R&D_PREVIZ_TATTOO PROJECT, Loïc e338 Zimmermann (3D)

Title: R&D_PREVIZ_TATTOO PROJECT
Name: Loïc e338 Zimmermann
Country: France
Software: Maya, mental ray, Photoshop, ZBrush

Hi folks.
Long time no post...
So, what is it that you're looking at?
The answer is, a mish mash of R&D, Previz, and personnal experimentations on a subject that doesn't really is, well - you might say - my cup of tea. Realism !

I've prepared a long speech on this stuff, i just wait for the thread to be validated to post it.
Quickly, this is previz of a tattoo that I designed for me. Tho this is CG, i'm actually doing the tattoo for real. Stay plugged.
Kudos.

absolutely great¡¡¡

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Same pict in Highres

I've been thinking of having a tattoo for years and years now. Obviously I wanted to draw it by myself and I recently felt like I was ready for that.
As soon as i found a crazy guy capable (technicaly) of doing something really precise, I started the design process. We also discused the way we'd work together. I asked the man about placement, tricky areas, streches, etc...

Very early in this process, I decided I'd use what I know in CG for placement, simulation, and later on, unfold and generation of the final layout in 2D. I explained him my vision of the process, and although he was confused about what I was talking, we both agreed it was a freakin' cool idea! Eh !

Since I wanted to do something really precise regarding the anatomy, I felt I could use a little help in order to be as close as possible to the reality.
My work at the moment consists in doing characters for a videoGame company, Quantic Dream, and to do so, after the casting is done, we use 3D scanners of the faces as a guideline for the modelling process.
I asked my fella Thierry, character supervisor there, if we could manage a scan session of my body and he said yeah ( I told you he's cool right?).



Using these patches of scan, i rebuilt the entire mesh and then i created a neat geometry on top.

After a month, I came back to Arnaud, the tattoo artist, with the design, and a rough preview in 3D to see what the placement was. He started to cry, considering the amount of work he'd have to go through. then he said to me how long it might take, and it was my turn to cry.



He drew a simplier version of it (the main lines), and he printed patches of carbon paper to do the placement before starting the butcher work.




The first session was a tough call, since he had to do the lines in one shot. I spent around 4.5h on the chair.


I go there regularly to fill the stuff with black ink. When this first pass will be achieved, we'll do the same with the grey ink.

I could have stopped here, but i felt it was about freaking time to do a proper render to see how this would really look in the end. Realism isn't a motivation and/or a goal for me. I always use 3D as a starting point for illustration, and this whole texturing/shading stuff is a pain in the ass to me, although, I confess, it can be exciting (what if i was a masochist in the end??? Neh! I can't be ! ).
I used zbrush 3 to create the highres geometry.




I felt it could be good for me to have something to show in this particular field, so I did my best to push the render as far as I could.
The textures are not really highres, far from that. Except the bump and displacement, which are 4k, the rest was done in 2K only (for the face AND the body).
Rendering was done in Maya, with SSS, MentalRay, blahblah.. the basic stuff. I did a bit of FUR (gosh I hate that) as well.
I think this is all very close to the reality, I didn't try to improve the real me though CG. This is my head, my shrimp body... Damn !

Hope you'll enjoy... the process, the design, whatever.

Next stage is not in my hands at the moment. A friend of mine, very talented character rigger at Framestore, is currently working on a skeletton, rig, and muscle simulation, so I can finally manage an animation and a reel.

Eyes are closed, yup ! Felt like it was OK at this stage to let them stay this way. I'll work on it for the animation but for now i'm done.
Back to illustration. Back to silkscreen. No more 3D nitpicking appart from the job. hahaha.
Cheers to you all.

neat work man, really nice effort put into this, and the tatoo is really cool too. congrats! scans, wish i could make some

great tattoo design... ..great modeling........I like the background and those patterns.. ......good job ......Mr.e338.....****4stars for sure..........keep it up.......

5*
i respect the effort you have put into making this!!
great model and perfect tattoo(yeah i love tattoos lol)

onw question
will you share the design with us in wallpaper or something?
i would love to have that tattoo on my desktop

cheers

perfect work, congrats!.. 5(*)

So... out of my reach...

wau - this is a nice tattoo you have so much style

Awesome work.
The tattoo itself is already great. The 3D stuff, just perfect.

Congrats.

Awesome, both the sleeve and the rendering.

Gotta get some ink again really soon.

woow awesome

greate modeling and texturing.

its so real

wow perfect work !!!

really amazing work!!!
model, textures, lighting... design...
absolutely amazing!
5*