Kit bashing exercise utilising Insert Sphere techniques.

Still pushing on facial anatomy. Learning lots of new Zbrush workflows. This fella is based on John Hurt and he needs work. It probably didn’t help that I used several different reference images, based during different times in John’s life. The reason for this in part was to figure out his key architectural areas, namely the jaw and overal facial proportions. The Doctor Who 50th is coming up, so why not?! 😀  Polishing techniques need work, but I’m improving. I’m beginning to use both Soft and hard polish brushes along with different in-bed settings. There are still subtle plane changes going on despite some of the more defined details.

I’ve been advised by Nate at Zbrush Workshops to try a slightly younger subject for my next exercise. Good advice I reckon. I’ll return to this fella soon enough.

Got an update this week on Frank. I’ve been busy working full time in work, my character work had to take a back seat for a short while. I managed to find time the past couple of evenings to make an update.

Our brief this week was to work on roughing out the character’s bust primarily. I’ve been thinking constantly about proportions and major shapes. (Also small, medium and large relationships) … and of course air foiling! (Thanks Danny!) Got more polishing time in this time around. He’s coming along really well. I managed to rough out his body’s basic forms in addition to the head bust.

After todays amazingly informative class with Danny, I’ve been feeling totally pumped. I’ve taken my concept and pushed forward. I’m quickly hammering out basic forms right now and made changes to the overall proportions of the character. He is still approx 3 heads in height (relative to Frank!) but I’ve readjusted his proportions better to add variety (ie: small, medium and large) and hopefully down the line this will come through better regarding appeal. I’ll need to adjust the arms and hands next. Can’t wait to start sculpting!

 Creature Sculpt – Concept Sketches

Creature Sculpt – Week One

Here is my character turn sheet for The Trinket Thief, so far. I’m much happier with the direction he’s going in now. He’s edging more into the realm of horror territory that I want to further explore when it comes animation time. He’ll have a pair of ‘horror pants’ on. Its important to have a certain level of humor attached to this guy to. Still lots to play with going into the final stage of his final sculpt. I need to better refine his anatomy in alot of places. I’m still playing with his legs, cog etc. Overall he’s getting there. He actually has a skull, I felt i needed to better flesh this out to figure out how the horns attach, gums and teeth placement etc. Still working on his accessories and stolen trinkets etc. Since I want to be able to animate this character in future, (Think 1980s B movie… ) I’m having to better figure out where everything will go and attach. (Thievin’ bast**d !)

I have to give a big thank you to Danny on this. He’s a hugely talented guy and a good teacher, the Maya knowledge  that he’s contributing is massively beneficial. These screens were made using ViewPort 2.0 rendering via Maya. A really handy way to review this guy in realtime. Awesome for clients.