What is everyone working on? #2 Thread

My second attempt at creating a sub-machinegun. This is the handguard, I didn't get further. Right now I'm gonna have to get that plug-in that gives the nice white renders with ambient occlusion and stuff. And I'm gonna have to learn how to use the boolean option, to make the holes in the side of the handguard and in the side of the hand-guard top.

Wow! Looked through the last few pages and there is some really impressive stuff!
I'll have to think of something to add to the collection.

Edited by: MrChocolateBear

hah yea dragonlord... seems like they are just made to look cool but nah they are mainly just jousting helmets like this... not used to look around much.. i think anyway heh

did another quickie.. this only 10-15 min little crappy thing ;o

Yeah, I think there is. Anyways, I'm not really sure where to go from here. I think I'll scrap this one also and actually make a real weapon. Perhaps an ak-47 or something.

How many times did I make one?

@ razorb

thats wonderful work. love it.

Really nice work Razorb.

So i'm now interning at Garage Games and learning a shit load. Unfortunately the only thing I've done outside of the NDA is this T-Shirt for www.playtribes.com

1998? I was like 6 years old in 1998.

They were okay; but they were nothing i'm very proud of. Lately, I've devoted my time to reading (about game development, CG, and programming) and practicing.

Only thing i've made in the past weeks that i'd like to show are these few things. I got one of the books i ordered on human anatomy (not the good ones those are taking forever) and i made these as practice:

I started fleshing out the skeletal structure of the head so my proportions would be correct and raked it into shape. (about 1 hour its my first skull)

That isn't the final version of it buts its close enough. (it was already in my photobucket)
Then i turned it into this clown character:

It originally was not meant to have eyes they were just concave and blacked out. But i thought it looked funny with those in.
He has a tiger nose.

The two pictures above were done with Zbrush

Then i made this human torso: Maya + Zbrush

I also made a pretty detailed, anatomically correct arm. It's currently got nubs for fingers but i might post that when its finished.

I'll definently post something on here in a couple of weeks.
I'm going to plan out a small project.
I want to make an anatomically correct high poly human with good topology. That torso above has very accurate topology; but its just a torso, some nub-arms, and a fucked up head. (I'll of course scrap it for the human i make.. a few things on it might need to be changed)

Edited by: ngs616

Thank you!

Yes, I of course suggest using the anatomy book. It helped a lot for the topology. But without the sculpting it would look pretty simple. 
I've been drawing a lot lately; it's really helped to draw what i'm making before i make it.
I'm off of work today so i spent 2 hours last night and 2 hours (so far) this morning working on a bat creature. My inspiration is from all the bats i seen flying around last night.
I'll post it here when i peice it together. (most likely going to be tomorrow i keep changing parts)

EDIT:  This is the bat creature so far. The base mesh is still pretty far from finished, but i need to weld the peices together before i go any farther with it. I made a few heads and this is the one i like the most. The inspiration on the head is from a lion skull.

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Thank you! It will definently be crazy. He is pretty average looking at the moment. When the base mesh is finished i'll post it here. I really need to tweak the proportions. There is a few spots where the topology needs to be touched up. I didn't have as much time as i wanted to work on it today, but i'm not rushing this one. It's should take about a week if i work on it every day. I'm going to have to decapitate it. It doesn't look anything like a bat's head (not surprising: it was based off a lion skull.)

After i edit it's proportions i'll be working on the topology and a few small details.
It is at about 8K polygons, the base mesh will be about 12k when it is finished.
Then UV map and texture, and i will import it into Zbrush to create the normal map.

This is it's current state:Photo Link(larger; same as above): I268.photobucket.com

Edited by: ngs616

Thank you! I definently agree with you, i think a lot of it is because the legs are too big. His wings do need to be larger. it makes him look too humanoid. Thats some of his proportions that i need to edit. I like how he looks at the moment, but it's far from what i'm aiming for.

Edited by: ngs616

I worked on the bat a little more, i cut the head off and cut out and pushed a lot of polygons, it's down to 4,594. (the legs aren't attached, but they are included in the polycount) Many of the polygons are in the wings, but they need to deform well.

I might start building it's rig before i finish it, i hate seeing it in that position.
I can hear bats chirping outside. I don't think they are liking the fireworks.

Edited by: ngs616