20-Feb Hard Surface Sculpting
A few posts ago, I mentioned being inspired by Mike Jensen and his Elite model, and after that he posted another amazing post on Polycount (which later featured on toprow of ZBrushCentral). In his new post in Polycount theres a link to this Korean ZBrush artist by the name of Dilblo. So using these two masters as an inspiration and guide, I’m making my own 100% ZBrush Hard Surface Sculpting!
The subject of the day is:
Design And Model A Mecha!
============================================= STAGE ONE | Designing Stage =============================================I’ve always wanted to incorporate what I’ve seen in my design. Back when I was living in Kyoto for a year, I was really impressed by the juxtaposition of their heritage and modern culture. So this mecha will be something based on that.
As always, I don’t want to get too much details going on, just the rough outline of the character.
Getting some silhouettes going
Now that I know the limitation of my computer, it’s time to plan properly before starting. Each major part of the body will be divided into subtools. I’ve broken them down to the head, torso, arms, hands, pelvis, legs and feet.
Separating the body into several subtools
At the moment, I still have no idea on how to achieve the smooth look that Mike or Dilblo achieved, so what I did was just get the rough shape going without worrying too much about the rest.
Moving onto the legs
First level of detailing
As you can see, the model is still very organic at this state. But instinct told me they’ll be fine. I hope I’m right. Haha.
Roughing in the hair
Learning from what Dilblo did, I painted over the model to get a rough idea on the positioning etc.
USEFUL LINKS:
Halo Elite (New Armor) by Mike Jensen - Awesome hard surface sculpting using ZBrush then retopologized to look even smoother in 3DMax. He explained some of his workflow in his replies.
Scouting Mech: Drone 04 by Mike Jensen – Most of the smoothing in the Halo Elite are done in 3DMax, but this time, it’s 100% ZBrush. Absolutely amazing.
http://blog.naver.com/dilblo – Blog of a Korean ZBrush user
Tags: adaptive skinning, hard surface, hard surface sculpting, mecha, modelling, pixologic, retopologizing, retopology, robot, sculpting, zbrush, Zsphere
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it