It has been a while since I have updated my progress, it has been busy due to my other modules.

Nevertheless, here is my progress so far:

creating the form of the head with the skull underneath

Side moodboard with some analysis example

Front moodboard example

This week i haven't sculpted more on my character, but I have been researching and testing on using the Vray render engine. I was following a tutorial on using the free Infinite Lee Perry-Smith head from infinite-realities, it includes the ztool for the head, which contain all the subdivisions, you could render extra map or make your own textures on it. It also contained a normal map, displacement map and a overall colour map, as well as an .obj of the model.

Following the tutorial i produced these images.

Displacement map off

Displacement map on

As you can see the image with the displacement map has the model look puffier, especially it's more noticeable on the ears. Out of the two this image took approximately 3 hours to render, where as the one without displacement took 15 minutes. Looking at both results they look more or less the same, but from my limited knowledge of displacement maps, the displacement map should add in extra details to the face, ie skin pores and wrinkles to the face, but instead it has increased the scale of the model. Even though the model itself is about 8000+ tris, there should be suffice geometry to make the displacement maps work, even the geometry on the ears were quite dense.

I think further research into displacement might be needed to achieve or even a better result than my test. Things that I learned from using vray, if im correct, that the fastSSS shader can produce quicker and use Global Illumination to render than Mental Ray. Use can also use just an overall colour map only to produce a lot maps for the shader slots within the shader, with the use colour correction. Of course normal map and displacement is needed to achieve a depth of realism. HDRI maps are also important as they mimic a real life environment when rendering.

Until the final stage, this is limited knowledge of Vray.

These couple of days, i've been juggling a few pieces of uni work, and haven't really started to tackle the actual project.

Hi there all,

Currently i'm in my final year in my degree, for my final year project i am doing two characters from a martial art movie that i like called Ip Man 2.

The characters that i am going to sculpt are the main character called Ip Man, and the english boxer called Twister.



Each of these two characters tackles different aspect of sculpting. The focus on Ip Man sculpt will be mainly on his clothing, as it pretty much covers up the entire body. Whereas Twister focuses on a lot of human anatomy, as he wears minimum clothing and exposes a lot of muscles. Tackling this project, i hope to achieve a good understand of sculpting drapery and anatomy.

As well as the sculpt, i hope to achieve a good level of skill in texturing and rendering. Both of these elements are important to achieve a good piece of art work.

Each week i will try and update as much as possible, with as much detail about the process of tackling this project.

A RPG tutorial that i followed on cgtuts, given the fact it was created straight to high poly, i cannot even think about unwrapping and texturing! But i may do that later on.....
But i rendered the model in MentalRay for a beauty shot, very basic render so I guess i need to experiment more in rendering techniques.

Hmm yes it has been a while since I posted, admittedly I had been lazy and busy at the same time, although they are the opposite of things.

Right I've spent a few hours on a bust, still a bit rusty on things, and there definite problems on it but as I said still getting into gear of things.
Although I've finally had a chance to play with Vray, which in my opinion is a very nice render. So gonna have to use and experiment that more often.

been playing around with zbrush and let my creativity go loose a bit from uni work