Sketchbook: 8-Bit

8-Bit

Hey all!

I think it's about darn time I started my own sketchbook on here and became more a part of this wonderful community. Please, if anybody has any input about anything I post up here don't hold back. I love criticism, the more input we give each other the more we can learn!


Anyway, to kick this off I've got a quick character I sculpted in about an hour. I'm finding these quick sculpts to be very beneficial. I'll be posting more involved work soon so keep an eye out.

Jessica Dinh

haha cute xD

Daven

cool sculpt man. really fun proportions. it'd be cool to see more in this style. The mini breakdown is also very nice.

Oranghe

haha i like it, i think you could push the anatomy of the arm more! but i agree the proportions are fun

Welcome to the forums also ! thanks for the encouragement before also

allmighty_thunder

i think that it would do better with not so defined knees...think like rubber

8-Bit

Thanks a lot guys! I love the feedback.
Thunder I completely agree. I almost want his legs to be even smaller and I think the knees are making them look too big. hmmm, not sure. What do you think?



Also, here are some gestures I did in photoshop. This is the time to be mean, haha! I really need to master anatomy, and there's a few things I seem to mess up every time. Lets see if you guys can't spot them.

allmighty_thunder

gesture drawings arent as much about anatomy as much as motion and pose, all bit the first are quite expressive...how long did each take?

8-Bit

True, though I believe some poses (particularly straight on) are great for getting comfortable with the proportions of the body, don't have to worry about the little details. I know what you're saying though. I think I spent 5 minutes on each. I didn't time myself though.

8-Bit

This is what I'm currently working on. Full body character loosely based off of Shaolin Monks with my own designs worked in.



This is the basemesh I made using ZSpheres. I'm leaving the upper body exposed so I'll be retopping half of it for better muscle definition.

allmighty_thunder

no zbrush 4 r2? dybamesh changed my life

8-Bit

I have it thunder. I found it's really only good for the initial shaping of a figure, but I wanted to keep it low for the block in of mine since I find it easier to shape. Dyna Mesh is a really cool tool there's no doubt, but it's not a fix to all our problems.

8-Bit

I'd like to thank Codyone for the inspirational work. After checking out his sketchbook I was inspired to do a robot of my own. I don't typically do hard surface work in Zbrush but Cody's video made it look so organic and fun I just had to try it for myself. I wanted to add a little humanity to it so I tried to suggest a mischievous smile on his face.

allmighty_thunder

nice, the designs on the base of the neck make me think he has several popped collars though

Assassin0323

Nice work man!

8-Bit

Haha, that's awesome thunder! I didn't see that. He's pretty fly for a robot eh?


Thanks Assassin! I'm glad you like it.

8-Bit

Finally finished this guy up. Haven't had much time to work on him lately, but I've managed to free up a few days to focus on getting it done.

SSquir33

tiny niggles: pecs seem low(nipple height to chin dusnt seem like one head length), collarbone could be more squared off, and abs are deadly straight, could introduce some asymmetry there as far as muscle mass goes .


great character and good to see a finished off peice, more pl0x. specialy human stuffs =D

allmighty_thunder

i feel like that you could lower the polycount quite a bit...

8-Bit

S Squir33: A lot of people I showed this to said something about the abs. I ended up re-working the normals so they aren't so defined though I agree adding some noticeable asymmetry would improve it a lot. When I find time I'll see if I can't improve it with a re-sculpt.

allmighty_thunder: Definitely! There's a few elements (the rope around his waist in particular) that I was thinking I could even merge to the main mesh. There are a lot of edge loops I can get rid of too. The tricky part is just going to be working around the UVs.


Thank you so much for your feedback!

8-Bit

Did some minor changes to the monk based off of the suggestions I got from my friends and people here on polycount.

Joseph Silverman

Monk character is very slickly done. His face is too small, though! Also, work some gradual color variation into those cloth materials, he looks like he stepped out of an advertisement for a fabric company.

8-Bit

WOW! It's been forever since I posted in here.  Anyway, trying to get back into keeping up with the forum. Here's a bit of WIP on a character I'm working on for fun at home. 

going for the slightly chibi style of final fantasy tactics. I really love the weight they put on specific pieces of clothing and the weapons to give their characters toon-like proportions.

jellophish

Looking good so far, keep it up

8-Bit

still making progress on the character above, but I was inspired to get work done on another project.

8-Bit

Finally found more time to get some personal work done. If you can't tell I was into Final Fantasy growing up.. trying to mesh a lot of modern touches into a fantasy style character. 

I'm still not 100% sure if I like the current straps I've got in there. I might want to add more, or at least rearrange them possibly.
Comments and critiques are definitely appreciated.

8-Bit

Got some more done on the sculpt.





 I'm trying to work out what her sword will look like next. I wanted to do something that ties in a musical theme to the character.