BC1-1808 Homework, Katerina Novakova

[Pavel Mazanik]

 had originally wanted to sculpt a horse – until the instructions changed. But with the ingenious help of Mr Old Dog , I was able to reconcile the two.  

Very nice work 🙂

[Ken Claassen]

@shiennar Looks great, well done.

[smurfmier1985]

@nekronavt Heh heh that picture is spot on 😆

[Grady Pruitt]

Wow, @shiennar ! Awesome centaur!

[Aaron Rudderham]

@shiennar Oh wow that’s a nice head! Quite well done, great submission!

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I have no idea how you have the skill and time management knawledge to nail it every week but you just keep on keeping on. I’m honestly a little scared as to what you have in store for us next week, but I know for a fact it’ll be consistently amazing.

[Katerina Novakova]

@thecabbagedetective 😀 I love reading your comments, Aaron, they always make me laugh (I’m still giggling as I write this). But I also have to admit that I’m little scared this week myself. (I haven’t decided what to make yet… and the clock is ticking.)

As to the time management – it really helped me to start making one blog post per week (with a new render every time). It takes the pressure off deciding *if* I want to make something and puts it squarely on *what on earth am I going to make this week?* 

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to plead with the gods of creativity to send a few inspiration particles my way…

[Kent Trammell]

@shiennar Your homework submissions never disappoint, Kate. Glad you gave 2.8 a shot with your primitives. And my apologies about the homework switch – I caused some unnecessary confusion. I.e. if you just did a horse that would have been fine but I didn’t explain that well.

Anyhoo, you did a really nice job on both your head sculpt and the rest of the centaur! A+ for the week 👍

[Zsolt Cseh]

@shiennar Katerina you would deserve some extra credit for the flexibility of combining the two sculpture in one homework 😀 The idea was also brilliant, but the biggest thing is achieving it

[Aaron Rudderham]

@shiennar Why ta, I aim to please! The thread has gone quiet again though, that can only mean one thing… the inspiration was found…

[Katerina Novakova]

Homework Week 4

When I was hunting for inspiration this week, I put together a short list of boxes I wanted to tick. The ideal project would:

1. Let me use both mesh modelling and sculpting
2. Let me improve my detail sculpting
3. Give me something challenging (but manageable) to work on
4. Serve as a basis for future project(s)

It took me three days but I think I found it. First, here is the reference I used.

And now my take on it. Eh. Not happy with many areas (I’m looking at you, weird-shaped and impossible-to-get-right corner thingies!) but I think I managed to do all I set out to do. 

First, the Blender (2.8) matcap views:

And now the Substance Painter ones (I was mostly using MultiRes, so UV unwrapping was not too bad, but with the corner thingies I had to do an unexpected retopo):

I hope that next week I’ll be able to show you what’s inside the box. 🙂

[yukino hatake]

@shiennar  this really is beautifull . tis really pretty love the design

[Zsolt Cseh]

@shiennar Katerina you are able to always come up with some extra, when entering to your thread I feel already some excitement what will be that.

I think it looks great again and yes it could be the next level what is hidden there 🙂

[Aaron Rudderham]

@shiennar Oh come ON, you can’t keep impressing us this consistently, it’s just not mathematically possible. In all seriousness though this is great as always! Not sure if I asked before but how long have you been doing the whole 3D stuff?

[Katerina Novakova]

@thecabbagedetective Thank you very much 🙂 Hmm, let me check. I started doing the weekly thing in April 2017, so it will be a year and a half soon. I had a few on-and-off encounters with Blender before that but I never got further than a few beginner’s tutorials. Well, eight years and a half more and I can start calling myself an accomplished artist. 🙂

[Aaron Rudderham]

@shiennar Damn, you’re not far ahead of me in terms of experience, at least it doesn’t feel like it, I need to work harder to meet your level lol. You got a strong future ahead of ya in 3D, not that you need me to tell you that.

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