Alien Project
 

Right I've been a bit busy with other things to do any serious Maya'ing but I think I've got most of that over with.

Time for a new project and hopefully one that will be a bit of a challange for me.

Introducing Mr Alien!!! Origional or what!? Is a high-res project for a change with multiple characters, some being re-used in various forms, animate and hopefully set to music.

This is by far the biggest and hardest challange i've ever tryed so with some luck and a few pointers from the wonderful peeps here I'll have something to be proud of.

First and main character, others to follow once he is complete.

Cool Design Dude!!

_J

nicEEE!! keep going dude!! good luck!

Looks cool!

Go for it!

yes very cool indeed. but the fingers and toes look too humanoid compare to how much his head looks like an alien. maybe give him 3 fingers instead of 5 or and 3 toes etc.
have fun modeling

Oh I like the 3 fingers idea Vladimirjp, hmmm webbed fingers and toes as well I think. :P

Thanks for all the comments will start modelling tonight after getting back from the gym.

hey lonepig! wzzup nice draw! this should deff be a GO! looking forward how you'll handle thisone ;)

catch ya latr

Hey Lonepig, Nice sketch! :)

Sketch looks awsome dude! Can't wait to see the model ;)

Man tats one freaky alien, really cool design, and the front and side match up so nice. This is one area where im allways using the wrong side of my brain, if any.
Top work
Ben

Thats is one disturbingly spooky alien, love the concept!

Thanks for all the comments guys. Been a slow start due to fast food and beer :S. Hopefully have some rough modelling done very soon.

Looks cool mate! Hope to see some more stuff soon.

Ah finally some modelling done. After a couple of false starts I've got the head, neck and torso roughed out in Nurbs.

Comments crits etc would be a great help thanks.

Very small update, didn't get quite as much done as planned but ah well always tomorrow night :P

i would take a different approach building this character. maybe build him peice by peice then stitch. right now, even without seeing you wires, it seems you have too much geometry for this basic mesh. but this is still a wip, i await your progress. :) keep it up

Just a small update not alot done, converted to ploys and combined the head neck and torso. A few quick tweaks and into SubD for a preview shot.

Legs attached, and some work done on the ribcage.

Hey LP

Looking good so far. Are you going to poly after you've rough out the nurbs? You know for the face detail etc or are you gonna patch it?

_J

Last two images were SubD, am tweaking in polys and then converting to fine tune. I'm having a hard time trying to model the jowls with nice loops. Will get there eventually.

SubD.... AAAHHHH a man after my own heart!!! Post it with a wire on shaded, I'll have a look if you want, if you are having trouble.

_J

Thanks Jango here's how it stands at the moment. Still loads of work to do on it, eye sockets etc, but I don't want to get it looking good then completely re-model it to get good loops unless I really have to do it that way.

edit: a subd pic might help :confused:

Right just watched Kurts Organic2 vid and come up with this. Comments and tips would be most appreciated.

Well hopefully this is coming along quite well.

That's frikkin' awesome dude! :D

nice.

Hey LonePig

I hope you dont mind but Dr Jango came out for a bit of sd surgery. Its cos theres a lot of sub patches due to the triangles in there. Which is something i try to avoid like the plague. Fair enough trianles have their uses but once you convert this model to poly you may run into probs when doing facial animation cos your tesselation will be dense in the jowl areas and it may be a nightmare to uv also.

I've tried to quad it as much as possible in those areas but I think the edge flow would benefit either way from it. Its just these sort of things to bear in mind when you do this sort of thing. Hope it helps anyway

Later

_J

looks really cool dude! Great job!

Thanks Dr Jango you've diagnosis is as usual spot on. I'll start the prescribe course of anti-triangulates straight away :p

Excellent!! Anymore pain and we'll take another look.

_J

Amazing!!

Looks cool, man:)

great job, man!

I love it!!!!

Update time again, been busy working on better loops. Think i've ironed out most of them. Gona redo the eye loops little more as I want to include proper blinkable eyelids.

Tidied up the eye loops yet to add the eyelids, just trying to decided the best way to do them. Added some rib definition need to play around with the abbs/belly area some more.

Coolness mate! Keep it up!

Hey LP
thats better, are you happier with it now that its cleaner?

_J

Thanks Peltra. Yup much happier thanks Dr J. You prescribed course of medication worked at treat :cool:

Well had a few distractions come up but I'm back at Mr Alien. Had a few problems finding and removing n-sided polys. All sorted now, BIG thanks to Vladimirjp and Dannyngan.

Not alot obviously done, took a few attempts at a ear i'm happy with and a few other tweaks.