[samhell]

Whom, that critter looks crazy good!

[whom]

Appreciate it guys thank you. not so bad yourselves both you samhell and durgldeep, impressive what you do with storytelling and imagery to the same mentioned.
Sure takes a lot of work to flesh out a story.

wow page 13, celebration?

Made something quick today, gotta squeeze the time every now and then. Better be testing things out with the time given.

[durgldeep]

Yep, page 13 - just in time for halloween!

Got sidetracked again (making some progress in... 'rig theory'?).
Back to hoplites... Interesting reading re equipment - and Greco-Persian wars,
etc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Persian_Wars
Overview here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplite#Equipment
Spears were between 2 and 2.75 metres long...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dory_%28spear%29

[whom]

I started a different speed model session over at cgsociety, this time it was to try to follow a picture and then to set up the same composition as in the reference picture.
Sure gotta admit that it was a lot more difficult than what I thought it would be, a fun exercise nevertheless....

I used 2 hours for modelling the scene and +45 minutes to set up colors, camera and such.
http://i50.tinypic.com/10d75e9.jpg (just in case)



Here's the ref picture:
http://www.umbus.com/post/build/1.jpg





...

[durgldeep]

Nice one, whom. Interesting that the reference pic looks almost 3d too
(though maybe that's a mental 'cue' set by the 3d image - or something).

Not sure why I'm dreading Roman/Greek architecture, it's clean/straightforward,
as you say. Maybe just overthinking it; am visualizing a 16 by 16 metre
enclosed coutyard (default grid); as good a place to start as any, I guess.

Good inspiration there (might drop everything else and dive in).

[whom]

[whom]

Testing different effects with nodes, achieved by displacing the edges with cloud noise. Hmm not sure, I might get some tips from the one who made the tutorial...

[durgldeep]

[whom]

[ZM]

I love reading this thread, so much expirements going on there ^^

A little rock I did for fun


(diffuse + normal map with some lighting)


(flat version, diffuse only)[/img]
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[durgldeep]

Nice rock, ZM - nice blog too (now that I thought to look).

Spartacus search took an unexpected turn; wasn't familiar with the TV
series so didn't know about Andy Whitfield (diagnosed with cancer after
season one):

"Be Here Now" -- The Andy Whitfield Story Feature Documentary Trailer,
by Lilibet Foster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NogZVtKyUpE

whom, re Roman, actually I'm doing Greek architecture, etc. Spartacus was
Thracian (generally east of Greece) so it all ties together, cool. Lots of
interesting reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Greece

Been resisting pottey stuff too; dunno why, it's so easy.

Pottery of ancient Greece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_pottery

Again, just vertex groups/colour blocking (will worry about painting later):


Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boxers_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_1541.jpg

[whom]

ZM, real nice clean crisp version, looks awesome. you should post more.


durgldeep, yea I was and have been a big fan of the Spartacus series, it was a tragedy with Andy. The new actor couldn't really meet the acting that Andy did.
The pottery looks awesome. You know you could still have a fountain with no running water in the background, but hmm then again I think they had running water all the time during the Roman Empire....

Trying to do something everyday, even if simple stuff just experimenting....


This is soon the only thread worth visiting, speed modeling over at cgsociety has turned to shit as those activities are only popular once an items is interesting to someone, ahh anyway hard to explain....

[ZM]

whom you should try polycount, it's a very nice (really big though, not the same feeling as sijun), but there's some awesome stuff there !
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[durgldeep]

Not gonna get this done today so here's the wip. Still lots of solving to do (re
design).


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121025 - Finally clued re retopo (whom, I think you mentioned it earlier).
Couple maybe useful vids:

How to use Grease Pencil in Blender 2.6x
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwMS5Gc8GGg
[relevant part starts @13:38]

How to Retopo in Blender 2.6x
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaqYqkjimD8

[whom]

ZM, thanks for the tip.

durgle, nice medusa.


speed concept and setting up a simple scene with it...

[durgldeep]

Nice whom - I want a medusa with mechanical arms for hair.

Latest discovery: export Sculptris mesh/texture to Blender (large blue sphere,
bit more than half way down the page):
http://drpetter.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=sculptris&action=print&thread=227

Unwrap is a bit strange but hey, it works; transparency is half a hexagon that I
forgot about:

[whom]

thanks durlgdeep, looks good your character.

Simple mannikin, testing proportions for a mech. Had to test some rigging and posing aswell.

[durgldeep]

Rigging, yay! And it's about time. Which opens the door to animation - I can
see it now: all your old models springing to life, hehe.

Thanks re character; people will be sick of it by now (was only a paint test
anyhow). Been practicing unwrap in Blender too (feels like old news already).
Currently another round of anatomy (review). Gets easier every time.

[whom]

Yea I actually used to do some rigging back in 2009 already, time sure flies by fast.
Crazy that he sold the star wars concept, George Lucas.... I wonder how it will turn out....hmmm...

Bot concept, still not sure about details....

[whom]

How's the Roman Character coming along?

[aaron2]

Beautiful pictures...3D looks preety amazing..love to see more artwork from you

[durgldeep]

[whom]

Barrel experiment

[whom]

A scene test with the barrel, need more UV image variation in it though.

[ZM]

view in 3D : http://p3d.in/v8UPQ/shadeless

A little cute robot

That barrel looks sweeeeet !

Maybe you could break the repetition with some (wine) decals...
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[whom]

ZM, thank you. Back at you btw, real nice texture work.

[whom]

ZM, I followed your advice and added some wine decals.

Still adding stuff and fixing the uv's, thinking about to add some animals and such... Think I really need more detail to the bricks up close the camera. Will take some time.....

[samhell]

Whom, most impressive!! You should add those robots you did earlier into the scene, would make great detail if they were carrying the barrels, yes?

ZM, love the pixel-eye-robo!!

[ZM]

Thanks samhell ^^

Whom that's nice ! For the bricks you could try to make a displacement map out of your texture, tesselate the walls and apply the displacement map
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