Diary of a madman!

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: Diary of a madman!

You, sir, are an hero.

So how's it coming along, or did you just give up a month ago?

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Haven't been working on it much. Decided to do the trim work first again. Think I know for sure now how I'm going to do that. Hope to get some new pics out tonight (early morning) hehe.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Well, I FINALLY started making him, so far not too good.
Consider it a very, VERY rough sketch:

I'll work from the top down, so the next step once I'm done with the texturing and mapping of the hair will be the devices, then the face (I will be stuck for AGES there! :( ), then the rest of the body.

I can send you the scene on request, jedi.

The hair looks great already.

I'll be working on the trim and the wings tonight and tomorrow. With any luck, I might just get them all done tonight. I took another break hehe.

[Mr_Gazpacho]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Well, I FINALLY started making him, so far not too good.
Consider it a very, VERY rough sketch:
[img]http://img87.**********.us/img87/9489/pixolbs3.jpg[/img]
I'll work from the top down, so the next step once I'm done with the texturing and mapping of the hair will be the devices, then the face (I will be stuck for AGES there! :( ), then the rest of the body.

I can send you the scene on request, jedi.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Dibs on making Pixel.
Just gonna figure out how to.
Shouldn't take too long.

Sounds good.


Ooooo that skin cutting was not as easy as I thought. Trying to figure out how to do it was the tough part but once I did it seems to be a great way
of "cookie" cutting.

[Mr_Gazpacho]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Dibs on making Pixel.
Just gonna figure out how to.
Shouldn't take too long.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Well yeah I've been putzing around for the past few days kinda taking a break. I knew this was going to be a real tedious part of the process but I finally got to working on the side skin cutout for the model. Still needs a bit of smoothing out but it's pretty much done. Just have to export the mesh and then import it to the main model and do the cut out. I think I'll do all the trim working too before I put any wings or fins on it since I see by the pic that bases of these cut into them.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

*shakes head...*

very cool. :)

carry on with your 99% of having no life, because it's working for you ;)

I will do that :)


Here's as good as I can get the textures, bump map and all the minor adjustments.

[LTgirl]

Re: Diary of a madman!

*shakes head...*

very cool. :)

carry on with your 99% of having no life, because it's working for you ;)

[boredjedi]

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Okay so far I've figured out the bump mapping. Seeing as how I've only done normal texturing in the past that's at least a step up. I used a simple frame of black and white and will work on the various shades of gray to give the panels more of a tucked down by the stitch work.

The actual texture:


Bump/Height map:


The results:

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

you people are WAY smart, do you know this?? ...wow. i couldn't even begin to understand how to design stuff like that.

Well it really only takes 1% genius and 99% of having no life. :)

Thank you so very much for the confidence boost though.

[LTgirl]

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you people are WAY smart, do you know this?? ...wow. i couldn't even begin to understand how to design stuff like that.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

You can probably just pull it off with a black and white bump map, or maybe a normal map, no need to mess around with actual displacement, unless you're planning to get in really close.

Very nice so far, but I thought the red ballon things were spheres rather than toruses(tori?).

Thanks.

Probably right about the other types of mapping. I'll have tonight and tomorrow (my day off) to work on this area. We'll see.

Yeah they are more than likely gas filled spheres but I don't really want to take anymore time right now working on deformations of gas filled balloons hehe. The torus gives the look I need for now. It's been a while since I've done any sort of modeling so it's going to take a bit to really catch up and anything that can give me quickest results right now is fine with me.

[moomoo]

Re: Diary of a madman!

You can probably just pull it off with a black and white bump map, or maybe a normal map, no need to mess around with actual displacement, unless you're planning to get in really close.

Very nice so far, but I thought the red ballon things were spheres rather than toruses(tori?).

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Still working on the outer skin texture. That's the one area where I'm really rusty. I got this far at least creating the panels with the stitch work on it.



Based on this close up screen capture I took from one of the episodes:



Now I guess I just have to figure out displacement mapping to give the tucked in look to the stitching channels.