Stephano's Creature

#97

Awesome start there Stefano on the base… Yea I agree some sort of ftp would be nice, when we get this bad boy rolling I’m sure file sizes will go crazy…! So I was thinking it shouldn’t be a problem to texture and shade your simple base mesh without worry if you change the mesh or the uv’s. Since in the end if the two models are in the same space area, we can just use maya’s transfer maps tools and project textures from model to model… There might be little distortion, but I’m sure it would be easy tweak painting. Also of course the different photoshop layers would have to be projected to the final mesh you give us. But I see no reason why we can’t do this… I use this workflow all the time to make video game assests, where I will texture the high rez zbrush model and then create a base mesh with my uv’s and just transfer color maps as I would normal take a normal map into account etc…

By the way Hope everyone has a Happy New Year…!

#98

hello All, I’m back and rolling
this is where I took my lady today, now I move back sculpting for a bit on the big creature
any C&C on topos is wellcome, nothing is final, many I’ll thorow many things in the topo but I need a pass down to relly figure stuff out,
here’s the file

#99

steph,

it got corrupted…im trying to get ballistics ftp …ASAP (will have it up early next week)

#100

details, First messing around after work for 30 mins… This is a rough idea of what I was looking for cracks and crackles and stuff… Playing around I enjoyed giving her some more inhuman alienoid elements like those big veining etcetera, I’ll work on it tomorrow and redo this since i went to split the model too early and i need it together a bit longer before giving myself the excuse to split it up… In this one the head is @ 8Mils
PS: the butterlfyin g of the details of course WILL NOT be there
this is a quick resym to check the look and feel
cheers

#101

need ur high rez mesh…(got to tell you it was murder painting on the low rez mesh)

send me that and I shall bring it home…

nice work…

Also send me hat…need to know hair line

Pablo

#102

I redid the head, now I have the body altogether

#103

Could use the civity maps as well…

I like the vein embossments on her temples…

I did want to ask you the hand drawn cracks…look very cool…and could be interpreted as
aged lines…or more of scarification wrinkles…

espeically around the eyes…is less “cracked doll” face …(as you requrested)

did you still foresee still using blood vessel look…?

In this version she also looks old as well…(and not young and sexy)…(I dont know if that matters anymore)

I really like the upper lids…brow…and between the eyes…

Paul

#104

a quick paintover for the helmet:
now she will have a flourishing tentacular hair structure going down her shoulders, later egyptians used tht to finish up the pharanic helmet :wink:
anyway those hair are the things you see on the surface of the body
maybe a bit tech looking but what the heck i need hard surface 4 my portfolio :smiley:
I think she looks my more powerful and majestic now…

#105

boobies! !
does she need a bra? :slight_smile:

#106

I’m sure I’ll rework those mechanical finger things to get some decent HSurface going there too…

#107

:applause: Great stuff man!!! I’m liking all the details on this… Nice Boobs too!

#108

update helmet

#109

ya nice titties…

did a nice job with her back (Her back really feels like she has 4 arms)

#110

helmet update

#111

:cool: I’m digging the helmet, super nice… this hot ladie is gonna be super pimp when shes done…!

#112

thanks miguel!
Still need to clean up and break up those shapes mostly toward the back the same treatment I gave to the front, then topology is gonna take care of the nice bevels and the high tech parts.
I’ll treat the mechanicals on the fingertips the same way too and the blades on the botton of the big creature. I maybe add some bracelets too
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#113

I got home and I had to test my dispmaps… they respond great, usually I always have problems but this was just fine…
I need to know something tho… How the hell do we render multiple displacements in mental ray??? dismaps with stagger off and offset don’t work, uv sets aren’t read by the uv Set editor since they connect with the shading node not with the material, I am eager to test the full power of my processor, I got this render with 4 passes done in 2 minutes at full displacement from the lowres, I was afraid tht my mesh was too lowres to hold on but no problem happened. Miguel would you mind tell me how to render multi dispmaps? If it’s too convoluted to post on the forum please send me a mail or a link to a tutorial if you know any!
Paul: My detail pass isn’t even closely enough to get to the migro pores and stuff, I am rendering this with subdee apprximation node set to 6 (one more than what I have in zbrush) leaving tons of space for extra details (total polycount 4Mils for the face only).
I would really like to test render times for future use on our rendering process.
The Lighting was handled by Marta who is getting very good at it :slight_smile: :buttrock:

so here it is

PS: I had to increase the size of the model by 10x in order to get the dispmaps to read right, just a heads up for the other zbrushers involved in this project… do it until you can since you have to do it in maya on the highres to ge it to work… (big pain in the a…)

#114

nice test… You got me with the rendering multiple uv-set displacements, I’ll have to look into it and try to figure it out. I know how to layer-multiple textures to control one displacement or bump map… That is great to test your processor, but rendering out true displacement for this is overkill. I have other tricks to retain your details without pushing the processor to its knees just to say we can. More specfic, comes down to the use of normal maps/displacment maps without letting maya or MR do retessalation on the mesh. Plus rendering with plane old polygon smooth speeds things up. You still got to remeber that we still need to retain the largness of your model and detail, and not to mention all the shading that will occur to make her realistic, plus not the mention Final gather lighting, plus shadow casting, etc… the list goes on and on. So displacment is the last place I need it to take 2 minutes. Down at the bottom here I had an example of what I’m talking about Displacement/Normal map

#115

hei guys how are things going?
all looks halted
cheers
I cant wait to close this!

#116

Hey stefano, things are going. How things with you, saw your joining the dominance war. I think everyone is just a bit busy with other stuff, but its not halted…