HARDCORE MODELING!: 80's Cartoon: Mumm-Ra

#81

OH YEAH! the cloak is much better:thumbsup: and thanks for posting with a new material… it really makes it easier to see the nice sculpt work you are doing. Looking great man.

#82

Yay! Glad you like. Thanks a ton. :smiley:
Up next: textures!

#83

I think the cloth is looking good, although if you’re like me you’ll find it hard to get a good feel for it without doing some reasonably lit renders to get an understanding of how it’ll feel…

I’d like to see some wires and look at the topology, especially on the face and jaw. Quick look at it makes me think you will need to be doing some lower res re-topo right? Anyway, it’s all looking fantastic at hi-res.

Great work :slight_smile:

#84


Thanks Axiomatic. =)

I think the jaw could stand a retopo, especially around the teeth area, and I may do one just for grins if I have extra time. Maybe the skin layer, around the corner of the mouth. However, this isn’t a character for games and likely won’t be animated much, if at all. The jaw and face are also separate meshes, so I can probably get away with treating the jaw as a rigid body. No deformation = no real need for a retopo.

Edit: Staring at that gif, I almost wanna retopo the skull just to get all of that wasted geometry out of the eye socket. It is covered by an eyeball, after all, and those polys would be more useful elsewhere. :stuck_out_tongue:

#85

Very well done man.

#86

You could also just delete them, no need to retopo. ZBrush handles deleted polys pretty good in my experience.

#87

Great progress here!

I’m not at all familiar with the character, but judging by the number of teeth he has, he is not quite human, is he?

Cheers!

#88

Doah! I just noticed that! cough Ahem. Well, he IS from another planet. <.<

#89

Really excellent work, everything is so well done. The cloth is especially nice.

#90

Thanks, Air! :smiley:

I realize this is probably a question better put to the zbrush forum, but I figure it sorta fits here as well, and I won’t be heartbroken if I don’t get/can’t find an answer.
I was trying the deal where you bake a material into polypaint via zAppLink. For some reason, it baked the wrong material (default red wax), and doesn’t want to let me colorize over it. Actually, it baked the RIGHT material at the time of baking, but I saved the file and came back to it later to find a different material baked in. Anybody else ever had that happen/know how to fix it?

If I can’t figure it out, I’m just gonna handpaint it anyway, so it’s not THAT big of a deal. Just weird, that’s all.

#91

Nice job, I think he looks like a total pimp. But he’s missing something, ya know? like I think he would look even more pimp if he had some gigantic necklace hanging in front of him, just to show that he’s got the bling-bling and then some rings on his fingers, even toes too. Cuz he’s all rotting and shi n lik y nut hv bling 2 cuver up his broke as shi, ya kno wut i mean jely been?


MC-RA: “wEsT sIdE, fO rEaL yO… cough… oH wAiT, I hAvE nO lUnGs”
(He’s got a golden grill too, but it might be hard to tell.)

I love how my post degraded with every word. Translation: Are you still gonna add jewelry? I still think that big necklace might be too much. In my humble opinion.

#92

HAHAHAHAHAHA wipes tears from eyes

Wow. Jewelry’s an extra. In fact, most of the weird clothing components are extras that I want to throw in if I have time.

#93

So, I didn’t die or anything. Just beating my head against the wall trying to get these textures right.
I think the fiber is a little too coarse, so I’ll fix that. The motif squishing at the border… well, I’ll try to fix that. I like it. Anybody think I should just scrap it altogether?

#94

I think it looks great, but since it’s just basically a umm… like a blanket, I think it should just degrade as it gets closer to the bottom near the floor. Like full of dirt, and faded out, torn at places, etc.

hehe… mumm-ra and his blankey…

I can picture a little chibi mumm-ra in my head, with a pacifier… wait, that’s disturbing, nvm.


Mumm-Ra: And I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for you meddling teenagers and your stupid snarf.

Although, I think you should know… it looks a little too much like…


[b]The bad guy from Resident Evil 4

[color=White]Oh dude, you could always give him his sword! it’s bad ass.

Sure, he’s not “Super” but whatever, why not have it as a walking stick? would be hot.

Umm… I ran into this one, I don’t get it. Also it’s politically wrong…

T-Shirt
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#95

lol Thanks, Marcel. Always a joy. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m still not sure what I want to do about the border. I’m probably going to make an alpha map to give the whole thing a threadbare look. I do like the idea of having most of the wear and tear towards the bottom, but… he’s undead. He’s rotting. He has maggots on his FACE! I doubt he hangs his cloak on a peg before he lays down to decompose. :smiley:

It is a good point though. What I’ll probably do is just bust up the whole thing, and put MORE wear at the bottom.

I still think the cloth is just a little too coarse, but I doubt it’ll matter much in the final look. What will probably matter is the color. I’m planning on staying pretty true to the character as far as his skin tone goes; so grey blue, pallid skin, a blue cloak, and what will likely end up being cooler colors in the tomb as well… the imagery will be nearly monotone. So I’m going to play with warmer stuff on the cloak.

#96

Lies! it’s all lies!

#97

So I made the mistake of setting the last image I posted of the skull as my desktop. And since Felix pointed out my teeth were wonky (thank you SO much, Felix… :P), I couldn’t stop looking at them. It was like seeing someone with a piece of broccoli stuck in their teeth. :stuck_out_tongue:
SO. I compulsively fixed them, even though you probably won’t even see them in the final image.

I hope this is an improvement. hehe

#98

Lol, my pleasure. :stuck_out_tongue: I don’t mean to be a smart-ass, but last time I checked, a human set of teeth was 32, not 28. But if he had all his wisdom-teeth pulled… :wink:

Anyways, disregarding such minor details in the world of boundless artistry, this is continuously great work here. It’s really shaping up sweetly!:buttrock:

Cheers!

#99

HAHAHAHA Hey, the ref. skull I was looking at had 28, and I have 28.
True, I doubt Mumm-ra has seen a dentist anytime recently, but we’ll assume he’s had his wisdom teeth pulled. :smiley:
Funny.
Seriously though, thank you for you input man. Really appreciated. :smiley:

#100

I expect I wouldn’t have noticed anything about the texture on the hood if you hadn’t posted what it was supposed to look like. The course fabric makes sense to me. Old and worn out sitting in a sarcophagus all day.