Just Another Scrapbook Thread

jacob thomas

Figured I should make one of these as a place for my WIPs.
I'll kick it off with this head study.

jacob thomas

Current WIP. Almost done with the likeness, threw some polypaint on to help see my fuckups.

jacob thomas

Slowly...

jacob thomas

Makin some teeth.

grotessive94

Wow  I really like your models! And thanks a lot for the feedback, man. Btw how did you do those eyes?  

jacob thomas

@grotessive94, the eyes are just a boring ass polypaint with the material 'Toy Plastic' applied.
If you turn on MRGB you can paint material information as well as colour, this lets you have different materials applied to different areas.

jacob thomas

Speed bust from a cube. Interesting exercise in respecting topology and defining forms with little detail.

jacob thomas

Couldn't help myself, made another one.

grotessive94

Man, I love your process. Very organized and those heads look awesome.

jacob thomas

@grotessive94  thanks man. Not gonna lie, your daily updates are inspiring me more than a little. 
Here's another one. Female heads seem harder to do with less detail. All that Softness is lost when you have massive polygons.

grotessive94

@jacob thomas Oh I'm happy to hear that. I would like to see your daily works! And that girl looks beautiful, you managed to do it with such few polygons.

jacob thomas

@grotessive94 thanks man. I'll try and do a few more, hard to find the time lately. 
I made some lips, they always seem to be a part I get a little stuck on.

jacob thomas

Another feature study. The schnoz.

jacob thomas

eye01

jacob thomas

Been lazy over the summer, but starting to get some art in.
New head WIP.

jacob thomas

More head work, adding a body for said head. Low poly bewbs, started with Arsh's old base mesh.

jacob thomas

Playing around with some concept ideas.
**updated

jacob thomas

model

jacob thomas

Refining some concepts. I'm leaning towards 1a, 1c or 2b.

jacob thomas

Refining her body and face, hoping this will help steer her down a look path.
I also named her today, Jacqueline.

jacob thomas

Some face progress.

jacob thomas

No updates for a while, have not had much time to work on this. Managed to squeeze out some new topology though.

jacob thomas

Still plugging away at this. A little test bake. Everything is placeholder, except for the feet. Those are rock solid.

jacob thomas

Spent a good chunk of today with her head. Pretty happy with all the base shapes, eyelids still touchy. More refinement necessary.

jacob thomas

I'm pretty slow, still noodling away.

MrHobo

Hey man great progress with your faces,
One thing I think you may need to reexamine is how her shoulders are connecting to her body,
The way the deltoid is connecting  to the chest feels a bit off, i think the deltoid may be a bit short on your sculpt. 
I did a terrible terrible paint over to illustrate what i mean. I hope it helps. 

jacob thomas

Thanks Charles, you were spot on. Made adjustments to the deltoid, feet, face and hips. Pretty happy with her now, I think it's finally time to press ctrl+d.
Only now do I notice her little butt divot... Will fix that asap.

MrHobo

Those arms read much better now. Good progress!

jacob thomas

Thanks Charles. It's been a busy week of sculpting and baking at work so I felt like unwinding by throwing down some 1st pass skin.
This is what I got after a day of messing around, far from done but not a bad start.

jacob thomas

Little more today, I think I will start tackling her hair next.

slosh

Looking good.  Should be fun to see her in an outfit.

disanski

She is looking great man. I think you could make her eyelids a little thicker and also her knees look  like they can be a touch more defined

Kapoff

That last update looks dope man.

sr3d

any chance of making her more attractive and possibly increasing her bust size?

bkost

sr3d said:

any chance of making her more attractive and possibly increasing her bust size?

Isn't attractiveness relative...? I think the model is lovely!

Vegas

sr3d said:

any chance of making her more attractive and possibly increasing her bust size?

Do you actually mean attractive? That is definitely a subjective element and shouldn't have any bearing over the piece. Unless of course "traditional" beauty is the aim. She looks fantastic so far Jacob.

MrHobo

The textures are coming along really nicely man. Good job!

affington

nice one jac, what about dem toes =p

Bill Lumbergh

its great!! the only thing I would suggest is that the distance between her two eyes seems a little too big, it should be equivalent to one eye..can you show us your reference?

jacob thomas

Thanks for looking people I do appreciate the kind words. Jacqui has been put on hold until after the Artstation Challenge. This will be the last update on her for a while.
SLOSH, yeah dude I will get some clothing on her asap. Thanks for checking her out.
DISANSKI, I agree. I'll give them some refinement next time I fire her up.
AFFINGTON, I know right. I will need to work them into the low poly some more, I tried to be lazy.
BILL LUMBERGH, thanks man. I did place her eyes 1 width apart. They may have gotten knocked around somewhere though, I will double check. I didn't really use any one reference. A real smorgasbord of images and some real life observation.

Blade113

great job on all of those!

jacob thomas

Thanks BLADE113.
Figured I should post some of my current WIP, for the ArtStation challenge.
His name is Jean. Going for a Last of US/Uncharted vibe.

jacob thomas

Totally not finishing this dude in time. But I'll keep chipping away.
Here is his head progress. Not sure how this hair will hold up, still considering alternative methods.

jacob thomas

Made some final proportion adjustments and overall tweaks. Time to polish everything up.

jacob thomas

Punched out a bust. ~8hours deep, alphas a little of mine and a little of Frank Tzengs.

jacob thomas

Started laying down some skin. Will start refining it tomorrow.

jacob thomas

Working the skin and eyes. Not sure how much further to push it.
 

jacob thomas

Taking a break from skin and messing around with some hair ideas.

MrHobo

The current hair style reminds of something western. Are you going for a cowboy feel?

jacob thomas

@MrHobo to be honest man, I have no idea. Haha, I watched Alice in Wonderland the night before and just felt like trying something with mutton chops.

Kinda lost at the moment, really uninspired and not sure what to do with myself.
So I went back and started revisiting Jacqui. Hair is placeholder AF and yes @affington I still haven't done her feet, I will do them next

Not sure why I am getting 0 AO in her nostrils, I have them at max black in the baked map. Kinda buggin me.

jacob thomas

Photobashed dress, hair and shoes/horrible feet onto her.
Will attempt to replicate the dress over the weekend.