First Z-Brush Sculpt

Dim

Taking mah first crack at it. I'd say please be gentle, but let's be honest, this is Polycount, there will be derision and penis jokes.

I love this community

Here's the base. Little high poly, but I got carried away.

Rockley Bonner

nothing wrong with it. I personaly think that his eye sockets are too large, but you could say it adds personality.


also add a large penis jutting out of his head.

Makkon

You sort of asked for it by just stating it.

Is that your base? Looks very good However, if you are going to sculpt it, zbrush calls for even, uniform quads all around. You can't have those skinny rectangles if you want some good sculpting results.

Dim

Thanks for the feedback guys. I tried to add to the density of the mesh to areas I thought it'd be important. Just starting in Z-Brush now.

Dim

Getting a little farther. Not sure I'm liking where it's going, but I also can't tell what's wrong....halp?

Alex3d

From an idealistic point of view, I think the cheek bones are too wide. But hey, I`ve seen so many unproportional faces in real life...

Oniram

nice for a first sculpt. try to give the eyes and cheeks a bit more gravity. especially the bags under the eyes

JacqueChoi

Ha! This looks familiar!

I think the wrinkles seem to be too evenly spread out, and the same consistent depth.
There's a little bit of the overall structural wrinkle detail you're starting to lose. This is expecially noticeable with the bags under the eyes.

They're also a tad too uniformly round.


Really focus and study how wrinkles are formed, their shapes, their depth, their structure, and how they relate to each other.



Model what you see. Really focus on getting the details and lines going the way you need them to go.


Good start mr.dim!

Dim

Alright, wrinkles take two. Hopefully this incorporates all the feedback.

Dim

Thanks Hboybowen. What would you suggest I add? Later, I will hopefully use hair particles on the brows and do some offline renders, so I'd prefer not to sculpt in the hair. Even if I do, I may do that as a separate subtool.

Snader

You have large shapes and fine detail, but no inbetween. Have a look at this:


Notice how the brows vary from small lines on the outside, to bulging masses above the nose? How the eyebags are small humps with lines, and not just lines alone? You'll also want to study the skin under the cheekbones - it doesn't have any real lines but it does look saggy and old.

Jister

nice one, i do have the feeling your head is to width. have a frontal look at your head and see how much space there is between the end of you eye and the beginning of your ear. you'll see what i mean. or you simply don't have perspective turn on don't mind the clumsy drawing.

MainManiac

if you're new to zbrush I suggest using these matcaps for anything anatomical:

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showpost.php?p=490687&postcount=266

Dim

Hey Snader, that was extremely helpful, thank you.

Jister, couldn't actually see your image there, but yeah, the front and side shots are orthos.

Frell: those matcaps are really helpful, thanks!

Update here. Any better?

Dim

Sorry, quick bump, only because this is due tomorrow.

DDuckworth

I think it's a lot better, great job!

Dim

Thanks

Sculpting is something I really want to get better at, if only because it's s'goddamn fun.

Dim

Another update here.

Dim

Little update here, everything's baked down.

Dim

Added the beginning of the diffuse.

Stromberg90

Well i have to agree with Snaders comment a while ago, since i stll think you can push the sculp further, right now you have the large and the small details in, but the medium detail is missing to give it depth.

Keep on going

Dim

Update with eyes.

af3d

in reality eye whites are not very close to white, they tend to be on the pink side. In addition as people age the eye whites tend to get darker.

Notice how dark and pink the eye whites are. I would also blur the iris detail, it will look much better. Seems to me that the ears in particular could use at least 10 more minutes of attention in the sculpt, and they should be scaled up a bit to emphasize his age. You should also sag the area right under his chin where the Adams apple is, gravity is not kind to that area of the neck as people age. Lastly and perhaps most importantly you need to spend some time making this face asymmetrical, it will make it seem far more natural and believable.

Dim

Hey af3d, you make some very good points, I'll see what I can do about them. As for the asymmetry, it does exist if you look a bit closer. Here's the actual mesh:

Dim

So I've been having a lot of trouble getting the eyebrows to work properly. Any help would definitely be appreciated. Here's how they look.

Heartless

Here's a quick paint-over to point out some things.



The eyebrows need to follow his brow line more. Also, they'd be grey and not as thin.

There is some weird folds going on in between his eyebrows, which I pointed out with some terrible suggestion doodles.

Also, the nostril area is looking weird, very flat and angular lookin'.

Keep at it though, definitely not bad for your first sculpt.

Dim

Hey Heartless, thanks for the crits! I can't really incorporate some of your feedback at this point because it's a little late, but I put in as much as I could. Little update. Working some clothes in. Also started on hair, but it looks like shite at the moment. I will do an update about that process shortly, and I could REALLY use some feedback on it.

These are from Blender internal, but it'll be headed into UDK soon.

(ignore the funky little artifacts)

Dim

Still a lot of issues with this, but here's where it's at.

Dim

Small bumpsie? Looking to get the level of quality up to portfolio level.