Beer glass scene creation
This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.
# 136 01-06-2012 , 12:50 AM
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Been working on about 70 separate elements at the moment. This wagon was birthed out of the wagon wheel I made for a chandelier....

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# 137 01-06-2012 , 05:48 AM
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Chandelier Build

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# 138 02-06-2012 , 04:10 AM
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Todays Haul

Just a few more elements to go along with...

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# 139 03-06-2012 , 03:48 PM
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Awesome stuff matey, I am just a little bit excited about getting out of the sand pit user added image

# 140 08-06-2012 , 07:00 AM
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A photo from the past months shoot... Should have more up over the next few days...

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# 141 09-06-2012 , 08:39 PM
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Frankie is rigged

Decided to close the loop on a bunch of models. Gotta polish... Got his head rigged in FaceRobot and importing the mdd to c4d through riptide. The guy who made the mdd importer said nobody had mentioned this workflow. Seems good to me....

Maybe I should rename my thread to "Everything BUT Maya"

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# 142 10-06-2012 , 05:02 PM
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Hmmm, good start, but the teeth look too small and the eye lids have no thickness.

I feel the character is neither, cartoon or realistic - its kind of lost somewhere between. I think you need to examine facial expressions in the mirror as whats going on here isnt doing it any favours.

Sorry if my comments are negative but its all I see right now and so the fact its rigged is kinda moot for me.

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# 143 11-06-2012 , 04:21 PM
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Still going

Ahhh it's all good Jay. You know I am at the very least trying when I attempt these things. Here is a little progress and a render in c4d and not ZBrush. I know the shader system in c4d better so I prefer that...

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# 144 11-06-2012 , 11:23 PM
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Todays Update

So here is another render of Frank and some photos... Gonna try and get as much out of the SSS shader instead of str8 up only texturing him... Got some noise layered and plan on doing some layermasks to limit the amounts on the lips and ears... Got the head in and have just been updating the displace from ZBrush.

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# 145 11-06-2012 , 11:26 PM
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dude love your photos.....

Do you find the c4d stuff more intuitive? I know maya has its fair share of nodes in there to do different stuff - the prob is knowing the full uses

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# 146 12-06-2012 , 01:37 AM
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C4d Shader

Well,

Pretty much the entire material editor is split off into sections and then you can build a layer in that and stack your shaders and effects. The problem is that there is not much documentation on this stuff and finding it takes time to find scene files either in c4d itself or on the forums to deconstruct what people or Maxon have already built. Tutorials don't even help me nowadays... The SSS also only got to the point of accepting GI this build. I try and do everything through the physical renderer and not Vray simply because of the hair. Vray is great if your dude is bald...

Probably the biggest difference I noticed with my work was when I began to create things at scale. Once I did that and baked about 4 maps out of xNormal or Zbrush things began to get much better looking. But the c4d community for the most part understand "zilch" about topology and UVing and you will never get really good stuff with procedurals...

Below is a drawover that I have mocked up for the facial hair. Been working on my F117 and F18 today trying to get them UV'd...

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# 147 15-06-2012 , 07:57 PM
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Screengrab on shots from last nights show. Should be fun to photoshop...

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# 148 18-06-2012 , 02:53 AM
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Oh you know what time it is....

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# 149 19-06-2012 , 11:53 PM
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Finishing the female Anatomy Study. Texturing has been a cakewalk with the imageplanes as the build guide.

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# 150 20-06-2012 , 09:05 PM
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Progress 6.20.2012

Here is a new sculpt that I am doing. Trying to get away from the generic and do more abstract for the sake of not going insane...

The Octopus is obviously done in ZBrush while the hard surface is done C4D.

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