Sketchbook: pongstah

pongstah · Jul 2015

Decided to start a sketchbook of my wips. C&Cs welcome & appreciated.
Thanks for looking!

pongstah · Jul 2015

Some fibermesh test again. Quick and messy story board composition ideas of the day. C&C if you like.
let's split up...
http://i.imgur.com/i2rf2Qd.jpg
poof!
http://i.imgur.com/Arfi3ud.jpg
Older version:
http://i.imgur.com/5N33s23.jpg

pongstah · Jul 2015

Older Versions:
http://i.imgur.com/h9tv2Ty.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/T9ODsDG.jpg

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pongstah · Jul 2015

Played around with the composition and added eyelashes though not really visible in this shot.

Not sure why but the composition it looks more dramatic flipped horizontally.

Kihlstrand · Jul 2015

Hey there!

Seen you posting in "what are you working on thread" thought I could stop by and give some critique.

I made a paintover to show what I think could be pretty fast fixes and could do a lot.

Prominent eyelids, darker eyebrows, sharper jawlines, check the planar of the face. A few references will help a lot among the way!

Hope it helps, have a good one.

pongstah · Jul 2015

Hi Kihlstrand, thanks for the suggestions, I'll keep these in mind when I do the next pass of detailing. Here I made a some composition paintovers. Tell me what you think.
http://i.imgur.com/AwdYfq0.jpg

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pongstah · Aug 2015

Character WIP.

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pongstah · Aug 2015

Hoverbike WIP progress.

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pongstah · Oct 2015

Tweaked the renders a bit.

pongstah · Nov 2015

Composition WIP.

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pongstah · May 2016

Added some detail.

pongstah · May 2016

pongstah · May 2016

The pose could be better but I think its getting there.

Eric Chadwick · May 2016

This is a neat idea. I think the texturing looks a bit plain, it looks untextured, it's all grays of nearly the same value. Her pose feels stiff and unexciting. She looks like she's calmly sitting at a desk. A more dynamic hunched over pose might work better. How is her cowboy hat not being blown off by her speed?

pongstah · May 2016

Yeah it looks kind of flat right now, I can probably add some deep panel lines on the bionic horse to break up the silhouette more. I want it too look like a mix of sleek and clunky machinery. Also a bit of light scratches and dirt/grease buildup probably wont hurt.

Cool suggestion! Yes I think a hunch over pose is better suited to give emphasize to the character's superhuman speed. The pose I have right now does indeed look odd and stiff, specially against the dynamic background I have. The character looks more like stunned in a stasis field or something rather than being in the process of transforming/metamorphosis which is what I wanted the image to convey. An action pose/ charging pose might be more interesting and would make more sense.

Thanks for the feedback Eric.

pongstah · May 2016

Working on rider 2 and the pose, but first a screenshot of my current progress of rider 1. Trying to make the faces distinguishable from each other.

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pongstah · May 2016

Wasn't able to work on the rider as planned, instead played with the SFX a bit and increase the contrast and saturation to lessen the grayness.
The lightning might be too much so removed it.
Color still looks flat but looks ok.
So calling it done for now.

pongstah · May 2016

So a few more tweaks...
Added more saturation
Made the lightning more dynamic
Added placeholder textures to my clipboard

*interesting* if you scrub the scroll bar and very fast while looking at the lightning, the effects come alive. O.o

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pongstah · May 2016

Refined the foreground texture.
The background can maybe be a gentle slope.
I'll need to find more references.

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pongstah · Jun 2016

Worked on the tail, tail attachments and overlayed some effects.

http://imgur.com/VXoaXpM.jpg

pongstah · Jun 2016

Slowly building up detail and trying to make the lightning look nice.

pongstah · Jun 2016

Refining the energy based shotgun. Still going for a sleek almost alien design.

pongstah · Jun 2016

pongstah · Jun 2016

Re-added the shotgun

and experimenting with different art styles.

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pongstah · Jun 2016

Worked on the rims and backdrop.

pongstah · Jun 2016

Here I elongated the front to resemble the silhouette of a 458 then later I'm going to try and model the headlamps to look like the ones on the Furai.

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