Sketchbook: Mango Tea

Mango Tea

Hello, all! Thanks for looking!
Looking for feedback as I learn to improve. Please critique as much as possible! I promise I will be appreciative.

I am on a course learning to model. I also do illustration, and have done so freelance for a while. I'm 24.

This was my first completed model I made. Maya was used exclusively.


One of my submissions for the foundations course I am doing is this dinosaur. Primarily the course is to teach us Maya, and I have been working hard to learn that. I have taken the initiative to teach myself Zbrush too as I feel it's very useful!
Here's a headshot of the Zbrush highpoly sculpt I started to work off.




After some retopologising in 3D-Coat (my first time using the program) here he is:



And here he is with the bare beginnings of a diffuse map. I may not keep him blue, I don't know, I'm moreso playing with markings and sorting stuff out to ensure it flows well. Photoshop's CTRl+U may come in handy later.



I will post some sketches and some of my 2D work later on. But for now it's 2:30am and I think I ought to sleep!
Thanks again for looking.

Mango Tea

I tried to make a normal map for the dinosaur. Hahahahahaha!
Oh boy... I think I'm going to just have to forget it on this one.

Mango Tea

Made this fun little lioness character in a few minutes in Zbrush last night. May retopologise at a later point and try to make into a functional model.

Mango Tea

I made a krogan's head, a species of alien from Mass Effect. I thought it would be a good idea to try and make something that I am familiar with. I tried to get the head as close to the in-game models as possible, so that it doesn't look particularly 'fan made.'