ChiselingPixels

Saturday afternoon project – Klingon Bust

Frank — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:11:23 +0000

Saturday afternoon project. Polished off a 1 hour speedsculpt of a Klingon head from earlier in the week, added facial hair and blocked in the mane. Top image – decimated and rendered in mental ray for Maya. Bottom image – Zbrush screenshots.

Fresh New Year

Frank — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:00:19 +0000

First post of the new year. Still working on my Bionic Man but in the meantime here’s a work in progress that is back and forth between the backburner and when I’m in the mood. Rendered in Mental Ray for Maya.

Minor Update

Frank — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:55:41 +0000

Minor update on Steve Austin model. BPR render from Zbrush.

Six Million Dollar Man – Body – Work In Progress

Frank — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:40:47 +0000

Decided to keep going with the Steve Austin model and give it the full body treatment. I needed a body to go with the previous head sculpt so I quickly blocked one out using the Dynamesh feature that matched the proportion of the head sculpt. Once I had something roughed out I re-topologized the dynamesh body and bust as one single clean retopologized mesh and projected the details onto that. The details carried over quite nicely and required very minimal cleanup. Once that was done I started sculpting the body and this is the current work in progress at that point. I’ll add the bionic arm and legs as a ‘cutaway’ version of the model and probably create a costumed version as well. We’ll see how it goes.

Head Studies – Lee Majors

Frank — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:47:02 +0000

Study of actor Lee Majors as Colonel Steve Austin from the 70s show The Six Million Dollar Man. I loved the show as a kid and wanted to do sculpt for a while but never got around to it until now. I recorded the zbrush session to about the 3 hour mark in a 10 minute timelapse. Total sculpting time was around 3.5 hours. Imported into Maya and rendered in Mental Ray.

EDIT 11/20/11 – Updated mental ray render and zbrush screen.

Morning Sketch – Male Figure

Frank — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:54:46 +0000

A sketch from this morning. Started off with good ‘ol zspheres to block out the geo. Started off as a warm up but I think I’ll use this for something down the road. Total sculpting time is about 3 hours so far.

Update

Frank — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:20:22 +0000

I’m happy to announce that I’ve made a switch from games to film and will be working as a modeler at Digital Domain.

Female Body Suit Sketch – Rotation for Design Studies

Frank — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +0000

Helping a friend out with a personal project and modeled this female body with the intention of paint overs in Photoshop for exploring designs of a form fitting suit. Started with a zsphere skeleton. About 5 hours in total of modeling time at this point.

Female Portrait – Test Render

Frank — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:14:02 +0000

Test render in Mental Ray.

Female Portrait

Frank — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:13:42 +0000

Sorting through my folders just before a backup and dug up an old speedsculpt. Polished the face up a bit and roughed in some hair. I’ve got another female head in progress and I’m playing around with Maya hair for that one. Hope to post some in progress images soon.