Just putting together some npr renders from zbrush, then I'll post it up on my portfolio. Everything done 100 percent in zbrush minus some very simple compositing in photoshop at the end for this first image. The second image is a clay render in keyshot to get an idea what a print might look like. Last image is just showing the progression.
Just putting it all together and wrapping this up. Next update I'll have the sculpted finished. Still want to sculpt some smoke stacks, add some wires and clips and subtle scrapes and stuff like that to the body and legs like I have done on the arms. Also need to sculpt the cloth in the back.
Got most of the medium level shapes in on the sculpt for this guy, now just need to continue with the details. I hit most of the level of detail Im going for on the arms so far. The bottom image is just a reminder of one of my first passes, its been a while since Ive worked on this since I was wrapping up the Metroid project. Oh and this is just a quick zbrush bpr render... nothing fancy.
Been following this really great (free) tutorial by cg boost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j14b25SnYRY&vl=en
Been meaning to learn blender and finally did it! What an amazing program it is, I'm super impressed!
This isn't something I would normally show, but since its just my blog here and this is all sorta random crap I'm working on here you go! :D
If you checkout the tutorial you can tell I strayed from it a decent amount but followed thru and learned all the major things.
Here are the results of my real time render in Blender with Eevee:
Cycles Render:
So I've been learning Blender this past week +, as I'm tired of dealing with Maya and how expensive that program is. Super impressed with Blender and really happy I finally bit the bullet to learn it.
Been following a free tutorial online and already feel like I have a better grasp of Blender then programs like Maya that I've used for years professionally.
Anyway there are lots of really cool features in Blender and one thing that's really been blowing me away is how intuitive/user friendly and POWERFUL the grease pencil is.
I found this artists work and got really inspired to make something similar but instead with a character:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8lQdnQ
So I had an idea in my head and then I saw a concept artist post his work this am that pretty much was exactly what I was imagining, minus a few things that I could easily adjust.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d8OwXx
So I did a quick photo bash/ paintover on it and I'm really pleased with how it looks now. So as you can see, he's gonna be fully rendered out first, but then I can use some tricks I learned where I can non-destructively hide parts of the mesh with vertex paint and then grease pencil on top of that to create the effect seen below. That will be the target anyway... Gotta wrap up the Blender tutorial series this week, but hope to start working on a sculpt for this project very soon!!!
Here is a final image from the back, and a link to the portfolio page that has everything tweaked and finalized: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bKXQWG
This is the second from the last image I recently wrapped up (there are 6 total angles not counting the various crops). I feel like this has been a great learning experience and getting ready for the next project!
Oh yea, and I made a video tutorial and put it up for sale here on artstation. Its covers the exact process for painting the hair: https://www.artstation.com/bradmyers82/store
Got a couple more renders to polish up, here is the latest one I wrapped up.
Ended up painting the hair 3 times until I was sorta satisfied.. XD Its all good, a great learning experience for me.
Some Hair Paintover work (the image is still a work in progress). Been noodling with this hair portion too long now so gonna move on to other parts.
Closeup Hair:
