Hard Surface Fellow
polycounter lvl 9
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^^^came back and worked on this some more. I've built most of the torso plates now.
Been working on the sketch for this fellow as part of a hard surface modeling tutorial (a subject I'm trying to learn). Any critiques would be welcome. I mostly like it but am still trying to get it to feel really integrated.
Ultimately, my plan is to use HPolish and Mask/Extract plates and surfaces and cut them with Mask Curve.
^^^came back and worked on this some more. I've built most of the torso plates now.
Been working on the sketch for this fellow as part of a hard surface modeling tutorial (a subject I'm trying to learn). Any critiques would be welcome. I mostly like it but am still trying to get it to feel really integrated.
Ultimately, my plan is to use HPolish and Mask/Extract plates and surfaces and cut them with Mask Curve.
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legs - especially feet- look inverted, then your whole design fail to convince me, because I can only see that personally.
Been using some trim dynamic and some hpolish but I am not too worried about it right now since I'll do a lot of that when extracting.
I dunno if you still don't like em but I like the changes I've made to the proportions and am actually pretty happy with the legs and feet now.
Still need to tilt him forward a bit, clean up a bit, maybe work over the head again, but otherwise pretty happy.
There's still a lot of clipping since I'm still noodling the torso but it's getting there. Couldn't resist throwing on some of the little details from the alphas in the tutorial.
Honestly, don't change the title, just because one peep-squeak sullied the name 'fellow' doesn't mean you shouldn't use it ;P
As for the model, I hope you're making each set of 'pieces' in separate tools? Last thing you need is your 6 pack to be part of the main mesh and not be able to rub it out.
I like the body, but you need to rework the feet and legs. It looks like he cant even balance himself.
This is looking good, but he is still pretty lumpy. I'd love to see what reference you're working from. Where are you going with the head? The torso is definitely getting there. The little bridge / clamp / thing that goes from the collarbone area up to the shoulder looks like it could be refined more. Right now it sort of has a dent in the top of it that does not look like it belongs.
yeah they are all separate tools although some are mirrored pairs via subtool master.
I agree, and I'll fix his balance when I work on the legs.
There there. If there's anything I can do to make it up to you let me know.
I'm working from general mechanical ref photos but no concept art I just sketched out a reference mesh in ZBrush and found something I liked.
I will definitely go back and do something with the strip attaching the shoulder/collarbone. It looked bare before like it needed to be attached. I might tuck in the top of that piece. I also want to make a repeatable piece for the spine.