Joel Styles' dump thread -- lil' update (26/09/06)

J.I. Styles

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BEEP BEEP BEEP dump thread.

Thought I'd dump these while I remember them. They're all quick and dirty lunch time doodles, so either 1 or 2 hour sculpts.

I'll try and post more as I do them or find them littered around my hard drives/usb sticks/laptops etc.

bust 1


bust 2

work in progress alien mutant zombie freak sheep. Baaaahh.
Maybe the sheep grim reaper?

tremulant

sweet man, these look great, especially the 2nd one, you really got some nice hard edges in there. I'd like to see the 3rd one fleshed out more.

gavku

Nice work dude, do you think you'll get your Sumea entry done?

aniceto

orsm work Joel POST MORE!
the zombie freak sheep looks like itd fall on its face
tried using projection master to put spheres into the eye sockets? the eyes on the second bust are a bit lumpy

Slash

The grim sheeper.


HAHAHA ha ha har har *cough*

JKMakowka

Dunno, but the second one just looks too much like the zombie from Doom3.

Xenobond

Cool stuf, J! You plan on showing Zug Zug to the commonfolk here? ^_^

conte

great work Joel! Post more

J.I. Styles

Cheers everyone - since they are basically unrefined sketches, hearing your feedback helps me figure out which one(s) I should bother continuing with. Personal time is at a premium so I'd like to at least spend it on something worthwhile

tremulant :cheers man, I'll probably have another bang at the sheepy but not too keen on its overall design.

gavku : hell no! haha no seriously, I'll try to but not getting a lot of free time at home to do my entry. To tell the truth she just needs texturing and I haven't updated my sumea post to reflect her at that stage since I'm not happy with her yet
in the end even if I dont get her done in time I'll still finish her. The competition is really only something to help push myself - I've won it twice before so I'm not really -that- fussed about it besides having a motivator for my own personal development.

aniceto: haha I can just it face-planting... bahhh *crunch!*
Good tip with projection master, I'll have to try that.

Slash: haha mind if I steal that name?

JKMakowka: holy crap you're right, that's quite scary actually. Let's call it subconscious fan art


Xenobond: Cheers! I wasn't sure if I was allowed to share my rendition of mr. Zug

Askhat: Thanks buddy - have to get your help with improving my sculpt techniques. Cheers man!

J.I. Styles

A posting rampage

Here's my rendition of zug zug that Mr. Xenobond mentioned:



animated .gif of his progression:

Renaud Galand

jeez, this orc is awesome Joel !!

killingpeople

i'm a fan of your work J.I. Styles, love what you do for the community as well. what did you use to capture your process and create your Timelapse.gif?

Josh_Singh

I love that orc!!!! so kick ass, great metal, great fur. good job man!

kiril0t

wow....the last one is awe inspiring, so much so that it made have to open my mouth in admiration, very inspiring, i like your fine texture work. I can only strive to be as good as you....in time. tnxs for sharing

[MILES]

That looks awesome man! Super job! Are you the same fella who posted this back in August on cgchat.com?

http://www.cgchat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25111

[Hrm...you mentioned "rendition"...so I'm assuming it is a character that several people have attempted? So perhaps that wasnt your post on cgchat.com].

killingpeople

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Are you the same fella who posted this back in August on cgchat.com?

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that's this dude:
http://boards.polycount.net/showprofile....eads&page=1

ebagg

Great stuff dude!! The Orc is toooooo awesome!!

My one crit is on the second zbrush, the fat man bust, and maybe to a lesser extent the first alien bust, there's some areas that feel way too lumpy. The roll of fat under the chin is pretty smooth, whereas his fat rolls have some odd lumps...

Slash

Sure, use the name! Its good to know that my comical genious is of use to some.

J.I. Styles

Renaud Galand: haha thanks man - what are you up to recently?

killingpeople: it's mutual - I'm a KP fan for the time lapse I set up a fixed camera, locked the xyz transforms, and tried to remember to screengrab every time I saved and pasted it into photoshop... I'm sure there's a better way than that (actually I know there's a screengrab script out there), but worked for me ok in the end. Load it up in image ready and you got your frames all done.

ghost_rider: cheers! you're a blizzard entry machine man I'm loving the personality you're putting in your characters.

kiril0t: woo thanks - good to hear people like my rendition of the character, I just keep looking at him and seeing more and more mistakes and areas I should've fixed haha

MILES: thanks man! as you mentioned, you're right it is only my rendition, of mythic's concept.

ebagg: thanks! And yes to lumpiness that's really where these sculpts are unrefined -- they're from cubes, and done fairly quickly, so there's some really nasty areas.

Zcubed

Great work, Joel. I agree with Ebagg (as you seem to as well) in that some areas on the sculpts could use a bit of refinement. There's some "blobbyness" going on. That ork is just stunning! Thanks for the step-by-step too.

Slum

holy crap, man. that orc rocks. go work at mythic...NOW!

Emil Mujanovic

So good seeing some Aussies out there posting some seriously nice shit! I've seen a fair bit of your work over time, mostly over at Sumea. Keep it up dawg!

-caseyjones

SouL

Very nicely painted. Looks great!

J.I. Styles

little bit more time so here's an update

foreverendering

Hey man your orc model is so sweet, it reminds me of this one Warhammer Character, but I can't remember his name. But he rode a wild boar as his steed

Anyway, just awesome work. It's so fantastic

Wells

I think he'd tip over... perhaps if you angle his front legs from the 'knee' down forward, sort of splayed apart a bit to take on that massive weight up front, it would also result in a slightly lowered head, and overall increase the aggressiveness of him.

I'd love to see his cheek muscles as exaggerated as the rest of him, really make those clackers up front have some power behind them.