One of my first mini jobs at Cutting Edge was a bit of modeling for an insurace commercial for GIO.

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.

Some key poses from  within Maya  with the wires on.

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.

Minor update to my Madman,  adding more character to his face, added his dressing gown. Stilll to finish  his texture adding eybrows, more wrinkles and stubble to some sections.

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 made some updates to him after some good feedback for  CGFeedback - still lots to do.

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.

Just a  quick test with blending layers in ZBrush -  which  will  be transfered into Maya  a la  the new Blend Shape plug in for Maya -  which  I  have to say  it pretty  darn cool-  see  here on the ZBrush Forums for more info here