1YR Project – AUGUST – Week 4 – Day 30

Not much more today, just try to add more sculpt into the model....

1YR Project – AUGUST – Week 4 – Day 29

Did a little bit of clean up and additional sculpt on the face in zbrush. Adding more asymmetry into the sculpt and adjust here and there. Also did some Maya lighting test.....the displacement and normal map just end up crazy -_- guess it's some what a good start......

1YR Project – AUGUST – Week 3 – Day 28

So i did some poly-paint and added more definition into the model. I really like where the model is going. Although I'm not quite sure with the lighting of test render. It's a bit challenging on the shading and lighting in zbrush T_T I ended up render all the layer and comp the render in Photoshop. Since I was having some difficulty on the sss shading and the lighting, I ended up looking up tutorial once again. I found this EAT3D SSS Tutorial on the Google. It's really helpful and actually explain the whole process. Looking into it if you are interested to learn how to shade SSS in zbrush.



cheers ;)

1YR Project – AUGUST – Week 3 – Day 27

Just working it a bit more today! added some hair by using zbrush fiber :D

1YR Project – AUGUST – Week 3 – Day 26

Late night addition.....starting to rework the model I created almost a year back during zbrushworkshop classes......Pablo Picasso!

1YR Project – AUGUST – Week 3 – Day 26

I think im done with this one!!!!! Modify the position and relight a bit in zbrush. Now I'm officially off to the new project!

1YR Project – AUGUST – Week 3 – Day 25

Today I got spare 30 minutes before works, so I figured I can do a quick Zbrush sculpt. Since I don't really have that much time, I started with referencing "Animals Real and Imagined: Fantasy of What Is and What Might Be by Gilbert Banducci and Terryl Whitlatch" and just randomly pick a design. I ended up choosing this elephant design. (I will post a scan later) The book is really awesome if you want to have a cool reference.

Anyhow, I am really rusty with zbrush. Even though it only have been a week or so, I am sort of lost in the mid way. I started with a simple sphere, turned it into dynamesh, insert some sphere, insert some cylinder and then sculpt around that. It was a struggle on the tusk area especially.....and time was up :( It was a good warm up tho, really get me going to try to use the new insert tools. PLLLLUUUUUS I haven't even start using Zbrush4R4 yet with the new curve tools and new remesh tool. Really need to start to adjust my workflow to updated version T_T.....


[vimeo 47943993 w=500 h=281]

30mins warmup from Jack Lai on Vimeo.

-----tomorrow we are back to normal projects :) ------

Cheers

http://cgmodeling.wordpress.com/

jacques.broquard@gmail.

1YR Project – AUGUST – Week 2 – Day 24

Hi Guys, It's been a week that I haven't post anything. The past week was a really busy week at work. If any of you were a WWE fans, you probably witness some of my graphics package from this Sunday Pay-Per-View SummerSlam. It was so busy that I barely catch any sleep....which costing the effects on this project T_T

Anyhow, I was able to finish some of these turntable for the Quadrocarrier. Just wasn't able to find times to post it. Now the Pay-Per-View is over, I finally got some free time to get it back together.

Here are the Occlusion and Color turntable,
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/47430583 w=500&h=281]

Quadrocarrier AO Turntable low from Jack Lai on Vimeo.

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/47702127 w=500&h=281]

Quadrocarrier Color Turntable from Jack Lai on Vimeo.

Now I just need to rework the still render and then will move on to the next....

cheers :D

Creating a better Demo Reel

Discovered a tutorial on how to get a better demo reel from zbrush by Steve Warner. Quite a nice tutorial and very helpful :)
Here is the link

1YR Project – AUGUST – Week 1 – Day 23

A bit behind on the August, just took a trip to Niagara Falls......

Here is a quick turntable of quadrocarrier. I added the floor and made movie from zbrush. Now I just need to figure out how to do a BPR version of the turntable :)

Happy August!!

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/47240160 w=500&h=281]

Quadrocarrier Turntable from Jack Lai on Vimeo.

1YR Project – JULY – Week 5 – Day 22

Almost there!!! I still need to add couple more tweaks, there are couple comments on the blurriness and the lost of eye contact.......but we are close....moving on to AUGUST!