PDD - PhungDinhDzung - Art Feeds!

[phungdinhdung]

Hi Everyone, since I feel pretty comfortable posting my stuff on Cubebrush community , so here 's my Art Blog thread, beside of my regular Twitter and Facebook page at :

https://twitter.com/phungdinhdung
https://www.facebook.com/PhungDinhDung
and my Artstation
https://www.artstation.com/phungdinhdung

I will keep updating the progress of my every on-going project here so it will be more like a structured archive for anyone interested to see my progress.
Feel free to comments or ask any questions you like !

[phungdinhdung]

so , first post , since I have my rest after finished my latest piece for ArtWar2 - Pisciasa

I am back on to my current wip project that I have to put on idle to joint ArtWar2 . - Aresia ! One of my OC too , she 's based on Mountain Aries mecka .

Here ' s the Concept :

some other view of her :

After working on Pisciasa for awhile, back to looking at what I have done so far for Aresia I noticed too many problems with the old model quality ( mean that I somehow leveled up lol ) . So I decided to do a total overhault modeling on Aresia .

[malcom]

Cool to see you on here as well. I look forward to the level up as well the The progression over time. I'm very curious as to how you'll tackle the hair for this girl. I'm looking forward to that.

[shellz-art]

Wow. Nice nice nice!

[phungdinhdung]

Aresia Update !

so I took the old Aresia bust sculpt and do a "revamped" modeling on top in Maya and using the sculpt as a rough guideline, I wasnt able to poly-modeling the hair 4 months ago, so this is the current take, not really satisfied with it but learnt a couple of things, am moving down to the body next <3
higher res and turntable ( soon ) at : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0Ga48

[raulbapo]

how were you able to polymodel it so clean? I can't imagine doing something so smooth and clean unless I had highpoly underneath (so basically retopoing it). I'd be super interested in seeing some of your process and workflow, your models are plain amazing, great job definitely keeping an eye out for this.

[malcom]

looking great. I would love to know how you did the hair as well. This is looking fantastic to start

[phungdinhdung]

Thanks everyone ! I will upload some process video showing part of how I did the hair models soon , there 's not much crazy tricks, just boring manual tweaking back & forth actually.

anyways, this 's today update !

Aresia - Base Mesh for sculpt.

um, so after a series of client works that demand so much topology and anatomy details, my eyes on articular and stuff improved a few inch. I decided to rework my basemesh from #Pisciasa a little bit, basically the detail of my old Pisciasa basemesh is good enough for sculpt, but I want to push it futher for #Aresia, I am trying to find a way to best present anatomy features while maintain nice topology, so the first step is that I need a base mesh and spitted into parts so that I can easily sculpt details on them later then determine how the topology/articular will work. The splitting method is an approach I learnt from looking at Shih Yow Hung 's brilliant works , his works are like one of my key inspiration for female form.

[phungdinhdung]

Aresia - Hair detail modeling progress video
I managed to put together a recording part of my hair detail modeling progress . I think it took me somewhere around 4 or 5 hours to refine those clumps after I got the basic shape locked down.

[phungdinhdung]

Aresia Update :

Here 's today update, Aresia edition of my topology base mesh, I improved ( or not ) the topology to support the anatomy features a bit more compare to my old #Pisciasa base. wellm not really a revision, I ... made it from scratch ( again >.> )

[phungdinhdung]

Some very slow updates , I have been busy with a cinematic project at Thunder Cloud and our own IP game - Tank Brawl2 lately, just got a little spare time on Aresia today , Wip of the outfit modeling in Maya

btw here are some concept I did for TankBrawl2 not really relevant to Aresia actually XD lol

[malcom]

I saw the tank brawl 2 stuff. Looks fun.
For Aresia, has everything been done in maya only at this point?
Anyway take your time.

[phungdinhdung]

Thanks @malcom , yeah pretty much I did all my final modeling within Maya , Zbrush is more used in my blockout / draft sculpt stage just to find the right shape / middle volume of my model . But I think pushing the sculpting stage a bit further might save more time modeling in Maya later on , but gotta try and see if it worth the time sculpting.

anyways, Here 's this time update , slowly getting Aresia dress done.

[malcom]

Well everything seems to be coming along nicely. Really motivating as well.

[whymrwho]

Damn I love seeing that process. I also love how your render the character!

[phungdinhdung]

Thank you @malcom and @whymrwho for your comment ! <3
Quick update before bed time today >
Done some basic Rigging & Skinning.
Moving on Pose sculpting and rendering high poly in the next few day soon 😆

[malcom]

Will you be creating the mecha ram as well or just the character? So glad I get to see my horoscope as sexy mecha girl.

[s-ed]

I've learned this "splitting method" from Leslyzerosix ( https://www.twitch.tv/leslyzerosix ).
But it's great to see two more amazing artists using it. Thank you for all your efforts bringing this info to the masses, especially YT process videos.

[phungdinhdung]

@malcom : yeah , defenitely , I will move onto the mecka Aries in the background after I am done sculpting the pose of Aresia . It wont be a completed piece without the mecka monster !

@s-ed Thanks ! I am planning to release more video and tools to dig more into this workflow in the future also !

btw here 's this time update !
Done Posing, now moving to sculpting <3

[phungdinhdung]

Update !
High Poly sculpt version of Aresia . In the final version she will have a mecka Aries escorting her .
I tried to experiment with a slightly different lighting setup this time, using just one spot light for the character and one more for the background .