Long awaited update

Since starting as a texture artist at Dinamo productions I've been way busier outside of work than I ever could have predicted. Keeping a constant effort to work on my portfolio seems like a loosing battle but its probably my own fault for choosing such an ambitious project to complete. -_-

I haven't had time to work on Vexgnaw for a few weeks now so I'm officially putting him on pause until I have a a decent stretch of time to properly commit to him. Don't worry, I'm sure as hell not giving up on him!

Here's as far as I got :







I'm quite happy with the result so far, hopefully textures will truly make him come to life (looking forward to that bit.)

As for the time being I've decided to take what I've learnt making Vexgnaw and apply it to a fresh new project. So far I've just had time to block out a rough head base mesh. I'll be following information from Scott Spencer's "ZBrush Digital Sculpting Human Anatomy" book. I'm currently using his heroic character model as a guide for my base mesh but wont be using Zbrush for the detailing =O. I'm also attempting to model by dragging out faces rather than subdividing from a box. Experimenting with topology... sad to admit but I'm finding it rather therapeutic. Here's the head I created:



I'm happy with the majority of it but do feel like there could be more Polys shaping the side of the nose, probably something I'll look in to after finishing the rest of the body.

I'll post an update of my progress asap. All comments/advise are welcome =) (currently fighting with the torso and arms.. mostly arms.)

09_Vexgnaw WIP

Here's a 4k preview of my progress so far. Belt was a pain to create, may have to go back to it at a later date. Need to get the lower legs in and move on to creating his backpack.

08_Vexgnaw

Got a chance to add the arms in this afternoon. Took longer than expected as I had to retopologise each limb before unwrapping and rendering the maps. Ran into a few problems but managed to overcome them after several cups of tea.

I'm particularly pleased with how his non-mutated hand has come out, hands being something I've always found awkward to model.

07_Vexgnaw WIP

Starting to run in to a few problems...

06_Vexgnaw WIP

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05_Vexgnaw WIP

Some tests with displacement maps, rendered in 3dMax. I'm hoping to get a similar test up in Maya asap.

*Updated with progress so far before I go to bed =) I aim to get the chest complete before I try and replicate it all in Maya.

04_Vexgnaw WIP