100% complete

There we go rendered images of my droid head.

Factory Forging is at 70% Complete (or something)

Added in most of the major details this time around now it'll mainly be refining those details and adding in some smaller ones.

Project Update

So I felt the first head I made was limiting my choice of detail so I stayed late today and made a new head and added in details too still have quite a ways to go and hopefully when I go to open it tomorrow I don't have any loading issues.

Started on the project

So right now I know I'm doing a police/SWAT droid I have some reference and went and made a base shape for the head in Maya then brought it over and did a few extrusions on it to get an Idea for what could be separate parts and what doesn't have to be. The middle extruded section I can definitely make separate and the other extrusions can be too again just did this to get the base ideas out on the screen.

Still some issues

So I baked the pottery like I baked the normal maps the way he did and everything but it's only doing gloss and color for me. For him it's doing bump, I think that's the word, too. So I don't know why that's happening I'll do some more work on it tomorrow but here's a badly colored pot things haha.

Having issue

So uh I'm having this weird problem where when I open files the program just freaks out and displays the images below. I have no idea why it's doing this and I've tried opening all kinds of different files. It always does the same thing. If you know what's causing this and how to fix it that would be very helpful. I have watched all the videos now though and I'll put up a post later or tomorrow of the painting but it might have to be on a simple object like a box or pottery. Thank you for understanding and if I still need to go back and paint this console some how let me know and I'll find a way.

YEAH LET'S DO HALF OF THE TUTORIAL IN ONE SITTING!!!!

I regret this decision.........he works at a decent speed but there are certain things he just glosses over which I had to go back and watch over and over to catch but I did it!

I made pottery

I made this pot there are many like it but this one is mine.

Skeleton Update

So I forgot to update last time I worked so I'm gonna throw that in here too. I finished the back leg bones, pelvis, and have started on the spine

Paw

Today I finished the paw for my saber tooth, it took a lot longer then I thought it would but it's done.

Saber Tooth

So I've finished the skull model for the most part. I will need to go clean up the saber tusks things but they will work for now. The bottom jaw is separate from the top and all the teeth are separate objects too.

Finished

So I did my best to finish it all in time and still look somewhat decent the watch model wise turned out really well but the spotlight texturing wasn't working for me. Like I couldn't get the texture to show up in general there were just question marks for everything. The eyes also didn't load in with my finished badly colored person. I do have screen shots of said eyes though. I also couldn't get him into position just right without stretching him or making him cave in on himself so I got it as close as possible.

Learning the basics of Z brush along with a few new things

So the first nine videos or so were just basic tools and saving so I made a sphere and messed around with it doing things he talked about.

UVs in Zbrush

I did the UVs in Zbrush it seems a bit more in depth in this at least for the different kinds of automatic ways to create them.

Z Brush

So I didn't get around to the painting part, just the base color so I will understand the point doc for that but besides that I'm pretty happy with what I made. It's still really weird when I first open the program and it rotates things in the Z axis. made me feel sick the first time around. Anyway here it is I don't know the word for it but the legs are reversed at the knee like birds.

Hydralisk

So this is the beginning of the Hydralisk and so far I'm really pleased with it but there's still a long way to go and a whole other creature to create.




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Update

So there a few questions I have well really just one sometimes my figure just turns into the bright blue in the picture down below and then at other times he looks how he should look. I also am having issue creating a title name for him like I make the jpeg in photoshop without a background so I just have the text but then when I use it as a stencil in Mudbox it has a white background. Besides those two issues though I'm basically done with this tutorial I even gave him a nice stone spear. Which is blue sometimes too.

Looks more like rock now and working on the weapon.

Toy Making

So I think this is going pretty well so far I'm on the 13th video and he shows what he is going to to as like a base concept and then I use the same tools but add different details.

So for instance I create more block looking eyebrows or more defined I guess, and his torso has a few ridge lines in the form of a rib cage.

It's done.

So I've watched all the videos and he just kind of through the pupil and eye color on the model in his free time. So mine has blank eyes however I like how it works with my model gives it more of a comic feel I think. I didn't like the panting with photographs. Well I should say I didn't like how it looked on my version so I tried to add it in a bit but I do know how to do it. Anyway there's the first set of tutorials finished. I can't wait till I get my pen!

IT'S ALIVE!!!! first day in Mudbox making a little monster.

So the next video I'm pretty sure is adding in the eyeballs, might be a bit behind because of trying to make too many things like claws on the feet haha. Anyway, so far I really like sculpting.