[Mixamo Contest] Logger - Pumpkin Zombie!

danpaz3d

Hi all,
I've put together my concept for the latest Mixamo Character Creation contest. Here's the background...

“He was a logger who mysteriously went missing. A year later he emerges, deformed and barely living, fused with an unknown matter. As he terrorizes the local village, the locals try to fight back…”


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Concept





Blog post including the blueprint I'll be using to model the low poly.
http://dp3dblog.tumblr.com/post/32928409325/pumpkin-zombie-put-together-my-concept-for-the


Fairly happy with how the concept turned out. I’m still deciding on the colours and whether I should build a small tabletop for it. Also, I’m trying a different creation process this time, I’ll make the low poly first, finalize it and UV-map it. Then high poly, then bake the high onto the low.

We’ll see how it goes….

Anais

Wow, awesome sketches...!
I love the two sides.

Is that rotten flesh only, or are there vine/wood/moss elements mingled in the texture?

Looks really nice, danpaz.

danpaz3d

Thanks Anais,

The right side of his body will be a combo of all you mentioned (except wood).
It'll be vines/roots/flesh/moss and some small pumpkins/pumpkin texture.

Anais

Sounds sick! (In ever sense of the word. :P) Looking forward to seeing more of this.

danpaz3d

Started on low poly.
Trying to conserve as many polys/triangles as possible so more detail can be added to the face and zombie side of the body later.

danpaz3d

Update on low poly

bobkornog

Very cool so far! There's so much texture in the mesh alone. The sillouette is looking good so far too. How are you going merge the two meshes? Are you keeping the other half of the shirt and legs since your pumpkin "growth" takes over that whole area? My only other concern would be rigging this guy too since you have so much going on in the right shoulder.

I'm pumped to see where you take this.

Anais

Nice progress! Just to address @bobkornog's point, our Auto-Rigger is pretty badass... :P It should handle this without any problem, so don't worry about volume asymmetry.

danpaz3d

bobkornog wrote: »

How are you going merge the two meshes? Are you keeping the other half of the shirt and legs since your pumpkin "growth" takes over that whole area?

For the front of the body I'll be welding the edge of the infested part to the edge of the normal body (I plan on slightly messing up the symmetry line later). The back will be different as there'll be much more growth and most of the back will be infested.

danpaz3d

Update!
Still going on the zombie side of the low poly. A couple of parts left.
If triangle count is good after everything is done then I'll definitely add more detail to the normal side of the body.

RogerP

are you going to be taking this mesh into zbrush/mudbox for sculpting? if not there is a lot of optimizing you can do with this mesh specially on the top part of every sphere.

danpaz3d

Yeah, I'll be going into ZBrush when I'm done with it. Is there something serious that needs to be fixed? I'm trying to stick to polygons.

RogerP

I guess I wasn't clear in my question lol, what I meant to ask was if this is going to be your final low poly mesh or if you're going to retopo after you do the zbrush pass.

danpaz3d

Yeah, I'm hoping this will be the final low poly mesh. But I want to keep a reasonable amount of detail in it too. Depending on what the polycount will be when it's all done, I'll see where more detail can be added and where some can be reduced.

danpaz3d

Update!
Completed the back and welded the two sides together. Also finished the hands. Triangle count is just over 8k so I'll leave it for now. Some small fixes needed as stated in the image.

danpaz3d

Just about done with the low poly of the Zombie. It’s hovering just over 10k triangles. There’s still a few places that need touch-ups such as the front of the face but I think most of the hard work is out of the way (for the low poly).

Stiffler

I love this design; with the infectious boils. I have a couple suggestions about the topology. It looks like you need more resolution on the face to achieve the shapes you are going for (the right cheek specifically). You have a LOT of polys in the right torso/rib area that could be just as easily represented by a map (normal/diffuse). The model's skin doesn't need to be 1 contiguous mesh so you might save some of your poly budget by separating the 'boils' from the polys that represent clothing. I hate to mention this now that you've already retopo'ed, but i hope it helps..

danpaz3d

Thanks!

I've finished off the low poly today and have successfully put the triangle count down to 9050 with the addition of more detail at the elbows and face. Combined with the eyes, teeth, mouth an not yet added hair sheets I'm hoping to keep it under 11000.

I've also quickly chucked it in Zbrush to see how the smoothing and sculpting look and it looks like it turned out ok.

Next update will show final low poly and UV layout.

danpaz3d

Update!

lotet

Nice UVs. looks forward to the sculpt.

danpaz3d

High poly is underway…

danpaz3d

Update!

danpaz3d

Another update! Approaching the final parts of the high poly sculpt. Just about finished off the jacket. Head, hand and touch-ups to go…

danpaz3d

Update! High poly done and base texture.

mixamo

Just dropping in with a quick reminder! the contest ends November 30th at 11:59:59 PST!

danpaz3d

All done!
Really happy with how it turned out. 3dsmax, Zbrush and Photoshop were used to create it.





And a video with short animation clip using the mixamo auto-rigger.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zSSHQ3Al_U"]Pumpkin Zombie - YouTube[/ame]

lotet

looks coo, you should totaly add some glowy orange bits on the pumpkin side that would look awezome.

danpaz3d

Thanks lotet! I actually was thinking about some glowing parts but I think it would have been a bit over the top.

Anyway, more renders.








That's it!