Likeness Study: Jack Nicholson in "The Departed"

#1

Latest WIP,

Hey Everybody,

I’ve never done a likeness study before but I got permission to spend my down time at work learning about it.

I’m trying to use Frank Tzeng’s tutorial
https://gumroad.com/frank_tzeng_art

Here’s what I have so far. I’m still working on it for sure - haven’t touched the ears yet, need to refine shapes, etc, but I figured that I should use this to start a WIP thread.

Anyways, I’ll just keep posting updates here, but, if at any point, you have some feedback for me, please let me know.

Cheers!

Reference from The Departed

More random Jack reference

#2

Here’s a bit of progress on Jack!

I added in some temp hair, just to help with the feel of it.

I didn’t get a chance to address the lips/mouth area today, but I’ll do that tomorrow.

Have a great night!

#3

I saw the same tutorial!

Very nice, keep going and updating the thread, I’ll keep an eye open on this :slight_smile:

#4

I still think you should block the head. If you overlap your ref on your head and do a back and forth quickly you will notice the areas to rework.

You have good reference but you need to use them to block the head first

Now I see forehead issue, nose and eyes

#5

Nice profile shot, Scote! Thanks for the crit too!

I searched everywhere for one of those, and couldn’t find one as good as that. Awesome, I’ll make some adjustments.

CGXel.
thanks, man. Yeah, stop by whenever. I’ll probably update every 2 working days or so.

#6

Actually want you search on google its easy to find… just need to scroll down a lot and you will find more: Jack Nicholson Side profile was my search

#7

Another Jack update. Slowly coming together.

I got the OrangeClay matcap, it’s pretty nice to try out.

Likeness studies are so demanding. It’s quite the challenge to make HIS nose and HIS eyes, and so on. It’s interesting and fun though.

I’m going a bit cross-eyed now. Do you guys see anything that’s off?

#8

Bit of progress of Jack.

All hair/lashes temp
Eyes temp

*Note on the eyes. I got the eyes pack from BadKing. Any tips on getting them to render correctly?

#9

that’s freaking jack nicholson, so you can’t get him wrong. He’s a legend. i’ll definitely try to keep my eye on this thread.

#10

Thanks DarkMizu!

I’m going to start to tackle eye lashes and eye brows today, we will see how it goes. :surprised

#11

Here’s a bit of progress on Jack. I think I have to go with the glasses. Its my first time working with the hair (fibers in brush). I need to poke at it a bit more, it’s kind of weird.

(Quick BPR Test render on top)

Also, I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to rendering him out. Can anyone recommend a tutorial for learning that to me?

#12

It’s getting there.

What shader to you guys use for hair? The default hair one? Or do you make a custom one?

Also, is there a way for me the render the lens of his glasses (see above) as clear?

Thanks!

#13

Working on the glasses today

#14

Hi All,

Had to switch projects at work, but should be getting back to this tomorrow. :slight_smile:

#15

Decided to re-work Jack a bit because

1 - my employer will like a nice, “safe” pose better

and

2 - I want to make the spikey hair this week

:slight_smile:

#16

I spent the day trying to fix Jack up the best I could. I wasn’t going to post again until I had hair on him but I was told that I can’t work on him for the rest of the week, so hopefully, in a week or so, I’ll be back with hair!

#17

still without hair look like Jack Nicholson :scream: