Mike Nash - Starlight Suit

[MikeANash]

Hey all,

Finished a design for Evolution Music, It was handed to me after Vitaly Bulgarov couldn't work on it anymore. He created the initial rough Head design, then I fine detailed it and polished it to match my suit design.

It's not really what I would design in my free-time, but it's what the client wanted :)

Entirely sculpted in Z-brush and rendered in Mental Ray.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9236/starlightfront.jpg

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/868/starlightback.jpg

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1219/starlightside.jpg

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/9379/starlightside2.jpg

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/2648/starlightquater.jpg

Enjoy!

[migusan76]

Fantastic suit design! Great work as usual :beerchug:

[Vimmy]

Damn that just crazy to do that in sculpt without polymodeling.:) well done

[BrettSinclair]

Very well done. Your renders have me fooled everytime.

[julien]

Very nice, i like all this curved hard edges.
I'm very curious to imagine him moving.

[Infinite]

Great hard surface sculpt Mike. Lovely design as well. |sculptor|

[Grandizer]

haha - good to see you finally doing your panel lines and details in Zbrush

looks wicked man only hips are looking a bit big

[MikeANash]

Thanks all for the kind comments :)

Grandizer - haha, I wasnt keen on it but it was the fastest way to finish it, was my first time ever doing hard-surface work in Z-brush :rofl:

The reason for the hips are he wanted the suit to have a skinny girly figure, bit weird if you ask me :confused: I guess it's close to being a uni-sex design.

[Kel Solaar]

Guess Pascal will have to increase the number of columns for the top row :)

Wicked model mike, I however wouldn't want to be the guy that would have to skin him :)

KS

[PascalR]

Great sculpt and render Mike. I was about to comment on the hip but Grandizer already did.
Nice zbrush hard surface details clap

Kel: hehe, it will be for next week top row, but yeah I might consider increasing to five if people keep posting great works like this ;)

[vivin]

wow...totally amazing work. To be totally honest, I love how your works make me second guess if they are 3D/Real, those renders are superb!. Did you use Zb4? no idea how you pulled off some of those hard surface details *bows down*

[Ken]

Yeah! really amazing works as usual!! :thumbsup:
I'd like to know the rendering settings with shader.

[Storm]

Insane work as always, really fantastic sculpting :thumbsup:

[delavega]

Wow that's some superb hard surface sculpting. It works really well.
great job:thumbsup:

[MikeANash]

Thanks all :bouncy:

Kel Solaar - Cheers man, haha I still have to texture him, but I have another job on, so the texture work is on hold for now.

PascalR - Thanks Pascal :) looks like Cg-feedback is really becoming the place to be ;P

vivin - Thanks alot Vivin :beerchug:.
I used Zb4, but you could sculpt this in zb3.l.
You need a lot of alphas to do work like this. I also save my camera views/brush sizes so you can get the line details consistent through out the sculpt.
Also I save the brush intensity I use on certain alphas so they will be the same strength all over.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/7759/wire3d.jpg

Ken - Thanks! It's nothing special, the realism comes from the color correction/levels in photoshop more then anything

[tonytrout]

Nice sculpting with ZB, insane detail :thumbsup:

[madmatt]

I love this kind of design!!!

Bye

[KrysaYoY]

Impressive sculpting and rendering. Congrats clap

[Ballo]

I love the realism of your renders. Some guys ask me if I can teach them how make a render like Mike Nash.

My answer was easy, why do you ask him? :)

Good job!

[PascalR]

:sw:plugged:sw:

[Florent]

i like the design, and of course the rendering.

[kYk]

AMAZING Render MikeANash !

Very nice sculpting.

Very very good work.

clapclapclapclap

[JohnSG]

This is Mind-Bogglingly Good, First Rate Stuff.
:notWorthy:

[ALT]

Very impressive job Mike, never thought you did it in zb, I like the attitude, 5*.

[MikeANash]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments :beerchug:

PascalR - Thanks for the Plug Pascal :bouncy:
Ballo - Hehe, I guess my renders are making the rounds :)

There isn't much to them at all, just a good scene/material setup.

[SorinLupu]

Hey Mike, realy like your renders and style with exaggerated hips area and sharp details on your models.
I really remember your Dominance War III start sculpture and I liked a lot what you did. I hope to be you and not another Mike from Brisbane, Australia :rofl:

Cheers,

Sorin

[3mm]

Great sculpt mike,hope to see at least a timelasp of your work flow in future:sw:

[ulf]

wow, looks like alot of work man..

could you maybe explain your workflow of saving cameras and brush sizes some more? i often had difficulties keeping constant size over the model when doing cloth stitches..

[gkaine]

wow, this is the best hardbody zb work ive ever seen. clap
and nice render, i thought it was a print

[MikeANash]

Thanks again guys,

Thanks man, but I think you have mistaken me with someone else maybe ?

3mm - Thanks! Here's a rough work-flow break down.
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Ulf - All I do is save the camera using zapplink, then save the camera file with my brush and size settings in the name. Example, Bolt Details - Strength-40_Size-10.vws

[ulf]

thanks for the info mike!

[KaDDD]

:notWorthy:

superb model , the design is just crazy , amazing sens of the details
thanks for sharing


best regards

kaddd