Update



EDIT: Update again

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Started blocking out a new concept for a weapon:


EDIT: Another one

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From my point of view it looks like you aren't sure what lod you are modeling at. I mean some parts on the mesh look fairly high res whilst other are significantly lower.

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I've been blocking them out and gradually replacing parts with more detailed parts.

I understand what you are saying; and thank you for your input i need to watch that more carefully.

A good example of that is on the last pictures of the chaingun. The 12 barrels and the handles have a lot more geometry then needed at this point.

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I started to work on another variation of that character model this is the helmet so far:

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Update:

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I started working on the composition of a scene i want to create using some of the models i've made lately:

It's all placeholders of course. I was just blocking it out. I'm going to need to model the cave and a few other things still.

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First attempt at a rock face


Second Attempt

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Ged

the rock face looks like a rock texture on a lumpy sheet of rubber, try making shapes that already look like rocks before adding any rock/grit texture or brushes. Depends what kind of rock face you are going for I guess

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Thanks for the input. I need to define the edges a lot more.

I made this one today as well:


this one has the same problem as the ones above,
rounded topology for rocks = bad

I have a tutorial from gnomonology on creating rock faces. I'll most likely watch it a few times tomorrow and take a few more shots at it.

EDIT: I had to start on another one:

^^Incomplete^^

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and another:



I think its looking a little better.

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Some more wall panels using the projection master: (untextured of course)

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Some more rock Zbrush practice; i started sculpting a rocky ground.



And some pillars using projection master:

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I did a peice of a brick wall in zbrush today while i had some time:



it was real quick i need to do some more to it

EDIT:: fixed it up a little:


Edit again:: got home and made some treebark

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And some more tree bark!:



EDIT: And some rocky ground:


EDIT: The rocks untextured

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Last one for tonight:

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I started working on the bottom section of the same wood.
It has to have more weathering, because it's near the ground.

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Final version:

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cracked concrete:

Ged

nice texture, looks a bit like its been crazybumped though. So whats the plan are you making a scene with all these?

conte

man, those looks really cool! keep going!

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Thank you both!

@Ged: They are just for practice. and no bump mapping; thats geometry and color
but I do want to make a few that i can put together into a scene.

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A root in the ground:

Geo:


Geo+Texture:

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close-up on a focal point:

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The root was a little too flat:

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Some more rocks:


This should be tileable; i haven't tested it out yet though.

Edit: It tiles well;

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I started meshing out a weapon concept. I'm not liking the barrel.

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30min sculpt

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj37/ngs616/headacher001_web.jpg

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Base model for a Tavor AR:


A little more detail:

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It's been a while since i've done a character, so i made this basemesh today:

I'm about 1 hour and 6k polys into it

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30 Min sculpt of that base mesh:


I'm not finished with the base mesh i just wanted to do some sculpting. It was just for practice.

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Worked on this AR a little more:

2098 triangles so far



Edit:
Made a new SMG using some of the parts from the AR:

2390 triangles so far

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character looks too bumpy for my taste,

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Thanks for the input. I'd change it but that was just a practice sculpt, i'm going in a very different direction with the actual model.

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Made a pistol.. i really need to texture these:

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Another set:
They are about 900-1400 polys and took about an hour to make.


EDIT: More:


EDIT again: few more:



They are very similar. Some you can't see differences in at these angles. Such as the double barrelled variants.

I'm going to pick out my favorites and refine them.

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I textured one of those models. I'm considering this one a disposable plasma rifle: