The Journey Begins Challenge (3D) Entry: Vincent Wan

[vincent1]

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Zia - mercenary, cruel, merciless, efficient.

[vincent1]

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Zia-modelling stage 1.

[Vedic-kings]

Nice zbrush work:)

And good luck!

[vincent1]

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boots and gloves added. Next is facial defination.

[darkZ]

Nice Work !! :applause:
Although the head at the top could be a bit tapered....

Best of Lusk !

[vincent1]

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Detailing of armour mesh and costume concept.

[vincent1]

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Zia's butch transport, initial stage modelling. Trimming will come later.

[vincent1]

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Took some time to remodel and reflow the topology of Zia's face and this is the result.

[vincent1]

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mapping test of Zia's new face. Area lighting test. Blue of the fill light nicely evident in the eyeball rim.

[vincent1]

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Instead of zbrushing details, I decided to model them instead; started with the boots.

[vincent1]

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Modelling more details. More details to come, headset, arm attachments.

[vincent1]

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Headset and body armour taking shape.

[vincent1]

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Completed torso armour. Need to rest my eyes. Almost blind from pushing points. Comments welcomed.

[][ndy]

Wow, nice progress!
I am glad you removed the "six-pack", does't suit her!
Also good to know you are going to model the details!

[vincent1]

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Completed the shoulder and collarbone armour, end look will probably be a leather/foam material so it will look as she still has total mobility in this high movement area to wield her sword efficiently.

[se7enthcin]

Nice modeling. However, my only crit is that her head seems too flat on the sides of her head but overall nice job. :wavey:

[vincent1]

Thank you for the comments. Always had problems with the skull cap, will keep that in mind when I go into final touch up stages.

Need to get her her gun, a Bio-Touch SAP-TAK Weapon. Basically a pheramone-activated hand gun grasped in a pointed finger fashion where the ergonomic design naturally allows the gun muzzle to align with the pointed finger. Triggering is through the thumb.
SAP-TAK - Shoot At Pointed Target And Kill Technology

[vincent1]

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Zia with her guns, a Bio-Touch SAP-TAK Weapon.

Basically a pheramone-activated hand gun grasped in a pointed finger fashion where the ergonomic design naturally allows the gun muzzle to align with the pointed finger. Triggering is through the thumb.

SAP-TAK - Shoot At Pointed Target And Kill Technology.

The Steady Arm Rest has auto-extend and lock straps that wraps round the upper wrist area. Attaches to the gunbelt via Bio-Magnetic Lock & Release Technology.

[vincent1]

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Zia is almost complete. Perhaps some suggestions to take this further?

[vincent1]

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all views of the model. Suggestions welcomed.

[vincent1]

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close up ofgloves and armour

[vincent1]

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Zia with boot enhancement and vision enhancer.

[vincent1]

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This is final for the model itself, more accessories will come but those are add ons like ammo, canteen, sling bags.

[vincent1]

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Initial modelling of her attack interceptor. One of many supporting elements to come in her final composition.

[vincent1]

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Modelling progression on interceptor.

[vincent1]

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More details added.

Would appreciate some comments, feeling very lonely in this challenge as so few has posted any c&c.

[ChewyPixels]

Coming along rather well...but what's the concept? :shrug:

[vincent1]

Thanks. I'm one of those odd ones who needs to create the actors before writing the play when it comes to my personal work.

So at this stage the characters and supporting elements are being fleshed out. In general, it will be sort of a group portrait of Zia and her mercenaries before they go meet their destinies; amidst a background vista of an overwhelming invading force.

It might even be comedic...

[vincent1]

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Texture and zbrush test, texture with specular and glossiness maps.

[targus]

Very good character modelling, but what about the main concept ?
What is the woman and where she is goind to travel ?

Good model, waiting for texturing, with more bigger images.
And sketches of the story.
Nice work man.

[vincent1]

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Skin and make up render test, using area lights.

[vincent1]

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textured her boots. Renders coming as fast as I can. Guns next.
Thanks Targus for your comments.

[vincent1]

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Completed texturing of holster and guns.

[vincent1]

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Progress on texture - shoulder pads, body armour.

[vincent1]

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Zia with bone rigging and point weighted and animation controls in.Fully articulated model. Morph targets to come.

Comments welcomed.

[vincent1]

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A more extreme test of joints and rig.

Pls crit?

[warpy]

the expression on her face is too blend. spice it up.

[vincent1]

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More details of zia's interceptor. Not sure if the support legs will be mecha leg design or mechanised landing pods.

[vincent1]

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Guess I decided on Mecha legs.

C&C appreciated.

[vincent1]

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Combined both models to get a feel for the interaction between them.

[raghavendraachari]

Hi friend I really love the posing of charcters

wish u good luck

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=338776

[vincent1]

Thank you for your wishes, good luck on your poverty statement.

[vincent1]

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Modelled propulsion unit and changed leg system to ball joints to facilitate full IK movement and posing.

[vincent1]

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Render test of Zia'a Interceptor. Maybe I will try a all metal surface version. Suggestions welcomed.

[JurajMolcak]

I am here, hah :thumbsup:
Well, it is hard to give you any sort of crit ´cause, there is no clear concept so I don´t know what should be my focus. From modeling, looks like you know what you are working on, so, you´ve got your style which is very organic and beveled. You should add more life to her face ( play with eyes - half close them for example ). Give us some concept sketch. Keep going and good luck to you!

Oh yes, your Interceptor needs to be balanced - 2 mecha legs are not enough in that position.

[vincent1]

Oweron, thanks for your comments :-) , i am working on those issues, morph targeting her face soon, mecha legs have been reproportioned to be more ostrich-like to solve centre of gravity issue.

Concept is evolving everyday inside my head as I work on this, so until I decide on one, I won't spend time presenting it yet.

:love: :applause: your journey. Best wishes.

[vincent1]

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Test for fine detail issues; adding welding and air intake mesh and ducting.

[thedirtypaw]

great modelling man.. try more zbrush on the chick... and watch the texture face, try a sss map ?

[Vedic-kings]

Well I finally made it. buzy buzy buzy!!

Anyways your work looks good. Like Oweron said, her face could use more work. One other thing is the breast area, they look good, but seems to small for the size of the girl, do you see what I mean?

Im likeing Interceptor, really nice!

Keep it up:thumbsup:

[vincent1]

Thanks for the comments Vedic-KIngs & thedirtypaw.
This is the beauty of global forums, you get feedback from different cultural points of view. I'm asian, women here are generally less well endowed up there, especially the tall ones, still, I get your point.

As for her face, hope that improves when I morph target some expressions.

[vincent1]

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All Wars are over, George Lucas has won; all jedi and sith lords are dead. Intel wins, too; along with Adobe, Microsoft and George Bush.

With this, Zia the Merciless Mercenary is depressed and ponders her warless future.

Humanity at last achieves ethiopia.

Yeah, Right...

[oceanbluesky]

nice pose but can you do something about that cellulite?? Criminey...

(like your leather textures, but the polys need smoothing...maybe just their normals?)

good luck

[JohnnyFreeman]

Depressed and horny? Is she's planning to give birth to a new army.. :applause:

[vincent1]

"Depressed and horny? Is she's planning to give birth to a new army..."

:D Ahahahaha...ROTFLMAO :lightbulb That's an idea, maybe I'll have little droids coming out of there all ready to kick butts. The competition organisers did suggest micro characters...

[vincent1]

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Interceptor almost complete.

[vincent1]

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Render test of Zia & Interceptor.

Comments welcomed.

[oceanbluesky]

Hey Vincent, like the reflections in the windshield...might consider using a SSS shader for your character's skin, since she looks slightly gray? ...just a thought...maybe a few tuffs of hair would frame her head, too? Anyhow, very nice work...look forward to seeing more!

[burpy]

I really like the vehicle.:) Some of the texture blurryness can be seen, though. The face on the character looks a bit strange imo - the cheeks and lips protrude suddenly, and the nose isn't properly defined. The shader could be improved, as someone else mentioned.

I love the armour and all the machiny things, though.:thumbsup:

[vincent1]

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Very early test of compositing and matte painting. Looks like it's going to be an apocalyptic picture. Format is 16:9, my favourite ratio for digital paintings.

[cgoz]

wow slow down man.everything seems cool but i didn't like the feet of the vehicle :(

[vincent1]

Thanks for the comments. I may rework them to become more like traditional mecha feet. Working on how to create a massive city in the mid-ground. Should I paint them or model them?

[vincent1]

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Composited the modelled cityscape. City will be enhanced with digital painting.

[vincent1]

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Composited the actual city skyline. Matte painting the buildings soon. Skyline changing its form and look.

[vincent1]

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Started lighting up the city, mainly in front of the new mercenary at the left.
More mercenaries and characters will be coming.

[vincent1]

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Lighted the city. Started work on enhancing the foreground matte with moss and lichen. The foreground when finished will be given a warm renaissance kind of lighting, making it very stage like.

[vincent1]

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"After decades of severe weather change, earth's scientists can only conclude an extraterrestial origin for the weather conditions; thus starting a collective effort to search for evidence to support this theory. After 10 years ofintensive effort, evidence were finally found of an impending invasion by nomadic extraterrestials. The aliens only waited so long because they themselves were only slightly more advanced than we were in 2050. The United Confederate of economic powers managed to keep it from the general public while preparing to counter this invasion.

The journey is about to begin. The invading force has started to show its hand. Zia and her band of mercenaries prepares to journey into the vortex to face their destinies."

Final run in to model supporting elements starting. Detailing further surfaces for Zia's mercenaries.

[vincent1]

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Added character and interceptor.
Rendering as fast as I can; flying interceptor is next!

Ground weaponry supplies coming.

Please comment to take this further.

[RenBoW]

Great colors you have going on here and nice models too....Fantastic work!:thumbsup:

[oceanbluesky]

Very nice background -- like what you're doing with the colors in this scene as a whole. Might want to place more dramatic obvious shadows beneath your characters to plant them more firmly on the ground -- but in general this is excellent work. Looking forward to seeing the interceptor! Good luck.

[vincent1]

Thank you for the encouragement, renbow and oceanbluesky.


Uploading the flying interceptor.

[vincent1]

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Added the flying interceptor. Guide wings extend out from leg hubs. Leg armour double up as flight control airlerons.

[vincent1]

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Working on mountain matte and storm clouds. Changed left mercenary pistol to pump gun model.

[vincent1]

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Rendered Zia, who finally appears in the picture, after I modeled her face to reflect what I wanted her to look like.

Hence, the contemplative expression of a leader who has her team always in mind. Her face is also given subtle emphasis through a brighter render.

It is beginning to look like the "Last Supper" of mercenaries.

Please comment to take this further.

[vincent1]

Spent some time testingout various hair techniques. This is probably what I will use.

Download the animated hair test here:

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/3022134/my_hair_test.avi.html

[vincent1]

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Stage 1 modelling of Cybot, a repair and assist robot that attaches to the interceptor. Mainly an Early warning system incorporating repair capabilities; hence all the eyes, sensors and appendages.

[vincent1]

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Test composite with EWACs (Early Warning Assist Cybots). These cybots will attach to the hull of the interceptors and are general early warning and maintenance robots. In this scene they will be loading weaponry and performing pre-flight checks.

[vincent1]

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Textured the cybots.

Kindly c&c to take this further.

[vincent1]

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Starting to lock down the composition. The Squatting mercenary has been replaced with final pose.

PLEASE C & C to take this further. So few comments.

Please comment, even if it's "I HATE THIS, I HATE THIS" would be better than silence. :-)

[vincent1]

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Replace the standing Mercenary with final render. Mercenaries are complete. From here to deadline is adding of details to the scene.

Suggestions welcomed to take this to another level.

[Climax]

Lots of detail make this image very interesting, nice modeling and texturing, Mi only crit is the middle clouds, they seem dirty, I mean, a bit monochromatic compared with the rest of the sky, that creates a disturbing element in the entire scene, outher than that nothing to crit, good job pal, hurry up and good luck :cool:

[vincent1]

Thanks for dropping by Climax. I think you were the amongst the early ones to post a final image. Matte painting will be looked at towards the final stages.

Thanks for the comments, the centre clouds do look blah at the moment.

[vincent1]

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Finishing on matte painting, final renders almost in place.

Starting to put in the warm lighting.

Kindly comment to take this further.

[vincent1]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/13/10444/10444_1147418991_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/13/10444/10444_1147418991_large.jpg)

This is likely my final image.

Please c&c to take this to the final step.

I'm also trying to submit my turntable for the 3D journey challenge and I have followed instructions to the letter. But I keep getting "Cannot convert swquence to movie"

My files are named zia0000.jpg, etc, they are 340 x 240 pixels and compressed to a .zip folder. What am I missing?

[Climax]

:bounce: Where is that final? :D

[vincent1]

Hey Climax,


Thanks for the help on submitting the turntable. Worked when I followed your advice.

My final image will be as above unless I can get some c&c; don't know why, a lot of peolple have looked at it but very few comments.

I'm not a terrorist as far as I know.:)

Thanks again for your help.

[JackZhang]

Hi vincent. first thank you for dropping by at my post. I checked your post before you replied mine not long ago. You've done a great work with a lot of contents. must take you a long time. good job.

the only concern i have about the work that you've done is the current image is a bit busy. the number of elements are a bit too much which make the entire image out of focus. again that's just some personal humble thoughts. keep up the good work and good luck in the challenge.

[vincent1]

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Did final colour adjustments and aerial perspective. This is my final image. There are a couple of metaphors hidden and implied in this picture.

Please c&c.

Jack, thanks for dropping by and for the comments, These final colour adjustments should focus things a bit.

[mmoir]

Hey Vincent,

Very nice scene with lots of action and stuff to look at:thumbsup: :thumbsup: and I like the colors you have used. I do think that some sort of distance haze would help out the image though.
Good luck finishing up.

[vincent1]

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"Severe weather change at the turn of the 21st century A.D. caused economies to collapse as governments tried in vain to stem the tide of destruction of the weather shifts, This lead to two bitter world wars as the richer nations sought resources. Entire continents were laid waste not only through man-made weapons but also the climatic change. Earth's topsoil were slowly exhausted and continents like South America, Russia, North America and most of the outer regions were reduced to deserts. Coastal areas became swamps and mudflats.

When the remnants of humanity came together after 30 years of war and destruction, civilisation again took form and within 10 years, Storm Cities, each housing 2 to 3 million inhabitants came into existence through colloboration of top minds that survived the wars.

Having found society again, Earth's scientists began collectiovely re-investigating the weather shifts. After 5 years of dead ends, earth's scientists can only conclude an extraterrestial origin for the weather conditions; thus starting an effort to search for evidence to support this theory. After 10 years ofintensive effort, evidence were finally found of an impending invasion by nomadic extraterrestials. The aliens only waited so long because they themselves were victims of planetary destruction and after 200 years of nomadic existence pirating planets along the way, were a force much depleted. And thus planned a long-term non-visible campaign of conquest against earth.

The United Confederate of economic powers managed to keep it from the general public while preparing to counter this invasion. Recruiting mercenary forces created by the previous wars and training a new secret army, earth prepared its defense. Such a monumental task could not be hid from the extraterrestials for long and they intensified their weather attacks.

The journey is about to begin. The invading force has started to show its hand. Zia, second-generation daughter of Zoa the Terrible and her band of mercenaries, prepares to journey into the vortex to face their destinies."

- The Apocalyptic Scrolls, fragment
125-763-V1

[vincent1]

Close to deadline, people. Finish up! and all the best to participants.:thumbsup:

[oceanbluesky]

Wow! Vincent this is such an engaging interesting image! Congratulations upon finishing! Very cool and well written backstory too! Best of luck with the judges! Cheers!

[vincent1]

Anyone knows when the judging and results will be out? Can't seem to find info on judgement day.
Thanks.

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