Mean Head

Spark · Sep 2006

Here is the latest head I have been messing around with. I plan on taking this through the texturing process, trying to learn all the new stuff that's out there (SSS) so on. If anyone know's of any good tutorials on those things, I would apprecaite the link.

Spark

EricElwell · Sep 2006

I really like it! my one crit would be the frown-ish extension of the upper lip, looks a bit extreme.

Anyway, totally rockin!

Zcubed · Sep 2006

My knowledge of anatomy is shaky at best, but the pinching at the bottom of his throat just strikes me as unnatural.

Everything else is ace. The exaggerated lower lip adds a lot of character; I wouldn't change it.

Neo_God · Sep 2006

Hmmm, since the creation of z brush like programs, there has been an explosion of bald guy busts.

It looks great! Something about the ears bother me though I can't quite put my finger on it at this moment, So I'll have to come back on that one. Now, in the mean time, give him some hair, the lack of it is probably why he's so grumpy.

Geezus · Sep 2006

really awesome expression. All around good piece. The ears got me at first too, they look a bit 'too round' to me. Then again, everyone has different ears, so who knows.

killingpeople · Sep 2006

hahaha, fantastic!

Spark · Sep 2006

Hey all, thanks for the crits, now that some of you mention the ears, I do need to tweak them a little more.
Zcubed: Yeah that is the neck muscle coming into the sternum, ill try to tone them down some.
Neo_God: Bald is beautifull:) haha, I'll add some hair as I continue with this guy.
Killingpeople: Thanks man!
Per128: Good suggestions, I'll make the y more noticable in the ears, along with adding more weight to them. Haha alot of areas to clean up I guess:) I will go back over them to try and push it a little more.
Preciate it guy's!

Spark

conte · Sep 2006

Spark, why do u not posting your heads in one Thread?

Spark · Sep 2006

Ahh, I guess I just didn't think of that Askhat:) Just considered them different pieces, I will just add to this thread, so please disregard the others, thanks:).
Any comments on these are also appreciated: Zombie

Zombie reference image:

Demon

conte · Sep 2006

Demon is my favourite=) great work.

Spark · Oct 2006

I just wanted to show an update to the mean head guy. I have been trying to learn sss material mapping and trying to take it to the next level. If anyone knows any good settings or hints, I would much appreciate it:)

Spark

Daz · Oct 2006

Loving it Brett, he looks like a proper nasty piece of work. Is this the same geo as the guy in the first shot? Somehow I prefer the earlier geo if its changed. This one seems like the top lip is more dominant, and thus feels weaker somehow?

Davett29 · Oct 2006

That looks awsome man. Keep up the good work. On the textured version, I think the ears are to red on the edges. Looks funny. But everything is great man. I need to get up to your level.

conte · Oct 2006

hehe, he looking fun=)))

CMB · Oct 2006

Sorry for the off topic but the banner on your portfolio looks like your painting a penis haha. Really nice content here and there though.

Spark · Oct 2006

Hey Daz, thanks for the comments:) Yeah I have to go back and tweak the diffuse/spec/sss/all other maps to get this thing going well, hehe man there is alot to tweak.
Davett29: Yeah at the moment I have to much red in the sss map on the ears so it looks like all the blood is pooling there, I will knock some of that out.
Askhat: Thanks man
CMB: No problem, he is painting a penis, that is howard stern painting a self portrait in a norman rockwell painting that I did, and the site is being reworked, so I will have tons more work up there soon.
Thanks for looking guys.
Spark

fogmann · Oct 2006

I've recently done a high res head texture using the SSS shader (render posted here, I'll post a few more angles soon probably), and I used mental ray's misss_fast_skin in Maya. There's a really great free tutorial by Alex Alvarez on Gnomon website about simple fast SSS shader, and for the skin shader, the principle is the same, only you have more parameters to mess with and more slots to plug textures in.

On your render, I can see you made the SSS work, but the effect of the back light in the ears is way overboard, as davett noticed. You should lower its weight and maybe radius. You can also plug in a texture in there for the color that has some veins, so that you can have some 'inside' detail in the ear. Some suggest to make the overall color very desaturated, if not greyscale and let SSS layers give fleshy color, but I plugged my color map to both overall color as well as epidermal scatter color and it seems to work. There's also this page that has examples of the various texture maps that you can use.

Basically, if you use fast skin sss shader, you can have two specular textures, one for glossy areas (such as around the eyes and on the tip of the nose) and one for overall specularity. The best way to go around it really is to turn on the weight of one sss layer at the time and see the effect that different values (or textures) will give you. Lot of the values in there will depend on the scale of your scene, so the Scale Conversion number under Algorithm Control tab can help you scale up or down the effect without tweaking each radius separately.

Anyhow, looking good so far, keep it up

Spark · Oct 2006

Hey fogmann, thanks for the tips, I will try these out. Here is a model I did during our lunch/speedmodel time. I was working off of the hulk done by the great Kolby Jukes! Just fun stuff:)

shotgun · Oct 2006

interesting point per. sharper angles do deliver more punch to the forms, but it's also a matter of style

great stuff spark

Spark · Oct 2006

Hey Per128, yeah I forgot to add the y split to the ear, and I will check out more of what you are saying.
Shotgun: Yeah, where in the hell have you been? Start getting around here more man, and thanks for the comments!

Spark

creativicious · Oct 2006

Wow awesome stuff Brett! Love the new work

Xaltar · Oct 2006

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Do ya mind if I use this as a referance image? Really nice work

Miguelito · Oct 2006

If you are working with with Max here might be some usefull stuff from MaxEdwin for you: http://www.3dm3.com/forum/articles.php?action=viewarticle&artid=69]

ive been messing around with SSS lately, too. But I used a traditional 3 point lighting setup and texturing instead of MaxEdwin's style
Pay attention to your units setup! Otherwise it will be a pain in the ass.

Cheers

Miguelito

Spark · Oct 2006

Thanks Creativicious:), Xaltar: Have at it, and just let me know how it turns out. Miguelito: Thanks for the link, it will really come in helpfull.

Spark

Xaltar · Oct 2006

Thanks, I'll do my best to do it justice

Its going to be my first attempt at a fictional character head

Xaltar · Oct 2006

How am I doing?

http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=2&Number=125648&page=0&fpart=2

Thanks again for letting me have a go at this, your demon was just too cool not to try doing one of my own (allbe it low polly and not as good :P )

Spark · Oct 2006

Just thought I would post this thursday speedmodeling piece I did for lunch. Based on Boris Karlof's Frankenstein, though I have alot of work to do on this one ( I will take it further than this ). Any comments or crits welcomed.

Spark

BoBo_the_seal · Oct 2006

I love that last one! These are really great Brett.

- BoBo

Spark · Nov 2006

Hey, thanks bobo I appreciate that! Here is another head I did over lunch, off of the creepy sculpture, not sure on the artist. Hope you guys like it

Spark

Here is the creepy sculpture I was working from

Phobos · Nov 2006

This head really reminds me of the old guy in Monster House.

Mark Dygert · Nov 2006

Amazing!

ultra · Nov 2006

Man! amazing work, i`ll continue fowlling this thread. Congrats!

Mean Head

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