Pinup - Steffen Unger

[Neox]

Hello everyone,

i just started my own pinup based on the awesome designs by Chris Sanders

here are my current steps, i'm using zbrush and max for very simple basemesh blocking

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/chriss_01.jpg

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/chriss_02.jpg

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/chriss_03.jpg

definitely still a shitload of work to do, but its challenging and fun to get chris' great work into the 3rd dimension

[PascalR]

Chris Sanders' work is awesome and your model looks pretty good so far. I would scale down the head as the current proportions make her look more like an 8 year old girl with a woman body.

Nice to see a different style , keep it up:thumbsup:

[Neox]

Hey Pascal,

thank you for your input, yeah i wanted to play around with the head in Photoshop to see what might work better, but basicly there are designs in chris' portfolio that have a even "crazier" head/body ratio, so i'm not decided yet :)

[Manuel Poehlau]

Welcome :)

Nice start on your pinup. I like the style. Looking forward to your updates :thumbsup:

[Neox]

thank you :)

here is the next step

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/chriss_04.jpg

scaled the head down to 93%
fixed some of the proportions like
-less round head
-arms a bit more chunky to support the wide legs better
- tweaked the hands
blocked the hair very rough

oh well i wish i had more time after work ^^

[PascalR]

I like those proportions much better :thumbsup:
Keep the updates coming :rofl:

[leslie.button]

Great style to this one, I love it! The changes you made were really solid and I think pulled it together a bit more. Can't wait to see this progress! :thumbsup:

[Intervain]

she looks great already - nice proportions indeed

[Neox]

thanks guys, tweaked a bit further, now i think i can start working on a retopoed mesh, think about a pose and well if i dress her up or not :D
and if i even retopo her or not, not sure ^^

- changed the arms thickness in the sideview, but still might need a bit less thickness
- changed the eyelashes to be wider and thicker
- added a bit more polypaint
- worked on the hair further
- changed the matcaps of skin and hair / need to tweak the colour and specular for the hair matcap, but damn i love matcaps/litspheres for fast previews
- worked a bit on her hips/thighs more

basicly just tiny subtle stuff but i hope it works better :)

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/chriss_05.jpg

[tonytrout]

She's looking really gooood :) Nice style

[xada]

how much i love this style!!! clap this is my prefered one!! i love too the way sttands on her toes!
i've been lucky to discover her before you've finished the clothing!!:drool::drool:

[Neox]

did the retopo with 3dcoat today, will add a bit more geo around theknees to maintain the shape there

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/chriss_06.jpg

[Aumakua]

Lovely style indeed, you're doing excellent job on this lady! with such topology and juicy volumes, would be sweet to animate :)

[Neox]

i recently bought me max 2011 so i decided to finally give mental ray a go and play around with that renderer, for ages i just used the scanliner, as i'm usually a realtime dude i never needed more, wanted to go in a bit of a toy/doll look with it

so here we go now i should start with some clothing ^^

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/chriss_07.jpg

[xada]

'so here we go now i should start with some clothing ^^'

:( ...if you think you should...:(

[Neox]

oh i recieved quite a lot of mails calling me pervert, pedophile and her looking preteen and whatever, so i thought it might be better to cover her up a little, just a little ;)
but it also gives me the possibilities to play further with colours so here is what i did

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/chriss_08.jpg
worked on the textures and shading/rendering, i have to say, coming from the realtime background makes it a really pain in the *** to waaaaaaait and waaaaait :D

[xada]

ok, no more clothes, that's fine!!:love:
i love this render, just some dubt about reflexion in the eyes.

perhaps some little changes on the face should bring her older...
can't wait posing!

[Manuel Poehlau]

Sweet, nice updates : )
I like the render. looks good!
Not sure about the eye reflections, but I would rotate the eyes a little outwards, as she looks very cross eyed.
But a nice overall work so far!

[MikeANash]

Looking really good :)

Maybe you could down the glosiness for the eye reflections a tad, just so it looks a bit softer and less mirror like.

hehe, gota get use to rendering and waiting. I spend more time rendering then sculpting these days :/

[PascalR]

Nice render! I agree with the eyes reflection, is she going to wear shoes?

Cheers :thumbsup:

P.

[Neox]

hehe ok gonna tone down the reflection a bit, but to keep it in a bit of a stylized doll and toon like direction i wanted a super sharp and this time not just round shaped reflection, thats why i used that stylized window to get reflected only in the eye, i might make it a tiny bit less glossy but i don't want blurry reflections in the eye i really want a crisp look

[oglu]

i really like the style and the proportions...
its allways hard for me to find the right forms, curves...
great work..!

[collings]

cool update Neox :thumbsup:

[tonytrout]

Looking good:thumbsup:To me the eye reflections should be in the same place both eyes?

[Neox]

thank you guys :)

Looking good:thumbsup:To me the eye reflections should be in the same place both eyes?

how should that be possible? you have 2 spheres and place something to reflect, be it a light or like i did a plane, the perspective prevents that the reflectionvectors will end in the same point, the only way would be to create 2 different relective spots and bind those to the seperate eyes, i'm not sure if i can tell MR to reflect something different on one object than on another

or to show what i mean:

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/project10/eye.jpg

[moonjam]

Saw this over at ZBC the other day but wasn't logged in, as soon as I saw the legs I thought 'Chris Sanders!'. You;'ve really captured the appealing forms in his designs.

I agree that the reflections in the eye are a little intense at the moment, but disagree that they should be identical - though I have seen some people set up specific (small, close) lights/planes for each eye to achieve this effect.

[Lizzard]

looks very nice!

great modelling/style/render :-)

[tonytrout]

I dont know its allways the way I thought it should be done, like here,
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Maybe making the reflector bigger but much further away will cut down the divergence?

[Neox]

yep moving if further away would be a solution but if you look closely you'll see that the reflectionsa re not the same in the shots too, but thank you for the references!

ok did a fast rig and rough skinning, have to fix quite a lot of stuff

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/project10/pose_01.jpg
will ad a towel to her left hand and integrate the bands of her slip to the other hand

i think i'm gonna do 3 poses in a triptych with different background and maybe bikini and hair colours

[Manuel Poehlau]

Very nice update. She´s so cute!
Looking forward to see more :thumbsup:

[Ken]

looks lovely character! clap
look forward to seeing next update! nice work, Neox!

[Grandizer]

Awesome model she is too cute