Bioshock Fan Art piece

MrRagingSunshine

Hello all!

Me and a friend are currently working on some early Big Daddy models to sharpen our skills and learn a few new tricks in Zbrush.

I'm looking for critique on my progress and look forward to your opinions!

xdraws

I'm that friend who's workin along side. Here's where I'm at so far.

Golden Yak

Both looking pretty snappy so far. Keep it up.

Deathstick

I'm not sure if you want to keep this strictly in Zbrush, but you might have better results if you focus on making your hard-edged/manufactured parts in Max/Maya first and then importing them into Zbrush for additional detailing to avoid the whole "battle of the clay" ordeal.

That said, looking like a solid start! Go go gooo!

Stirls

Sunshine, your knees appear a tad too high. I suggest bringing them down a bit.

xdraws, be careful when adding "damage" to metal objects. If it's too big, or too noisy, it can give the impression of being concrete instead of metal. I'd leave all of that to texturing, unless it drastically affects the silhouette or something.

Both are looking good, though!

xdraws

Been a busy week; thanks everyone for the feedback! I definitely feel what you were talking about with the concrete-ish effect that was happening. When I brought in into marmoset for a texture test it really looked too messy, so I polished the high poly version up a bit.

j.pears

tbh dude the 'messyness' actually works, look warn and aged.

MrRagingSunshine

Hey all, had a bunch of stuff come up at once but I finally got to this big guy and wanted to post an update with my buddy. I fixed up the knees and really redid big parts of it within Maya, as well as touched up the silhouette and proportions.

Feel free to lay on the critiques guys!