[ENDED] BC2-1803 – March 2018 Class Homepage – Creating Stylized Characters with Blender

[bitblox]

Hey, Just got done Texturing this character witch I pretty much worked on the whole day. Here is the concept art I went from and the final render… I know the eyes and eye brows could be improved and made better but that was not the point of the project. This is my submission for week one. (turned out more realistic than what I was going for)

[Paul Harbin]

Looks awesome!  Layer in red and filed horns for me please! =)

[Paul Harbin]

Does anyone have sculpting practice recommendations, other than just doing? Iterations or anything like this?

[Rebecka Lewin]

Hello! I tried sculpting Meryl Streep, but I’m unsure of how to exaggerate her features further… Does anyone have some advice?

https://skfb.ly/6xqxW

[sowibra2002]

Hello !!! The concept I’ll go for during the whole Class. How do you find it ?

[Kent Trammell]

I definitely see Ron Perlman – Nice job @jakeblended! Excellent choice for caricature.

[Kent Trammell]

Wow I never thought about how Will Ferrel and Ron Perlman do look alike 🤔

[Kent Trammell]

I second Matt’s suggestion about pushing a little more into the extreme. I certainly have a tendency to do ‘safe caricature’ where I push the features slightly, say 25% further than reality. But I try to tell myself to push further, like 50% or more, for the exercise of it.

But yes, it’s totally looking great so far!

[Kent Trammell]

This turned out well @btiblox! Kudos on going the extra mile with textures and hair 🤘

Is this a caricature of someone? I’d love to see a photo if so. It’s a cool approach to do a 2D sketch first before going into 3D!

[Kent Trammell]

How experienced are you with sculpting? As in beginner practice suggestions, intermediate, or advanced?

[malhomsi]

War..War never changes !  nice start 

[malhomsi]

nice sketch ! witch character r u going to do ? ( the girl ? )

[Kent Trammell]

Hi Rebecka – You may have picked a hard one with Mrs. Streep. As I study photos of her, she doesn’t strike me as having terribly distinct features. Also she’s widely renown as an elegant actress, highest in class, which makes it difficult for me to push her into the less elegant world of caricature.

While I think you’ve done a good job with your sculpt, I don’t immediately recognize her as Meryl Streep. But then I see it a little more compared to this photo:

Here’s my annotations over the photo:

I think your mouth shape is too far of a departure from Streep’s smile shape. I tried to outline that in the annotated image. Note how the right corner of her mouth (screen left) hooks up more than the left corner. The contour where her lips meet has a unique wavy shape while the top lip contour is fairly straight across horizontally and the bottom lip has a consistent U-arch. I recommend focusing on this shape and exaggerating it.

Again given her elegance, I would generally avoid accentuating wrinkles – only accentuate essential wrinkles like her crows feet, possibly under her eyes, and the corners of her laugh lines (which you’ve done pretty good). In the annotations I tried to highlight contour these features to emphasize in blue and the areas to keep smooth in yellow.

Hope this helps, but I really do think she’s a hard one to caricaturize.

[Kent Trammell]

Perfect! They’ll serve very well for this class. Which one are you doing @sowibra2002? Both?!

[Rebecka Lewin]

Thank you for responding! I will look over it!

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