HMC #20 - Expressions - Hugh Laurie

#21

Ah. Yea sounds right. Good luck man:thumbsup:

#22

good job so far :thumbsup:

#23

@delavega,BrettSinclair - thanks

filled in the top of the headā€¦thereā€™s still no back of the head yetā€¦and the neck still needs workā€¦

#24

Great work so far - youā€™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 - Iā€™m sure you have plenty already, but PM me if you do.

#25

Ya, looks nice~:beer:

#26

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 donā€™t like the eyes I got :frowning:

#27

@BertieRooster: hey iā€™d really appreciate some of the referenceā€¦iā€™ll pm you my email later

@shin4: thanks

@waterlilly: i used the following 2 tutroials to get my eyesā€¦i didnā€™t do it all exactly like it says, and i changed a few things later onā€¦but if you follow these you should get a nice resultā€¦

http://www.3dtotal.com/team/tutorials/antro_eye2/antro_eyetex_01.asp
http://www.3dtotal.com/team/tutorials/antro_eye1/antro_eyemod_01.asp

#28

Thanks so much, I am eternally thankful :bowdown:Jensen will have eyes soon thanks to u.

#29

did a lot of tweaking this morningā€¦just got to finish off the lower neck collarbone areaā€¦then i might unwrap it and take it into mudbox and see how that goesā€¦


#30

Very good likeness. And nice to see you back at work on this :slight_smile:

I assume you will be doing something with those nGons at the top of the head? or does Mudbox support them?

-Rage

#31

did a little bit more tweaking and whacked a quick shirt on himā€¦strangely i think it helps with the likenessā€¦lolā€¦

#32

little bit more tweaking around the mouthā€¦and a different angleā€¦i feel like iā€™ve just about nailed it on this one

EDIT: added a jacket as wellā€¦not so happy with it but it will do for nowā€¦

#33

just been playing around with hair and it turns out it helps to read the manualā€¦lolā€¦iā€™d always struggled with getting hair in the right place at the right length and things like thatā€¦

turns out iā€™d been struggling with setting and styling when i could have just been using maps insteadā€¦

hereā€™s a quick test with a map for density and cut lengthā€¦obviously the hair style ainā€™t right but i havenā€™t even touched that bit yetā€¦

hopefully this will mean iā€™ll be able to get real good control over his beard/stubble, which was one area i was quite worried aboutā€¦

#34

Looking really good. Keep going.

#35

@BrettSinclair: thanks, that means a lot especially considering the caliber of work you put outā€¦

alrighty, iā€™ve finally jumped back into mudboxā€¦first time in about a yearā€¦lolā€¦possibly moreā€¦and iā€™d forgotten how fun it wasā€¦anyway iā€™ve got a little bit of sculpting doneā€¦

i was tempted to do symettry so as to cut down on sculpting time but decided against it, so iā€™m scilpting one side at a time. that way each side will be uniqueā€¦:slight_smile:

i also think iā€™m going to leave pore detail and stuff as a bump map and just do wrinkles/viens as a displacementā€¦

#36

okay hereā€™s a first pass on the sculpting and i must say iā€™m quite pleased with itā€¦although iā€™m having some problems which iā€™ll get to in a minuteā€¦

now the problem iā€™m having is getting the displacement maps out of mudboxā€¦i had to export the hi res mesh to get the above renderā€¦

as far as a i know i have it set up right, its the same settings iā€™ve used previously and they worked thenā€¦but for some reason now when i go to create the map it goes through a few steps and comes up ā€œcannot open temporary displacement map test_d.tifā€

donā€™t really know whats going on though as iā€™ve never been that great at the whole displacement map businessā€¦

anyone got any ideas as to what could be causing that? iā€™m using mudbox 1.0.4

#37

okay i think i solved my displacement map problemsā€¦

turns out there was a tiny bit of my original UVā€™s outside the UV space and that was throwing up the errorā€¦

iā€™ve fixed it up now and can generate a displacement mapā€¦now iā€™ve just gotta tweak the settingsā€¦and then learn how to render with themā€¦lol

EDIT: had to post this just cos its quite amusingā€¦olā€™ hughs had a bit of an allergic reaction to displacementā€¦

#38

sculpted my first expression, this is what i would call pleased i think

#39

Emotion 2: Confusedā€¦he looks a little sadā€¦but iā€™m guessing house would be sad if he was confusedā€¦

#40

Yeah I can see likeness!
There is definitely Dr. House in the model. :slight_smile: But compared to a photograph I think the actual model is a bit too skinny. Maybe this impression is created by the eyes which look a way too big.
Oh by the way the eye-balls look beautiful. How did you get 'em to this level of realism?