This is still very heavily WIP. I'm going to completely replace the poofy sleeves and trousery bits with stuff that's a lot more complex. I obviously still have a lot of work to do, but whatevs, mang. It's coming together.
Wow, amazing stuff I´m seeing here every time when I´m visiting.
I´ve posted this Warpgate some weeks before, and now its finished. The highpoly is rendered in mental ray, any other screen is taken in 3DS Max using the Xoliulshader.
Textures are 2048*2048, the glow map too, because we´re using CryEngine2 and so it will be the alpha-channel of the diffuse.
Jackwhat: definitely some of your best speed paints yet - Good range of values and sense of dynamism within solid, readable shapes. I think you should definitely work into these a little more cos you've laid the groundwork really well.
Dado Almeida: I really like the layout for this piece and the line drawing is super clean, but I feel that you could have paid more attention to tones and local colour in order to break things up a little more. I think you can have a dark, night time lighting scheme while still grouping the values more obviously. I'd try desaturating the image and running 'Dust and Scratches' on a flattened version of it to see what the simple value shapes are. Then decide on a focal area you want to punch up with tonal and colour contrast. At the moment there are a number of areas with the same value range and so there's no natural focal point.
Also, on a pure storytelling level you could maybe try and heighten the sense of peril. As it stands, the zombie cats are all lower in the frame than the dogs, which makes them less threatening than they could be. You could have some more zombie cats climbing on the other side of the ship unseen by the dogs, but you might have to rework the composition to do that as it's already quite busy. Hope this helps - you're making great progress with your work.
zxcman: that's a badass bust, dude looks incredibly pissed, very darksiders vibe to the design, but not really in the surface, very cool.
philipK: the atmosphere in those shots is awesome, really cool design, makes me want to know more about its function immediately!
Mr. Cash: that's pretty awesome man, love the guiding lights on the side of it. is the little floating piece behind it a ship? would be cool to see one for scale ref on this.
Thanks! I hope to be able to add a lot of little stuff to it, and I've got some nice feedback that I want to change/add too. It's made with the BitSquid engine
gilesruscoe: Getting better, but rather than speedpaints I highly suggest doing longer studies. There is only so much you can learn in half an hour, try doing at least an two hours. Even then that's quite little as my personal "in the zone" usually takes 4-6hours to get into. I'd suggesting hitting that Godfather picture up again.
Will do Allan, having to fit paintings inbetween an Iphone project atm, so trying not to let them get in the way too much and slow things down... Give it a few weeks and i should have some more time to do 4 hours + attempts... Did another 45min practise, will post in my sketch book instead of spamming up WAYWO. Cheers again dude
gilesruscoe: Getting better, but rather than speedpaints I highly suggest doing longer studies. There is only so much you can learn in half an hour, try doing at least an two hours. Even then that's quite little as my personal "in the zone" usually takes 4-6hours to get into. I'd suggesting hitting that Godfather picture up again.
I've always wondered how mutch time is usual to spend on a Digital painting. I can never get it right, Its either like a half-hour scribble that looks like shit, or a 3 day marathon that leaves me totally burnt out.
First time I have ever posted in here some absolutely amazing stuff guys. This is a Western scene I have been working on for quite a while, I know there are quite a few areas that need improving but I have handed the assignment in now, but I will be coming back to it as soon as I have completed another project to give me some fresh eyes on the scene
BoneBrew22: Well in the words of Da Vinci "Art is never finished only abandoned" It's an evolutionary process and maturing process that artists go through in there lifetime to arrive at different states of "finish". It really depends on the work and intention. So for studies, know what you what to learn when you go into it rather than blindfiring into it since you'll end up frustrated as you are going in with too many variables. Rather stick to one than expand to a couple.
For instance I did this study (below) I went in thinking about using a triadic colour scheme and crafted a gamut palette out of it (what makes or breaks a painting is the colours we leave out not put in), I wasn't really emphasising forms since it was just a pure colour exercise. I didn't really keep tabs on the time (all I had to go with was when I told my friend I was working on it and the timestamp I sent that message as) probably 30-45 mins (but behind those 30-45mins are hours upon hours of countless studies on different levels, I've done 4-6 hour life model paintings that sometimes spanned two sessions when I was at uni (hoping for more this term)) I've also worked on a single painting for a couple of months hitting it with fresh eyes different times. And with oils a speed painting usually is hours (for me 4 hours is a speed painting) or even days not minutes haha.
So all I can say is: -Intention of study , -Vary length of studies (underwork things, overwork things , know your limits and try to break them each time when you are ready) - Remember a single day isn't going to make your a godly artist so enjoy your work rather and challenge it, control it don't let it get to you that it is shit, if it is shit then make it not shit or paint it again. - Pace yourself - Passion, fuel it!!
This is still very heavily WIP. I'm going to completely replace the poofy sleeves and trousery bits with stuff that's a lot more complex. I obviously still have a lot of work to do, but whatevs, mang. It's coming together.
awesome work so far. Looking forward for the final highpoly!
Marine, bit blobby right now, looks like you might started a bit early on details there. Like the feel of the char though, reminds me of a vampire John Malkovich
Started work on my take on a W40K Space Marine (I know pretty much nothing about these things). I don't plan on leaving him metallic, I'll add some paint job in the end.
Needed a break from it so started work on a bolter and one of those backpacks all the Space Marines seem to carry, too. Everything so far is 100% ZBrush made, except for a few basemeshes.
Bolt Pistol is 100% ZBrush, no external basemeshes.
Nice one tacit! Pecs and stomach look a tad weird but ace otherwise. Allan-p: Cool! You may want to revisit Clint's nose though, it's a bit off rotation wise.
Texturing update, finished the head including mouth interiors and hair, although for the latter I'll have to see how it looks realtime before I commit to it. I may end up going with the hair strand approach rather a couple of large meshes.
Edit: These are unleveled texture flats btw.
Edit2: I'm a fucking idiot! I just realized the textures of the body/hand look blurry because my OpenGL texture settings were set to 1k max and they're on a 2k tex... I'll upload the fixed version of these later!
looking good maph I think his UVs could be a bit more optimised though, like his nose/nostrils look Pinched on your UV space and needs more pixels compared to his stubble and skin details, I would of maybe mirrored the ears and put the inside mouth on a smaller, seperate texture sheet as they are often reused and put the hands on the face texture space so they have more pixel density and its also quite nice to have all the skin together. upto you though as your quite far in now.
'Nother update from me. Damn, I feel so slow compared to everyone in this thread. Gotta speed up.
Sculpt WIP and paintover of where I'm thinking of taking it, crtis much appreciated. Thanks for the comments last time :]
@Swizzle- that head sculpt is awesome! @Maph - your face texture is looking really good especially round the eyes. The lower legs seem a bit short though? Not sure. Looking forward to seeing it done.
'Nother update from me. Damn, I feel so slow compared to everyone in this thread. Gotta speed up.
Sculpt WIP and paintover of where I'm thinking of taking it, crtis much appreciated. Thanks for the comments last time :]
@Swizzle- that head sculpt is awesome! @Maph - your face texture is looking really good especially round the eyes. The lower legs seem a bit short though? Not sure. Looking forward to seeing it done.
Ooh, nice! You should make a verson with the hood down to showcase the hair, it looks so nice.
Mr. Cash: that's pretty awesome man, love the guiding lights on the side of it. is the little floating piece behind it a ship? would be cool to see one for scale ref on this.
Tnx^^
The floating piece is just a free positionable buoy to supports the orientation of the player, because the game(mod) takes place in the open universe.
Scaling: There you have me! It should be a realy big warpgate and the problem is that it doesnt cames out believeable. Due to the fact that everything is modeled out and there is no use of crazybump or stuff like that, it would be a more enormous effort to get rid of it. I will post a screen with size-relation to something known during the next days.
I´m also quite confident with this guiding lights, so currently I´m working on a texture-animation to make the lights pulsing in the direction you have to fly through the gate.
everyones killin it. always love your shapes tactic!
couple randoms from me. started a zero g pilot based off the trevor claxton helmet design i did a while back.just a change from all the heavy chunky zerg/terran ive been doing lately.and then just a lunch doodle head.
Some amazing stuff posted over the last few pages! I especially loving your character stuff future-fiction, Swizzle, Massbot and Tacit
Running into Subtool limits with this guy = time to move onto bake and texturing I reckon, and work in more details that way, in combinatio nwith the sculpt.
Very nice, trust me when i say this... make 64x64 gloss map for this... the concrete and the material on the top shouldn't have a constant gloss value... the cement should be something like 15, and the plastic/metal (can't tell) should be something much higher like in the 40-50 range.
this will add an extra touch of realism that will help with the aesthetic.
post an update if u do this so i can see it
Thanks for the tips
I originally just used the spec map for the gloss channel. However creating a gloss map like you mentioned seems to help out with the material definition... that. and. it was stupid easy to make :P
Oh man. @ Swizzle, East, Allan-p, Maph, scumworks, future-fiction, meshia, FAT_CAP, crazyfool: AWESOME STUFF. Got me all inspired! Keep at it mates and lasses!
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So yeah.
This is still very heavily WIP. I'm going to completely replace the poofy sleeves and trousery bits with stuff that's a lot more complex. I obviously still have a lot of work to do, but whatevs, mang. It's coming together.
I'm working on a tiny scene. Very WIP atm. So don't mind the texture work and lack of little geometry details here and there too much.
That's a fierce looking head zxcman, cool stuff.
I´ve posted this Warpgate some weeks before, and now its finished. The highpoly is rendered in mental ray, any other screen is taken in 3DS Max using the Xoliulshader.
Textures are 2048*2048, the glow map too, because we´re using CryEngine2 and so it will be the alpha-channel of the diffuse.
dude, I love you scene, somehow I imagine all kinds of awesome stuff coming out of it. Great looking sand btw. What engine is this in?
35mins painting of The Godfather:
And love that little scene PhilipK, nice mood
I myself am working on a vehicle model today, based on a concept by Lorin Wood.
@gilesruscoe that is fucking sweet.
Working on the Crypt/Dungeon again:
Dado Almeida: I really like the layout for this piece and the line drawing is super clean, but I feel that you could have paid more attention to tones and local colour in order to break things up a little more. I think you can have a dark, night time lighting scheme while still grouping the values more obviously. I'd try desaturating the image and running 'Dust and Scratches' on a flattened version of it to see what the simple value shapes are. Then decide on a focal area you want to punch up with tonal and colour contrast. At the moment there are a number of areas with the same value range and so there's no natural focal point.
Also, on a pure storytelling level you could maybe try and heighten the sense of peril. As it stands, the zombie cats are all lower in the frame than the dogs, which makes them less threatening than they could be. You could have some more zombie cats climbing on the other side of the ship unseen by the dogs, but you might have to rework the composition to do that as it's already quite busy. Hope this helps - you're making great progress with your work.
philipK: the atmosphere in those shots is awesome, really cool design, makes me want to know more about its function immediately!
Mr. Cash: that's pretty awesome man, love the guiding lights on the side of it. is the little floating piece behind it a ship? would be cool to see one for scale ref on this.
though i couldn't figure out how the specular should be.
For instance I did this study (below) I went in thinking about using a triadic colour scheme and crafted a gamut palette out of it (what makes or breaks a painting is the colours we leave out not put in), I wasn't really emphasising forms since it was just a pure colour exercise. I didn't really keep tabs on the time (all I had to go with was when I told my friend I was working on it and the timestamp I sent that message as) probably 30-45 mins (but behind those 30-45mins are hours upon hours of countless studies on different levels, I've done 4-6 hour life model paintings that sometimes spanned two sessions when I was at uni (hoping for more this term)) I've also worked on a single painting for a couple of months hitting it with fresh eyes different times. And with oils a speed painting usually is hours (for me 4 hours is a speed painting) or even days not minutes haha.
So all I can say is: -Intention of study , -Vary length of studies (underwork things, overwork things , know your limits and try to break them each time when you are ready) - Remember a single day isn't going to make your a godly artist so enjoy your work rather and challenge it, control it don't let it get to you that it is shit, if it is shit then make it not shit or paint it again. - Pace yourself - Passion, fuel it!!
awesome work so far. Looking forward for the final highpoly!
Started work on my take on a W40K Space Marine (I know pretty much nothing about these things). I don't plan on leaving him metallic, I'll add some paint job in the end.
Needed a break from it so started work on a bolter and one of those backpacks all the Space Marines seem to carry, too. Everything so far is 100% ZBrush made, except for a few basemeshes.
Bolt Pistol is 100% ZBrush, no external basemeshes.
Allan-p: Cool! You may want to revisit Clint's nose though, it's a bit off rotation wise.
Texturing update, finished the head including mouth interiors and hair, although for the latter I'll have to see how it looks realtime before I commit to it. I may end up going with the hair strand approach rather a couple of large meshes.
Edit: These are unleveled texture flats btw.
Edit2: I'm a fucking idiot! I just realized the textures of the body/hand look blurry because my OpenGL texture settings were set to 1k max and they're on a 2k tex... I'll upload the fixed version of these later!
looks great though bud
Thanks!
Nice clay feel and proportions!
Here be a wolfman, might do the whole low poly shebang.
Sculpt WIP and paintover of where I'm thinking of taking it, crtis much appreciated. Thanks for the comments last time :]
@Swizzle- that head sculpt is awesome!
@Maph - your face texture is looking really good especially round the eyes. The lower legs seem a bit short though? Not sure. Looking forward to seeing it done.
Great sculpting work! Like your stuff..
Managed to get some work done due to an internet connection failure for several days. Sort of nice to work without the distractions of the internet...
Ooh, nice! You should make a verson with the hood down to showcase the hair, it looks so nice.
Thanks alot^^
Tnx^^
The floating piece is just a free positionable buoy to supports the orientation of the player, because the game(mod) takes place in the open universe.
Scaling: There you have me!
I´m also quite confident with this guiding lights, so currently I´m working on a texture-animation to make the lights pulsing in the direction you have to fly through the gate.
couple randoms from me. started a zero g pilot based off the trevor claxton helmet design i did a while back.just a change from all the heavy chunky zerg/terran ive been doing lately.and then just a lunch doodle head.
Running into Subtool limits with this guy = time to move onto bake and texturing I reckon, and work in more details that way, in combinatio nwith the sculpt.
Ive been testing out a new base mesh
Thanks for the tips
I originally just used the spec map for the gloss channel. However creating a gloss map like you mentioned seems to help out with the material definition... that. and. it was stupid easy to make :P
Yeah, somewhere near 80k would be more fitting..