The FishMan Challenge - Askhat & J.I. Styles

J.I. Styles

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Askhat and myself are doing a little challenge, the rules are:

-part fish, part man.
-clothed
-torso bust
-make it freakin' crazy!

concept round first, watch this space

conte

ok, here is first stage: concepts
My shit=) sorry, i have not enough time to paint it:

Joel's beauty piece of art:

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Josh_Singh

Haha the first one Looks Like a Logan Fish man.

J.I. Styles

looking at my concept again today, I hate it even more than I did yesterday -- is that supposed to be that whole "humble growing artist" attitude? Anyway, I'm going on the record to say I intend my bust to only look a little like my concept

edit:
Revised concept - less alienish, more human/shark-ey.

EricElwell

Hey guys, I just wanted to throw this out there.. I'd really like to see what you're working on, though I can't seem to connect to your (Askhat) server to view the images. Don't go out of your way or anything, but I just wanted to let you know, it's not that I don't care; I just can't view the images as it is, and I am very interested in watching this develop.

Alright.. got that out of they way... rock on fellas..

dkorch

JI, I love the style for both pieces you did, but I gotta say im a fan of your first one more then this piece. im just really not understanding the face on this one. I think its the 3 nostrals I guess. maybe if you were to give it a sharp point like a shark on the nose and gills somewhere...or better yet...hammerhead? anyways, just my 2 cents, I cant wait to see these things.

conman44

anyone ever played starwars KOLTOR? these look like the judges from the water planet.. i love it cant wait to see the models

J.I. Styles

ok, slow going, but we're committed to showing even the crappy stages before anything gets good... so here goes...

Askhats base mesh:



Joels base mesh:

character

ashkat that is so awesome! =p

lookin good JI. looks just like your concept! good stuff

J.I. Styles

Here's our final sculpts...
Askhat:

Joels:


Purpose of this whole thing is to motivate us to do something different, and a little bit crazy... a loose and fresh topic to just go nuts on, and keep each other motivated all friendly like

We're thinking of doing another challenge after this one too, if anyone's interested people are welcome to do their own too.

poopinmymouth

Nice job guys, I love the tag team action.

arshlevon

awesome stuff guys, tons of character in both so far. i like all of askhats little clothing details.

aniceto

nice work d00ds.

this mini-challenge business seems like a pretty good way to get motivated

EricElwell

These are great guys! We gotta do more of this stuff on polycount!

tacit math

yeah. diggin' them sculpts. nice forms both
.

character

i don't talk to you for one day and you do go and make another masterpiece! crazy ashkat! haha

i love both of 'em. i don't know which one i like better. i call a tie!

killingpeople

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Nice job guys, I love the tag team action.



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i bet you do!

Spark

Awesome job guys! Lately at Ensemble we have been doing a speedmodeling thing during lunch (The Bird, DH, Monster, and others) It would be nice to start something here, someone throws out something to do, then we spend an hour working on something to post in the thread. Just an idea, and something to keep the creative juices going.

Spark

conte

hey guys, i uploaded some shots to my site:
http://askhat3d.by.ru/fishmanhead.jpg
http://askhat3d.by.ru/fishman.jpg

RazorBladder

looks awesome askhat though the 2nd link is broke, Joel's character seems to remind me of a cross between a seal and a mole

and a great idea spark, start the bloomin thread!

Wells

just remove the h from fishmanh.jpg

great stuff, as usual

RazorBladder

ah, much nicer render, i thought somethin was ugly about the one Joel posted :P

conte

Hey Sectaurs, thank u very much. *fix*

EarthQuake

One crit i have for you askhat and i've seen this happen quite a bit in your other models, is that you dont have enough mid-range details, you have cloth folds that dont affect the mass of the model at all, just projection master details that come off really flat.

J.I. Styles

Hey those look heaps better Askhat - what was up with the one you sent me?

edit: ah I see, you'd blown out the cavity colour; anyways, I still love your mr. fishy

conte

EarthQuake, yeah, i am fighting with that problem now.
cloth folds are hand painted;p
joel, turn on icq, bro!=))

retleks

Man, I missed this. Great stuff from both of you! Competition always helps push your skills. Would be cool to trade off base meshes, and take turns sculpting each sub d level. At least I think it would be cool.