[Junku] Current works~

vivin

So, I have been slightly lazy these past few weeks. Decided to start a thread containing my current wip's and future work's in hope of kicking me out of this current funk phase

Actually, a post made in general discussion a few weeks ago has made me realise I have some really obvious weaknesses that I hope to challenge head on > : D

I really enjoy sculpting, but have always stopped short when it comes to texturing.

To keep things semi short, I hope to improve in areas outside of my comfort zone, and in turn become a more well rounded artist

Expect to see a bit of everything really, High poly/Low poly/ Characters/Environments Sketches/Finished works etc etc...

To start things off, a quick head sculpt done for some render testing. I actually prefer the raw mudbox screen grab funnily enough






I modeled this low poly FFXII Judge about 2 years ago, with the intention of texturing him for some practice, but as always, I never got around to it XD

This is my first "serious" attempt at texturing. He is a little rough around the edges, but im slightly happy for a first step into new territory ^^;



Wires~


I might do another pass on him, as there is some dodgy seams and such, but I'm also itching to start something new (right after I finish watching this dota2 live stream) XD

Nizza_waaarg

boo you suck!
...all the way to the bank :poly136:


*works on device to steal sculpting powers*

also mudbox is for chumps bro (but you already knew that :P)

Fomori

For your first "serious" attempt at texturing that's looking pretty sweet. Nice armour! Can't see any immediate problems with seams either.

jaalto

Sweet textures! Imo needs a bit more contrast to make those carvings pop

shotgun

Very nice sculpt

As for tex - u did a gr8 job putting this detail into such low-poly. U have all necessary levels of detail - except biggest:



One more pass of biggest-forms light will add a lot of volume.
As side-note, I added warm touches into shadow (vs cold light), some repeating of yellow material into empty shapes, and pushed overall colors (grey>blue>cyan) into eyes.

vivin

@Nizza
haha, I dont mind being a chump, if it means being able to work with such an awesome program as mudbox, there I said it...mudbox is awesome! (totally waiting for zbrush 4R2 so I can jump ship again :P )


@Fomori
Cheers , Oh there are seams, I guess the screengrabs just hid them well

@Merecraft
Thanks!, I agree with the contrast crit, I kept things very mid range for the values, I was aiming for a more softer painting feel, but I think some areas could definitely pop more

@Shotgun
Thanks for the crit. The judge could really use another broad pass, I worked on bits in chunks, so its lacking in overall form. I'll experiment with some colder highlights as well, and see how things turn out

I did work on something new. Just a quick sculpt while watching the dota2 live stream last night. A bust of one of the heroes. His name is Leshrac I believe



Any crits/comments/questions more than welcomed ^^

Dan!

last one is super stylish- agree with shotgun on the judge critique- could maybe use to push some curves around in PS as well maybe bump th contrast a bit. You have some serious talent man.

chrisradsby

Yeah I love the last one, great sculpt. Really nice, very interesting shapes. Keep going, I'd love to see more

BrontoThunder

You get all the points for making that Leshrac. The redesigned characters for Dota2 are all so good.

kio

dude had a look at your cghub link, really awsome flow and forms going on in your stuff. looking forward what you'll come up with in the future

disanski

Amazing work dude This last bust has so much character in it with the bottom lip sticking out like this

looprix

the goat head is worthy of a full body sculpt

vivin

@Dan!
Thanks man!, I do hope to revisit the judge as I'm not very happy with how he is right now. I'll keep the comments in mind

@Chrisradsby
Cheers, I really enjoy sculpting stylized characters. Expect to see more soonish =P

@BrontoThunder
Thanks!. The redesigns for Dota2 are really amazing. It gave me the inspiration to create my own crappy version XD. I still dont know what I'm more impressed by, the godly character work, or amazing environment work

@Kio
Thanks The level of work might not be the same, since I'll be pushing myself to work on things I'm really not good at, but we will see =P

@Disanski
Thanks man, Most of the character comes from the original design, so I cant take any credit for that XD

@Looprix
I'd love to do a full body sculpt in a similar style... just need more time XD


I did some "quick" low poly texturing 2 days ago. I say quick, but I am amazingly slow at this. Model took around 1hour to model/UV and then about 8hours of pain to get to this stage


I thought I would copy an existing model done for World of warcraft. Kinda like how you copy from master paintings for practice. Well, I consider bliz to be the masters of hand painting textures XD.

Heres the model I was attempting to remake

As you can see, I got no where close -__-;

Heres the wires/texture sheet. Rather rubbish layout of UVs as well.


I am constantly amazed at how hard it is to work with colors. Form = easy, colors = crazy hard XD

Oh well, I'm going to keep at, and hopefully my ability to use colors progress's beyond that of a child's ^^;

Any crits or comments are most welcomed, Feel free to rip things apart as well~

tacit math

yeah i tried to work out some decent crits for you bro but kept coming back to omg +1 ass pat. sorry dude