Sketchbook: Carl Button

CIB

Hi Everyone!

Starting my sketchbook thread.

I've been working on a personal project for a while and I'm looking to get fresh eyes on a few things i'm doing. In nutshell without giving too much away... I'm looking to design and build a small prototype scene in unity with characters/props etc and try to maintain a consistent art style throughout.

Type of style i'm exploring -
Massive fan of the Riddick universe and have taken inspiration from the vibe and grittiness of places like butcher bay.

To get the ball rolling I've been working on a character sculpt below. I'm looking for any thoughts, feedback, general improvements or advice anyone can give to help push the artwork further before I get into game rez creation.

Cheers,
C.

Lynchpin

Great sculpt work!

CIB

Few ideas for the body...



construction/engineering vibes with a need to be air-tight. Avoiding fish-bowl like helmet for more freedom of movement.

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Started to work on a more refined concept (no helmet yet)...



But it feels as though I'm starting to lose the air-tight astronaut look. I need to dial it back a bit nearer to my earlier doodles:-



Going to do another pass of this.

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@Lynchpin: Cheers!

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Made a few minor changes to the full body concept. Added more layering and bulk to the design. The backpack area still needs some work but I will experiment more at the model block out stage and after the helmet designs are done, to see what sort of overall shapes will fit best.



Sculpt due soon!

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Been working on high poly wall section. Hoping to generate modular objects and textures from a series of these.



Next attempt will try something more subtle, little less detail.

Ape_Errata

Looks pretty cool. What program did you model this in just out of curiosity?

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Cheers this was done in 3DS max

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I made a start on the boot. Trousers and lower attachments next.

Thoughts and feedback welcome

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some practice with lighting and bpr in zbrush...



any tips feedback welcome. Looking for a nice clay look which I'm struggling to capture.

Palla

Really nice work. Looking forward to seeing the progression.

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Work on lower body:-

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I'm not hundred percent happy with how the trousers feel. Still need a little more work in getting the weight of the material.

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blocking out upper torso.

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back blockout,

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slowly coming together. Need to revisit trousers soon as they now appear overworked...

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Trying to be less harsh and heavy handed on torso creasing...

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decided to add neck padding as a nice transition into the suit...

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Calling this guy done now. May come back later to add some finer details, but for now I'm gonna move onto something else.

Few tangents from the original concept - like the detail on the back and the reduced clutter around the waist. Feel good about those changes though as they seem to read a little better. looking forward to getting this guy game-ready in the future.

As always any thoughts, crits, etc welcome! :thumbup:

omglawl

Pretty good work.
Hard surface parts are hands down amazing, as well as portrait, really strong and alive look.
However, clothes need some love, I'd suggest you to take a look at Marvelous Designer.

CIB

@ omglawl.

Thanks for your comment. I agree they do need revisiting before it can become game ready, which I'll be looking into soon. That software looks amazing, very powerful. Cheers for the heads up.

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did some improvements to clothing, increasing the tightness around shoulders, smoothing out creases etc. More hard surface detail and straps in certain areas..

omglawl

It's better now, good job. Though trousers need to be fixed a bit, folds are too sharp.

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omglawl wrote: »

It's better now, good job. Though trousers need to be fixed a bit, folds are too sharp.

Yeah folds were definitely too sharp, I smoothed them down and shifted things around a bit:-





Thanks for your feedback, much happier with this result

Two Listen

Looking good man. Spending so long on a personal project isn't easy, glad to see you didn't give up or get burnt out. :thumbup:

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Two Listen wrote: »

Looking good man. Spending so long on a personal project isn't easy, glad to see you didn't give up or get burnt out. :thumbup:

Thanks, Yeah it's tough squeezing time in after work to get this right but it's definitely worth it. Learn't a lot from this which I'll do better next time round. Cheers for the kind words :thumbup:

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kinetic wrote: »

great sculpting. i am curious how you make the game ready model, bake the high into the low?

Thanks, Rough workflow high to low...

- Decimate and export all your sculpt parts.
- Start constructing low poly mesh. I use topogun but other great alternatives are out there.
- Unwrap your low poly model.
- Bake out your normal maps + AO + Cavity etc. e.g. Xnormal.

chuck some of these phases ^ into google and they'll be lots of resources and tutorials that can break down the process step by step.

A really nice example workflow here :-

http://en.9jcg.com/comm_pages/blog_content-art-180.htm