I modeled the rocket and missile silo based off the agency concept - a thunderbirds-esque style, and made up the base colour,spec and bump maps. I will post up some WIPS and an initial more Jules Verne style one soon.

Well, its been a long time since I have posted or updated, work does that to you.
Back to basics in Zbrush 4.2, working my way through Ryans  ZBrush workshops, starting from the begining re-learning Zbrush - there are loads of little features which I have missed with this app. The head is 2 or 3 hours play from a sphere using dynamesh.

The characters base facial proprotions have changed a fair amount since my last post - as you can see from  the neutral pose.

My first pass facial animation- initially blocked out using ZBrush,  then corrected and tweaked in maya using artisan sculpt tool and soft modification transforms - ideally I  would have separated the face into 4 quadrants and create blend shapes for those sections then create a UI in Maya to drive the sections, but for now I am  going to explore how far I can go just doing full mesh tweaks on the entire head. I plan to throw in some very asymetric poses.

Just roughing out where I want to go with my mad man  character,  a quick PS paintover with the little flying tweety type birds in  the shot - should be good to push some extreme poses.

First pass on  his topolgy-  to do some testing posing and skinning in Maya-  then once  Happy - generate displacement, normal and duffuse maps for him -  I  think the back may be little too  dense and needs some optimising.

I have been workingon this guy for a while -  modeling up a hyper muscled man thing (Troglodyte is my working title for character- I was based him off of early Urukai/cave troll concept sketchs )

My aim is to eventually rig this character up aiming to demonstrait a knowledge of anatomy, modelling for deformation and quality skinning/rigging in Maya (as well as good texturing – a given) for my reel.

Busy working on the the base 3DCoat sculpt long before I retopo and take into Zbrush for detailing - I have been looking at reference of a wierd body building phenomina called roidgut - where the abdomen is distended but still muscled - I wanted a strong mans big belly not just pure fat, it will probably hang more in  the finished version and a little softer looking than it currently is.