Afternoon sculpt

1 and half hours to get to here from a zsphere - using Dynamesh.  Still interested in exploring human forms with animal traits.

Lunch sculpt ..

Ate lunch.. half an hour to spare.  I really really need to get back to more life drawing - proportions are all out but he has a fun face

Change of Direction..

My new job has really opened my eyes to all other possibilities in the 3D and Art world, and I have had a great time learning and trying my hand at different aspects of 3D.  This was a quick test in Maya 3D Fluids - rendered in Mental Ray.

What else...

I have been spending a great deal of time in Unity in the last couple of months, as well as some under the hood work inside other Autodesk products that I haven't even learnt yet ie. Navisworks, Revit and Autocad. Just finished my first Navisworks plugin, written in c#. On top of all of this I have been working on a series of tools for Max Design that will speed up several areas of our teams pipeline. The major time-saver being a render layer manager (which I hope to show off here soon).  This tool was partially written utilising Max's integration with .Net.  Something I certainly haven't spent allot of time with.  Maya and Python/QT have made me soft - showing me how easy life can be as a tech artist in the Maya world.  The .Net components of Max, and Microsoft's .Net web resources have been hard to learn but have defiantly opened my eyes to a larger world of software dev in windows.

Base Form

In case anyone was every at all interested (or even reading this) this was the base head mesh I created in Maya - very simple and gives a decent form from which to build on.

Birdman Maya pass..

Maya pass - addition of an ear and some cleaning around the eyes and mouth.  Back to z-brush to add more volume/character and details.

Birdman Topogun

Little bit of TopoGun work on the Birdman Head. I've tried to keep the edge flow decent based on a Jason Osipa-esque setup - not sure if I'm there yet.  I'm concerned about the top of the head around the nasal cavity, where it meets the forehead in a terrible 6 point connection. The overall jaw, ocular cavity and beak area are ok for now.  I'll take this to Maya and rework the ears and make sure the eye-socket its round enough for a simple eyeball.  I'm also thinking I will set-up a bird-man/Icarus style body for the head before sending this back to z-brush - see how much time I have.

Animal-Man Round 3

Snake-Man head.  Quick base sculpt for further work.  1 1/2 hour.  I've left a good deal of wobbly fat behind the jaw area for the 'eat-like-snake' jaw dislocation when eating.

Animal-Man Round 2

Kinda Like this one - but I need to re-do the eye-socket area and re-work the neck.  As a basic set-up though I think it sort of works.  Looking forward to fleshing this out more than the Bovine man.  I'll be running them though Topogun to get a better mesh layout, to then re-work them in ZBrush.  This one took me longer - about 2 1/2 hours in all. Spent too long trying to work out the eye area, and I still messed it up.  I want to do another Animal-Man mix - maybe looking at a snake like bone structure.

More Z-Brush

Bovine-Man Head - Wanted to look at some animalia. 1 hour quick sculpt - been a while since I have been in Z-Brush , so feeling very slow

Quick Z-Brush sculpts

Some Quick z-brush doodles for a hoofed Giant.