Skechbook: Nut

Nut

Hello artist fellows,

I'm Game Art & 3D Animation student at SAE Institute in Germany.
Currently I'm passionatly learning sculpting in Zbrush and drawing a lot of different things for games, like characters and environment and spaceships.

You are welcome to look at my stuff and leave a comment C:

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some old zbrush stuff~

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some of my last zbrush works

paulchen83

great start to your sketchbook, but i think the folds in the pants need some work. can't exactly say what, as i've not yet started sculpting cloth but the tension lines don't look right. Sry, can't help much on that. Anyway, i posted a mini tutorial in my sketchbook regarding your hard surface sculpting questions. cheers.

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paulchen83 wrote: »

great start to your sketchbook, but i think the folds in the pants need some work. can't exactly say what, as i've not yet started sculpting cloth but the tension lines don't look right. Sry, can't help much on that. Anyway, i posted a mini tutorial in my sketchbook regarding your hard surface sculpting questions. cheers.

Yea, you are right about folds and cloth, I don't know how they works and didn't even used references. Now I'm focusing on anatomy and faces, but soon i begin with clothing and maybe more armor staff, because it's more fun. Your tutorial is very helpfull.

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after that one, i need to draw a little and do some lowpoly stuff C:

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meanwhile I post some old works, that i did in past 2 years, to see some improvement or not O,O

robertg

love tmnt! nice work on the skin texture, i think you really nailed it. everything looks really great. one little criticism though, his belt kind of has that playdoughy feel that sometimes happens in zbrush. I think thinning it out and ensuring it has a taut look to it might help.

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i see now, what's wrong with the belt, thanks Robert
sometimes I'm blowsy with details, but try to modify it C:

JamesMeader

Only fair I comment on your work Nut.

Really like the turtle, but how come you haven't given the skin a green colour? Just fancied doing something different?

I agree what robertg says about the belt, just one of those things that you get in ZBrush.

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JamesMeader wrote: »

Only fair I comment on your work Nut.

Really like the turtle, but how come you haven't given the skin a green colour? Just fancied doing something different?

I agree what robertg says about the belt, just one of those things that you get in ZBrush.

no haha, i just like that material (gw_grouce, loaded from the official pixologic site) it gives the sculpt that organic look, i like it.
the color is in progress, no worries, it's green. also working on the belt.

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some color exercises (not that good, because of the wrong color correction on my second monitor, that i use to view my reference images 3: )

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The green Turtle Titan. my second poly paint try with zbrush (full res: http://mariamildenberger-portfolio.blogspot.de/p/other-illustrations.html)

robertg

nice work on the turtle, it came out really good!

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thanks Robert ^^

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After a turtle I'm starting to work on a dog (it's for school, must have very good outcome), here is my lowpoly mesh imported in zbrush and divided in polygroups,

So I need a lot of advice about the topology and the edge flow, would like to animate him later.
The anatomy, something is wrong with it, but I can't say what.
Some nice references would be useful, if somebody have some good links or suggestions.

A review is much appreciated

robertg

i think you have a pretty good start. i usually have trouble nailing proportions untill i have some basic anatomy sculpted in but just based off the base mesh alone, it looks a little stocky.
now this is totally dependent on what type of dog your trying to create, but perhaps you could thin out the rear half of the mesh. and bring the hips in closer to the body

something like this maybe




take this advice with a grain of salt though, i mean like i mentioned earlier its hard to nail proportions without any anatomy in there, give my advice a try, but feel free to totally disregard it.

of and the edge flow looks pretty solid so far

Nut

yea thanks, I'm still looking for some reliable anatomy references.
I also think your advice might be right.

Francois_K

:OOO

I'm also at the SAE , but in Berlin. Where abouts are you at?

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@ Francois in Hamburg, bin dabei bald mein Diploma Abschluss zu kriegen. C:

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just a bust of an American native girl, which I didn't finished before starting with the turtle. After some time passed by I can see some lapse in the face, and I don't like the hair at all.
any advices and tips, tutorials for the long hair would be a great support

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progress on my dog

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did some changes on the dog, it took awhile, so he deceased during the process :C

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some new stuff

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still didn't figured out how to control the rendering in zbrush, how come i can't turn the shadow a little less dark... my high poly space ninja so far

Francois_K

You can adjust the shadow under the BPR filters under the Render settings. You should maybe also turn the Range to 0 under Document where you can rezize the Document size , this gives you a completely gray background instead of having that overlap to Black in the background

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@Francois_K ok thanks, I'll try next time

GEGames

Nice models you should work on a gaming team.

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@GEGames funny to hear that, I'm actually searching for a job in a game firm as Game Artist.

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wanted to sculpt a bit, attachment used as reference
becauze the pic is really awesome... C:

any advice, anatomical and dynamic pose suggestions? everything is welcome!

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smal update

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a progress on my space ninja, need some normal map cleaning though.

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before and after substance design

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some new skeches~

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nothing to do, need a job!!!