Races of Middle Earth - character - zued

[zued]

Take 2... the image.. *I hope


OK.. I give up.. how do I post a image???

/zued the swede

[zued]

take 3..

http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/concept.jpg


/zued the swede

[zued]

ok last post for to night.. /have to get some sleep.

this is what Im been doing to day..


1.
http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/progress.jpg


2.
http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/progress2.jpg


/zued the swede.

[pigwater]

welcome to the fun...glad to see you throw somethin in

lookin good:thumbsup:

[Grub]

Hey, great to see another ZBrusher over here - looking good so far, Zued:)

[leigh]

Welcome to the challenge, Zued :thumbsup:
Looking good so far! We have quite a few ZBrush entries this month now :D

[Mentat7]

That is really nice work Zued! I can't see how you would really need coaching on it. Now my only observation would be that you have chosen a very basic generic pose for the character and you have gone with a unified skin. That isn't bad at all but you may decide to do another pose which means you will have to remodel all over again. Now I am not preaching not by any longshot...lol...I am guilty of the same thing with my LotR Race. However I intend to do another pose and I have the basic muscle geometry committed to memory so I shouldn't have much difficulty in reproducing it for another pose of the Zsphere figure. This is something you may wish to think on before you commit to any great length of time on the figure. But I tell you now that is some very nice clean work. And the ZSphere figure looks spot on too! :applause: I will be watching for your updates. :thumbsup:

[Mentat7]

Ooops...double post....my bad.....sorry....:eek:

[zued]

Thanks Mentat.. ( you see, you can coach me ;))
Yes that pose thing worries me a bit.. but I saw some article from Ken B, that he used lightwave to pose them up, then back to zbrush.. Ill try that, but with Cinema4D instead....
(afterall its only around 61000 polys so far, so what xould go wrong.. :D )

Se if I can do a a head also..

[zued]

Time for heads...


http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/headsup.jpg


Going to add and remove som features on the head later on.

[zued]

.. small test.. more detail in the face..
going to repose body for final image.. ( .. remodel.)

http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/progress3.jpg

[zued]

Did some reposes in Zbrush..

So.. help me chose the pose.. one of those.. or another..

http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/poses.jpg

[zued]

..Away we go.. ( why do it feel that i´m talking to my self..)

This is the pose/stance that I´m going to work from.
-added a little neck for the head to rest on..

http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/poses2.jpg

things to add before texturing starts:

more detail on the body (again;), thanks mentat for pointing that out.. )
some nice sharp fingernails
some nice sharp teeth :D
...

[zued]

some details again...

http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/progress4.jpg

[Remi]

I have to say this and it's not ment to be taken badly....in the last pose it looks like he's taking a crap in the forest...the model is looking good but the pose has to go....unless of course your going to put a role of tp next to him hanging from a tree branch...IMHO...great work though...keep it up:thumbsup:

[TVeyes]

I'm looking forward to seing the progress of this one, I loved the flabby look of the first WIP pic (Pic #2). I think you should go with that kind of body especially with the pose you have decided on. A lot of flabby flesh hanging from that heavy built creature could look good. :)

If you're still unsure about his pose (I think it fits him well) try making some sort of environment for him or flesh out the background story even more. The perfect pose should then come to you all by itself.

One small crit on an otherwise very promissing start, choose another angle that shows more of his backside. It looks as if he is about to lift something so even the slightest hint of the back and how the muscles form there will bring more motion into the finished pic.

Viva Sweden
(and Denmark):)

PS. Don't worry about talking to your self;) there are already so many entries to this challenge that I guess people are just trying to play catchup with all the updates. It also seems as if alot of the Golden Boys/Girls have decided to enter this time.:buttrock:

[zued]

:beer:

Remi
- well everybody has to take a sh*t sometime
( I know, becouse it was hard sitting still for 3 hours of Lotr-TTT. :D)
But I get your point.. I see it now more clearly now ( even more when you pointed it out :D) and i dont want to offend any of the viewers.. ;) so ill probably go back to pose 1(pic2. standard pose, better for texturing.. )

TVeyes
Thanks for your support, but I go with remi´s eyes this time..

- Viva la Nordic.. :beer: ( danish beer is no.1 )

[paramute]

Originally posted by Remi
I have to say this and it's not ment to be taken badly....in the last pose it looks like he's taking a crap in the forest...

Goes nice with the name; "The Bog man"
:argh:

[zued]

OK.. sometimes ideas flies away.. ;)

Lowpolymodel next to fullpolybody- ( both made in zbrush.)

Lowpolymodel (skinny one) went from zbrush to Wings, landed lastly in Cinema4d where it met up with the original model(somewhat modified though..) -rendered out in Cinema...

So.. :D should I stick with the original plan.. or do the skinny version..

http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/versions.jpg

[Mentat7]

Hmmm...the skinny one looks cool although a bit cartoony. I like the large one but he could use some more muscle definition perhaps. Not sure Zued....I think you could get a lot of character into the skinny one and eliminate the cartoonish look. What is your gut feeling?

[OZ]

Blobby cool!:)

[Joel Hooks]

Make both of them and place them in an Odd COuple scenario :)

I prefer the fat one myself, if I had to choose.

[zued]

OK.. so it be.. both "skinny" and "fatman" get the job.. :D
...but one of them will have the other one for lunch ;)

Heres "skinny" progress..

http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/skinny.jpg

[Remi]

Whew....thought you might take my crit a little personally there...glad you saw what I was seeing...the skinny guy kicks ass...I do have a special place in my heart for cartoony characters though.....great job...keep it up:thumbsup:

[zued]

REMI
- Sh*t happens..and no hard feelings..;) its just a shame that I didnt see it before you did.. :D
its funny that the more you look at the pose ( yeah that pose;) )
the more do you want to do some fun with it*

*updated image..
http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/poses2.jpg

Feel free to post some of your own "bubble" creations... :D :beer:
or mail them to me..
( this can even add some more attention for my thread..;) )


cheers

[zued]

finally.. got some time to work little with my new friend..
Some minor updates.. some more to come in the weekend.. I hope. ( may have to work with some other things :scream: )

http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/update.jpg

Workflow: Zbrush - maindoodle, Wings -some lowpoly detailjob:D,
and finaly Cinema4D - for render.. :D

[paramute]

Is the 'appendix' on the correct side? I wouldn't like an 'appendix' ´where he/it has it :argh:

[zued]

...you wicked man..:D

[czen3D]

the little guy look good so far,
3 fingers with nail look fantastic !

[azazel]

Hands are extremally cool :thumbsup:

It should go reverse direction: skinny one eating for lunch fat one

[Beldor]

Really great work! Love your skinny guy :)

[zued]

:wavey: thanks!

Hope you all like this small update..( with some color previz )
added small ear, some teeth( need some work ), some work round the nose..
So do you like the color?.. give me some thumbs up, and i´ll start texturing.. :D

http://www.h2o-media.nu/cgtalk/colorpreviz.jpg

[mactabilis]

Originally posted by zued
[B]:wavey: thanks!
give me some thumbs up, and i´ll start texturing.. :D



:thumbsup: id say keep the texturing smooth and sorta cartoony like him.

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