3d show off room

[Stroker1]

Well, to be honest, the model isn't entirely mine. This guy sent me a model with 33k faces. My job is to reduce that down to a usable number for a crowd scene. I've gotten down to under 1k faces. Could probably shave another 50 faces off.

I used Multi-Res to initially reduce the faces. Multi-Res left quite a mess. His face, shoulder, and feet got totally mangled. In the time it took me to clean it up, I could have modeled him from scratch. Well, cleaning somebody elses messy mesh is still a good thing to practice.

Fix the mesh, rig it, find bad geometry. Delete the rig, fix the geometry, rig again, find more bad geometry, et cetera. It's a vicious cycle.

A lot of the subtle details come from the textures. I started out by painting his muscles in black and white. Then I used that as a template for the bump and spec level maps. Looking pretty good around the shoulder and clavicle, which are the areas that I concentrated on.

When it's what you do, it's what you do. Might look hard to one person, but it's not to another. I call this "Catching Arrows". My woman can cook up a storm while I have a hard time with macaroni & cheese. Know what I mean?

Thanks for the comments, folks.

play.fiddle.learn

[Alistair]

Still stroker, your work is amazing.

[Stroker1]

Thanks.

I thought about it a little more. I may have sounded snobby or unappreciative. I'm just having a hard time articulating a point. I'm having a hard time breaking it down to the essence. I don't know.

[wbiss]

Stroker:

I'm having a hard time breaking it down to the essence.

I hear you buddy... the best tasting meal is the one that somebody lovingly prepares for you! ;)

[Alistair]

stroker... I just thought of this.. Did you make that avatar?

[kiwi]

Nice work Stroker



This my head wip I have been working on.



Stu.

[kiwi]

One more.

Looks great Stu

Do I notice some improvements on the neck btw?

[wbiss]

[stuned] Wow! Looks great Stu!

[Geoff]

absolutly brilliant STU ;) i love it!