Gallery of mixed stuff and WIPs (not warcraft related)

[Sansui]

Did I ever tell you I love you?
Your models make me sooo.... happy?

 

[TDR]

ha! that's...a little strange
Anyway, scrape all that. I have another idea that I'll make now, because someone posted an entry that could have beaten that plain literal meaning one I had before. I'm going for a more philosophical shit now, and it's going to involve a character. I won't waste any time modeling it entirely in max, so I just made a human base mesh in max and I'll zbrush the shit out of it:

It's cool because now I have a human man base mesh of my making that I can use from now on for tons of other models.

 

[SuPa-]

Looks good. His ass seems deflated, though

 

[TDR]

of course...heavy zbrushing, remember?

 

[Kuhneghetz]

He has no pingas. =P

Great topology. I look forward to the zbrush version.

 

[TDR]

here's a little progress on the face. I already got critique for it, but I'm showing it anyway.

 

[TDR]

I have the legs and ears left and to tweak the face some more and of course some tweaks overall, then to pose it! After that, the bridge itself but that'll be really quick. I think I can finish the modeling today!...err tonight.

 

[Pyritie]

I lol'd at the happy groin.

 

[TDR]

ha! yeah, well that area will be obscured in the final shot, so...yeah
Here's a test in max. Gonna use normals map again, because displacement is giving me the shits:

 

[A.R.]

Is it just me or does his neck seem disproportionately wide compared to his shoulders?
Or is that the effect you were after?

GJ anyway, man.

 

[TDR]

No, I think it is actually a bit wide. But some people have necks like that, so I'll leave it as it is (translation: I'm too lazy to change it now ).
I finished the dude:

And here's how the scene's going to be:

The dude will be there at the end of the bridge, holding a chunk of bridge that he's about to put it in front of the bridge and he'll be therefore crouched under the weight.
In the background there's going to be other bridges with dudes putting on chunks and finished bridges.
The thing is that this is supposed to represent life, destiny and shit you know. You build your own destiny like a bridge, and you have your ups and downs hence the weird shape of the bridge. Something like that.

 

[SuPa-]

So is ZBrush working for you now? Or are you just generating normals from it?

 

[TDR]

umm....well...as you can see, it's working. Didn't crash anymore, thank God, and yes of course I'm also using it, ZMapper, to generate the normals map.

 

[SuPa-]

Sweet!

 

[TDR]

almost there with the bridge:

I can't believe it, I'm actually going to finish this one :O

 

[SuPa-]

Nowai! :O
Looks good

Oh, sorry for going off topic, but I don't feel like PMing you XD. If there's part of a mesh hidden, and while that area's hidden, you subdivide, it makes part of the mesh more dense than the other. It's too late for me to undo it... is there a way to fix it?

 

[TDR]

That's very strange :/...when I try to subdivide while I have some parts of the mesh hidden, it warns me about it and doesn't subdivide...

Here's how the dude will look there:

Still not quite finished posing, but I wanted to see how it looks and to position the part of the bridge he'll be holding.

 

[TDR]

K, here's how it's gonna look like:

Now I only have to texture the dude and the piece he's holding. I'll project a texture from the camera, just like I did with the bridge.

 

[SuPa-]

So he magically pieces the bridge together with chunks of stone?
Looks good, and now the man doesn't look like he's doing the robot

 

[TDR]

yes, it magically does...carrying your own destiny man, this is deep shit
Here's the dude with skin texture. Looks much better now:

I deactivated the displacement on the bridge so it'll take less time to render, since I was focusing on the dude.

 

[Troubadour]

The stones on the side of the bridge look a little funky to me. The shadows they're casting gives me the impression that they stick out a wee bit too much. Otherwise, great concept. I can't wait to see it complete.

 

[TDR]

I don't know, I like how they stick out.
Here's the final piece that I SUBMITTEEEED!
I finally finished something! Fuck yes! And with still 23 hours to go to the deadline, I can't believe it.

Now to hope for the best . Though I think this one will win the big one: http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn64/topherus/TheBridgeZZZZZ.jpg

 

[Sephiroth_VII]

Why didn't you make more people and more bridges in the background? (to lazy i guess) Great work.

 

[TDR]

not lazy, it didn't look that good.

 

[SuPa-]

Holy fuck! You finished something!?
Now maybe I have a chance at dominating the world... the odds couldn't be much worse

XD

 

[GnoobSauce]

that's amazingly good, but that ant picture is pretty awesome. I can't decide between them. they are completely different, but awesomeness is equal.

 

[gohan43]

im not sure if you said this before, but what is up with his left foot??

but still looks awesome

 

[Troubadour]

Congrats on finishing it, the stones look much better in the sharper image.

im not sure if you said this before, but what is up with his left foot??

but still looks awesome

The foot is falling under the shadow of the higher part of the bridge.

 

[Sansui]

Tdr... it looks funny to me something about the guy looks... off. The way the legs are bent and his ass just doesn't look human I guess.

Its good... but I don't like it... it seems to be missing something.

 

[Dionesiist]

I have to agree with Sansui.

 

[anetherond]

Too bad you didn't win. Overall, I find your work pretty cool.

 

[94hekok]

hi

 

[TDR]

Holy shit, it's been 3 months since I updated this stinkhole...anyway, here it is. A badass cowboy dude. Low poly normal mapped + ambient occlusion map. Color map coming right up. Still have to do some tweaks on the normals. Polycount is the actual polycount of one model (not both of the instances summed up). I'm doing this as a test to see if I can get a job at gameloft. But I'm also supposed to animate it and I have to finish it today, maximum tomorrow so no way in hell I'll have time for that...so...fail.

Triangles limit was 3500, so I win at that.

oh yeah, and wireframe:

 

[SuPa-]

What's the resolution of the normal map? It's weird, because the bake on the boots is very clean, while on the jacket it's a bit messy and pixelated
And are you going to try the suggestion I made for texturing in ZBrush?

 

[TDR]

The size is 1024² (it was in the guidelines). The UV space is proportional for all parts, there's no pixelation I don't know why you're saying that :/...maybe you refer to the edges? If so, that's some normal map baking mishap.
I ain't going to do that, I'm doing the texture in photoshop.

 

[Dionesiist]

It looks blurry, but you're probably not going to leave it like that.

 

[SuPa-]

well, it looks rather pixelated on the belt
and darn, that would've been interesting to see

 

[Dionesiist]

Just realised he looks like Jamie Hyneman.

 

[TDR]

Well, here's the end result:

I'm not really happy with it...meh...I think they won't accept me. It caught me in a very bad time, when I had to do shitloads of stuff for university.

 

[SuPa-]

yeah, looks way too rushed
Deadlines and time limits suck

 

[Sabertooth]

They won't look at your other awesome stuff as work? Bah.
My only problem with it is the white spots all over his black shirt, but that may just be the lighting.

 

[Sephiroth_VII]

Its nice, but doesn't look great. All his clothes are skin tight with no overlaps.
And he just looks weird.

 

[TDR]

All his clothes are skin tight with no overlaps.

Yes, that's exactly the problem. I realized it myself and I've been told by more than 10 people so far and I think quite got it by now.

 

[bounty hunter2]

All his clothes are skin tight with no overlaps - I think the biggest problem are the gloves but it is ratehr okay.

 

[TDR]

You think so!?!! God dammit I said I GOT IT OK it's poop, what's wrong with you people...

 

[LiOneSS]

yeah, who gives a damn about it when you know it was rushed, when you look at the others stuff, he is great!

 

[Dionesiist]

Did you manage to animate it in the end?

 

[Kuhneghetz]

I thought Specular Maps must be grayscale only.
Seems I was wrong then.

 

[bounty hunter2]

You think so!?!! God dammit I said I GOT IT OK it's poop, what's wrong with you people...

I know it was rushed and all and I did say it looks good, I just wanted to mention that the only thing that doesn't look so good are the gloves. Sheesh no intention of disturbing your nerves anyway

 

[TDR]

Did you manage to animate it in the end?

no

@bounty hunter: first of all it doesn't look good, that's a fact; and secondly I think you know how annoying it is to hear/read the same thing over and over and OVER again. So understand why I got pissed off.