"Share One Planet" Wild Animals CG Art Elites Invitational Competition.

[Kurt]

Pretty excited to get invited to join a big CG competition.

We had 100 animals to choose from and since im from Canada i desided that i will do a high rez sculpt of a Moose. Also the sculpt just has to be in grey with no mapping or texturing so that really cool as well.

Here is the initial sketch of where I'll be going will most likely change as the models gets underway.

[bullet1968]

wow cool man..good sketch...hope you have fun mate..I will be watching!

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[Kurt]

Thanks .. should be alot of fun..

Poor Mikey put on hold though

[bullet1968]

WHAT!!!! nnnoooooooooooooooo Loki is gonna kill me......hmmmm will have to amuse him with halloween...bahahaha. Is it going to be animated mate??

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[ben hobden]

Congratulations Kurt!!!!!! Sketch looks cool. Best of luck.

[Kurt]

Base mesh underway.. Planning on having to bulls fighting as the final sculpt if all goes well.

[bullet1968]

Looking good mate...cant wait to see fur..LOL

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[Mayaniac]

Nice. I like the antlers... sounds odd, but hey... that's just me.

[Kurt]

Zb sculpt part started.

[bullet1968]

Looks good mate...coming along nicley

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[Kurt]

bit more work on the face and started blocking out the body.

[ben hobden]

Yeah, really nice. I see you select just certain parts of objects while you sculpt in those areas...is that just a method you learned/kind of habit, or do you find that particularly useful?

[Kurt]

I usally block out all the model really rough with cuts that will define some shapes once thats done, I will select just certain parts and add more details.

[mastone]

Hi Kurt

It looks really good :eek:

There are still some small tweaks to be made to the head, I am no moose expert, but if you look at this image you see it yourself:
http://www.totalwallpapers.com/animals/wallpapers/moose.jpg

[Kurt]

yeap lot of tweaking left.. the face is getting abit closer....

[paldav]

Not for me to judge your stuff mate, i learned using your vids...but i think it looks a little sad, depressed even.

I notice a neutral pose is allways the starting point on a lot of charactors and animals etc.. this presumes that you have to rig good enough to get the pose you finally want, why do you not start out with the heroic pose, then just model that?

Your work allways displays skill and determination.

[Kurt]

I should be able to pose this guy in Zb pretty easy using transpose plugin.

Had some time to play with his antlers...

[Mayaniac]

Originally posted by paldav

I notice a neutral pose is allways the starting point on a lot of charactors and animals etc.. this presumes that you have to rig good enough to get the pose you finally want, why do you not start out with the heroic pose, then just model that?


Originally posted by Kurt

I should be able to pose this guy in Zb pretty easy using transpose plugin.


Just to add to this. You don't want to model in a heroic pose, as you'll lose the ability to use symmetry, plus a relaxed T-style pose (or quadrupedal equivalent) can allow great access to all areas of the model.

Though most people will develop their own ways of building characters, and what posses they use.

Nice sculpt Kurt.

[Kurt]

More work on the face anf antlers

[Kurt]

Started sculpting the fur.. The fur on them is not to long so I'm trying to get a nice sculpted look, but at the same time not over doing it.

Will Play with poses soon.

Kurt

[Mayaniac]

Nice update.

[Kurt]

Started playing around with a pose still have to adjust his weight a bit, then go back in to define a few muscle groups.

[Perfecto]

Wow, you're really excelling with zb. I think it's coming along nicely.

[Kurt]

Lots of tweaking today, I added a bit more bulk to him as well as started the base. Will be adding some brush in some of the cracks in the rock.

[mastone]

Looks good, will you be doing the fur in Maya or are you sticking with sculpted fur , in which I case I would pull out the detail a bit more to make the fur stick out some more .

Looks pretty sweet though

[Kurt]

I cant use fur for this project has to be 100% sculpted and just in grey.

Little update played a bit more with everything, just have to add a bit more texture to the rock and maybe some dirt just sitting on top where the grass is..

[Perfecto]

Yeah, I think after adding a little more to the rock will do the trick. Fantastic work Kurt.

[bullet1968]

Wow...thats a big change mate...well done!!

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[maheshsubbiah]

Awesome. Its come out really well. Hats off to you.

[mastone]

Looks great Kurt, if I might offer a suggestion however I would advise you to add some fur sticking out around the silhoutte to give it a more organic feel

[zico_samagoria]

it looks good ;)

[Vortexx]

Really nice work, wish I had zbrush skills like that :-) well done m8

[Kurt]

Thanks all.. well im almost done just a bit more tweaking left....

[stwert]

Reminds me of a sculpture you'd find in the center of a small town somewhere in the interior of BC. That's not a crit. I think it's great. Really nice work :)

[Kurt]

Wire for those interested.

[BeAstMaSter]

would love to see this textured, after the competition was over ...

[Mayaniac]

Not bad at all!

[bullet1968]

wow...cool work man

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[Perfecto]

That looks so freaking awesome Kurt! I love it.

[Kurt]

Pretty sure this is my final.. Was a fun project.

[tweetytunes]

Kurt that is by far my fav of your models - really nice work there

[Kurt]

thanks... still love my toons but this was defintally a lot of fun and different way of working.

[bullet1968]

Well done mate....it looks good enough to put up on the loungeroom shelf for sure!

[Mayaniac]

Came out very nice.

[StiX]

Wow thats incredible... congratz.

[Kurt]

All sent off for the oringinal deadline of the 28.. I guess the new deadline is april first..

Just have to wait a bit now see how it did

[leonlabyk]

Great work Kurt, looks awesome

Best of luck in the comp