captain mokba

[xtrm3d]

ok.,..this would then be my first post here

started in zbrush ,.
continuing in mudbox

he’s teh comunist counterpart to good old captain america
not necessary evil .. but duty bound grin
as always not going for crazy realistic but more for a stylised look
just imagine him with big brown furry boots

http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-10.jpg
http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-7.jpg
http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-6.jpg


by the way ? how do i add a thumbnail ?

[ZippZopp]

this is looking cool, i really like the style you've got going and the face has great gesture and character to it. i like the elongated chin and mouth shape, cool stuff

[tonytrout]

Excellent work, love the whole concept and you have given the character some character. Great stuff. You can add a thumbnail by tacking on a small image at the end of your post

[xtrm3d]

thank you guys :-)
much apreciated ..
start to have a love hate relationship with mudbox ..cool stuff .. but a lot of stuff that suxx :-(
anyway ,, her some texture update
mudbox screen shot and some photoshoping

http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-11.jpg

[Oscar]

this is sooo coool :) i love the concept and how it's done sofar :) keep it up :)

[Hulahuga]

Looks really cool, i like the chest area !

[xtrm3d]

thank you ..

did teh belt and pouch yesterday ..

http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-12.jpg

[Hulahuga]

It looks good.
What programs do you use dude?

[xtrm3d]

What programs do you use dude?
maya most of teh time .. starting to dig deeper in max

those latest ''rendering'' are pure mudbox screenshot with some retouch in photoshop

[Hulahuga]

okay.

yay another maya user ;P

[musashidan]

This character looks great.nice job on the textures.Any chance you could post up the non sub-D'd basemesh wires?

[ZippZopp]

nice lookin stuff, the renders are nice, great render too from mudbox. and not to drag this thread off into another direction, but are those mental ray renders done with the linear workflow setup?

[xtrm3d]

wich one ?

[ZippZopp]

i've been reading up a lot lately on linear workflow with maya and mental ray and have realized that a lot my renderings have been quite wrong from a technical standpoint. are all of these mudbox screen grabs? I know you've done a bunch of gnomonology tutorials with lighting and rendering which is why I was asking... I was wondering if you are using a linear workflow with using physically accurate lights, gamma corrected textures and tone mapping.

[xtrm3d]

and have realized that a lot my renderings have been quite wrong from a technical standpoint.
hehehe who care as long as they look good ... and trust me on that .. your stuff look really good :-)

are all of these mudbox screen grabs?
only the last two one are mudbox screen grab .. then the 3 color variation are mental ray .. and teh first bule and gray ones are zbrush screen shot

about the rendering stuff ..
yes i did a video about how to render a car where i did use sky light and gamma correction .
but somehow at the end of the day i do multipass rendering and heavilly composit my shit :-)
i prefer to just use what look pleasant to my eyes .. my video are more about making a nice picture then to learn about the phisicaly correct process behind the science of lighting :-)


looking forward to your rendering of your winged monster ;D

[Hulahuga]

HAHAHA! Right on xtrm!

[xtrm3d]

here another texture texture test as i was converting the head from zbrush ..
would still have to do a more serious texture later ..
but need to do more sculping on it first

as always ..
no rendering .
mudbox real time screen shot .. and post process in photoshop

starting to get very tired of all the shortcoming of mud ..and feel more and more like throwing the towel…

or may be it;s just me .... :-(

http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-14.jpg

[steelsky]

Would be a shame to see ya bin it mate... whats bugging you most? it must be pritty significant as ya look pritty adept at this sort of stuff.

Nice texture btw

[agentx]

yeah, what about mudbox is holding you back?

[Hulahuga]

Huge lips man. You can really see he is slavic :)

[xtrm3d]

what holding me back ?
the quirkiness from mudbox ..
- not always able to reconstruct my uv .
- displacement/normals generation play crazy
-slower viewport with multi object loaded
- very basic tools for painting ( altough i can live with that 0

decided to do a mental ray run.. to make sure that i would be able to render the high res before moving back to more serious texturing

here the result for now .. mostly displacement at rendertime

http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-15.jpg

[xtrm3d]

rendertest in maya ..
more to come

http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-17.jpg

[xtrm3d]

very quiet here ...
knock ..knock ..is someone around ?

http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-19.jpg
http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-20.jpg

[ZippZopp]

cool updates, facial expressions are coming along nicely. the eyes are a bit too blue for me, i think they're standing out a bit too much.

[Hulahuga]

Haha, great expressions!
How far are you planning on taking this project?

[xtrm3d]

as far as it would go :-)
( full charachter )

new update
http://www.xtrm3d.com/forumwip/cptmokba-22.jpg

[Hulahuga]

Those poses, were they rigged or sculpted?
I like it a lot overall. Because the cloth is stretched on the larger muscles, perhaps a tad of smoothing (wrinkle smoothing) is needed on the chest to abs area.

[Grrrrrrr]

This looks awesome. As others already said. his eyes are a bit weird.