Sketchbook: Digitalpaintbucket

digitalpaintbucket

Hey all

So this is some of my work I have been working on for my Student Portfolio.

I hope you all like and if you have some suggestions or critiques that would be great! Any feedback will do

digitalpaintbucket

This Wheel Barrow I just did recently and am looking for some feedback. I have been thinking off adding something more to texture, but all I can think of is adding tape to the handles. Anyone have some good ideas?

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Eoq

Cool stuff! Are they production or game assets? Some wireframes and such would be cool to look at :]

TheWox

Beautiful!

[HP]

That's some really cool way to showcase your art!

Mind sharing a few textures and wires of those low polies?

Also, that's one of the best usages of zbrush I've seen for wooden pieces, did you stamp masks to get this look or you actual sculpt it with brushes?

digitalpaintbucket

Thank you

Actually they are too high to be used in most game engines, some are low enough for games such as the Hammer ans other small props. Most have been built for close ups, but the sculpts could be used for transfer mapping. As for the Wood Sculpting I tried a variety of methods. One was using clay tubes and sculpting each piece using low opacity. After that I would then use damien standard, and slash 1 and 2 to define more details. Also I used hard opacity of clay tubes and the gouge brush for harder details like damage, and so on. I found a better way as of yesterday to get not so intense sculpts of wood. Using the Mallet Fast brush and changing the brush from stroke to drag rectangle and then using a wood alpha. Ill post that Asset I used that method on tomorrow it should be done by then. I really want to apply both these methods though on a new piece cause I think it can have great results.

Ill post some wires and textures tomorrow hopefully

bbob

These are great, loving the materials and the lighting.

BTW, if the depth of field is composited via a z-pass in a seperate app, I'd be interested to know how.

SimonT

cant just say: wow. nothing to say about this

p.s. 1 thing to say: give us wireframes

digitalpaintbucket

I use a Zdepth pass there are several ways you can do this but it depends on what software package. I use Maya and use render layers Luminance depth pass. Or render a Zdepth out as an iff. Then I bring it into Photoshop. I use Filter, Blur, then Lens Blur and put the Zdepth in my alpha and reference it.

bbob

Really? When I use the lens blur thing with a zdepth pass in PS I get sorta weird artefacts when focused stuff goes over blurred stuff..

Might be doing it wrong, then.

digitalpaintbucket

Yeah, I just play around with the settings. Are you rendering in Maya?

bbob

Naw, using max..

Been a while since I've been doing pre-rendered stuff anyway, was just curious

z0ltan

Very nice! I really like the boat. It has a very good sense of "I'm weathered and dying! for the love of god restore me!" diggin it

JBeezy

These are amazing!! Teach me your ways!

JBeezy

These are amazing, teach me your ways!

digitalpaintbucket

Here is what I have been working on as of late. Almost finished, crits welcome

SimonT

just great. which renderer are you using?

vofff

very sexy

digitalpaintbucket

I rendered it in Mental Ray

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Treboras

Texture is looking very nice (!), but the model looks quite low poly on the big round part on the top in comparison to the handles or the wheel. 2-3 more edges might help.

also a wireframe and some description and introduction might help .....