Taube's Creatures n Stuff

rTaub

Hello polycount,

Finally getting on and posting something, instead of just lurking in the corner

I'm an environment artist by trade, but I love doing Character stuff outside of work. So my anatomy and sculpting may need some help. This Character started off as a Zsphere head, based loosely off one of Carlos Huante's concepts. So i am trying to add to it and hopefully it won't looked pieced together.

achillesian

cutey

rTaub

I've been working on this guy here and there... learning a lot. I originally built it all with Zsphere's which was great at the beginning but not so good as i kept going. I retopologized it and now i'm back scuplting. Trying to figure out which direction I would like to take it. Sketched out a few different directions, but I personally think that I like the idea of adding fly wings. Could be fun to play around with adding some insect characteristics to it.

rTaub

Another Update:

Reworking the whole body... trying to add some anatomy and make sense of it. Added first pass of the wings.

achillesian

lookin really cool, kind of reminds me of the final form jeff goldblum takes in the fly

JGcount

Exactly what achillesian said.

Keep it up

Alberto Rdrgz

that looks awesome, keep it going dood!

rTaub

Thanks everyone for the encouragement! LOL, and yea... i was begining to see hints of the Goldblum's fly too.

After going to a pixologic demo held yesterday in LA (http://ugm.pixologic.com/registration/1011-LosAngeles/)... i was inspired to try to do some rendering and color test as shown by Ian Joyner. Some very cool techniques of rendering out layers and using photoshop to composite the images. This may be the way I finish up this character also. But this is a quick color test.


Things to Do:

• Modeling on the Wings, hands, and minor anatomy changes here and there
• Breaking up the model (arms, head, etc) to achieve a higher poly count
• Detail modeling (skin wrinkles, bumps, etc)
• Polypainting pass
• Pose
• Render
• Composite Layers to get final image.