AIRY (CG Arts, and some cats too c: )

anything about AIRY, especially WIP's will be posted here. in the meantime, I shared all my WIP's into my facebook account, so check that out too. what I do is CG Art, I'm not a professional yet but soon (I hope) I will. You'll also find something like cats, so you'll love this even more ;)

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oh been so long

now I’m back

and guess what

after 1 (or 2) months, finally I realised that I’ve been neglecting this blog for way too long xD

what I’ve been doing is learning and practicing two ‘Designer’ softwares

no, I mean.. they’re called Designer, not that they’re for designer

guess what they are...

looks familiar? yup, this is Substance Designer. This tool is very cool, you can produce pbr texture without using any photo, just playing around with nodes you can make wet dirty tiles

I even managed to make muddy ground

not the best one out there, but I still love it.

and the other ‘Designer’ software is...

now it looks very much like a “Designer” software. This one is called Marvelous Designer. With this tool, I managed to make a “marvelous” model of a suit. Just have a look :

(They look much better rendered with cycles)

It took me several days (probaly a week) to finish it. But it’s very easy to use and the result is very cool (I know, mine isn’t really good either)

I enjoyed my time with these tools, and I’m still learning. So, expect cool stuff in the near future :D

oh also, check out my facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/airysketch)

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finally, playing around with toolbag 2 again! :D

so excited to finally see my sculpt being rendered, though it’s just a test, as you can see the texture still too rough

I tried the skin shading and parallax map and the result is not really that bad

time to model that hair, the last time I left my character project, I got stuck in hair modelling

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done with the wrinkles and pores, maybe still needs some working for the fine details, also I haven’t made the imperfection yet

but for now, enjoy these awesome wip because it took me overnight to finish and I hope it pays off c:

gonna leave these project again, because I’ll be away from home, again

oh also, yes Im still recording the process, It would be a very interesting videos when Its done ;)

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a lot had happened since I lost internet connection XD

I think I discovered one mistake that I should keep in mind the next time I’m going to do another likeness, the mistake is to not match the sculpt with the reference with spotlight before jumping into secondary

below is how it looks before I decided to match it with the references I have

well, I usually try out things when I’m curious. I tried to paint the mouth with darker grey so I recognise it better (as you can see, it looks like the mouth is glued)

then I discovered that actually, while I’m painting it with spotlight turned on, I’m actually projecting the colour of the image onto the sculpt as a vertex color (polypaint)

so why not project the rest of the image, apparently it looks quite cool

of course it’s not perfect, because It only would look good with the texture, because actually the image already has the shading and lighting, which is not what I want

well, as you might expect, it didnt turned out great. it’s just that the more I tried to fix it, the worse it became

“okay nevermind this, let’s leave it and do another one”

so here it is, back to zero again

generated the base mesh with makehuman, I tried to make it as close with the reference as possible (well, at least the position of the eyes, ears, etc)

and of course, the longer you work with zbrush, the greater chance you’ll face some horrible creepy shits in zbrush XD

below is the latest wip of the current sculpt I’m making right now

and yep, I took me shorter time to reach this level (secondary) 

from 24 hours to... prob 11 hours, I know I can do it even with shorter time (4-5 hours)

finally, people start asking me “what are you doing, why you never finish that?”

“because I’m learning!”

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maybe I’ll rest this project for the whole week

I’ll leave it here for now, secondary shape sculpting c:

also I’m still deciding whether that I’ll make a whole character or just a bust, maybe it’ll be really interesting if choose the first option

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new timelapse video ! :D

and a mini-tutorial c:

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here’s the “much better” one I mentioned earlier

I think I deserve my sleep tonight c’:

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just some updates that I haven’t posted for so long, and some shit that happened during the process c:

I tried zremesher to gain lower res model so I can shape the model easier

it looks very different now, and probably much better, but I won’t post it until it’s good enough c:

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let’s see how this turns out

also a comparison with a reference

I know I noticed something’s wrong there, but a friendly reminder its still wip c:

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left blender and into zbrush now c:

I like it how I can just simply turn off “hair” layer and he gone bald again without worrying about ruining the model

(help my english ._.)

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fixed the anatomy, added temporary hair

I like how it goes so far c:

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5 months ago vs now

woah, same references, except that I only used 2 (front and profile) back then

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test render

woah, keyshot is cool

but I’ll use cycles ‘cause its free XD

and probably unreal engine 4 too because it runs in realtime and renders animation c:

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new try of making likeness sculpt c:

i’ve spent months (including school and procrastinating) learning the techniques to sculpt proper human head and gaining likeness

i hope it looks a bit better now

still wip btw

(i'm recording the process btw, and so far i’ve made three failed attempts, hope this one works c:)

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finally managed to make a timelapse video

I’ve planned to do more, so subsribe my channel or do whatever you want, just check out my channel c;

this is my first try of using substance designer, don’t expect perfect result c:

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new video, old work c:

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after months of hiatus

finally I managed to touch some 3D stuff again

I’ve decided to start learning Zbrush since long ago, but never had the time to

but now, here it is

a sad looking boy, along with some progress