Intervain - WIPs thread

[Intervain]

I'm not going to post a new thread for every WIP I start hehe so here's one that I'll dump my WIPs into :)
I've been working on several projects lately [too many if I'm to be honest ;)]. Here's one of them - Blizzard's Kerrigan since I haven't done a chick or a monster really and she's both at the same time :) I really like the original [except for some things so I changed them]. Started polypainting the body but the wings still need sculpting so much more to go:

http://mdadela.com/ssp_director/albums/album-12/lg/Kerrigan_WIP_1.jpg

http://mdadela.com/ssp_director/albums/album-12/lg/Kerrigan_WIP_2.jpg

[collings]

awesome mag, can't wait to see more update now :thumbsup:

[PascalR]

I second that, you've got very nice forms in your model, beautiful detailing:thumbsup:
Great work Mag!

[Intervain]

thanks a lot guys :) :sw:

[migusan76]

:thumbsup: Lookin awesome Intervain! Can't wait to see you fill this thread out. Love the pose and painted version.

[Kris]

Rad? Yes...rad. :thumbsup:

[Porkpie Samurai]

Wow nice work!! I think you really have captured the essence of the character.
Looking forward to more updates.

[LetsEatSomeBananes]

wow, I thougt it was the official one !
Don't be shy and put some close up :D We're missing all the details you've put in !

[ZippZopp]

very nice sculpting and texturing, the color work is coming along nicely. the only thing I'm picking up on is that the arms feel like they could use a little more volume and the deltoids / upper arm connection into the pec area could use a bit more volume, it is making the shoulders feel quite small

[Intervain]

Thank you everyone :)

I widened the shoulder area a bit - I agree it looked a bit too narrow. Finished the polypainting. I still want to add more detail into the texture itself and then it's the rendering fun ;)

http://mdadela.com/ssp_director/albums/album-12/lg/Kerrigan_WIP_3.jpg

[PascalR]

beautiful work! So what would be your workflow here with the polypaint pass to render? Extracting color maps? vertex color only?

Great stuff:beerchug:

[Intervain]

Thanks Pascal :beerchug: - extracting colour maps... already unwrapped her so it'll take a sec :)

[Manuel Poehlau]

Shapes and colors are great. Looking forward to see more :thumbsup:

[Silva Spoon]

Really nice. Love all that detail. Colors are looking nice too.

[jasonlin]

this is looking great
sculpt and color r done really nice
can't wait to see a decent render with her:D

[PascalR]

:sw:plugged:sw:

[Intervain]

hey thanks Pascal - that's early on hehe :)

Thanks everyone - I'll get to some work on shaders and lighting this weekend hopefully.. *fingers crossed*

[Tomaya]

Really nice work mag , impressive face ,very pretty in fact ,attractive...
i love that "giger" style ...awsome :thumbsup:


Tom

[dr.kim]

OMG!!! what a nice work. I was thinking of modeling that my self too. I guess I shouldn't since you set the bar too high. LOL
Is that all in zbrush?

[Intervain]

Tomaya - thank you very much :)

dr. kim - thanks a lot :) it's XSI + Zbrush - the images are screencaptures from Zbrush. The base mesh was done in XSI

I failed to work enough on it on the weekend and now I've started a mental ray course so I'll be busy busy for a couple of months I fear... she'll have to wait a bit more :o

[Manuel Poehlau]

:(

Good luck with the course! I hope you´ll finish it one day.

[GregStrangis]

Cruddy to hear you wont finish her anytime soon =(. I was dying to take that course myself but just couldn't afford it right now. Your renders are already great I can wait to see what they look like after the course clap

[Intervain]

oh I'll finish her no worries - I want to see her finished too:) - just not this or next week :D

Greg - yeah I'm really happy I got a chance to participate - I got a free ride :D which I'm totally chuffed about.

[drummermenco]

very cool work! I just found that the distance between ribcage and pelvis is a little short. details and face are awesome! :bouncy:

[leslie.button]

Really fantastic work Intervain, like everything you do. Looking forward to seeing her when you can get back to it

[m@.]

really cool Kerrigan :D I like how you did her face, she looks very strong and charismatic.

[mauro]

I love her!
Amazing work Magda, as always! ;)

[Intervain]

thank you for the kind words guys :)

here's a bigger picture - I'm not really into doing anything with her now so I'll leave her at that and work on some other stuff instead... I feel I want to just do more sculpting instead of fully finished characters. Time to go back to sketchbooking ;) well I still have a couple of other things to finish first.

http://mdadela.com/ssp_director/albums/album-4/lg/Kerrigan_color.jpg

I've uploaded a turntable (http://mdadela.com/gallery/TURN/KERRIGAN_TURN1_1.mov) but any compressed version was just way too blurry to see anything so this one's big - better to save than wait for it to load ;).

[PascalR]

Very nice model Mag, thanks for the hd render:thumbsup:
Can't wait for your next wip then!

Cheers

P.

[Porkpie Samurai]

Yeah really stunning piece and good to see a high res image. I know what you mean by wanting to move onto less time consuming projects :)

[Silva Spoon]

Glad to see her all HD. I hope you pick her up again one day...

[loden]

Absolutely great replica, almost identical to the original. Thanks for sharing the turntable :)
My congrats Magdalena, you keep producing top quality works!

[Intervain]

thanks guys :)
loden - well it's a mix of the sculpture done by the mighty Steve Wang and the blizzard 3d model and one of their concepts - so it's not really exact with any one piece... but thanks :D I'm glad it looks like her!

[Intervain]

a sketch - alien ambassador ;) - just some fun
http://mdadela.com/ssp_director/albums/album-12/lg/ambassador_sketch.jpg

and a little WIP - fanart piece - MERLIN [I'm a huge fanatic when it comes to this show and I think Colin Morgan's doing a wonderful job... I haven't quite nailed the likeness yet [especially in the eyes - they're off] but it's slowly getting there I think] I might print that one in the end:p

http://mdadela.com/ssp_director/albums/album-12/lg/Merlin_wip.jpg

[PascalR]

Great sculpts:thumbsup: The alien ambassador is just awesome :beerchug:

[drummermenco]

aaaaaaaaaah :bouncy:! I love the guy with the wig! he looks like me when I drink too much wine :p

really cool! I would develop it more you know!

[Manuel Poehlau]

Nice sculpts, I like both :thumbsup:

[Porkpie Samurai]

Lol, I really like ALien Ambassador, Hes how I imagine the wigged figure in the portrait that hangs in the british prime ministers office to look from Half Blood Prince.

[Intervain]

hehe thanks Pascal :)

Marco - lol nah I've got another alien to finish - I'll leave this one as an idea :)

Manuel Poehlau -thank you :)

Chris - lol really? hehe I was thinking of a funny old chap :)

well since I've finally come back to this little guy I might as well post the WIP - this is MALEK a newspaper boy - alien based on a concept by the awesome Ben Mauro who was very kind and agreed that I can mess with his wicked idea :) I did the zbrush version some time ago - time to finish the chap... just imported the meshes to xsi [no maps so it looks very sleak ;)]

http://mdadela.com/ssp_director/albums/album-12/lg/malek_wip.jpg

[Manuel Poehlau]

Interesting character. Just saw the original concept of this guy,and you´ve translated him into a 3d model pretty well. I just like this neck guard thing in the painting more. You made it pretty straight which takes away a little bit of the flow of the model. Overall it looks nice and clean. Good work so far :)

[Intervain]

thanks - well there are 2 concepts of this character and they have different neck thingies and I couldn't make up my mind about which one to do - you're talking about the other one :) I might still change it - I liked the other one too