painting

Using the male body proportion study I set about painting today!

I found this tutorial pretty helpful, it is a lot harder than it looks to match everything up though.

this one is pretty good also

here is what i did

building and sculpting technique

Doing the past two studies I had a continual problem with making areas larger or smaller using the sculpt tool. It seems to build in lumps rather than a continuous ridge.

Tonight I have been watching speed sculpting videos and instead of using the sculpt tool to build up areas they use the wax tool and then smooth it out to blend it in. Here is the best example I've seen.

Female study

So after doing the study of male proportion yesterday I thought to be a balanced artist I should go for doing a Study of Female Proportion.

Being a man I have spent much of my life....erhem studying.... female proportion hahaha... so you would think I would find this particular project quite easy, but it was much harder than I expected.

I got a bunch of reference stuff but I only really used the one image.

I wasn't trying to exactly copy this body. I had someone else in mind haha... Also I left out the hands, feet and face as they are definitely something that should be studied by themselves. so please ignore them as they look awful.

back to uni after christmas

Hullo! its masel!

I went back to Edinburgh for Christmas and new year. During that time I worried incessantly about how much work I had to do and how while I was there I wasn't making any progress.

So today is my first proper day back. My friend Josh, http://xxepicxx.deviantart.com/ who is an amazingly talented digital painter recommended that I do 'studies' where I pick something in particular ie facial proportion, hands, eyes, hair etc etc and try to make that particular thing as perfect as I can without focusing on much detail elsewhere.

so I decided I'd try one on male muscle proportion

So I got a bunch of reference imagery

 baring in mind I didn't to make a total superhero monster of a man, this is what I came up with. The whole using studies idea seems to work really well. Cheers Josh!

motion capture

it may seem like ive got a long way to go, but i went to see the guy about doing motion capture today. i thought if i have the motion capture files ready for me when i finish the character itll be better than having to rush it all once its done. hopefully it will all go as smoothly as this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxJrhnynlN8

i just made a list of everything i need to do to complete the animation exactly as i want it. i am offically soiling myself.


model ; tops of legs
belt
weapon
jacket
ornaments
hair
goggles
texture all of the above
rig character

model drone
texture drone
rig drone

do motion capture
create environment
texture environment
light environment
do animation
render animation
do liveaction intro
after effects on footage
edit together
sound
edit sound onto film

bad chat.

wafros

today has been a bad hair day. 

my last post showed a picture of what happens when you select a bunch of polygons and then attatch a fur modifier, it just sticks straight out. you can then use the brush amoungst other tools to get it to look how you want, however this is not really recomended for longer hairstyles as its very difficult to control.

doesnt look great does it? 

also the hair count doesnt seem to be thick enough.

another technique is to use splines to map the direction of the hair but again there seems to be an issue with the density of the hair

http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/12/ENU/3ds%20Max%202010%20Tutorials/files/WS73099cc142f487551051018113cccdb767-a2e.htm

im going to need to figure something out FAST. perhaps make a solid object in the shape i want to be a hair then just texture it like hair? 

starting on hair

today... has not been a good day. 

im in a blind panic about completing everything i want to achieve for the end of the year, deadlines for essays are looming very close overhead and i want to just curl up in a ball underneath the sink and cry. 

unfortunately its time to go home just after i had a breakthrough, today, i learned to make hair! have a look, hahaha...