Steve - Super Villain Challenge
 

Well I'm in but with an exisitng Villain, the notorious, evil, tyrant, Mr Burns!

Cheers

Steve

DOPE!! ;)

hehe.... nice!

Excellent... ;)

this should be a great one, ill deffinately be watching!!

he he he

'Release the hounds!'

Looking forward to it!

Glad to see you're getting the chance you wanted to enter Steve, and a great choice of villain!
Look forward to seeing it progress!

No cheating by wearing a Mocap suit to get your pose though...lol!

Cheers guys, Will make a proper start on Saturday.



Cant get the bloody thing talking to my new laptop! Sure I'll get it going though, had it before on another one.

As long as you don't put him in tights I'm good :p Good luck

Hahaha, how about Catwoman leathers?

Lol thats just gross, but I'm sure Smithers wouldn't mind :bandit:

ha ha - great idea - looking forward to seeing this. :)

Damm man! thats what I was goint to do!!

haha, joking.

Well heres the first (of many i'm sure) progress pics, just defining the topology and getting the overall forms in there. Think that I'll have to add the teeth ASAP as his overbite adds a lot to the overall character so I wont be able to determine home correctly without them.

So Just blocking in areas at the moment and making the topology fit, once its so so I'll refine the model.

coming along nicely there, carry on smithers

found a fun mr burns on the internet btw;

http://kilo.naurunappula.com/nn/0/188/884/391547.jpg

Nice start Steve, been looking forward to seeing your start and you aren't disappointing!

I'm very interested to see what pose you put him in, there are so many classic ones to choose from, and I'm sure you have many ideas for new and different ones!

Keep up the good work!

Thanks for thecomments guys.

Further work getting the basics in there. Need to refine it a lot.

oo, what pose are you going to put him in? his classic "excellent" pose?

Thinking that thats the one really.

Made a bit of an update, still tryingto sort out the overall shape.

Any crits and comments appreciated on the overall shape.

With "humans" I dont really stress and can get the proportions going well but for this, I've got to say I'm finding it hard!

Cheers

Steve

Side view,

Think that I need to get his teeth in there.

Dont worry about the "lumps bits" I'll sort them when its got hte form there.

Starting to get there Steve, liking it so far,
Getting those teeth in there will really bring it to life, look forward to it!

Looking good so far steve :) cant wait 2 see more.

P.S - i also agree that a character like Mr burns is a Villain, They dont need superpowers to be a villain.

Cheers Speedy.

Been playing wit hte proportions, going to add the ear and a holder for the hair as I'm thinking of using maya hair for it.

It's really starting to take shape Steve, and I'm sure once you've got the ear and the hair holder in there it'll be a bit easier for you to visualise it. Your doing a great job on it, from what I've heard modeling a 2d to 3d is pretty challenging, so keep up the good work!

loving it gster really nice shape modelling is looking great and love the idea to do burns theirs no one more evil. this is shaping up to be a really popular and competetive challenge

Thanks guys

Added his ear and it helped a lot I feel, also have a little push and pull to the shape. once I'm happy with the flow of everything I'll add the rest of him then take him into Z.

anasasis - Your a mo cap TD? We'll have to have a chat sometime, I use mocap stuff all the time for research as well as training! we use an Animazoo system.

Started on his shirt and tie.

Hey Gster, looks good i look forward to the final product, how realistic are you going to end up as you said your going to use maya fur for the hair so i think you might need to add more detail to other parts or the hair will look odd.

Just a thought :)

Tom

hi Tom.

I'm going to keep his exadurated look but take him into Z for a sculpt to add some wrinkels and such as well as add somre more realistic definitions. Im going to give him a pretty realisitc skin texture as well as eyes and clothes, though the eyes will have small pupils and such, but keep it in a toony way if that makes sense???

A hybrid realistic/cartoon version! It'll definitely be interesting to see how you do it Steve, looking better with the tie and shirt now, he's starting to come together!

its going to be an interesting look cant wait animazoo system you say the lab im at at the moment we have a 24camera motion analysis system deffinately keen for a chat sometime

Sounds good, personally not heard of that system, is it similar to a Vicon?

The Animazoo's great, it's portable wireless and you have no occlusions of swappings so clean up is very minimal, though it is a tad limiting in the motions that you can capture.


created his jacket, going to do his hands, trousers and shoes and then off to Zbrush for some fun!

NICE!

cant wait to see him finished :)

it's so mr burns!
wires?

Cheers.

Wire for you Chrone.

Hi Gster,

I know mr Burns is a scrawny runt, but his legs look too thin compard to his arms. Id probably make them a lil thicker, like the size of his arms.

Looks good though :)

Yeah man, your right, I'll fatten e'm up! Wasn't looking at my references and just trying to go from memory, Silly boy!

Fattened the legs, might actually make them a tad larger too.

Cheers

Steve

hehe looks loads better :)

Good work.

Cheers Speedy.


Added an eye texture to him, looks a bit mad!

Excellent, he looks deranged! Maybe make the pupils a little larger?
Liking how the rest of him's going though Steve, looking forward to seeing him with some colour!