Character: Alexandre (my 1st head)

[sad]

this head rocks! excellent model. maybe the mouth is a bit 'sweet' but anything else is way cool! good job.

[D. Phoenix]

Superb work.

Do you have plans for the addition of hair or the body?

[ThirdEye]

Sad: i have to say that all my work has been difficult because of one thing in particular: i had a head in my mind (this isn't inspired to photos or stuff like that, it's all made by eye) and i wanted to gain that shape, now i'm really satisfied because it's exactly what i had in mind

D.Phoenix: no, i want to start another head, i need modeling, modeling, modeling and then modeling again ;)

Thanks for the quick replies guys :wavey:

[Stephen Vyas]

Beautiful Work Thirdeye! Yeah, it's an amazing job you've done. One small thing to the finishing touches, try blurring the top of his head, as you've done with the ears. It should help to blend him more into the picture. (of course it's just nit picking, but I assume your the kinda guy that feeds off it.)

Cheers
Steve

[ThirdEye]

The problem with the blur is the crappy quality of the jpeg, probably i'll find some web space to upload a pic with higher jpg quality settings :rolleyes:

[Neox]

the only thing i can crit is the (maybe) to high placed mouth, but hey its your first head GREAT! :thumbsup:

[nervous_twitch]

High-placed mouth? My brother looks just like that.

Great looking stuff.

[ThirdEye]

In the meanwhile if somebody needs to see a hi-quality jpeg pic you can look at this: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=310377&Start=1&Sectionid=19&WhatsNew=Yes

[Peoples]

:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

This is sick!! Absolutely astonishing work - and with Cinema, that's great. You did it!! Cinema rockz!! All I can say ThirdEye is that you inspire me and I hope I'll be able to make something like this with Cinema one day...

[Baldasseroni]

Thanks for the dedication, i really appreciated that :beer:

Now the sweater looks really good, the little wrinkles on shoulders are really armonic with the whool texture and you also fixed the stretching problems on the collar.
The less blurred background works fine.

With patience and efforts you managed to produce a real great piece of cg artwork.

My compliments, and stars :)

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Ale

[HapZungLam]

oh you finally finished. . very amazing. is perfect. for the sweater tho, how about add a little higher lvl of displacement?

[shoey]

its come along way from the WIP. great work.:thumbsup:

[ThirdEye]

Eklettica: no problem for the dedication to you, you deserve it :thumbsup: Thank you for all and for the 5 stars :D

HapZungLam: I really wanted to increase the displacement but then i looked to a sweater of mine and i realized that the textile is soft and doesn't create great wrinkles because it's lit on the flesh.

Shoey: thank you very much :)

[NelsonInomvan]

Great head :applause: I can't belive that this is your 1st head man. Nice textures and nice model. The mouth is really strange but leave it just like that. :thumbsup:

[XerC]

As I already said: this is veeerry cool, man!
Even though I feel the urge to slap you around a bit! This really is your first head??? :argh:
Damn good! Did you use Naam's great ChanLum?

Greetings,
XerC

[ThirdEye]

Thank you Atmos_Fear, every shape of every element of this head was meant to be like this in my head, i worked till i obtained what i head in mind. Now it's time to start a female model, he feels so lonely :blush:

XerC: thank you very much for commenting my FIRST (yes XerC) head. No, i didn't use chanlum, the rendertimes were to high for my taste, 5-6x circa. I used the same trick of Stahlberg skin tutorial, it worked quite well imho. :)

[XerC]

Okay okay... I believe you...;)
The skin looks good, but it still has a *slight* touch of plastic.
One other thing I just noticed is the lower eye lid having a short very linear area right under the pupil, where it should be even a bit more curved to the outside, due to the eyeball is a bit beveled (hm.. hope you get what I mean) there...
If you'd fix this, it yould be really perfect!

Regards,
XerC

[KingMob]

man third, that sucks...

hehe Ok so I'm just getting sick of telling you that it looks great, and I don't want all this praise to go to your (ahem) head.

Great work man, very inspiring!

[Per-Anders]

Great work ThridEye and congrats on reaching the front page... again! Next time i'm in Rome we gotta meet up and share some pasta, and you can lemme know how you did all this :cool:

[KOBALT_KORE]

5 Stars for you :applause:

Very good job - it was cool to see the progression in the wip forum too.
:thumbsup: :beer:

[DeathCarrot]

whoa man you're a natural! :applause:

[blender]

the head's come a long way.. however, mouth and eyes still need work..., especially the upper lip.. needs little bulging out on the outer edges..

the rest seems pretty solid, i like the texture

[Jaenos]

Cool, and there is a difference between a first head and the first one you show people :)

[Jhonus]

Very impressive Thirdeye.... quite inspiring to see what a bit of talent and dedication/determination can do.

[APSAAUGA]

Head is awsome, specially textures, but something wrong with eyes, they look plastic or smth, not to realistic, however it rocks:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[ThirdEye]

Thank you very much guys:

mdme_sadie: i hope you'll come to Rome soon, my spaghetti are waiting you :D

Jaenos: sometimes these two things are just one thing. ;)

[daevid]

The face is really good, but the lighting doesn't fit the background very well. The face has quite yellow tones while the background has a more blueish outdoor lighting. The head would probably fit in better if the light from above was stronger since the sky is quite bright.

I'm not sure, but wouldn't the background get even more blurred when the depth of field is short enough to make the ears blur..?

Anyhow, great job... just a few steps left to make him fit in perfectly...

- David

[Norman]

:thumbsup:

Great work ThirdEye.. I'm gonan start Organic modelling soon and hope I can acheive something liek this

Love the whole stubble on the head and face.. great detail..

[New]

Great textures.

My critics: the ears, they isn´t bad but they aren´t as good as the whole head.

[vertigo]

Fantastic work!!!!! ;)

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

vertigo

[derwolpertinger]

Congrats third eye!!:beer: :beer:
you did a really good job on every part of this piece!!

[piajartist]

I have been watching this in the WIP section for a while, and am pleased to see it in the finished section, congrats!!!

[Agraba]

ThirdEye_01: Beautiful, really marvelous.
Is there any tutorials that you followed that you might wanna share with us :D

But that is a bitchin model, yet a bit feminine mouth :wavey:

[chudofsinister]

I have followed this thread and the making of, Man incredible work. I would never be able to take a piece like you did from being good to fantastic, with the patience and perserverance you have shown over the course of this project. That is to be commended. I was wondering what the final lighting setup was that you finished with? Fantastic work.

[ThirdEye]

Thank you very much guys, the most useful tutorial i had is the Syomka thread on the wip gallery, he's incredible. Not to mention Steven Stahlberg skin tutorial in the texturing forum. ;) The final light setup was made of 2 area lights (soft shadows) and a GI skydome with hdri.

[facial]

Cool model and nice texture, Well done. :buttrock:

[Joscci]

Beautiful work, Third Eye. I checked out the WIP section and I'm impressed as well as inspired by the progress you've made. Head's looking cool! The guy has style! He He. :o)

Awesome work.

:)

[slaughters]

Great model. My only critique would be that the bump map on the lower lips needs to blend in a little better towards the top and bottom of the lip. Right now it looks like the bump map has the wrinkles set to the same depth all the way from the top to the bottom.

[dark_lotus]

AWESOME!

I can't wait to see more of your work!

Cheers:beer:

[stillvapour]

Whoa!
superb!
excellent!
amazing!
...
right click and save.;)
and the stars...:)
edit: and show us more renders?

[Troub]

fantastic...no...realistic..
you know what mean

inspiring

[rabban]

great work 3rd eye!


your character feels like he is from a sci-fi world like the dune.
he kind of reminds me of the bad guy from the latest star trek movie,
was he an inspiration?

:beer:

[cuse]

this is fantastic, from what i hear the ears were a chore but they look good... the whole thing is great and the fact that your a good at texturing just improved the final model so much! but well done, cant wait to see your next one.


cuse

[sanciok]

Gran bella storia!
Che effetto fa stare lassu' nel menu' di cgtalk??? :))
gran bel lavoro! Complimenti!

[ThirdEye]

rabban: no, my inspirations are those i said in the first post of this thread ;)

sanciok: grazie dei complimenti... che effetto fa stare lassù? un effetto assurdo, mi son salvato entrambi gli screenshot delle due volte che mi ci hanno messo, troppa contentezza :p

[CarlCampbell]

Excellent head, Thirdeye! Its brilliant! Features aside it reminds me slightly of David Beckham when he used to have his hair like that. I thinks its even better due to the fact you didn't follow any reference at all. I will soon be continuing my self-portrait head and might even go no-ref like you did, because being constrained to a reference image is quite annoying, especially when I have a final look in mind anyway. I hope you could answer a question or two in mIRC to help me out if I get stuck down the road... :thumbsup:
Again, congrats! Now wheres that award.... :love:

Carl :beer:

[William GUiLE]

Ma guarda un po' questi italiani non sono mica tanto male in fondo :-)
complimenti e ciao da un aquilano esportato a Roma.
Ma le texture sono dipinte a mano o estrapolate da fotografie?

[ThirdEye]

Dipinte a mano William ;)

[William GUiLE]

questo lo rende ancor più apprezzabile.
Bravissimo! :beer:

[ggg]

great head and good WIP thread on its developement

[ThirdEye]

grazie mille william
thank you ggg

[stuzzi]

Ohhh i give you inpsiration?:surprised
i'd like to be inspired like u to do that kind of work!! :thumbsup:
however the bone of the nose is too "hard",smooth its shape.
to me,the plastic apearance is due to the specular and the "bone structure".try to localiz better the specular area.the eye disturb me...hum it seems to be welded on the face,the eyelids ought to be deeper.
the angle of view of your shoot and the backg are totaly different,eye is not used to have this kind of Abnormality(the same for the tint)!!
good job dude!:airguitar

ps:if a blond italian girl feel lonely,gimme her mail :drool:

[ThirdEye]

Thank you for your reply man, your critz will be useful for my next female head (wip)! :thumbsup:

ps: uhm... we'll talk later about blond girls :D

[derelict]

I find it funny that your head is up front the second time around and no choice award awarded to you?!?!

I guess lil dragon must be missing this link altogether. :( But thou nare feel down. The telent is yours to keep and no one NO ONE can take that away from you!

I like the texture work on the head. I must say your model has a very unique features and that makes it more plausible. I like him alot.

Cant wait for him to be animated!

5 stars!

[ThirdEye]

Thank you very much derelict, it's such a satisfaction to have a good feedback from cgtalk users, it means i've done a good work with this 1st head. And about awards... they don't count too much, the only important thing is to make a good job and be satisfied for what you've done. :wavey:

I show you all the maps i used with a small explanation about their use since a lot of people asked me to post 'em, nothing special anyway as you can see ;)

[webweapon]

That is so awesome. Can you animate it? That would rock, to see it in movement!

[Carina]

Okay, once again I'm very guilty of not reading all the posts!

Just have to say, this is brilliant. :applause:

[e338]

it's cool for a first attempt, but i'll be the jackass anyway.

your goal was to create a head you had in your mind, but for me, it's a variation of René Morel's work. nothing else.

Am i wrong?

[e338]

...

[ThirdEye]

Yes you're wrong, but no problem. I wrote many and many times in these cgtalk pages that my inspiration is Renè's work. I love his works and they are my 1st source of inspiration. I never hide the Dick model by Renè is my favorite cg character ever, and it surely inspired me A LOT. But look at the wip thread, you'll see that i came to this shape passing by many and many other shapes. Another thing: that pic was released by Renè when my modeling work was already finished and his previous versions of Dick were quite different, i know for sure his character is still a wip. I'm only a newbie, the only way i have to learn is looking at what others did because they surely made better things than mine. This character is a mix of a lot of characters, trust me, I stared at FF general Hein for hours, same thing for Eichan model by Stuzzi and Julian Johnson boy model ;) . If you're interested to my 2nd head (no direct inspirations this time, probably because i'm starting learning more) look at this: http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36199

[e338]

hey!
Sorry but i've read the others threads.
I won't waste my time and yours repeating things.

Inspiration is not copy.
Here, i think we're close to a copy.
It's not pejorative.
i don't know about your wip, sorry. I just know the face of this "Dick" guy for a while now, so it's hard for me to figure out how you could have done it before or meanwhile.

Anyway, that's not the problem, it's well done.

I'll be attentive to your next thread.

[ThirdEye]

Everybody's free to think what he prefers, i don't have any problem with this. You say it's a good copy? Ok i take it as a compliment, my goal was realism, if i came close to a Renè's work with a 1st head, well, i can be really satisfied. ;)

[e338]

for sure you can be satisfied!
You did it necely.
I just feel to say that you ought to take some distance with your influences in general. that's all.
One more time. You did a good job.

[brunner]

:drool: :love:

[MeshedP]

:bounce:

GREAT JOB MAN!!!!!!

A little bit thing: probably you have to spend more time on the eyes of your model. Your second head seems to be more defined, and the eyes-polygons are much more cleaned up. Take care of the ears, maybe you have to render them "softer".



:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Hai visto che alla fine ce l'ho fatta???? Complimentoni ancora...:wavey:

[JBruckner]

Wow, amazing job, he looks so cool, the only complaint I can say is that the hair doesnt look testured enough. Thats all/.

[ThirdEye]

Originally posted by MeshedP
:bounce:

GREAT JOB MAN!!!!!!

A little bit thing: probably you have to spend more time on the eyes of your model. Your second head seems to be more defined, and the eyes-polygons are much more cleaned up. Take care of the ears, maybe you have to render them "softer".



:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Hai visto che alla fine ce l'ho fatta???? Complimentoni ancora...:wavey:

Thank you Seba!! :thumbsup:
grazie mille :)

[oracrest]

come on man, if this is your first head, then don't tell me, or at least lie and say it's you tenth, cause i just wanna delete maya from my machine right now.......



kidding aside, really awesome, keep it up......

[SPENEN]

I'm impressend =)
And because it's your first head, I'm veeery impressed =)

Keep up the good work :)
:beer:

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