Character - Zombie

[TimWoods]

wow!!
that model looks really cool. just like out of evil dead or resident evil. Will look awsome when its finished!
keep going!
:beer:
love the brain hanging out :thumbsup:

[nibo]

That's defenitely a f*ckedup face! :surprised

[Martyr]

Really great man Is ugly as the living dead we see in the movies and he really seem to suffer continue your work:buttrock:

[Jan Svalland]

I'm glad you guys like it:)

I Think I'll start texturing the head soon, might do some tweeks
on the hole in the backhead first, and perhaps add some weins.
I'm not looking forward to uv map this bastard though!

[chudofsinister]

Wow thats great, I am a huge fan of night of the living dead franchise. this is super cool, can you give any insights into your construction methods. thanks. Ever read the story by Stephen King called Homecoming.

[mindrot]

EEEK!!! :eek:

this is soo cool. I love zombies. I still want to make a realtime zombie sometime....

Can't wait to see it textured... :bounce:

[Jan Svalland]

chudofsinister: Thanx. I'm modeling the zombie using polygons.
I started with a box, blocked out the main shapes, then started adding details by mainly splitting polygons and moving vertices. The hardest part is to keep the mesh somewhat organized, when
a lot of details like wounds and damage has to be modeled into the mesh.

Here's a wireframe view (http://www.jsvalland.com/art/wip/zombie_wire.jpg)

Havn't read Homecoming, is it good?

[chudofsinister]

Wow very cool wire. do you convert to sub-d to add more detail or just stay with pOlys. Homecoming is kinda cool, its a short story from Nightmares and Dreamscapes and was in a collection of short stories based around the George Romero Franchise where all the stories had to do with zombies. Nice work keep the updates acoming.

[Jan Svalland]

I stay with polys. I'm planning on rendring this bastard with Mental Ray, and the current implementation of mental ray for maya doesn't support sub-d's.
I'll try to update on a regular basis :)

[xeno]

I think it is looking rather good! excellent detail, but personally, i would love to see MORE of those gory details, we want his hands to be rotten as well :p I love it!

[tomb]

This is great. The anatomy looks really good and you've added so much detail. Keep it up.

[Elliotjnewman]

This is very very good. How long has this modelling taken you? are you going to animate it? and yes, I would be very afraid of texturing that! - time you bought deep paint me thinks! ouch.

Great work though, just dont apply a block colour for texturing... but I'm sure you already knew that!

[mansig]

congrats for this work jan
i especially love the arms and torso, very well done.:applause:
Can we also see some wire of this region ? ( torso and arms).
thx.
keep up the good work dude !:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[FatherGlory]

Very nice Gnarled face. Great detail on head. Looks like he got F**K'd up nice and good.

It would be nice to see some of that decay and messed up flesh more on the rest of the body maybe.
Looking very good so far tho.
:applause:

[Jan Svalland]

Thanx a lot for the positve responses everybody! It's really motivating!

I'm planning on adding more damage to the parts of his body that won't be covered with cloth. He's gonna have a jacked and
some pants, so I won't be adding unnecessary details to the arms and legs. I will defenitly add more damage to his hands.
The jacked will be open, so i might need some more stuff on the torso, not sure yet. A lot of details will be added in the texture process also.

Elliotjnewman: I'm not sure how much time I've spent on this model, i've been working on and off on it for quite a while, so the
progress has been quite slow.
The zombie will be animated, but not by me. I've got a co-worker on the case.:buttrock:

Here are a couple of wireframe shots, and a picture of the whole model

Wireframe - front (http://www.jsvalland.com/art/wip/zombie_wire_front.jpg)

Wireframe - back (http://www.jsvalland.com/art/wip/zombie_wire_back.jpg)

Smooth shaded - front and back (http://www.jsvalland.com/art/wip/zombie_front_back.jpg)

[raelbr]

Great!!!
verry cool man!!!!!!
i want see it textured!
good work man! please keep updating! ;-D

[azazel]

Cool, especially bullet wounds ;) add more of them on the torso, please ;)

[chudofsinister]

Hey man where are the updates!

[Syrogen]

:thumbsup: freaky!!!

[Jan Svalland]

Sorry about the lack of updates, but I've been really busy at
work. I'll see if I can get some work done this weekend :)

[Hopsix]

wow dude! I like ur style :buttrock:

[BiTMAP]

I've seen some of the best ideas for zombies over at C4software.net, I'm not sure were they have the concepts anymore, but they're for the DT mod, VERY VERY Nice stuff.

[manutara]

Just waiting to see those textures...a lot of red and green shit on those maps!!!:D :thumbsup:

[Jan Svalland]

I uv mapped the head today, and started on the texture for the head. Lot's of work left, this is only a humble start

http://www.jsvalland.com/art/wip/zombie_tex01.jpg

[squidinc]

feckin hell, thats looking sick :surprised

this is gonna be shit scary when its finished :thumbsup:

[alexgc]

that is one seriously f**ked up face! I love it! Cant wait to see some animation! You could have some nasty wriggly maggots coming out of the holes in his face, feeding on the raw flesh....mmm...im hungry now...:twisted:

[Jan Svalland]

squidinc: thanx :)
alexgc: I'll defenitly create some maggots, thanx for the suggestion.

Did some more work on the color map today:

http://www.jsvalland.com/art/wip/zombie_tex02.jpg

[Elliotjnewman]

That is coming along really nicely! Well done with that texturing - looks like you sorted out the UV's perfectly! Looking forward to seeing it all finished!

L

[amos_chid]

dude that's sooo scarry, it freaks me out
it means you :buttrock: :thumbsup:

[Jan Svalland]

Hi!

I finally managed to get some more work done on my zombie prosject. Been quite a while since last update, but better late than never i guess :)

Anyway, I've done a lot of work on the shading, trying to remove the ugly "Lambert" look of the shading and adding some depth to it. I created a quick light-setup that will be more in line with what i'm aiming for in the final product. (might be too dark on some monitors)

http://www.jsvalland.com/zombie2.jpg

Btw, I'm going to the 3d-festival this week. Gonna rock big time!


:airguitar :buttrock:

[Caman0]

dude that is awesome work!!!

it looks really freaky

:applause: :applause:

[Smoke_DT]

WOW! really good :buttrock:
PLz tell me how did u make the salivation :drool:

[Angelus]

Wow !:eek: Ho my god !! I was afraid!
Very realistic :applause: :thumbsup:

[JPGargoyle]

Cooooooooooollllll :buttrock:

I surely wouldn't like to meet that dude on a dark alley at night!
Iykes!!!

Excelent stuff! Keep up the good work.

He surely looks like he died on a bike accident or something, having hit the road with his face he he he :twisted:


Best regards. :applause:

[squidinc]

damn:eek excellent texturing work, this is front page material for sure, keep going I wanna see this finished :thumbsup:

[Jan Svalland]

Thanx a lot for the positive comments! :) It really makes me wanna finish this thing!

Smoke_DT: The saliva is really simple, It's some deformed nurbs geometry with a highly specular and transparent material.

The saliva geometry (http://www.jsvalland.com/saliva.jpg)

[Angelus]

Thanx a lot for your technique !!:buttrock:

[jmw]

Dude that rocks:buttrock:

[phoenix2k]

wow, that is AMAZING!!! :eek: :eek:

very scary...

you've got a huge polycount there, but i guess you need that for all those shotwounds and scars..

again, that looks great!!!! :thumbsup:

(moooorrrre... e.....)

[Vash T Stampede]

Brrraaaainnsss....:drool:

[ceql]

Whoa, definetely Creeeepy! awesome job! :applause:
could you post a preview of what some of the maps look like? ;)

[borchert]

NASTY !!!
the last render is really nice !!

[Elliotjnewman]

wow that is totally amazing! well done with the textures they bring it to life!!!

this was done using maya right? could you give us a uv unwrap and texturing tutorial on this?

ell.

[Elliotjnewman]

oh and is this going to be animated too? it would be interesting to see how the mouth is going to move with that suliver... (if it is animated...)

Ell

[Jan Svalland]

Thanks again for all your responses!

phoenix2k: the polycount is quite huge indeed, but it i'm afraid the details require it. I really want to add displacement mapping
also to the model, to detail it further, but Maya's displacement mapping isn't the best...But I'll do some more test when i get back from the 3d-festival.

ceql: Here's a small preview of the main maps, color, bump and specular color. They are very wip, and only look good from the current camera angle. I've used this angle to test what kinda direction I wanted to take with the texturing and shading, so that's why the textures only are detailed in one area :) The textures are also scaled down from 2048 x 2048 so a lot of details are lost..

color map (http://www.jsvalland.com/face_color.jpg)
bump map (http://www.jsvalland.com/face_bump.jpg)
specular color map (http://www.jsvalland.com/face_spec.jpg)

Elliotjnewman: I might do a uv/texture/shading tutorial from this project, but I feel i have to finish at least the zombie head first, right now everything is a bit half finished, so it's a bit hard to do a tutorial at this moment. :)
At the end the zombie will be animated yes, a lot of work ahead!
:scream:

[gösi]

wow :eek: the last render is just amazing... i cant tell more...only wunderfull!

[ceql]

Wow, great! :D thanks for sharing those! :applause:

[Meshosh]

eeeeww!!

it´s disgusting, horrible....

excellent work!!! keep updating, it´s geting better and better...
or worse?... i don´t now... it does make me sick... but I still love it anyway...:thumbsup:

[tomb]

This is awesome! You did a really great job of texturing and lighting him. :eek: :applause:

[Dustin_Senos]

wow man amazing work. Cant wait to see the final product

[BiTMAP]

it made me feel sick, i liked.

[thjazi]

great stuff modeling, maps ... !!! :beer:

[Undead Fred]

Your zombie looks GREAT so far! Very juicy. :drool: Do you plan to animate it at all? If so, I hope to see some animation tests here. I'm a big fan of zombies, but I'm sure you could tell that.

Do you plan to post more renders here? It's looking great. I love the details too... right down to the bloodshot eye. Very nice.

[richd]

nice one...err scary one...that zombie just scared the zombie in my avatar..good job :applause:

[bgreg03]

:drool: :drool: :drool:
i think i speak for everyone when i say
wow. that is AMAZING.
:beer:

:beer:

[Undead Fred]

...you've got me wanting to model a zombie now. Heh heh.

[Jan Svalland]

Got back from the 3d festival in denmark yesterday. It was an amazing event, and I met a lot of interesting people. I got really inspired, and was looking forward to continue with my zombie project.
But it turns out that it's gonna be hella busy at work the next 3 weeks, so no zombie-time for me. It's a shame since I got really inspired to do a lot of work on it. But I will of course continue to post updates as soon as I get some free time.

cheers!

[ZVAN]

super cool! keep it up! LorD of thE ZoMbIEs aWakEnS!

[dmxdxl]

you gotta keep goin with this model man..I have been waitin fo someone to make a wicked zombie model and this is iT adn ur the GUY...U RULE MEAN....u have solid talent....so finish...this is the exact kinda model I want to make...so perfect...

[Raul-Reznek]

WElcome back Jan

been some time huh?

[kpalazov]

Wow absolutly terrifying I'm scared to show this to my little bro...will give him many night mares:)....great detail....and very controlled topology...stunning..

Out of interest may I ask if you used a custom shader on this?

welldone once again:)

Kiril

[aenema]

wow! great work so far, I cant wait to see this finished :thumbsup:

[Lordrych]

Update Update Update!!!:buttrock:

[LIMBAUL_ABIGGOR]

simply amazing:drool:

[dmxdxl]

UPDATE MAN...I WANNA SEE THIS MOFO WALKIN AND SCARIN PPL....

[Joss]

Shhhhhhhh!

can you hear that?

it's Id Software calling.

show 'em that and you got yourself a job!

[Jan Svalland]

Thanks again for your kind words :)

Raul: long time indeed. Things have been pretty crazy here the last 7-8 months, it really takes a lot of time and energy to start your own company. I need some vacation soon, hehe..

kpalazov: The shader is a standard maya Layered Shader, with different specular layers and a translucency-fake layer in order to add some depth to skin.

So far I havn't had any time for personal prosjects, so unfortunatly no zombie-updates yet..

[MistaB]

Im blown away at the quality of your work.

You should really make a tutorial! :p

Excellent work :beer:

[Pgraphics]

Just Awesome...Textures, model, lighting all work on this one. By the way thanks for the saliva tip.

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