FINAL | ARTWAR 2 | 3D | DEFILER | painterx1

[painterx11]

Thanks, it was originally gonna be more stylized comic style but I decided to use substance painter and got hooked on the detailing.

[painterx11]

Thanks it was an interesting process to go through, well interesting/pain in the ass. Modeling is not something I enjoy with all the retopology and UV unwrapping and organizing. I have not gone from sculpt to render before and its a bit daunting and horribly time consuming but in the end it all worked, after a litany of mistakes. Anyways thanks it took a lot for me to make it look decent both technically and visually, from a professional standpoint.

[painterx11]

In terms of speed its less me more Substance painter. Santa, also known around here as my wife, got me a new machine and I have been able to finally bake textures and work at a decent resolution inside substance with the number of layers I am prone to using, as a noob. To be honest it was really all the generators and masks that make the model pop. I physically only painted maybe 20%. Now the sculpt on the other hand was much more involved, and kinda funny I put all these details into the sculpt and discovered that I could easily have generated those in SP rather than cruise around drag-reccing all my detail in ZB. Trying to kill 2 birds I prepared the model for 3-D print initially but decided that it wouldn't transition into a decent piece for final rendering in the competition so decided to go full CG film quality, or as close as I can.

[painterx11]

Ok so the body is pretty much finished except with some detail parts once back in blender.
Ill start texturing the heads soon, as they will have closeup resolution and will have a lot of detailing.

[anon27604699]

Awesome creature! After reading your Substance Experience I can´t wait to try it too, but I am still at the sculpting part^^ And yeah, go full CGI mode with him Keep pushing and good luck! We´ll see each other on the battlefield

[painterx11]

Thanks bud, Substance is such an amazing tool that I cant believe it took me so long to finally get into texturing! With how intense Zbrush and blender is technically, I thought that SP would be another huge learning curve. Not at all its so incredibly intuitive. Very much like photoshop and it can handle so many layers and materials its truly brilliant software. you can literally walk in with no experience look at the interface and make sense of all the features and how to basically apply them. Of course it's capable of much more than I know and am achieving at the moment but none the less, for a noob, you couldn't ask for a better program.

[painterx11]

Trying to give as much proportional contrast as possible without over doing it. Like making his flesh very wet and squishy while keeping his armor dull and hard. I tried to make him a cool pale blue'sh violet, which would offer even more contrast to his armor but it didnt stick I ended up going with this color scheme which I like much more. Its more similar to his armor in value but leaning towards the green end of the spectrum which keeps it more interesting.
Cant wait to render it with the moon light and under lighting glow from the lava flowing at his feet within the base. It looks good in studio light and am hoping it still works when I go to render it in its intended lighting.

[iEvgeni]

Ok, this is insane paintertx11! I myself trying to combine darksiders / doom stylies right now. You nailed that already, just wow!

[painterx11]

Thanks bud, the stylized shapes goes definitely with Joe MAD and the texturing is straight out of DOOM;) I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, go full comic style with few details or realistic. but when I got into SP I couldn't stop. Its like crack for CG. Since the contest has such a long deadline I was able to just let it evolve without forcing it. Thanks again!

[painterx11]

So far in my adventure in modeling I’m trying to accomplish as many distinctive model features as possible.

• try to create a unique creature concept by combining both realistic detailing with comic like stylized anatomy and forms.

Try to Use as much asymmetrical sculpting, modeling and texturing for a more complex, unique and believable model.

Try to Display personality and attitude differences in each of the heads, if possible with monsters;)

Finally learn as much as possible about the modeling workflow.
Which is so much more involved than I was expecting.

Also after the competition if any one has any significant experience in high detailed SLA 3D printing, I would like to hook up for some projects.

[painterx11]

heads are finished and now for the final detailing for consistency, then off to rendering.
Cant figure out why SP is rendering the model at 2K rather than 4K but It will be a 4K final rendered image out of blender.

[pearforceone]

damn, great job dude. I love it

[mihail_kounelakis]

lookin good mang!

[painterx11]

Thanks a lot! It was a huge process going through the learning curve of modeling and texturing but i am super happy with the effect. Funny enough, like with all things you do for the first time, I realized how many mistakes I made during the whole process. Also the competition theme and rules were great for me to work with, EPIC darkside Villain has so much potential that going really big was easy without fear of going overboard. You kinda cant, when its an EPIC theme. Thanks again for all the support I had a blast making this model. I cant wait for the next, with the prospect of texturing I have so many new ideas.

[painterx11]

And if anyone is curious, my process was pretty basic. I downloaded the intro to Zbrush 1,2,3 by Michael Pavlovich and fallowed the Allegorithmic youtube tutorial for beginners. The M. Pavlovich tutorials were essential, they were very good and full of pro tricks. And the Allegorithmic videos are done very well also, and slow enough in speed for me to process all the info. nothing beets good advice!

[painterx11]

some renders in 4K however I can see that some of the body textures are too intense. I'll try to make some details more subtle

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