[WIP] T-Recks

Dudeman95

Hello there everyone. I'm going to be constructing the main dinosaur for my game project called Wreckage. Right now I am working on the base mesh to later take into Zbrush and give him the final touches. The following pictures are of the base mesh, the concept, and a quick zbrush sculpt.

SnakeDoctor

Cool Project I will be following this. Do you plan on texturing the model like the pic like in the concept?

Dudeman95

Yes I do. I will need everyone's help on giving me suggestions for making this thing look next gen quality.

chrisradsby

That looks pretty cool, I did a T-Rex , several months ago when I first started learning, still have it in my portfolio if you want to take a look. Not as spiky and awesome-looking as yours but my highpoly looks pretty decent. I've grown leaps since then. Oh well, keep going!

Dudeman95

Another test sculpt.

Mitz

might be just how i see it, but it looks like the neck on the sculpt above seems to wide horizontally. Whereas in the ref picture, the neck only seems thick due to that thin skin dangling in the front. other than that, i'm really digging the head in general

Dudeman95

Update on base mesh.

JohnnyRaptor

thats a badass concept art dude, makes me wanna model a badass dino too!
keep up the work dude, looking forward to seing more..

Dudeman95

Here is some more blocking in of the body.

edoran89

very cool dude, look forward to this, reminds me of the dinos from the recent king kong update

Dudeman95

Alright I finished the body. I still have yet to do the rest of the spikes, the arms, and the legs.

XenoKratios

Awwww he's so cute .

Mark Dygert

Looking good. Faithful to the concept art, I like the smaller than normal head and the beefier than normal body, I'm not so sure about the upper arm anatomy so I would be tempted to depart from the concept there, but it depends on how the model looks on its own apart from the concept, it might hold up ok?

BlvdNights

DINOSPERM!!!

moof

haha.

sweeeet.

roosterMAP

lol. good one.

Jungsik

cool~ im lookin forward

Dudeman95

Another update.

Mind

he looks good !!

chrisradsby

nice work dude

Dudeman95

Update!

Dudeman95

Thanks for the crit. Here is the ref I am using.

Dudeman95

Do you still think I should smooth out the knee after showing you my side ref?

wi_2

looking good so far.. keep going

Klumpmeister

looks great! Id love to see the final sculpt!

Saman

Don't forget to put the gap between the thigh and the stomach(Check the ref images you posted, the one from behind). From what I see on your recent screenshots it looks like it's been combined with the mesh. The reason I'm telling you this is because you'll probably get skinning problems later when animating it which will cause nasty texture stretchings.

Dudeman95

Here's the front reference and the inner thigh of the mesh.

Dudeman95

Here's a new render as well.

Dudeman95

More renders.

Mark Dygert

Good progress, keep it up!

I'm not sure I would float the spikes, on something as organic and bendable as the neck it could be a pain to keep them from poking out when its rigged.

Dudeman95

Couldn't you parent the spikes to the main body so it would flow with it for animation purposes?

Dudeman95

Alright good idea. Should I do this with other body parts such as the eyes, tongue, teeth, and claws?

Mark Dygert

Dudeman95 wrote: »

Couldn't you parent the spikes to the main body so it would flow with it for animation purposes?

You can and they would, but the problem is that as the surface deforms where they appear to connect isn't going to always match.


But wont that lead to a lot more edge loops all over the place? Not really, if you control where the edges go and keep them contained. Kind of loop them back around and tessellate a few quads.


As for the eyes, I wouldn't include them in the same mesh as the body, you want those to be able to slip and slide around under the eyelids.

Dudeman95

Alright so retopo everything to the body except the eyes? I just want to get this really clear because this is my first (hopefully) next gen model.

Dudeman95

Here's another update.

Dudeman95

I'm almost done with the base mesh! I just need to add a couple of spikes here and there then it will be time for sculpting this bad boy.

Dudeman95

The base mesh is done. All remaining spikes will be made in Zbrush. Now onto sculpting!

BlvdNights

Your presentation page is at an 11....we need it at a 3.....thaaaaaaanks

Dudeman95

What do you mean?

Dudeman95

Some sculpting progress.

Dudeman95

Sculpt update

Dudeman95

I'm really taking my sweet time with this since this is my first serious sculpt in zbrush.

n88tr

his molars are outside of his mouth?

Dudeman95

Here's another update. This will probably be the last update for a while. My next one will hopefully have the main parts of the head done along with some more body shots. So be patient guys. Like I said this is my first real serious sculpt with Zbrush and I want to take my time with it.

chrisradsby

Spend more time on the muscles before moving on to detailing, you want the t-rex to have those really strong legs. Nice work so far!

BlvdNights

Dudeman95 wrote: »

What do you mean?

Meant kill the giant red background. It is completely washing out the awesome mesh you've made.

Dudeman95

Here's another update. I still have much to fix up such as the leg and those horns coming out of his bottom jaw.

roosterMAP

cant wait to see more detail! sex it up for me in zbrush. lol

Dudeman95

Here is another update.

Dudeman95

Here's another update.

Dudeman95

SasoChicken wrote: »

Looking great, especially the little details on the spikes on the lower jaw. If all the spikes (hell, everything) gets the same attention to detail this might have to go up on PC's header
Speaking of the jaw though, it seems a bit wide. A classic tyrannosaur jaw is a lot smaller and tapers toward the tip of the head.

Thanks for the great complement and as for the lower jaw being too wide it is suppose to be like this according to the concept. This is not however your everyday T-Rex either. Here is a close up of the head.