Sketchbook: Brosif

brosif

Hey, my name is Brosif. I'm a 3D artist. I typically use Zbrush and Blender as my workhorses. I thought I'd start a sketchbook here just to post my work, get general feedback, and here just generally document my art as I improve.

Here's one of my latest practice sculpts; a sculpt of a sketch that a friend of mine did.
  Modeled in Zbrush and Blender and rendered with Renderman 21

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small WIP project I'm on right now. A fake Pokemon concept originally done by http://www.zacharybla.deviantart.com.

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Hey Polycount, long time no see!. Here's something I've been working on recently, been trying to sculpt this character my friend (@Ommynous on twitter) designed. Here are some WIP shots so far.

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Here's an update on this guy, He's coming along well, I was finally able to nail down the character feel for him. Going to get into the retoplogy of him very soon. edit: also thanks to Makkon for his amazing hair brush!

pmiller001

Wooweee, these sculpts are clean! I really lik em. Especially the fur on the last one. 10/10, "two thumbs up" 

jose.fuentes

this is looking amazing

theStoff

Looks cool! I'm especially impressed by the layering in the hair and fur. Maybe the fur around the neck feels a bit thin relative to the hair? I would also clean up the eyes and a couple other things as well as pull the deltoid back with a touch of softening. Here's a gif



Really minor and subjective but I think it would help. Can't wait to see the final!

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@pmiller001 @jose.fuentes @theStoffWoah: thanks everyone for the awesome kind words.

theStoff said:

Looks cool! I'm especially impressed by the layering in the hair and fur. Maybe the fur around the neck feels a bit thin relative to the hair? I would also clean up the eyes and a couple other things as well as pull the deltoid back with a touch of softening. Here's a gif



Really minor and subjective but I think it would help. Can't wait to see the final!

@theStoff Really helpful tips, I'll be sure use them as I'm finishing up the sculpting, thanks!

Polynaught

I really like that hair. How do you bake this down to a game ready mesh? Hair cards/planes? Opaque geometry or alpha cutout? Curious about your approach - if you plan to do that.

brosif

@polynaught @Optimus Thanks you guys! 

So far I retopo'd the whole bust, UV'd him and gave him a rough texture pass in my first time using Substance painter (which I am now addicted to)Shouldn't be too long now until he'll be finished 

pmiller001

glad to hear you got to jam out in substance!. Your model is still looking very clean yo. 
question regarding the hair. How do you retopo that,? i've tried before and my result wasnt as clean. I was thinking of just using z remesher and being done with it, but how'd you go about it? Cause thos bakes look cleeean. 

brosif

@Pmiller001 I literally just hand retopo'd it the best I could in Blender, trying to follow the form of the hair. It wasn't anywhere near easy or quick though, it took a solid 2 days and TONS of reworking the UVs. I tried using Zremesher at first, but it was just too much of a hassle to try to UV it and the result was nowhere near as clean or low in density as I wanted.

@Optimus: the total is about 25k polygons, though the furs are literally just decimated from the zbrush sculpt, so they're 20k polys on their own.

pmiller001

I do not envy you @brosif
 Maybe onof thesedays a fancy tech artist will come up with a quick and artistic way to get game ready hair done, but until then! Nice work!

brosif

@Optimus Thanks! And I wouldn't say Zbrush is "useless" for modeling. Zmoldeler is actually incredibly powerful and really useful to have. Though there are quite a few times where I think "screw it, I'll just do this 20x faster in Blender". Zbrush does kick Blender's ass hands down in sculpting though, lol.

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Wow, long time no see Polycount ! Here's a rather small project I finished recently. It's a fanart piece of the character Jiren from Dragonball Super. Used this as a good opportunity to really nail down my understanding of the PBR pipeline. Feel free to critique what I have here and please let me know what you think! 
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So this is the new project that I'm currently working on, a model of full hollow ichigo from Bleach..It's actually an old project that I'm reviving after 5 months off. The goal is to get it to be a fully game-ready PBR textured model. Here are some current progress pics of this  and the plan for his pose is to be something similar to this 
Feel free to let me know what you think of this!

brosif

Taking a break from this character to work on another one for a class assignment. I've gotten pretty far with him so far, but looking for some feedback before I throw the finishing touches on the sculpt and call it done. Any feedback anyone's willing to give would be amazing!
Also here's the concept art for the character 

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modelHere's a little Hollow Knight piece I did for fun.

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Last project I did, going off of the concept work from my Friend, Dalton Zheng. Served more of a an exercise to see if I could try to replicate his intricate style in 3D

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Here's the next little project I'm working on. little concept by another friend of mine: Allison Verjinski 

jaciedraws

I see you  
Looking great