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http://www.zakiaabd.com/


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Hi guys ! , pixel here
Was very nervous to post here (for quite some time) but Lazar encouraged me to do so .
As a short intro , I started 3D last year and zbrush a few months ago. I'm currently in my 2nd year of the games art course at the university of herfordshire (in the uk). I am at a stage where i'm unsure for which parth to passue tho i have been interested in concepting, character stuff and texturing.
I would like critic, advice, comments or suggestions are most welcome !


lastly heres my website and blog if anyone is every interested :


http://zabdullah.wix.com/zakiaabdullah
http://z-abdullah.tumblr.com/


thanks for reading ~

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been working on a Self portrait for uni , still some parts are really blockey at the momment:

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design sketch for a game design project, he is called Narakas , feel free to crit so i can take it on bord next time i concept. ^^

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tabu is the comical but slightly scary amazonian inspired priest guy.
I rendered out the zbrush project base mesh as a base.

SrgFlamez

For your game design, What are you aiming for, whats it about?
Don't illiterate on it too much though. 30 word Pitch would make it easy to understand. Just so we all know what your design idea is rather than us trying to depict it from your renders

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heres is some of the synopsis for my project:

Drawing from Hindu and Buddhist mythology , 5th sense is a new take on the hack and slash genre fusing elements of puzzlers and tactical coop games with the fast pace nature of hack and slash. You play as 4 sisters, on a journey of betrayal, rediscovery and truth, searching for their lost sense. Each player has to support and depend on each other's abilities to overcome puzzles, obstacles and bad ass boss fights. It’s the wizard of Oz meets Dynasty Warriors Strike Force, with a sprinkling of Team Fortress 2.

5th sense centers around the idea of 'joy though strive and shared victory'; each player becomes one of the sisters, komo,jiko,temo and zocho. Unlike most games , every player has there own unique character flaw insted of ability. Komo is unable to see, Jiko canot touch, Tamo canot hear and Zcho cantnot smell(see playable character section for more details).

To put it short, its a 4 player coop hack and slash with elements of puzzler in it. The style is inspired by hindu, amazonian and tribal designs. Its ment to be quite bright and stylized. As well as the 4 girls the 2 characters i have show are 2 bosses, one is a bigger boss and the others the 1st world boss.


not sure if this helps

SrgFlamez

Ok, it is a pretty solid idea. And the artwork definitely looks like it is aimed towards Hindu and Buddhist Mythology. My only thought is, can you use the current look of the characters as say, an evolved form, then take it back a step so that they have like a beginning of the game look. It is a feature that has always been associated in Hack and Slash games. It is almost like a level up feature.

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SrgFlamez wrote: »

Ok, it is a pretty solid idea. And the artwork definitely looks like it is aimed towards Hindu and Buddhist Mythology. My only thought is, can you use the current look of the characters as say, an evolved form, then take it back a step so that they have like a beginning of the game look. It is a feature that has always been associated in Hack and Slash games. It is almost like a level up feature.

thanks for the reply , i wanted the charcters to remain constant in power (want to make the power feel empowerd like games such as dynetry warriors stike fource) but ill see it i can refine them more.

Found this older pice i was working on , i'm thinking i'll take it up again. Do you guys think it would make a ok portfolio pice or is it to cartoonish/stylised? (the concepts inspired by dabei z's concept).

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self portrait zbrush wip , anyone have advice for making a face look less old?

FROZ3N

much awesomness

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thanks froz ^.^ , been working on crits on my potrait so will post another update soon.

For now heres tillable textures i've been working on for another project.

Francois_K

The props are really cool , the record player or the glasses those are really solid. The tilable texture is pretty fucking sweet.

On to critique on the face and I'm gonna be very honest:
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Remove the nasal folds , those tend to make people look old.

Also , I would suggest not using the noise-maker for the hijab because you get these really odd patterns like on the far left side which kinda makes it looks like it's some sort of metal and not cloth.

You gotta bring the mouth out more as well , it looks really unnatrual and the lower chin looks way too squashed in.

The lips for example have a lot more volume. This is just an example
You look like you've bitten on a lemon to be honest.

The folds on the shirt are a bit all over the place as well. The ones that go from the shoulder down to the wrist looks a bit odd.

Since you're doing a self portrait an idea would be to wear that shirt and stand infront of a mirror or maybe take pictures in the pose you want to take , that way you have the best references.

If I'm jumping the fence at some parts , I mean no offense.

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@fran ~ thanks for all the crit its my 1st time doing a realistic sculpt so crit helps and you made some very valid points. I have been working on the crit you gave along with other crit i got form other forums I got and made more updates (sadly i dont have much more time to add more to this because of deadlines but learnt alot form all the crit :



Also i did use photo refrance from all views but the photos had alot of shadows >.< , but i tried looking at other photos of me as well ( my lips are acturly quite skinney hehe xD). Thanks

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further updated the face based on crit on here and other sites

Leafie

This is looking great,

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thanks lea ,

Wasent sure to post this so early but i've been working on another project for school , heres is the block out so far and also the colour scheme block out. Feel free to crit the design and colours :

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Been working on getting my sculpt real time tho i've been finding it hard to get it to look similar to my sculpt, any advice? :

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updates ^^

zbrush sculpt :







real time so far (marmoset 2) .. struggling abit to get things the way i want but heres where i'm at so far:











and some more work on the sculpt for the bunny:

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here some props i made for the room scene i'm working on in unreal 4, will post the final room soon :

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Some more final shots of my 1st attempt of making a scene in engine (unreal 4).

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finals of my 1st attempt at a realistic sculpt and also getting it to work for real time
(self portraight). There was alot of improvements that can still be made but i learnt alot from this. Cant wait for the next !

SrgFlamez

This thread is really good. Your work is coming along really good since the last time i responded.

My crit is a little towards the emotions on your previous post. The angry and sad emotions are mainly identified when the caption saying what they are is read. What I'd advise is that you exaggerate the emotions a bit more so that they are more obvious for others to notice. Because if you plan on animating that using blend-shapes on Maya then there will hardly be a difference. Especially since the right eye remains pretty much the same especially from the angle you've shown it at.

Other than that it is a really good thread of work, keep it up.

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hay polycount its been a while ,

@srg ~ thanks for the crit , i see what you mean


heres a art dump on stuff i worked on while i was gone and some stuff i'm still working on:




and below some 3d:

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Final finished the bunny ^^, finally got a chance to try out ddo and also improve my organic modelling. I'm unsure if i should work on this more or move onto another piece based on what i've learnt from this one.

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Hay guys, its been a while .. thought i'd share some stuff i've been working on over the time.
Some work i'm currently doing as part of a game group project called ascent (will put up a thread on it soon):

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Hay polycount
I've been gone for quite a while but i thought I'd share some more recent work.
I was wondering if i could get some general feedback (if anything major stands out).
thanks!