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# 91 17-08-2008 , 03:11 PM

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, for a sec as I was scrolling down I thought he was wearing hot pants lol.

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# 92 17-08-2008 , 09:37 PM

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The pants and boots look good, still nnot getting the bicep connecting to the forearm, needs a fiddle.

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# 93 18-08-2008 , 01:42 AM

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@Chirone: Oh, I'm sure someone would make them for you... don't know if they would be legal though user added image

@younglion: Thanks. There actually an old design I had for a different character. I just decided to use them for this one.

@GecT: LOL, no hot pants! They seem a little tight because they don't have enough Geo to support wrinkles. I'm going to take him into ZBrush, and bring out some more details. Thanks!

@gster123: Yeah, the connection there is giving me some trouble. I was playing around with it ZB yesterday, and I couldn't get it to look right... I spent ages tweaking some problem areas, and I ended up making it look worse... had to step back to a previous save... you know how it can be user added image

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# 94 19-08-2008 , 07:56 AM

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Hi,

Some more work on the character:

Still lots to do...

Thanks!

*Hmm, seems like photobucket inst working on my end. will have to upload images separately*

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# 95 19-08-2008 , 07:57 AM

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# 96 19-08-2008 , 07:59 AM

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Last one...

Still lots of tweaking/detailing to do.

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The wrinkles are coming out nice, but I can't seem to look away from that belly flab ><.

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blame all the posts that said he was too toned :p

i imagine it would be a challenge to animate the loose skin parts

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# 99 19-08-2008 , 08:58 PM

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Thanks!

@GecT: Yeah, well everyone siad he looked 'too human' or 'too toned' (as Chirone pointed out) and now he's 'too Alien' and 'too flabby' LOL.... I think I'm going to stick with what i have as far as the Torso is concerned. Thanks!

@Chirone: Thanks. It would actually be very easy to animate. Simple by using the Maya muscle sim. Just throw a capsule under there, add a bit of jiggle, and you have instant bouncing belly bulges..... thats actually kinda creepy user added image

Well I'm going to try and get some more work on the character done today. I'm going to try and do some sketching as well... for my next character. I would like to have a concept firmly planted for this next one.

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yo dude, this is looking mad!

ill be watching this user added image

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# 101 24-08-2008 , 05:17 AM

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yo dude, this is looking mad!

ill be watching this

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Thanks, I should have some more done on it tomorrow. I've spent the last couple of days ZDoodling, and Sketching. I'm currently designing my next character. I will have to post some sketches within the next couple of days.
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# 102 01-09-2008 , 03:31 AM

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hello all,

I've not been around much lately, these last couple of weeks of my life were pretty hectic.. Lots of family and friends. And big party's... so no time to do any work.

I did some work on my alien character, nothing worth noting. Just cleaned up his wrinkles. I was over at CGSociety, checking out there HardCore Modeling challenge. The Stan Winston tribute. some sweet stuff there.
anyway, i decided to try a Predator Bust today. about 3-4 hours of work so far:

Base Mesh... took me ages to build this user added image

Persp:

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I've not been around much lately, these last couple of weeks of my life were pretty hectic.. Lots of family and friends. And big party's... so no time to do any work.

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if only life was always like that with no consequences *sigh*

and wholly f*** dude :bow:

looks like you still had lots of fun when the parties were over

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# 104 01-09-2008 , 07:49 AM

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Nice going!

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# 105 01-09-2008 , 06:04 PM

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Thanks Chirone, the party never ends around here, LOL

Cheers gster!

Some more sculpting done:

about 1hr on detailing, and about 2hr retopo and detail transfer.

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