
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Torso color map reworked
Beginning pass at color/displacement maps
This is just a test render of the color map with the displacement map. I started sculpting the wrinkles in Mudbox. They need a lot of work and I'm still new to digital sculpting. I like the power of Mudbox, but I haven't fully figured out how to achieve certain aspects in it.
I plan on changing the colors around. This is primarily a test render.
The Low Poly and Smoothed versions of the wire frame.
I plan on changing the colors around. This is primarily a test render.


Monday, June 22, 2009
Female Steampunk character UVs.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
New face sculpt, skin shader, and cloth shader renders.
I started working on the sculpt of the head. I want to work on it a lot more but this is what I have so far. I really like the nose. I need to shape the jawbone and cheekbones more. I also want to add more geometry to the bead to make it bushier. I also added a basic skin shader to the face. I still need to add a lot more layers to the shader but it's a start.
The full scene without the obnoxious green glow:
A basic cloth texture added to the cloak. I really like how it fades into darkness. My ultimate goal with this render is to make him look like he's emerging from the darkness behind him.
And a pass with the green lighting, in order to see the effect it has on the cloth and skin. I want to rework the effect entirely. It's acting as a placeholder right now.




Thursday, June 18, 2009
More renders
First pass at rendering Mr. Gone
This is a verrrrrry rough draft of my render. However, I've had a few break throughs since my last update. After several hours of trial and error, and reworking several things over and over, I finally figured out the work flow for Mudbox to Maya. Having this experience under my belt will really improve my modeling and rendering capabilities. I am very pleased with the power of mudbox, I just need a little bit more practice before I can get my renders looking great. I've never been to keen on the render process. I've always ben more interested in the base structures and animation process. With this image, I textured the cloak with my mudbox displacement map. I haven't addressed the face or hands yet. This was just a bast layout of what I want my image to look like. The green orb is just there for placement and I plan on working out a more sophisticated glow effect for it.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Staying busy...
I've been busy playing with Mudbox. Granted this model isn't amazing, but I really like how it's looking so far. I probably will have a grand time trying to get it back into Maya tomorrow. However, I've really enjoyed fleshing out the details in Mudbox. I can't wait to see this model with textures and fully rendered.


Learning Mudbox:
Well it was far past time for me to start expanding my skill sets. So, I decided to learn Autodesk: Mudbox. I would have to say I really like this application. I haven't fully figured out the work flow. I have mastered Importing Maya meshes into Mudbox. I can also easily bring the object meshes back into Maya. However, I'm still having trouble bringing the displacement map back into Maya. Once I figure this work flow out, I can see how this tool is very very very useful. There's a lot of power behind it. For humor's sake, here's my first go at my Mr. Gone character in Mudbox.

Given, it isn't remarkable, but it's my first pass at it. I can defintly see the potential. I really appreciate the control you have in the app and how smooth it feels. I have lots to lear but it's been a lot of fun figuring it out! I can't wait to get my Wacom tablet hooked up to this app and get some real work done.
I also spent a little time unwrapping the UVs on Mr. Gone's head model. It's not completely finished, but I knocked out a decent amount. I hate UVing with a passion, so I'm going to take my time to full unwrap the model.
I've been fairly busy learning new stuff today, modeling, Uving, and sculpting in Mudbox. I think I'll take some time off... Maybe just a little time off.

Given, it isn't remarkable, but it's my first pass at it. I can defintly see the potential. I really appreciate the control you have in the app and how smooth it feels. I have lots to lear but it's been a lot of fun figuring it out! I can't wait to get my Wacom tablet hooked up to this app and get some real work done.
I also spent a little time unwrapping the UVs on Mr. Gone's head model. It's not completely finished, but I knocked out a decent amount. I hate UVing with a passion, so I'm going to take my time to full unwrap the model.

Progress on Mr. Gone model..
Sunday, June 14, 2009
New WIP: Mr Gone
Friday, June 12, 2009
the corset is looking great!
I am very pleased with how the corset came out. It's going to be a nightmare to rig and I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to do it. I spent some time on the hair.. I'm still not pleased with it, so I may end up re-designing it and reworking it. I also reworked the straps around the chest as separate objects so that they would look more like the belt and arm/leg straps. I'm excited about how well she is finally coming together..




Thursday, June 11, 2009
Drastic changes to belt...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Added more edges and details to clothes.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Started the belt...
I decided to make the belt a separate object due to the nature of its design in comparison to the clothes around it. Not sure if I'm going to add the valves or some sort of other details around the belt yet. They just don't seem to translate to 3d too well..


I posted some screen shots to CG Society looking for feedback. The thread is here:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=5914815#post5914815


I posted some screen shots to CG Society looking for feedback. The thread is here:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=5914815#post5914815
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
More fun with hair & accessories... joy!
After an exhausting day of babysitting the neighbors kid, I got to spend some time working on the hair. I added the loop hair accessories. I added a bit more detail to the goggles. The hair is still far from finished. I still need to adjust several clumps to make them a little less uniform. I also need to add the bangs and more hair clumps on top. Lots more for me to work on! Gotta love how things start to get messy at this stage... I can't wait to start unwrapping UVs...gulp!


Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Updates!
After a bunch of trial and error, I started working out how I'm going to handle her hair. I also added a rough of her head. More details have been added to her boots. I decided to put the gear/spur details on the outside ankle instead of the inside. This just looks more practical and won't get in the way as much when animating. I spent a lot of time rounding out the figure and getting rid of pesky triangles and outstanding vertices. Hopefully I will get some genius ideas on how to handle the hair by my next update. I'm going to try and get all of the symmetrical things done so I can begin adding the asymmetrical details.

Worked on the goggles some:

Worked on the goggles some:

Monday, June 1, 2009
Hands and Feet!
I just added some detail to the boots. The hands are now attached. I did some minor work on the torso and legs by adding some more edges to help shape things more. I'm moving on to the refining process before I tackle the head and hair. It's coming along slowly.
And the smoothed model. It definitely needs more work:


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