BirdBoy

kanga

Bird Boy.
Hi, a work in progress. The character is an alien hunter boy with his predator, partner. The setting is arid plain, tribal tech.

I wanted to make an adventurous figure and I wanted to create tension between a beautiful boy's face and (what we would find) the ugliness of his mandebils.


Also I want to play with the relationship between the two figures. I am not sure if the bird will have membranes or feathers yet.

Cheers

Tenchi

Good anatomy and killer shoes, will watch ^^

disanski

Hey Chris
Damn anatomy looks great man and i also love the pose Feathers, feathers

kanga

Tenchi, thanks man
disanski, thanks, feathers it is!


Had a look to see how the figure would be without the tusks. Put some muscles in the legs and changed the obliques. If they still look strange I will slope them even more, I think that is what looked strange.

Cheers

LRoy

definitely recognizable as your work. you have a very strong style. nice forms

kanga

dustinbrown
LRoy
Thanks guys. Yes the body still has lines where volumes should be. For the first time in a long time I might have to retopo the hipoly.

Roughed in the wings. I like the size of the bird so far.

So, there was a comment that the torso was too long, and it was. A quick overlay with an image made in MakeHuman and mounted on zbrush’s image plane showed that the ribcage was too narrow, and the hips were too low, also there was a bow in the forearms that was too exaggerated. The arms were slightly too short. Using transpose master I pulled the mesh and all it’s associated subtools around a bit.

Cheers

YBourykina

Definitely loving your style, the anatomy looks great.
Can’t wait to see more

kanga

YBourykina, thankyou!

Face is fuller. The torso has been refined and become broader. The chest has been softened to raise the impression of adolescence. Hard modeling on the shoes, gun and trousers. Clothing refinements done in 3dsmax and the gun in zbrush with clipping brushes and shadowbox.



Cheers

LRoy

Nice man. Everythings zbrush? How many subtoola is that gun?

kanga

LRoy thanks!
About 20 subtools for the gun, some of them have been merged. The shoes and trousers were retopoed in 3dsmax using the concept zbrush meshes. The gun is all zbrush.

kanga

LRoy

Oh nice! Did you take the jon rush weapons workshop? I was pretty interested in it also.

The head looks like the mandible is a pretty small. It makes him look younger than his body would suggest.

kanga

Hi LRoy. Nope, didnt know Jon did that workshop, but I did take his character construction for games workshop, which was great.

Yeah the face isnt there yet at all. Just made the correction you suggested and crashed zbrush just like a real expert Am doing them again! Thanks for the direction.

Cheers

Tadao215

hey, I like your proportions. id say the arms need more refinement, but i know its a wip so keep going!

kanga

Tadao215 thanks, and yes they do need refinement!

kanga

Waiting for the new ZB4R2, for making the bird it will be a blast!

Face and hair have changed, eyes closer together, muzzle broader, work on the arms, trousers, pouches, codpiece and the addition of goggles to control the robobird.

Cheers for now.

Jeremy Wright

This has a lot of style, but the transition from jaw to neck is too sharp, and needs to be softened. The sternocleidomastoid begins behind/beneath the ear and extends to the sternum.

Keep up the good work!

Two Listen

Looks nice, though the pipes/tubes connecting the crotch to the legs seem like they'd make walking/running/moving incredibly difficult.

kanga

8FtSpider, thanks. I thought that was where I put the mastoid, maybe it is too small. The transition is too sharp like you say.
Thanks for the tips.
Two Listen, thanks, yeah perhaps. I like the lines they make that run along the muscles there, will keep an eye on it. Thanks for the advice.

Clark Coots

I'm no expert in anatomy, but something about the Serratus Muscles isn't working for me. I think, they need to not be as bulging, but still defined, and should be angled downward alittle more towards his front. You going to break symmetry like on his Abs? Awesome job though, i like it

Jungsik

kind of reminds me of avatar, i love the style!

kanga

A bit of an update. New flack jacket, a new arm controller for the robot bird, and helmet.

Cheers!

coots7 Yeah it need the serratus re-positioned now you say it. Yes at the end perfect symmetry will be dropped. Thanks.

Jungsik Thanks

KyleJensen

This sculpt looking great so far. Keep it up!

kanga

Shad0wForce Thankyou man!

Cheers

CandyStripes05

...needs some sort of crossbow : )

makecg

Really fan of this style.. it's looking badass.

kanga

CandyStripes05 are you kidding because that would look way better. That is a very nice idea.

makecg Thanks!

CandyStripes05

guns are cool but a crossbow or basic bow and arrow type weapon would fit the jungle/nature theme way better !

i see a gun, i usually expect to see some sort of armour to go along with it, but this guy has a freaking monstrous bird and looks like he runs the show George of the jungle style, so my suggestion is rethink the gun ; )

kanga

Blocking in the mech bird. Zokana over at cgtalk sugg
ested a mech would go better than an org with the image. Also Andrewty07 (cgtalk) suggested putting the bird on the character's back.

Andrewty07 wrote:

The character feels very agile, it would be pretty cool if there was a way the bird could attach to his back to not necessarily make him fly, but maybe give him even more of a speed boost. The only reason why I say that instead of grabbing him is because it is something I haven't seen before and the proportions would make flight seem too unrealistic.

I though that might be too NOX but it is a real nice image. What do you guys think?
CandyStripes05 over at polycount was responsible for the crossbow idea. (thanks ).

The first one was a quicky and animated but I think number 02 looks a little less normal. I thought it would be nice to also show the ugly sketch stages as well, as the ideas I have been getting from you all have been amazing. As always all suggestions gratefully received.



Cheerio.

jeremiah_bigley

Kickass concept man! This is going to be f'ing amazing when it is done. Crossbow was an amazing idea.

n88tr

wow lots of cool in this thread
honestly expecting thread to have a kid with wings but this is cool too

kanga

jeremiah_bigley thanks man, yeah Polycount has some of the best creative minds in the industry
n88tr thanks! Yeah that might still happen!

Cheerio

jeremiah_bigley

I know right! This is why I thought the Dominance War 5 lacked so hard... lol

kanga

Wings block in on youtube.
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Cheers!

kanga

Fixed a lot of stuff per kind suggestions!


Shrunk the size of the feet.
Lengthened the calves and changed the profile shape.
Hair
Worked the arms.
Detailed the flack jacket and lots of other stuff
Get the bird detailed and up and running tonight. Thanks again for the support and especialy the ideas, it has been top.

Cheerio.

kanga

A flyaround of the pose.

Cheerio

SsSandu_C

Really nice designs on the clothing and the weapons... that shotgun on the first page looks really bad ass