Going to spend this weekend beating on ZBrush Dynamesh booleans to see if I understand the workflow for hard surface stuff.
First one:
Has some issues like faceting in places that exists because I didn't know what I was doing when GoZ'ing from Modo. But I think I've got that handled now so the next piece will look better!
Use much higher subdivision before you boolean and raise your dynamesh resolution maybe?
You could also use one of the polish modifiers.
I wonder how tight the edges are and if this is good for bakes?
Onelung - thanks man! I'll be sure to keep that area of the goggles in mind while texturin
ae. - thanks dude!
ithoual - nice work! colors look cool so far, a secondary leather color to help separate the cloth and strap elements might be nice. maybe some purple to help pop out the yellow bits?
fred2303 - nice bake, looking forward to seeing your texture progress
Use much higher subdivision before you boolean and raise your dynamesh resolution maybe?
Basically, yes. I need to make sure that I can subdivide the mesh I'm performing the boolean with enough times that it becomes smooth. I didn't do that on the first few ... but, hey, lesson learned!
You could also use one of the polish modifiers.
I'll look into that, thanks!
I wonder how tight the edges are and if this is good for bakes?
Probably not much good. If I think ahead, I can angle things a little better for baking but this is more just to feel good about how to efficiently build things using this method.
FFFF, guize, I'm only 1 artist here. You're asking for miracles.
As for Fingus's question, it took a while. It was a combination of meshlab and many hours of manual edge loop stripping after subdividing it 400 times.
Worth it for those deets.
@Fightpunch I've not used sketchup before (hardly know a thing about it!)... and I'm interested in learning it. Would you mind shedding some light on how you created this?
@lonewolf - Impressive execution! It looks like you put a lot of energy in to it, I really like the tactile feeling you achieved with the surface materials. The only minor/nitpicky thing I would potentially change is the digital feeling of the cast shadow, I think quickly blurring it in photoshop a little as it recedes might ground it better to the plane?
Art jam at work - still have some finishing touches to add...
Speedpaint - something a bit different: I started off with this: http://new.weavesilk.com/ - give it a go, it's good fun
@lonewolf - Impressive execution! It looks like you put a lot of energy in to it, I really like the tactile feeling you achieved with the surface materials. The only minor/nitpicky thing I would potentially change is the digital feeling of the cast shadow, I think quickly blurring it in photoshop a little as it recedes might ground it better to the plane?
Art jam at work - still have some finishing touches to add...
Speedpaint - something a bit different: I started off with this: http://new.weavesilk.com/ - give it a go, it's good fun
@Fieldscarecrow, I'll write some thing up about my process but to start with I'd just watch the first few sets of tutorial videos on the google website, they're really simple and get across the fundamentals really quickly and easily.
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What is the poly count?
Use much higher subdivision before you boolean and raise your dynamesh resolution maybe?
You could also use one of the polish modifiers.
I wonder how tight the edges are and if this is good for bakes?
Wow, you seriously just commented on that? It's around 9 months old! :P
This looks like great topology, especially around the mouth. Saving.
So much good stuff people are posting so just going to shut up. More faces:
ae. - thanks dude!
ithoual - nice work! colors look cool so far, a secondary leather color to help separate the cloth and strap elements might be nice. maybe some purple to help pop out the yellow bits?
fred2303 - nice bake, looking forward to seeing your texture progress
redbranch - awesome stuff!
Pretty happy with this for now
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I'll look into that, thanks!
Probably not much good. If I think ahead, I can angle things a little better for baking but this is more just to feel good about how to efficiently build things using this method.
Try as had as I might, I just couldn't strip it down further than 2 tris.
I have failed.
As for Fingus's question, it took a while. It was a combination of meshlab and many hours of manual edge loop stripping after subdividing it 400 times.
Worth it for those deets.
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Here's some great reference for you.:)
here's something i was working on a few months ago, moved to canada so it's been on hold for a bit:
it's supposed to be christopher lambert in highlander. lots left to fix and do!
Sketchup, huh?
*flips table
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fron the hawken thread
Put it on some objects/environment and lets really see it in action!
@Fightpunch I've not used sketchup before (hardly know a thing about it!)... and I'm interested in learning it. Would you mind shedding some light on how you created this?
Art jam at work - still have some finishing touches to add...
Speedpaint - something a bit different: I started off with this: http://new.weavesilk.com/ - give it a go, it's good fun
Thanks guys.
Red
Wermir: Considering the one sided color scheme it looks awesome.
thanx man
yea it was bugging me too, ill fix it
sweet painting btw!
@Fieldscarecrow, I'll write some thing up about my process but to start with I'd just watch the first few sets of tutorial videos on the google website, they're really simple and get across the fundamentals really quickly and easily.
http://www.sketchup.com/training/videos.html
More Sketchup Shenanigans.
WIP environment.
Talk about stuff wrong with it here!
This is what it looked like before photoshop crashed and I lost some work
amazing, every update i see i get more and more impressed!
Anyway, I'm learning and having fun and that's what's important.
Haha love it, especially the expression.