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Atwooki
09-28-2006, 02:47 PM
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Title: Caricature of Allen, photographer
Name: Chris Baker
Country: United Kingdom
Software: Maya, Photoshop, ZBrush

This is a rigged model I made of a client (a photographer) who wanted a caricature of himself displayed on his homepage..

After first sketching out the caricature on paper from the provided photo-reference, I then set about modeling and UV mapping the base meshes in Maya, and then fine-tuning the imported OBJ meshes into ZBrush, along with some 20 head blendShapes, and a fair number of corrective body blendShapes.

The texturing began in ZBrush using the 'ZAppLink' plugin with Photoshop, and further maps completed with Photoshop.

Later the rigging process was completed with Shave and a Haircut in Maya, then lit and rendered with the Maya native renderer.

Any critiques & feedback welcome!
gster123
09-28-2006, 04:33 PM
Cool man, nice idea!


Good job!
echoBars
09-28-2006, 05:18 PM
A simple, elegant, cartoonish character. I like the detail and the way his shirt hangs over his pants. Only crit would be the three wrinkles on the front of his shirt that are straight across his body, they look too straight. Still, cool character, congrats.



My site...http://burdenwoe.com
Atwooki
09-28-2006, 07:04 PM
Thanks for the kind words guys :)

burdenwoe - Normally I'd have used SyFlex for such a job, but the animators didn't have the plug-in, so it became a wrap-deformed object instead :D

Here are some ZBrush screenshots and the head blendShapes used:

http://www.custom3d.co.uk/3D_images/allen/profile_ZB.jpg (http://www.custom3d.co.uk/3D_images/allen/profile_ZB.jpg)

http://www.custom3d.co.uk/3D_images/allen/threequarter_ZB.jpg (http://www.custom3d.co.uk/3D_images/allen/threequarter_ZB.jpg)

http://www.custom3d.co.uk/3D_images/allen/Allen_headBlends.jpg (http://www.custom3d.co.uk/3D_images/allen/Allen_headBlends.jpg)

and one of my 2D caricature sketches used as an ortho:

http://www.custom3d.co.uk/3D_images/allen/allen_ortho_L.jpg (http://www.custom3d.co.uk/3D_images/allen/allen_ortho_L.jpg)

cheers

Chris
living_for_cg
09-28-2006, 08:40 PM
ow man this is excellent work. great texture and modeling. i just LOVE it:)
AndHolzmeister
09-29-2006, 12:36 AM
great character! really liked the modelling and shading! put him in a great pose!
natU
09-29-2006, 01:45 AM
gr8 work ~! i like it~!
Andre
09-29-2006, 07:21 AM
haha realy good caricature. The head also have something Vin Diesel going on. I agree that the wrinkles in his shirt look a bit strange but the rest awesome! 4 stars
DaddyMack
09-30-2006, 06:14 PM
Hah! the systematic fanatic is attit againimages/icons/icon10.gif

Top knotch work as usual mate, I especially dig the whole proportioning and exaggeration thing you've got happening here as well as the overall presentation and persona...

Keep rockin;)
guardonduty
09-30-2006, 08:51 PM
Looks like Mat Lower on the "TODAY" show. U should send it to him and get some exposure. He would probably like it.
Atwooki
10-01-2006, 02:32 AM
Wow! what a welcome response; thanks for all the kind replies, guys!

AndHolzmeister
Yep; I'll pose him up alright... think I'll need to model up a camera for him first though - probably a big ol' Hasselblad ;)

guardonduty
Matt Lauer; hmmm... yeah, there's something of him there alright... cheers :D

DaddyMack
Hey, hey... what a great surprise!! thanks mate :) Oh yes: 'Looie- Looie' love it, Rob ;)

:)
moviejunkie101
10-03-2006, 11:07 PM
great character! it would be neat to see him animated! good job :thumbsup:
waheednasir
10-24-2006, 07:36 AM
brilliant job Chris...what a character! neat work indeed...:thumbsup:. personality well put.
SirRon
11-10-2006, 01:13 AM
Wow! Allen is so lucky not only to get his own caricature, but a fully rigged 3D model of himself!

Fantastic job :thumbsup:
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