ZBrush Practice Day 3

Another head from a polysphere, and some facial features studies.  Eyes still give me a hard time but I think I am seeing some progress.

ZBrush Practice Day 2

Made a head sculpt out of a sphere.  I still have a lot of issues with getting faces to look right, especially the eyes.

ZBrush Practice Day 1

I was bored and this is what came out of that boredom.  I guess it could be a head for a necromancy staff or something of that nature.  Made from a polysphere in zbrush.

Chibi Self-Portrait Model Turnaround

Finished model.  Done in 3ds max and zbrush.


Chibi Self-Portrait Model Turnaround from Melanie Stride on Vimeo.

WIP Chibi Self-Portrait Part 4

Some more progress made today.  I got a critique from my girlfriend saying I needed to change the feet a bit so they don't look like hooves.  I'm going to try to finalize this project tomorrow.

WIP Chibi Self-Portrait Part 3

Today I spent some time working on my UVs.  I was also playing with zbrush's polypainting and testing out some colours.  I'm still very new to polypainting (and zbrush in genral).

WIP Chibi Self-Portrait

This started out as a self-portrait based on a concept I did way back, but it evolved beyond the concept (mainly because it didn't make sense in 3d space.)  It's still very much in progress, I haven't finalized the hair/hands in 3ds max.  I also would like to add some more surface detail by bringing this into zbrush and adding some wrinkles to the clothes and maybe some skin details to the face.  Here are some progress shots of the model and a zbrush test of the face to play with some skin alphas and noise.

Medieval Building Part 4

Really small update.  I need to rethink my strategy/workflow for some of the pieces.  Anyways I switched out my basic brick texture with a more randomized one.  I included a very rough diffuse and normal map render.  I really want to add more geometry to it as it is currently only a plane but every time I attempt to add something, weird things happen.

Medieval Building Part 3

Just an update for tonight.  A render of the low poly pillar with normal map and some texture renders of it.  I'm not too happy with the wood textures right now.  I will rework it later but right now, I want to have more of a blocked in/base textured version of my project so I can figure out what works and what doesn't.

Medieval Building Part 2

Worked on a couple of tilling textures, changed some proportions, added and subtracted some modeling elements.

Viking Ax Model

Just felt like modeling and sculpting a viking ax.  First time using polypaint in zbrush, jsut to get a feel for the base colour I guess.

Tilling Brick Texture

Decided to attempt a tilling texture for a beat up medieval type wall. The last image is of a single plane with the normal map applied to it, I also instanced this plane to see how well these would tile.  I also attempted to use zbrush again and to stay on the grid in 3ds max.