OneLungLewis - Tugsy Project

onelunglewis

Hey guys so I'm going to try and give a complete progress thread a try on a new personal project.

Character name: Tugsy
Whos is Tugsy: 8 - 12 year old postapacolyptic orphan
Where is he from: The Streets
Favorite Hobby: Skate Boarding and AK-47s

Color Concept

onelunglewis

Roughed out face body and basic geo for his Chuck-Ts. I'm to tired to put on the laces, I'll hit those tomorrow I guess. Can't wait to do the duck tape... never done duck tape before hmmmm.???

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Roelant

I really like your style. The proportions and the expression of the face are awesome. Keep going! I will follow this thread to see how to progress. Really interesting.

Jessica Dinh

This looks awesome so far! Love the face! Concept has a lot of spunk xD

Raider

god he reminds me of the yellow dude from sin city for some reason

jeremiah_bigley

Lewis, I always love the stylization you bring to the table. Kick ass sculpt so far! Keep it coming!

KyleJensen

Lookin great so far. Keep goin!

onelunglewis

Here is my very simple process of making shoe laces. I'm sure there is an easier way but this method has worked for me well in the past.

Here are the steps:

1. Decimate Shoe in Zbrush for faster machine speed and export to Topogun
2. I import the decimated shoe into Topogun and rough out basic faces for each group of laces.
3. I import the basic faces into Maya then extrude.
4. I crease curtain edges so the corners will retain there shapes when I smooth. Also makes for good quads when I send it to Zbrush.
5. I use the smooth display in Maya to get an idea of what the volumes will look like once I smooth them twice.
6. Once I'm satisfied with the forms I smooth twice and export to Zbrush
7. I import shapes using Subtool Master and make any last form tweaks in Zbrush.
8. Then I do a quick sculpt pass with the clay brush to give it some tension wrinkles.

I will get to the top laces and bow tie later after I put on the duck tape that will be wrapped around his shoes.

onelunglewis

I finished up the shoes. Pretty satisfied with them. Trying to keep things neat and laying on the surface so they will bake nice and clean.

Lonewolf

cool style, this is going great

petrol

Great shoes - love the subtle creases and laces especially... nicely done on the head too, menacing little fella ain't he!

Nix

Thanks for explaining your process, useful tips in there. I'll be following this.

onelunglewis

Was surprised at how much down time I had today to work on my little guy. Got everything pretty well block in. Haven't started sculpting the zip jogger yet, he is going to have a back back on with his skate board and other contraband. I want to wait till I have the back pack on so I can sculpt in the wrinkles accordingly.

With Zip Jogger



With out Zip Jogger



Seat Belt Buckle Detail

onelunglewis

Had some crits on the WAYWO thread to rethink his shirt and sweater combo. People thought it looked a little weird with short shorts and long sleeves. I think it was a good call, I think im going to make his tshirt an old t-ball uniform with a number and some funny team name on it.

ClayMeow

Loving the progress so far. Nice to see how you're interpreting your 2D concept into a 3D model.

Daelus

Might just be me, but the neck feels a little weird at the back. Other than that, I think my eyes melted. The shoes look phenomenal.

onelunglewis

Made some progress over the weekend, still have a few things to model before going back through for a detail pass.

Things left:
1. Skate Board, Don't know how Im going to attach it to the backpack yet.
2. Machete, Don't know where I'm going to put it yet either, probably in his hand.

Santhem

Bag looks good, i like the clean style of all your folds.
Can't wait to see the hair.

One thing, im not a big fan of the tshirt. The rolled up long sleeves in the concept give him a bit of an aggresive look. And the collar of the vest made gave his body alot more shape. Right now the shoulders are really just flowing between the lines of the arm and the neck. In the concept the shoulders have theyr own horizontal line, which also adds to the aggresive look.

I love the way the shirt is tucked in though, looks great!

onelunglewis

More Updates:

onelunglewis

Changed my mind about attaching the Skate board to the backpack. It just doesn't feel right. I roughed in his sawed off shotgun.

onelunglewis

a friend of mine at work (r4ptur3) gave me great advice to enlarge the shot gun to be more inline with the fact that this kid is only 8 or 9 years old and a double barrel shotgun would be huge in the hands of an 8 year old. I also enlarged the canteen for the same reasons.

pinkbox

shotty looks better this size before it could of been mistaken for a pistol of some kind.

Its look really awesome!

maybe add some bolt/nuts to hold the trucks to the skateboard deck?

onelunglewis

Made some slight changes and additions, just about done and ready to start retopin this kid.

I added a trusty role of Duck Tape to his bag. I also redid the back pack straps as well I wanted to beef them up they were looking pretty small now that I have the skateboard and big shot gun in. And yes I know hes bald, I won't do the hair until the low res.

Ihazard

this is looking really nice, I know you're planning on doing the hair on the LP but maybe just have a bit of hair sculpted, otherwise you might have too many alpha planes trying to cover up the baldness? Great progress though

Roelant

It is coming together really nice! Keep going

Torch

This looks really awesome, love it so far!

papagersi

love it!! What does it come for the head~~!

onelunglewis

Roughed in the forms for the hair that will go under the hair cards. Pretty pumped really excited to get to baking.

gaganjain

Nothing to crit,nice work Jackson.Looking forward for more update

zweek

loving all the details, nice work!

-zwick

michael_Curtiss

Yeah man! I dig!

onelunglewis

Here is the Game Res mesh. Sitting right under 9559 tris right now. Still have to add his teeth, tongue, and eyeballs so I hope I can keep it under 10K. Seems like a nice number. Here is a shot of the Game Res silhouette, UV layout, and tex density. Now I have to go turn the oven on cuz it is time for some baking!!!

Jowens

Hell yes sir.

onelunglewis

Pretty satisfied with the initial normal map bakes out of XNormal. Haven't cleaned anything up yet just through them on to get a idea of how it looked. Can't wait to start texture painting.

makecg

nice character man ! bake looks clean. look forward to the textures on this one !

onelunglewis

Blocking in the colors, trying to get a feel for what direction I'm going to go. I'm pretty set with the shoes, and pant but the shirt color is still a little iffy. He will have a graphic T on, so it won't be completely blank.

Sukotto

How about maybe darker brown/tan shorts like cargo shorts and a bright yellow shirt? He looks like hes a troublemaker so I think yellow would suit him better than green

pinkbox

black shirt? thatll make him look like trouble :P

Tadao215

If you are looking for color suggestions on the shirt, I immediately thought of something like this when I saw your character:



Looks very cool btw, and im sure that whatever colors you decide on it will look great.

Jessica Dinh

Aw man, that bake is so fantastic! Looking forward to textures, this is coming really close to finish! :poly124:

onelunglewis

Jessica Dinh

3, but with 4's pants maybe?

onelunglewis

I think I have narrowed it down. Everybody seemed to think he needed a energetic warm colored shirt. I think that is a good call. I'm interested to see how everything plays together when I get the back pack and bandoleer in there.

I also scaled up his "Seat Belt" belt buckle, and made his shoes even bigger. I thought scaling up his shotgun and shells worked so well I wanted to push the scale even further. I also wanted to really see his belt buckle.

I will probably start creating the hair card rig tonight. I want to get back all the spikiness and messiness of the concept.

Dan!

Nice choice on the color scheme- The progress on this has been very inspirational- Looking forward to the rest

Hanska

This looks awesome! Can't wait to see the final images

onelunglewis

Have a few straps left out and the zipper pull cards. I've built the low res shotgun but haven't bake it yet. I'll come in right under 16K when I put the shot gun in there.

Here are some progress shots.

Sirdelita

This looks really great, but I like your original concept more, especially the clothes and hair. The hair was much more wild and tailed out in the back, it adds character and personality to the model.

onelunglewis

I wanted to get an idea of the the final look of the textures and what style I will most likely go with for my little guy. I took his shot gun almost all the way done to develop the look. I'm pretty please with it, can't wait to see how it translate to the rest of him.

onelunglewis

Tweaked the textures a bit, wanted to try and get a little more "oiled" gun metal look

Roelant

Really nice, The texture style really fits the style of the character you made Keep going and keep inspiring me

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