Panzer crew WIP

[vince wai]

Hi all,

Had put aside the Chinese bust ( just to make my mind work again ) , and had started this new project. I am thinking about doing a full figure for this tank crew and this is the image of the head I am working.

vince

 

[vince wai]

start working on the body and pose......

Refining the shape of the jacket...........

 

[pokrad]

Nice start !

 

[vince wai]

Thanks Pokrad,

a small update with the belt added

vince

 

[vince wai]

assault badge, iron cross added

And left hand ..........

 

[vince wai]

Some more updates with the details of the jacket and the boots.

 

[antonio argudo]

stuning work Vince! are the iron cross and insignias separate mesh? you make tutorials? superb clean job mate, keep posting
cheers

 

[vince wai]

Hi Antonio,

Thanks for the kind words. The iron cross, badges and other insignias are all separate meshes as they are all relatively higher resolution than the jacket itself. Usually I use Modo to import the basic mesh and work further in Zbrush with alpha and hand sculpting. I am still learning and not sure if this workflow is a right one. Hopefully I can make some tutorials in the future but definitely there are more competent artists (Marrakech, pokrad ,mandreas , Max I.G....... ) in this forum who knows 3D sculpting better than I do.

vince

 

[vince wai]

Working on the Walther P38.....

 

[1969]

very nice work so far, interesting to watch this figure develop
Steve

 

[Range Rat]

To be honest this kind of technology goes straight over my head but I do enjoy the visual quality.

Mark

 

[vince wai]

Steve and Mark,

Thanks, will post more updates soon .

vince

 

[vince wai]

Right hand added

 

[vince wai]

With tank destruction badge added

And the finished model with front and back view.

 

[pokrad]

It is a great piece of work. About the patches: I do it the almost the same way: draw alpha on top of the photo - create mesh from alpha and then manually sculpt on top. If alpha is good - less work is required to clean it up.
Here is the last one I created that way (more time spent on alpha, and did not touch it with sculpting tools at all - as this is good enough for really small piece of sculpt):

Now about the "competence", as You mentioned me in the post, I think You are just being modest, as this shows both technical and artistic skills that are great.
For example, I have no idea how you did shoelaces, so If this is not a secret, please share it with us

 

[vince wai]

Hi Pokrad,

Thanks.

The shoelaces are no secret At first, I had tried with mesh insert brush by creating one myself but it just drives me nut as the individual "unit" just don't merge well ( I had set the join option in the brush menu already ) after further subdivision and still shows gap with dynamesh. And very often, the movement is not always the way you want especially it has to curve exactly the way I want. So after 2 days work, I finally go to the point deleting all the meshes ( without leaving a duplicate and this way I got no way back and start the whole darn thing again ) . I resort to using a single piece of thin rectangle ( subdivided it enough ) and using the move and rotate tools to slowly move them in place and added the details.

Hope this help.

vince

 

[mandreas]

It is a great piece of work. About the patches: I do it the almost the same way: draw alpha on top of the photo - create mesh from alpha and then manually sculpt on top. If alpha is good - less work is required to clean it up.
Here is the last one I created that way (more time spent on alpha, and did not touch it with sculpting tools at all - as this is good enough for really small piece of sculpt):

Now about the "competence", as You mentioned me in the post, I think You are just being modest, as this shows both technical and artistic skills that are great.
For example, I have no idea how you did shoelaces, so If this is not a secret, please share it with us

I agree with Pokrad, although many people consider the 3d modelers not the "real" modelers, I believe that this technique requires many hours of work and "learn by working" until one creates a personal style, well , you have a your personal style and it is really nice

 

[vince wai]

I agree with Pokrad, although many people consider the 3d modelers not the "real" modelers, I believe that this technique requires many hours of work and "learn by working" until one creates a personal style

Hi Mandreas,

Thanks,

Yes, it's just a tool and provide a different medium to do artwork.

cheers,

vince