[P&P] - What are you working on? 2008 Edition

bearkub

OK kids, the original WAYWO thread is big enough now that it is crashing Apache (the web server) and causing the boards to suffer. This is the new one (part 2, the return, the second coming...whatever floats yer boat...). I will leave the old one in place but you will NOT be able to view it in threaded mode.


Carry on, lads, carry on.

Vitor

Let me thy first then muahahah...

Well i actually got scared when I saw the other one closed.

Tumerboy

woot

MoP

So now everyone's just working on typing?

I'm working on playing my new guitar, poorly:

super_villain

Ah, makes sense. The locked icon on the old thread temporarily scared me into my bunker.

Jaco

Holy shit mop! As someone who also plays guitar I can appreciate the skill involved here.

flaagan

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OK kids, the original WAYWO thread is big enough now that it is crashing Apache (the web server) and causing the boards to suffer.

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I'm so proud! My lil' thread grew up and became a big freakin' bruiser!

notman

I think Bearkub just wanted the glory of the largest thread

Cody

First post with actual work mofos!
Mud land for some megatexture tests






Sick guitar MoP!

man_o_mule

So i come back from oblivion to post something and the old thread gets closed on the day I come back. Took me forever to figure out why i couldn't post in the old thread.

anyways. here's what i'm working on.

http://home.mchsi.com/~mule/project/html/journey.html

I'm going to make a fake gameplay video of a game i want to make. Present it at the next Penny Arcade Expo at the pitch your game idea panel. Not sure how i'm going to go about showing a video at it, but i'll worry about that later. PAX is at the end of August so i've got about 6.5 months to do everything. The guy above is going to be the main character. I have more details on the site.

been thinking about giving the main character a weapon....maybe a guitar cause it's going to be music based.....

flaagan

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Seeing as the thread will probably not be allowed to get as big as the old one, I think I'm gonna hold that title for a while. 'Sides, it looks like it took about three years for the old WAYWO thread to get so huge.

aesir

i think the old thread needs to go into the archives. Extraneous stickies are annoying.

bearkub

I am gonna leave the old one up for a week or so, just in case someone goes looking for it.

Tumerboy

like Vig?

Ruz

hate to keep posting the same work, but i am pleased that I finally managed to get the hang of painting in zbrush.

The flat texture was done totally in zbrush.

Bit old school looking I think. It will serve as a good base for when I bake it in to a proper uv layout in max.

I am not too concerned about making the shader look perfect in zbrush , because the the final target will prolly be unreal engine,
but as long as the base tex looks good I am happy

Armanguy

worked on the texture a little more what does everyone think?

StJoris

Hard to tell armanguy, it's showing up pretty dark.

doc rob

Mopster - what are you using to record that audio?

MoP

doc_rob: Audacity
It's fairly basic but quite easy to use. Unfortunately my computer just has a built-in sound card, I'm running my Boss GT-3 processor through to the line-in, and it's terrible for recording, it lags behind any audio you play if you're recording at the same time, so I have to manually fix it (and is why a lot of that mp3 sounds slightly out of sync) ... I need to get a proper sound card or external adaptor or something.

Armanguy

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Hard to tell armanguy, it's showing up pretty dark.

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ill try to fix that, most of its just wip plane black only the main body and turret are painted :S

killingpeople

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drudged up from the old WAYWO thread:


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i simply wanted to praise! good shit, kite. i'm resisting the urge to make this my desktop, it's just a hand, it would be too weird. people might think i'm really into hands, like in an unhealthy way and my coworkers might start wearing gloves and feeling uncomfortable. i've thought all this through. again, amazing work, i love looking at it... like a bug to a light...

b1ll

I guess its time for me to do normal map. geez. Max viewport screengr.. All wip n shit.. Tried to have my style port to next gen Its an early Cable btw ,,


for the X fan iknow the psyshic eye should be on the other said, FUUCK U!
ben
benregimbal@hotmail.com

Gav

That is awesome man, Cable is one of my favorites.

Joseph Silverman

I think you have just a little too much lighting info in the diffuse, a good specular map would give a lot more life to it. Still really awesome, though.

Neox

really nice work b1ll, love the facial forms and the texture is looking nice too, not as crisp as you lowrestuff, but also very nice.
but the sideview is looking somewhat strange, the head looks a little to wide.
Also the hair alpha could be a bit softer on the outer edges, right now they are too hard compared to the soft blended ends.
but well yeah wip n shit, so waiting to see the final

qsuprore: i guess thats just a matter of taste, i prefer this kind of texturing, most normalmapped characters tend to look dead because of that "all dynamic lighting" shit, i don't care about dynamic lighting as long as the painted in lighting looks great. It'll do its job in most cases, so why do a unlit diffuse that looks good in some cases but not as good as the prelit in most cases?

hawken

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this was way better than the spinning quad!

Joseph Silverman

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qsuprore: i guess thats just a matter of taste, i prefer this kind of texturing, most normalmapped characters tend to look dead because of that "all dynamic lighting" shit, i don't care about dynamic lighting as long as the painted in lighting looks great.

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good use of spec is still painted in lighting, it's just painted on a map that effects how it responds dynamically. Just taking out the brightest layer of highlights and painting them carefully into spec will have all of the artistry with a lot more believability in 3d space.

Helixx

Just throw it up here since we got a new thread going. An update on the lich character.. the turns toward bizzare have continued but I think it's working. Still lots of work to be done, he's missing a few accessories(belt, necklace, sword) and he still needs tweaks but so far I'm liking the overall look of it.

Thegodzero

This thread needs to be renamed to

"What are you working on? 2008"

Then just make a new one at the start of the year so we don't end up almost crashing the servers.


B1ll, mirror or die! Nahh looks good to me!

Josh_Singh

b1ll looks great, but his neck is too skinny in that side shot, i dig though

demoncage

agree w/ kp, sweet work kite. ruz, model is looking nice.

fritz

bill...super nice. awesome.
kite(post)...agree w/KP. i actually saved that image.
Ruz...looking really good. only thing that catches my eye is the pores/skin normal on his torso...looks like the "pockets" are a little extreme. awesome work.

almost finished....future, raver, dancer kinda girl.

arrangemonk

hmm i added the arms with armour, there are still some details missing and the skin is also missing, but i'm getting lazy^^ darn

Snowfly

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Oy cool stuff Mop! I should get around to setting up the recording equipment I bought and have a little online jam with ya. Sexy guitar too, I love the sounds and playability of those things :-)

BoBo_the_seal

Kick ass B1ll!!! I agree with Josh on the neck.

- BoBo

Xenobond

Retarded trying to take a photo of something that is all white.
Going through reference trying to find the colors I'm gonna use. Also looking to find some way of actually getting the eye to light up without doing too much drilling/surgery.

adam

What Are You Working On: 2008 <--Better title*

*I agree with GodZero

Justin Meisse

Kurtis > as far as hiding a switch on the figure, I've tossed around the idea of using a reed switch and a small neodymium magnet to activate it.

ggmd

some flats of the church i working on ...these are all wip so dont be too harsh lol

breakneck

my first attempt at putting hi poly detail onto a low poly model. plus i'm learning zbrush in the process. An axe blade will be coming out of the mouth of the fish/dragon mouth. texture is on the first pass - going for a brass metal feel but i think the head is a bit like wood. enjoy!

StJoris

Xeno: Hot figure, perhaps a softbox for taking pictures? http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html

Ruz

fritz - looking nice man, bit of a tron feel to it with those rings.
cheers demoncage
B1ll - but looking good so far nice form.
arrangemonk - it s looking a little stiff so far. perhaps it would have been better to do the overall shape first then add the details.

Armanguy

I made the texture lighter:

Rens

xeno, thats pure awesomeness

Xaltar

Hot stuff b1ll looking forward to seeing more
Love the sculpt Ruz

Meet Angus, a 500 year old Celtic Vampire I'm working on for a personal project that I doubt will ever come to much.

Mr Smo

sweet stuff xeno

heres something ive been working on in spare time


its a high poly kenpachi from bleach, sitll got abit to do tho. any crits are welcome

Crash

Xeno: awsome and fungus to you.

steady

Bill: your cable is awesome but I don't imagine Cable as having that much sense of style as to have that punk rocker hair up top, or the earrings, he always seemed more concerned with killing bad guys and shit, with a more military style short hair cut or buzz cut. But whatever, its yours to mess with ;P

Fritz: Love the raver chick, looks great! especially her nice long legs

MAUL0r

Attention Mythic guys! (and others who like tf2)

My first map got really messy really fast because I was still learning (hammer > unrealed). So I started over whynot? This map is loosely based on the keeps from DAoC. I had to cut down on the details in some areas because of framerate issues, and change the layout somewhat because of gameplay issues. But I'm getting ready to duplicate it and make the red base. I'm still toying with how they'll be laid out... they might be able to see each other, and they might be separated by a mountain. Also toying with the idea of breakable doors on the outer wall... not sure yet. This version is a ctf, but I may make a gravelpit-like cp map out of it later.
wide shot of the front:

wide shot of the back:

first floor interior:

second floor interior:


Still doing some refining and adding details here and there. I plan to put a few props, but nothing too complicated.

C&C welcome

P.S. the map is called "2keep" :P

Hollowmind

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So now everyone's just working on typing?

I'm working on playing my new guitar, poorly:


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Ha, MoP. I've been doing the same.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubJPu9IbkKM

Sage

Making a minigun. It's almost 2000 tris. Right now I'm just playing with shapes. The back of the gun wraps around the forearm like a gauntlet. I'm planning on normal mapping this, well the final result anyway.

Alex