Sketchbook: vinn

Vinn

Hello everyone.

A couple days ago, a friend urged me to make a sketchbook on polycount so here I am.

I am a 19 year old student living in Canada. I attend a game art course in September 2011. I've never touched 3D before. I tried really hard. I hope I learned something. Because my demo reel is due in a few months. Aaaah. D;

I haven't posted on polycount before. I want to try to help in this community as I can [haha, like I can help anyone.]
And so I would really appreciate if you helped me. Critiques, advice, suggestions. Even though sometimes circumstances restrict me from making changes, I will still value it. Because more likely than not, I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

To start off, I'll post the project that I'm working on at the moment and put up some studies along the way. I thought about putting it in the Pimping & Previews section, but it's not like it's anything to be looking forward to, what kind of preview would that be...


I am making a female game character.
Her name is Artisia Sawtooth. Therefore, I've dubbed this the Sawtooth Project [lol, I'm sorry. It's lame :P]

Here is my concept art, terribly rushed so that I could get it in on time but it has the colour palette. Please excuse my weird concepts.



I do feel terribly unprepared, but I'm running out of time.
So jumping right into it, I made a base mesh in maya and brought it into zbrush. So far, the overall piece looks like this:


My TA tried to help me with the face [and sculpted over it to make the one on the left]. I did a comparison. Idk... I still want to keep a softer, stylized feel.


My next steps in the Sawtooth project are to:
- add cracks to the face
- detail the ornaments
- retopo the main finished pieces

And in my next posts I plan to scrounge up some past works, or some exercises.

Thank you for stopping by !

Vinn

Few months[?] ago, I started doing speed sculpts in a Zbrush studio class. I had an hour to sculpt whatever the topic was. This is one of the early ones. The topic was a creature from spaaace.

I made a kind of chicken that I thought aliens would eat C:
I'm not the type to go ahead and make a hulking alien barbarian monster. Sorry.
Someone called it the Psycho Chicken. Pretty accurate name.
Again, please excuse me, it's weird. I don't know what I'm thinking when i'm sculpting.

ReviloRezlab

Loving the Turkey Monster! Keep up the good work

Jonathan Dick

I like everything except for the bags on her boots, although I know you'll probably refine that.

Selaznog

Yeah the sacks on the boots are odd. Testicular, even.

Vinn

@oli it's a chicken ! I know where you can buy a chicken that smells exactly like that ! xD

@jon they're not bags. I indeed intend to refine them. Though after some thought, I'm considering removing them entirely.

@jul Seeing as I said I might be planning to cut them off, how testicular does it seem to you now ?

Vinn

An update on the earring piece in the Sawtooth project. I think I'm finished. I might have gotten a bit lazy...



Why do I even try on these small pieces ? <

Selaznog

Something about the skull seems off. I think it's where the upper jaw connects that could be more defined. Then again, if this is going to be an earring and tiny, it doesn't really matter :P

Vinn

Tiny... Yes, it will be tiny. Stupid thing.

;A; This thing doesn't matter. I'll go have a sit and cry.

Selaznog

Oh, and just saw the comparison of the TA sculptover. I like your version better. Much more interesting to look at. Maybe a bit too much cranial mass, though

Vinn

Ah... I think it might be my fault that you think that. It seems I was zoomed in a bit too much when I put my version beside it.
I did use a reference to make the head, but it can always be adjusted for the sake of making it look good. I agree on that her head is a little on the large side.

Vinn

I lost a bit of work on the sawtooth project today and yesterday. So I'll post something I did in class a little while back.

Speed sculpt. Topic was famous faces. And this face. It be famous.

I read the book and after being shown the trailer in one of my classes... Oh my god, I can't wait for this movie. Let the axes fly !

Vinn

Kept crashing, but I got in the cracks and exaggerated the neck. So, the face sculpt is done. Brought the decimated mesh into maya and now to bake it... Mmmmm, baking.



In other news, spent a long while drawing a couple of gay centaurs. Not that it's very important, but it's all I can think about. What the hell.

Now that I think about it, never drew centaurs in my life, never mind gay ones. I don't think I've ever drawn a full horse either. Note: don't take up just any request from your friends.

CeciliaD

Yeah, the TA's paintover doesn't really do anything for your character. I thought it was a before and after... lol
Abe Lincoln is very well done.

I'm just curious, are you going to add pores/skin texture to her face in zbrush or will that be spec & texture? Or does she have a sort of porcelain complexion?

I'd love to know a little back story on this girl. It sounds like she has a crazy past!
Ooh, and are you going to do the rabbit chainsaw too?
Looking really good!

Vinn

Hi cecil

She does have porcelain-like skin. I plan to add those grainy bits into the cracks when I'm doing the textures.

What I wrote way back when in that class when we were coming up with concepts. [otherwise known as what I could pull out of the magical ass rabbit hat in one sitting]

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I will be doing the saw... though I have not yet started. Dx


Anyways, one last update for today:

Kind of crapped out the embellishments because it's not going to be that big on the character anyways. But I love rabbit skulls

Vinn

Since last I updated, it's just been real boring stuff like UVs and testing it out with a rig in UDK. But I did start doing hair:



Mostly I'm just placing it right now, because I think I could definitely add more highlighting and push the hair to make it look more vibrant.

In other news, started doodling out a comic I've been discussing with a friend. It's nice and relaxing to draw again C:
It is the perfect break from working on the model, but priorities... I must push it aside for now and focus.