BC1-1808 Homework, Matthew Ullrey

[Matthew Ullrey]

Week 3 Homework Submission

Here is my Melvin sculpt, primitive shapes, and head sculpt projects. I found with the sculpting that in Dyntopo mode the Subdivide Collapse mode was great for general details from far away, but I had to switch over to Subdivide Edges to get some of the finer details. But before I could do that, I needed to add a lot of resolution with the Inflate tool and smooth it out.

[Grady Pruitt]

Nice head sculpt, @ullreym ! Great job on Melvin too!

[Jere Haapaharju]

@ullreym Melvin looks so aggressive that I wouldn’t bum a cigarette from him. Very nice detailing everywhere.

The face sculpt is very natural. Can’t see anything there that is wrong and you did the hair too. Love it

ps. It’s hard to believe that you did those primitives by sculpting. They look like freshly added meshes. Awesome work!

[Matthew Ullrey]

@swikni Thanks Jere, I had some help with the primitives. I used mirrored axis settings  a bunch to help with symmetry. Melvin would probably tell you that cigarettes are bad for your lungs just before he reached in and ripped them out….. I guess he does look a bit aggressive. 😉

[Pavel Mazanik]

@ullreym nice work!

[silentheart00]

Good work!  The sculpts are a little bumpy, but you can smooth that out.  Proportions look good.

[smurfmier1985]

@ullreym looking very nice! You continue to produce quality models 😬👍🏻

[Matthew Ullrey]

@silentheart00 Thanks, yes those bumps…. they won’t last long after a good retopology. Sometimes I would forget which Edge collapse or divide mode I would be in. Then, I would zoom out and smooth something and all the detail would be erased and I had to start that section over again. That was a bit frustrating. 

[Matthew Ullrey]

@smurfmier1985 Thank you for the encouragement! I want to do my best, but time was a big factor this week. A large portion of the head sculpt was done in an exit row seat on a 737. Ha ha. I balanced my pen tablet on my lap and the laptop on the tray table. Thankfully there was little turbulence.

[smurfmier1985]

@ullreym Wow, that’s dedication!! 😃👊🏻

[Aaron Rudderham]

@ullreym Jeeeeeeeez that Melvin, and I thought I put in some nice details. Utterly fantastic, gives him a whole different vibe.

[Kent Trammell]

@ullreym I remember that Melvin! So much personality with that guy. Your primitives too was one of my faves back in January if I recall. Really good job with your head sculpt as well. Your eyes and nose are particularly noteworthy imo. Often those areas prove tricky for sculptors and you’ve shaped them very well.

A+ for the week, sir 👍

[Matthew Ullrey]

@theluthier Many thanks! The face was fun to create and yes the eyes and nose were areas that I spent some time on. I am still finding my way with the dyntopo workflow. I have watched your tutorials for a few years now and I believe some of it is finally sticking in my brain. 😉

[Matthew Ullrey]

@thecabbagedetective Thanks Aaron, I was watching Kent’s realistic character modeling tutorials when I did this Melvin. I got into sculpting the underlying muscles and bones. “Carried away” is a good description for it.

[Matthew Ullrey]

Week 4 Homework Submission

For this week I used character art from a friend of mine whose work has inspired me for many years. Tom Allen is the artist behind Friendly Kritters calendar. I really like his cartoon style and tried to recreate one of his turtle characters. The hands and feet should be larger and the shell could be smaller. I left the arms and legs segmented so that I can pose them later. Once in the right position, I can then combine the separate parts with a boolean and touch up the connections with the sculpt tools. A neat trick I learned from Zach Reinhardt is that the character’s right limbs are linked duplicates of the left side. I can sculpt the details on the left and they will transfer to the right automatically.

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