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[idkfa]

Hello everybody, thought I'd finally join this cool place, the level and attitude here are really inspiring!
In the thread I'm going to post quick doodles and experiments, hope you'll be interested |sculptor| Cheers! :)

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[Tomaya]

Welcome to the forum IDFKA ! Splendid fat style :thumbsup:

[scottwells]

Very cool stuff - fleshy...mmmmmm:D

[ulf]

haha, cool stuff! great sculpts and lovely renders!

[Kel Solaar]

Hi Ludmil,

Welcome !

Lol :) I can't imagine Tinkerbell like that :] Very nice sculpts !

KS

[idkfa]

Hey guys :), thank you for the kind words! I'm very glad you like these, will try to post updates soon :beerchug:

[3mm]

nice style,keep it up :thumbsup:

[idkfa]

3mm - thank you! And thank you all for the kind welcome :)

Here are some basemeshes I'm currently working on, still rough and need references, but posting them to keep some progress. |sculptor|

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[PascalR]

:welcome: here, very cool stuff indeed, that fat fairy is my favourite so far clap
Keep em coming!

[idkfa]

Pascal - thank you! :beerchug:

[Storm]

Hey Great to see you here as well.
Like the Pascal I really dig the fat fairy, lovely shapes, and quite unique ;)

I hope you don't mind a little critique as well, I overall like the latest female model as well, but there is just something really weird about her chest area, that line going all the way down just looks off to me.

Anyway, can't wait to see some more ;)

Oh and btw, what program did you sculpt these in? Zbrush?

[idkfa]

Hello Frederik :) glad to see you here too, man! Yep I use zbrush with some simple basemeshes made in max. About the line, you are right, thank you for the critique, my goal is to develop some natural looking anatomy with these. Glad u like the fairy ;)
So here is a dude with a quick skin test. I have a scene for him which maybe I'll finish some day, no time for long projects lately. He is a Chief of local road police and speaks five languages.

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[idkfa]

Playing with some heads and polypaint :)
I'll continue with the first and add little details like veins and pores
to see how it will look with the cartoon proportions

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[Faddledog]

Very nice work Ludmil,
I just have a soft spot for beautiful stylized work.

Keep it up

[idkfa]

Thank you man! :beerchug: Updates coming :)

[Time2Time]

Great stuff! The fairy is awesome :thumbsup:

[3mm]

Nice new stuff,i dig the Sailor:thumbsup:

[ulf]

really cool sculpts, and a great style!

[idkfa]

Thank you guys! :beerchug: Sorry for the late reply, got no time for any updates lately. Thought I'd continue with the sailor and finally have smth finished. So here is the progress so far, maybe later i'll make a thread for him in the wips |sculptor| Cheers!

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[PascalR]

great style, would be cool to see him in the wips and then finished indeed, keep it up:beerchug:

[idkfa]

Thank you Pascal! :beerchug:

Something from last night |sculptor|

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[PascalR]

Nice progress on the pirate, that dog is hilarious lol
Keep them coming!

[Ken]

awesome! love these fleshy feelings! looking forward to seeing next update :)

[Storm]

The pirate is coming along nicely man, lovely work ;)
And I love the "dog's" expression. Keep em coming.

[idkfa]

Cheerz guys :beerchug:! Glad you have fun! :D

SOme updates on the sailor guy and a quick thing.

I'm still experimenting with the sailor's proportions and outfit...

For now he has a bagpipe on his back and no electricity is going through it :)

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[idkfa]

Hello guys
Did some anatomy studies lately. I use to make anatomy sculpts that look like ecorches, so this is a more normal human look attempt :). Comments are welcome! :beerchug:

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[Time2Time]

The pirate is great! But I think the pistol doesn't fit him well.

It should be more like this )
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[idkfa]

You are right Andrey, I've started working on the scene now and the gun will be replaced. Thank you.
Today I noticed smth strange when comparing models from mudbox and zbrush viewports. I've noticed many times that when importing models from zbrush in max, they don't look exactly the same, esp. the small detail. Probably this depends on the topology but it seems to me that the details in zbrush look much sharper than they really are. Anybody has thoughts on this?

sorry for the image size

http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/1850/compbg.jpg

Its the same model, shaded with standart blinn material in zbrush and default material in mudbox.

[Storm]

I think thats most likely because the normals are smoothed in mudbox. Maybe it will look more like each other if you turn that off.
Could be wrong though.

[idkfa]

thanks Storm, yeah turning smoothing off kinda fixed the thing. So guess I have to keep all models in max this way in order to see what I've modeled in zbrush. Im struggling with a complex scene now and just wonder if this is ok and wouldn't lead to problems when rendering bump, normal maps or displacement on middle res non smoothed objects.

[PascalR]

:sw:plugged:sw:

[idkfa]

Wow thank you Pascal! I'm honored! :beerchug::dance:

[flioink]

A well deserved front page ,cheers mate :)

[zeoyn]

Absolutely stunning male and female bodies.
Really clean. :beerchug:

[idkfa]

flioink - thank you mate :beerchug:

zeoyn - thank you man, glad you like them, fan of your characters and renders!

No image to post at the moment, but updates coming soon :dance:

[Brainmatter]

idkfa, great work! love the fairy! id love to see some wing mesh detail on her.

Can you give me a basic idea for your lighting/render setup?
how many lights and what type? just a blinn shader? and a final gather render? multiple passes?

im trying to setup a good render scene and I like your look alot.
:)

[idkfa]

Brainmatter - thank you and glad you like the lighting! I use vray and very simple vray material. It has falloff map in the diffuse channel, which is set to shadow/light. The material has subtle reflections and receives pink color from the scene background. Lights are - white key spot and one fill vray light set to bluish color, no skylight. If you play with the falloff map colors and environment color you can get interesting results.
Btw material I'm using is a copy of a vray clay material (http://www.vray-materials.de/all_materials.php?mat=1735), there is an alternative material for mental ray, which you can easily set alike the vray one, you can check it here (http://mentalrayshaders.com/jeffs-blog/81-aad-clay-material-and-other-random-stuff.html). Hope this helps :beerchug:

http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/5486/settings.jpg

[max-tx]

Congratulations, great works!!!

[sebcravoisier]

thanks for sharing!
great work!

[idkfa]

max-tx, sebcravoisier - cheerz guys :beerchug: and respect for your skillz!

Not much free time lately so posting this one, hope you'll find it interesting

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It started as a caricature of H.C.Andersen.

[3mm]

cool character very interesting shapes:beerchug:

[Syntax Error]

Love it!
Realy cool character.
I like both the final and the stylized versions, I may be leaning towards the stylized one.
Congrats

[idkfa]

3mm, Syntax Error - cheerz guys! Glad you like the stylized one, felt like modeling smth in art deco style before totally loosing patience :D

[idkfa]

Hi everybody :)
I'd like to show some stuff made several months ago, for some kind of game project.
(these are only screengrabs, so posting them here...)

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/9799/007rad.jpg

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5913/40967062.jpg

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/459/86338085.jpg

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/2769/51977156.jpg

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8751/60290356.jpg

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7078/wire1qd.jpg

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/1051/wire2z.jpg

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/2226/nb2jx.jpg

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/1378/79587009.jpg

[klicek]

wow! love the cloths :) great sculpts

[idkfa]

Thank you Marcin, very glad to hear this from you, cheerz!

[Faddledog]

These are awsome !

[idkfa]

Thank you Luc! :beerchug:

[Mattinian]

hi, "i love you work"
great snide face on the first pirate! i can imagine him getting older and fat now

[max-tx]

Amazing works!

[idkfa]

"i love you work"

:D Thank you Ed! Glad you are liking, the first guy was inspired by J.Dillinger (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/John_Dillinger_mug_shot.jpg)

max-tx - thank you!

[3mm]

pretty cool new works man,keep it up:drool: