Project 1: a fan art piece ... I decided to go with Qbert.
Step 1: block out
Step 2: clean up the geometry
Step 3: add hair cards, then mirror the whole thing over and see if it works.
Step 4: bake the ambient occlusion, then paint the diffuse
This is what my diffuse looked like for this model, once again we did the texture at 256x512
Project 2: this month's theme was medieval fantasy.. designed around the ability to stay at an inn.
Once again we can use only zbrush, so I started with zspheres to create a skeleton type frame
Then I moved on to blocking out the basic frame of the black smith.
Clean up the block out.
Turn it into a mesh for sculpting.
Sculpt out a basic figure with large and medium details.
and apparently I added more details.
Then you begin retopology ...
and it becomes messy ...
and messier ...
... but then I brought it into maya and the critiques I received were that he had a disproportionate body. So I resized his new lower topology and corrected any of the retopology mistakes I had made.
Once I re-sized everything, this is what I ended up with.
I brought it back into zbrush and began to smooth and sculpt once again.
I re-sculpting the new body back out with details
Then I changed the face
With proper ambient occlusion, normal mapping, diffuse mapping and specular map, it turned into this.
A shot of the diffuse map.
My normal map.
Lastly, my specular map
