landscape and light

pickled old man

bobby chui old man 2

bobby chui old man 1

sketching

then a small tweak

something a little different

lots of digital sketching

ArgH!!! more Pirate

roughs _01

a few initial thoughts i've had

Night Crawler post_04

He stands at 4660 Tris / 2330 Quads. There is topology in useless places and can be removed, ideally before UV mapping,

edit - After I did this post I decided the low half is a bit out of proportion, same with the body in places and gave it a tweak.

The Lion and The Lamb Image Manip

After

Before

Night Crawler - Model_post 3

So i sorted the shoulder and have probably doubled the poly count of the model.

Night Crawler - Model

10 Seconds later i fixed my issues with the shoulder

Night Crawler - Model

Here i'm making a solid base mesh which gives me a strong base for the detail to go in on top of.

The artist who drew the images was a little out of line however with the random dis proportions and off angel parts I've decided it would be better for me to not try and fix the problems in photoshop/gimp and just use artist license to solve it in the modelling of him.

Here I'm not keen on the shoulder topology and the twist there is from the reference images, I have ideas for how I'm going to take the area and it needs to be done next before i take the res any further. 

theDude - body

I didn't like what i got done here so i deleted the jacket and saves a second version.

I drew the t-shirt under neither so i went and modeled that attached to the legs, the jacket ill re model over the top.

theDude

This is a character i've taken from my sketchbook and redrawn in gimp so that i can model him using XSI

Painting time lapse

Reference Sketch

Model time lapse

Render

Head

head modelling p1

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