Geese

Started by Dune, September 23, 2016, 02:01:28 AM

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mhaze

Great stuff and great geese!

masonspappy


Dune

Transformed the Greylags into Snowgeese  ;)

bobbystahr

Both types of geese are IMHO wonderful models. Your method causes me to wonder if you ever sculpt real time as in actual clay? I think you'd be amazing with your eye for detail Ulco... I had to get into cgi before I could even grasp the 3d nature of stuff....
something borrowed,
something Blue.
Ring out the Old.
Bring in the New
Bobby Stahr, Paracosmologist

Dune

They're not perfected in every little detail, but they have the potential to be worked out. I used to stuff animals (taxidermy), and my lifelong birding also helps. I 'feel' them, kind of. A lot of stuff available on the internet is absolutely horrible, but I'd rather design some landscape than sculpt to be honest. 
Here's some old photo's. I did these birds when I was 18, some of them working for a half-gypsy in Sainte-Marie de la Mer (living in a roulotte). Great time.

DocCharly65

Wow - some really nice pieces again!
I like the morning version most.

In the last two renders I have a little bit the feeling that the rocks are melting into the ground. Is that intentionally?

Dune

No, actually I was also experimenting with getting snow and grass and rocks in a different way together, by using a separate displacement intersection surface layer as a sideline, using it solely as mask and inverse mask for two surface layers in line that carry rock/grass and snow. I didn't put enough time in perfecting the rocks, or the render as a whole, in fact. Just wanted to have the gees in an arctic setting to see what they look like.

Thanks to Jochen's thinking along (thanks again, Jochen!) I just this morning learned how to use transpose in ZBrush. Works like a dream!! I bent this goose's neck in a more relaxed manner for another pose.


DocCharly65

Ok, I understand Ulco.
And again -Very good looking models in the last post.  :)

ajcgi

I like the geese, but really like those photos. Fantastic work. 8)

bobbystahr

The taxidermy is incredibly good...and your intimacy with birds shows in your current modeling. know what y meean re: modeling. There are assets I used to have that I built that went out the window but can't pull myself away from TG4 to do any...or a render on this old machine which denies multitasking is a possiblity, heh heh heh
something borrowed,
something Blue.
Ring out the Old.
Bring in the New
Bobby Stahr, Paracosmologist


masonspappy

wow - nice. I'm still  trying to figure out how one goes about stuffing a flamingo (I guess that's what the 3rd picture is?)

Dune

It is indeed. The problem with the flamingo is to get its skull through the neck, so to speak. When stuffing birds you kind of pull all skin inside out, but its neck it too thin. You have to slice it up lengthwise and sow it together again afterwards.

inkydigit

These look great - could you maybe start with a zphere armature of your basic goose shape, then it will easier to pose for each subsequent variation of posture?
I am just starting out with Zbrush, so I could be way off! :))
J
:)