Creature Concepting

zberry

Starting a thread here for design work in zbrush, will be working on a series of rapid concepts. My aim is to improve speed, technique, and design, and also create a series of candidates for a more polished final work. This one was around 2 hours for sculpting then some extra time for renders and comp.

zberry

Hrrmmm, came back here to post another one but it looks like my original image is missing? Anyone else not seeing both images, or am I having a problem with Dropbox linking?



And the first one, sorry for double posting if you do see the original image below:

zberry

Here's a character I worked on a while back, this particular design never made it all the way through production. Original concept by Devin Manning.

KingKellogg

Nice, I really like that helmet.

Nintendo46

holy ****, this looks awesome !!!1111111

did you create the scifi helmet in zbrush? looks like a good hardsurface

modeling practise in a 3d app for me.


the creature looks really mean, i like that


the corpse guy looks also great, would love to see this guy textured.


keep up the good stuff, i saved your images to my inspiration folder, so thanks for sharing

greetz

zberry

Thanks guys!

Nintendo, my workflow for designing the helmet was like this:

-Concept sculpt in zbrush, dynamesh from a sphere.

-Retopo in 3dcoat to get crisp edges as well as refine shapes and break things up into separate segments (for a 3d concept pipeline I can see skipping this part, and doing more polish work in zbrush, but I like the extra control)

- Render in Keyshot


Considering doing beat up textured version, but I may just move on to designing more new stuff.

dpadam450

That demon design and sculpt is great. If you need a portfolio piece, I would definitely texture that.

zberry

Doing a PBR style texture pass on this helmet, painted in substance painter and PS, rendered in marmoset.

Wubberman

That Helmet is looking fantastic! Look forward to seeing more!

Sliterin

I like it a lot , but you have space to get it better. First red - those should og diffrently not just straight down. They should fit flow of helmet much more than that, it's too generic drip. Cyan - you didn't used it on texture on roughness / metallness i think that you should right now it's look more like - I don't know why I am there. Green - lets damage it somehow , I would recommend friction it a little bit. Magenta - give it more blue , I think that you give almost same material as for main glass ( i love it ) , but it is much smaller so it don't fit for it. Looking forward for updates!

Btw. How you get values for roughness / metalness and albedo , testing with own values taking it from some soft?, coz I usually take it from quixel so thats why I ask?

zberry

Thanks for the detailed and specific feedback Sliterin! Agreed on all points. I'll take a look at revisiting some of those details.

For the channel values, I started with the properties of the substances built in to substance painter (bare metal, rough plastic, etc.) and tweaked them for my purposes. I haven't tried using the Quixel Megascans before, interested in playing around with that in the future.

Finally, does anyone know how to change the name of my thread? I'm using this for more of a sketchbook/ art dump and the thread title doesn't really fit.

zberry

Reworked some details and took a new render of this model. Will abandon the previous thread I had use this one to post updates.

felipealves

Dat skin! Great work with those creatures man!

MattyWS

Dat skin indeed! You have both inspired me and made me want to give up at the same time..

zberry

Work in progress here, wanted to tackle something more subtle since I've done a few creatures and a robotic/ hard surface thingy. Crits and comments welcome, also if anyone knows how to change a thread title please let me know.

zberry

Doing some sculpted hair on this one for now, may go back and try to add alpha hair later.

zberry

Some preliminary look-dev/tesing in marmoset tb2. Jacket still placeholder. Any thoughts/crits appreciated.

Earthyn

Hi there, loving this thread my friend!

Now I am still learning so much, so take my criticism with a grain of salt

Her face is rather perfect, as in symmetrical, perhaps adding a few imperfections?

Right now its look very polished I am a fan!

Excited for you to take it to the next level of detail and add some depth to the skin an such!

erroldynamic

Hey, really cool work you got in here! I dig the shapes you have goin' on in with her hair. Is this going to be a game rez bust?

zberry

Thanks guys! I might do a game rez at some point, right now I'm just developing the concept for this character so I'm throwing high rez geo into marmoset for now. And thanks Earthyn I will for sure be doing some asymmetrical details for the face, will probably start work on the skin detail pass today. For now I have a small update on the jacket:

zberry

Started a new sculpt based on Jaemin Kim's Smaug concept: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dragon-2301c4d7-fb08-4a0e-b726-61c268fe93b1

karytsukino

Nice work man! This Smaug is awesome! Are planing to texture it?

zberry

ThanksKarytsukino! I am planning on doing a texture pass on the head next, and then possibly modeling out the rest of the body.

zberry

New creature design, work in progress, will post more shots soon as I continue to develop this guy:

Nuclear Angel

The latest stuff here is insanely good! How did you render the latest piece?

zberry

Thanks, I just did a basic render with keyshot and did some post in PS. Here's another view, still WIP.

Grubber

Nice! I really like the flesh feel of it.

zberry

Mimiws

Those creatures.. so lovely. great work man! it makes me want to sculpt some creatures haha cheers!

Chantel-sky

Awesome thread dude, loving those renders!

zberry

Thanks Chantel and Mimi! Here's a new one I'm working on, will be posting some more shots as I develop the legs, refine the sculpt, etc.

nooby

dude ur works are awesome ! realy well done!
keep it up!

karytsukino

Nice stuff here zBerry! You're doing a great job with creatures! Congrats =D

AGarton

Your dragon is gorgeous

zberry

Thanks everyone for checking out my stuff!! Still exploring with this one:

OrganizedChaos

Man you're really rocking these things! Keep up the awesome!

zberry

Thanks OrganizedChaos! I'm a fan of your work, your doomsday dragon is epic!

ZacD

Almost looks like Mew Two, except for the tail.

zberry

Finished with this one for now:

Nuclear Angel

Ohh my GOD I love these! You sir are Awesome, a true inspiration! How much time do you spend on each sculpt? Like the latest Alien dude?

zberry

Thanks Nuclear Angel! I'm glad you dig my creatures, I have a blast making them. I spent a good amount of time on the last one, in my spare time over the course of 2 or 3 weeks. Most of that is spent trying out all kinds of design iterations and experimentation, the actually sculpting doesn't take all too long once I know where it's going.

doomprodigy

Well this thread is terrifying. Could definitely see your latest chasing people in a movie.

Great job.

Ged

love that latest one, looks like a rival race for the avatar aliens to fight against

BradMyers82

Nice work man, yea that last one looks like movie cg quality to me. Very well done!

zberry

Thanks guys!

zberry

Hey Polycount, long time no post.  I wanted to try out something in a totally different style than what I am doing at work, here is my quick fan art of Arcade Ahri from LoL.  I'll keep working on this character in my spare time and post updates here soon.  Thanks for looking.

zberry

Finally had a chance to make some progress on this one, work has been crazy and I can't wait for people to see what we've been up to at SMS.  In the meantime I'll keep chipping away at this fan art.