Sketchbook: Massbot

Adam Curtis

Doing these busts quite often at the weekend so it's probably a good time to start a sketchbook. Hopefully get some drawing on the go also. Slowly texturting the first one :P

Adam

ae.

DUDE! so awesome keep going!

P.S when you gonna update your portfolio site?

boudreau22

These look great! So much character in just the head.

frosty

Redefines creepy! Sweet!

Ged

nice works massbot , the third eye dude is freaky what you using to render? mudbox 2010?

Adam Curtis

Thanks!
Ged- Yea just Mudbox 2010!

Edit - If you go File > save screen image, you can save it out at 4x the size, so when you scale it down you can cheat the AA
Changed some of the levels in photoshop also.

Ae. - Well i've pretty much started from fresh from the start of the year, so once i've got some full characters done which i'm working pretty hard on, it'll be up!

More mudbox goodness coming at the weekend :P

Adam Curtis

Finally started some texturing!! Pretty basic atm, placeholder spec and bump and lotsa texture seams. Want to get into the habbit of posting in here more often :P

- This is rendered with XSI with displacement map, havent done any 'high end' rendering before so this is bit of a learning peice. Going to start looking into SSS tomorrow.

Ged

looks good so far, would his hairline really be that far forward? hmm maybe. would be nice to see some eyes in there soon, just to make it feel complete.

Adam Curtis

Cheers Ged, updated the previous image, and eyes just for you! Havent got any reflections going on yet however.

Think the hairline transistion is a bit off at the moment, so i'll check out the distances when i'm working on that!

aesir

New head is ace, although I wish you'd gotten started on the 3 eyed guy first. He's way cooler looking! I've seen plenty of people with a hairline like he has, so I wouldn't say you have to change it, although since he's a bit older, maybe it should recede a bit (or that's my personal bias as a balding dude). Dirty his skin up though. His is as unblemished as a 15 year old girl.

Adam Curtis

Thanks aesir.

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Edit - updated with the latest pic

fearian

saw this in WAYWO - absolutely fantastic work! The somewhat sad expression and detail makes me think he could easily be a character from heavy rain.

Ged

nice render, sterling work massbot

Adam Curtis

Thanks guys appreciate it.

Messing around with some ideas for a book of uber doom/death/witchcraft today :P Quite enjoying it so will probably block out the rest of the front cover tomorrow.

Edit - update with slightly changed design.

Adam Curtis

Busy week Sculpty sculpty.

Adam Curtis

Back to this guy again. Re rendering it from scratch with a different lighting setup. I thought I was happy with the previous one but it's been bugging me recently so I decided to do some reworking. Pretty happy with the new eyes, although the spec is quite intense when the light is shining directly in them.
Working on some final bits and bobs and trying to get a final light rig i'm happy with before I render out a turntable.

ENODMI

New render looks amazing, maybe bounce some light into those shadows? Also, even though the first renders SSS is probably too strong, I think the ears look a little too opaque in the new one, perhaps it's just the new light setup you have. Really amazing sculpting, very natural and believable anatomy on these busts, wow:)

Adam Curtis

Cheers Enodmi, I agree about the ears - bit rubbery at the minute. Ye i've got some fancy stuff to come on the render like DOF and I can try get some bounces on the go. Thanks for the crit!

Edit - updated the above head

Adam Curtis

Should really update here more often, from the WAYO thread - Trying to speed up my workflow and just a general break from other work today.


Edit - updated with another angle

Adam Curtis

An actual painting!!! Havent done any in a loooong time.
My concept tag ticket, done in mudbox on a plane.