Another face, another night.

[djembeplay]

Nice - sounds like fun.

Actually, the projection of a year for a really well-done short film may even be on the ambitious side. As you said, lots of work, lots that can't be easily foreseen. But that would be, in theory, at the international film festival level. What better way to spend your time on earth though?

I've been looking at tablets too - they look pretty nifty for painting textures... more of an intuitive process maybe.

Rock on Rap.

 

[Gord.T]

Hey DJ. Yeah, well, the year thing. This year is more for getting that test one out of the way I think, with a little work on the side on the other stuff. Then like you say, "the projection of a year for a really well-done short film may be on the ambitious side". True, but I should have several of the main assets together by that time already so I'll have a head start on it that way.

Yeah, man, honestly, it's overwhelming to think about. But, you gotta push on right? Gotta set goals. Yeah poo poo. Just gotta get through it. Otherwise I'll be one of those guys that never gets out of the basement, and that's not me. :beer:
Gotta jump in the fire at some point. :beer:

Oh, I haven't slept in a couple days, thus the beer smileys so seemingly early in the day.
LOl.:beer:

 

[dory_breaux]

Dude that is legit.

 

[Gord.T]

Thanks dory, sorry for the late reply. You know I appreciate it.

.....

Well, I had some trouble with this character concerning the lower jaw and teeth and deleted my other post. I sort of have it figured out.

But point is, I hadn't been able to use my new tablet for the past few weeks but today I grabbed a bottle of wine, fired up Pink Floyd, fired up the tablet, and MAN, I can't tell you how happy I am playing with this stuff. I wish you could feel as good as I do right now. This shi* should be illegal.

There's several levels of detail so that's still to happen but I'm not going to explain what your seeing, you either know, you don't, or ask.

The beauty of it is, I don't give a poo poo how this turns out. I'm just having too much fun playing around. If it turns out shi*, it's shi*, I don't care. This is too much fun. In fact, it'll probably get trashed. Some of it just looks like shi*, but I don't care.

I poo pooing LOVE this shi*.

 

[Gord.T]

I was thinking it's missing something.

Maybe something from the upper jaw and something's missing in the side profile.

 

[Gord.T]

Unless maybe I had his tongue starting at the upper back roof of this mouth, curling down and coming out, filling in all of that space.

That sounds like a plan. Yeah, that should look better to fill in that gaping hole and look more wicked, haha. Cool.

Hey man, any ideas, shout em out. I don't give a poo poo how this turns out. I'm just having fun man. :beer:


//Kind of like this. I think this tongue deal might be cooler...

 

[Gord.T]

His upper head looks like a random pile of shi* too, doesn't it?

Yep, we'll try that again then. :beer:


//Actually, that tongue won't work because it doesn't make biological sense. So it'll have to curve more in a way to fill the gap. But that still leaves a gap in the profile. Oh, well, figure that out tomorrow I guess. Gotta have something in there. hahahaha. Fun.

 

[Gord.T]

Meh, another night, another pile of ****. Fun as hell though. I got some more ideas for it though. Wooo. Toooo much fun. I love it.

 

[Jordan Scott Price]

I was thinking it's missing something.

Maybe something from the upper jaw and something's missing in the side profile.

This looks really good, man.

Maybe bring his lower jaw and mouth crease forward some? He seems really overbitten at the moment. Although, if you bring it too far forward and arc those huge fangs upward, it'll look like the sabertooth archetype, which you may or may not be going for. The tongue is good.

This makes me miss modeling in Blender a lot...

 

[Gord.T]

That's an idea. I think I'll lose that human ear too to make it more reptilian since that's kind of the way it's leaning. I shall be back. Fun stuff.

 

[triplej96]

Looking really cool Gord!

-Josh

 

[Gord.T]

Hey Josh, thanks. Gotta love ZBrush.

...

I did a real quick manipulation in photoshop to try and get a better profile.
This looks a little better, I think, so maybe I'll try it this way.
He's definitely getting his creep on, ha.

 

[Gord.T]

Ok, so here's a new base mesh done in C4D. That was a little tedious, about 4 hours.

If that's still okay by tomorrow night I'll take another crack with it in Zbrush again, keeping some of the detail I like from the other post.

//Edit: Had to fix the mesh again. Ofcourse!!!

 

[Gord.T]

Oh, I ran into a mesh problem. I didn't allocate enough polys for the side of the head.
When I started sculpting it I ran out of detail. So, I have to remesh it again.

I had blocked in some detail for the side of the head which I may post or not , shortly.

So, welcome to my nightmare, warts and all.


You can see where I started blocking in some patterns and quickly ran out of polys.
This one is being a pain in the ass.

It's not really coming together. I might try a spider for a break.

 

[triplej96]

Spider sounds fun!

-Josh

 

[Gord.T]

Yeah, that spider is still in the works. Spiders look cool. Giant spiders especially ofcourse. I have him modelled up but I haven't got at him yet for detail.
And the above model I'm getting back to. I had to take a break from that for awhile and rethink it.
...

Halloween...

I tried a skull last week. It's still not officially done yet, but what the hey, it seemed fitting to post anyways.

Happy Halloween.

//edit: Oh, looking into the nasal cavity, there's a play of shadows happening there. The inner thin bone doesn't curve around like that.
It's strange how the shadows make it look warped and bent. I think a different light position would fix that, but funny how that turned out in the quick render.

edit: Just to show the lighting effect on the nasal cavity by repositioning the light...

(Also to note, I modeled this against a real human skull scan. The teeth however, are %100 bogus. Just saying.

 

[Gord.T]

Pretty old thread now.

 

[Gord.T]

Look. The main thing is you have fun.

//Just getting back into it after 2 (4 years?) years.

Here's one of my unfinished buddies for a 1 to 1.5 seconds screen time new toon short written by a fellow dvxuser. -Beers.

 

[Gord.T]

Alright, so I'm hanging out at dvxuser on a Friday night, listening to Pink Floyd heavily (Pulse, Live), getting into the cans, and picked a face to model tonight, not to complete it or anything, just for relaxing.

Still doing the same thing tonight. Except exploring other areas of modelling. Getting interested in "parametric" modelling techniques along side conventional sculpting and box modelling.
Once again...beers.

A couple recent face models. I only modeled the face/heads in these. The rest of the body and cloths are done with Daz. All for fun ofcourse with focus on animation ready models.

 

[Paul F]

This stuff is really cool. I wish I had the talent for that.

What, no Pink Floyd?