Collab2021 – WIP – hoidolario

[Martin Dablander]

This is an on-going thread documenting my progress through the 2021 Collab Project.

I decided to work on the stones. 

[Martin Dablander]

So, after familiarizing myself with the Scrape tool yesterday, I tried sculpting some stones today. It took me quite a long time to do it. But it is definitely a good practice. I hope the stones are close enough to the original. 

[Martin Dablander]

Today I went with much broader strokes. Therefore I managed go model most of the rocks. Only some small are left, but I think it’s ok to copy and scale some of the bigger stones and not to model each of the smaller ones.  Maybe @spikeyxxx  can have a look, and confirm if they are ok. Is It better to move further on and model  some more details (cracks..) or should I wait for next week?

[yukino hatake]

wow , really nice rocks you created. great job on them :D. i love how unique each rock is, or at least thats how it looks right now 🙂

[spikeyxxx]

As far as I am concerned, they look great, Martin! (But I am not grading 😉 )

You can relax and join us on Discord, or do whatever you like, or you can already start sculpting details if you want….

Fantastic resultz for week 1 I’d say!

[William Miller]

For some reason the website insists I have not read this thread no matter how much I read it.  Maybe if I reply it will be fixed.

[William Miller]

What if I reply to this?  This is the reply highlighted in orange…

[William Miller]

Nope, it’s broken.

[James Langley]

oh dude that’s awesome, great work! 

[yukino hatake]

i have it too sometimes , today it seems fine 🙂 .

[Martin Dablander]

Homework Submission – Week 1 – Nature-Rocks

@theluthier

That’s how far I’ve come this week. The stones in white are modeled, the smaller ones in red are copies of others. I also started to model cracks in some of the stones. Unfortunately, I am not satisfied with the result. They look very unnatural to me. But at the moment I do not know how to improve it. I am grateful for any advice to improve the result.  

[Vadim Zaitsev]

Hi Martin. You can try to push a bit more for a Blizzard-ish style. I was inspired by Orb’s rocks quite a lot while making my own. Here’s an example. And his whole portfolio is amazing. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JlkvxR

[Martin Dablander]

Thank you for your reply. Here is another raw try. Maybe this is more in the direction you want? 

[Kent Trammell]

Look..at…those….rocks…

I’m very impressed @hoidolario! I have to give you full points + some extra for the effort.

I see your comments with Vadim and his art direction. I think you’re on track stylistically based on his suggestion. Can you go ahead and save your file in this google drive directory:

SPICE-VENDORS-HOUSE/SCENES/MODELS/WIP/NATURE/FG/WIP_nature_rocks_hoidolario.blend

Since the rocks won’t have the locator business I discussed on the stream, you can save it as is. I’d like to use your rocks as an example for sculpting additional accents.

[Martin Dablander]

@theluthier 

Thank you for your kind words. I  just uploaded the file as you requested. I apreciate, that you will use them for showing us sculpting more details, as I really need some hints how to go into the desired direction. I am new to sculpting, and so  it’s both: Getting used to the sculpting tools, and finding the right artistic approach to get a satisfying result.

Just noticed, that it is a bit a large file. So please feel free to delete anything you don’t need. I have a backup anyway.

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