Nice job in this base so far Robo. There is a good likeness to your mesh. 1000% improvement from your old head from 3 years ago. You’re coming along really fast on this one. With 2 threads too. No crits as of yet, but I thought I`d drop a friendly message and subscribe to the thread. Good luck.
-Rage
i think i might use this to practice my sculpting, and the workflow of max to mudbox to max…
i’ll obviously have to model the main ones so they’ll be able to deform properly but i’m guessing the majority of the fine ones will come in mudbox…
@RageOfAges: thanks mate, i’m surprsing myself a bit as well…and its more like a 10,000% improvement over that old head…it hurts my eyes looking at it…lol
@delavega,BrettSinclair - thanks
filled in the top of the head…there’s still no back of the head yet…and the neck still needs work…
Great work so far - you’re doing well on the likeness. I actually was going to do a portrait of Hugh Laurie for a different competition a while back. I changed my mind in the end and did someone else, but I have a folder full of some decent high-res reference if you want it - I’m sure you have plenty already, but PM me if you do.
Looking great! A little off topic but what technique did you use for making the eyeballs. I am on the lookout for a good tutorial. I don’t like the eyes I got 
@BertieRooster: hey i’d really appreciate some of the reference…i’ll pm you my email later
@shin4: thanks
@waterlilly: i used the following 2 tutroials to get my eyes…i didn’t do it all exactly like it says, and i changed a few things later on…but if you follow these you should get a nice result…
http://www.3dtotal.com/team/tutorials/antro_eye2/antro_eyetex_01.asp
http://www.3dtotal.com/team/tutorials/antro_eye1/antro_eyemod_01.asp
Thanks so much, I am eternally thankful :bowdown:Jensen will have eyes soon thanks to u.
did a lot of tweaking this morning…just got to finish off the lower neck collarbone area…then i might unwrap it and take it into mudbox and see how that goes…
Very good likeness. And nice to see you back at work on this 
I assume you will be doing something with those nGons at the top of the head? or does Mudbox support them?
-Rage
did a little bit more tweaking and whacked a quick shirt on him…strangely i think it helps with the likeness…lol…
little bit more tweaking around the mouth…and a different angle…i feel like i’ve just about nailed it on this one
EDIT: added a jacket as well…not so happy with it but it will do for now…
just been playing around with hair and it turns out it helps to read the manual…lol…i’d always struggled with getting hair in the right place at the right length and things like that…
turns out i’d been struggling with setting and styling when i could have just been using maps instead…
here’s a quick test with a map for density and cut length…obviously the hair style ain’t right but i haven’t even touched that bit yet…
hopefully this will mean i’ll be able to get real good control over his beard/stubble, which was one area i was quite worried about…
@BrettSinclair: thanks, that means a lot especially considering the caliber of work you put out…
alrighty, i’ve finally jumped back into mudbox…first time in about a year…lol…possibly more…and i’d forgotten how fun it was…anyway i’ve got a little bit of sculpting done…
i was tempted to do symettry so as to cut down on sculpting time but decided against it, so i’m scilpting one side at a time. that way each side will be unique…
i also think i’m going to leave pore detail and stuff as a bump map and just do wrinkles/viens as a displacement…
okay here’s a first pass on the sculpting and i must say i’m quite pleased with it…although i’m having some problems which i’ll get to in a minute…
now the problem i’m having is getting the displacement maps out of mudbox…i had to export the hi res mesh to get the above render…
as far as a i know i have it set up right, its the same settings i’ve used previously and they worked then…but for some reason now when i go to create the map it goes through a few steps and comes up “cannot open temporary displacement map test_d.tif”
don’t really know whats going on though as i’ve never been that great at the whole displacement map business…
anyone got any ideas as to what could be causing that? i’m using mudbox 1.0.4
okay i think i solved my displacement map problems…
turns out there was a tiny bit of my original UV’s outside the UV space and that was throwing up the error…
i’ve fixed it up now and can generate a displacement map…now i’ve just gotta tweak the settings…and then learn how to render with them…lol
EDIT: had to post this just cos its quite amusing…ol’ hughs had a bit of an allergic reaction to displacement…
