DWIV - Mini Challenge #1 - War General Portraits 3D

#21

Some questions:

the extra poly that we can use for the hat or hair…
do we have to put the textures on the same one than the bust
its two separates uv’s or only one?

And can we use procedural materials?

thank.

Anthony

#22

Well here’s my progress. Not sure if I’m following the rules correctly, but thought I’d post where I was going to see if it’s alright.

#23

Here’s a current wip. I hope to actually finish it. However, this being my first time using zbrush we’ll see how this goes. I already worked on the tankbobo(?), the wide shouldered fellah and lost the data because I wasn’t sure how to save it out at the time :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m not entierly sure where I’m going with this. At first I was going with an aquatic look, but that nose rings of bat to me. But I’m having fun attempting to learn zbrush so hurray! :smiley:

#24

I worked on it a little more and thought I’d post my progress.

More tomorrow.

#25

Seven - I really like you’re start, spacesuit is something that never even occurred to me

Started off playing around with the face, I’m thinking that I want larger, more identifiable features. Planning on doing several more sketches before I decide what to do for sure.

#26

This is my first image of my wip. Just random ideas thrown in. By the way, cool concept KevinCCAD.

#27

Hello all, This is my fist 45mins sketch for this minicontest, The idea is to blend a portrait of stalin with a rhino :slight_smile: we’ll see
cheers
S

#28

Look forward to the challenge. I will post something soon. Good luck to everyone

#29

First time posting here:wavey:, this competition motivated me to come out of my shell.

It seems like sculpting is necessary for this mini-comp. I guess I better learn ZBrush. Never really used it before, well I have, but had no idea what I was doing lol. Well…at least this competition is pushing me to learn it.

Good Luck on the competition.:thumbsup:

#30

good idea ))
more detail please ))
more Stalin ))

#31

techbot route

#32

Wip… still trying to find ideas. But I wanted to give a nature feeling, like rock and roots.

#33

@ Stefano Dubay - Good work! add more from Stalin!
Keep going!

#34

Getting a start in:

#35

I have a full time job at a studio so that means playing games are out for the next 2 months (maybe) and so is my family… out the door they go!

So it begins…

One of the more appealing things about the fat heavy shouldered fellow is that there are very few seams on the uv’s.

I like the silhouette on the alien with the chains. Except i don’t like the chains. I would rather see some better design besides a simple torus shape. But… it can’t be changed. Maybe it could have beads with war trophy feathers on it.

The skinny alien with the open mouth has ears that bug and… he has an open mouth, but you could put some freaky teeth or something in there.

So that is my first impression.

If you were to do a high poly bake from the fat alien, you would definitely need to add some polygon density in the face region on a copy of the model to give the face some more detail, and perhaps some other parts of his costume/body.

The uv layout is kind of loose, but the unused space could be used for the added bits.

One of the other challenges is the edge of the bodies at the bottom. There needs to be some sort of indication of a pedestal underneath the bust. And the whole idea of making a bust “sculpture” contradicts making a “painterly beautiful stylized reality” alien that looks alive and believable and endearing. So the tricky part is what to do with the edge at the bottom. Do you just cut it? Round it off? Cap it? Torn flesh… lol? That’s the trick. I’ll let you decide.

First things first… I’d like to do some simple paint overs in photoshop to play around with what details i’d like to see.

#36

I think I can already tell which of the 3 base meshes is going to be chosen most of the time. :wink:

#37

Here’s my WIP I spent about a hour and half just playing around in Zbrush.

#38

So just to double check.

500 tri`s or 500 Polys? The original post said Tri, and someone else said Polys?

and those extra polys go onto the UV making 1 model?

Thanks!

#39

Hi All,
Here is my progress , baking normal right now,will update again tomorrow.
I got a question so far: Do we allowed to use a separated texture for the extra polys? There is not much space left in the original one.

#40

hi this is my first time here and i think that’s the way i am going for so any suggestions pleas
thanks.