Keiths Polybook

[Keith]

Next was the body – just using the skin modifier again to get the rough shapes I needed, then adding the detail in gradually.

Once I’d got to this point, I decided to put him into a pose. Then I sculpted a bit more adding creases and wrinkles. To be honest, I found this to be the hardest part – it’s really difficult to make creases look ‘natural’ and I started over a few times in the process. 

[Keith]

The next step was retopo and unwrapping, not my favourite part of any project but it’s totally worth it when you come to paint later.  It’s not perfect by any means, but I feel like I’m getting better at this process, slowly!!  🙂

I then went on to bake some normal maps from the high poly objects to use in substance later.

Here is a close up of the eyes for Monica @freiredesign 

Nothing too fancy at all! Just some spheres that I squashed a bit, and flattened.  Then it was very easy to paint the iris in Substance 

Final result

[Keith]

A little bit of progress on the Cub today, I blocked in the cylinder shape in the engine and just added some shapes here and there. I sculpted the crank case and quickly cut some holes using a boolean shape, just as an experiment – I’ll come back to that bit later! 

Still looking a bit basic and lots of things to add, but it feels good to be working in blender again! Slowly getting used to left click select too

[Keith]

A couple more progress shots, it’s looking a bit better with the headlight in place!

[Keith]

Added a bit more detail here and there, also made a giant nut! 

[Keith]

I had quite a productive weekend with Blender, and I *think* that I’m done with the modelling now – apart from the chain but I’m worrying about that later!  Oh, and maybe a cable or two, but nothing major.

So, I should unwrap it all now and get it ready for painting – that will definitely take a while 🙂

[Morten Fjellheim]

Nice bike, will we get to see it fully rendereed?

[Keith]

That’s the plan Morten! I’m hoping to get it all unwrapped in the next few days and then I can start painting 🙂

[Keith]

Some progress on the unwrapping

[Keith]

Here’s a little update from the Tiger Cub project. I managed to get all the unwrapping done in the evenings last week and even did a bit of work in substance painter over the weekend. 

I still have loads more to add but I can really feel that this is starting to come together now, hopefully it’ll be pretty cool when it’s finished!!! 

[Morten Fjellheim]

Looking good, is it rendered on a grey background in the wievport?

[Keith]

I’m just using an alpha over node in the compositor at the moment. You can change the solid colour to what you like with the top image input

[spikeyxxx]

Here’s another way of doing this (in the Shader Editor):

Not saying that this is better, just different.

[Keith]

Cool, it’s always nice to see a different way of doing something! 

[Keith]

Well, the end is in sight with this project I think! 

This week I’ve been able to spend some time in Substance going around and adding in details where I can. 

In Blender, I also used some displacement maps to generate the light glass front and rear, and finally made chain using the array & curve modifier – that was much easier than I thought it would be! I changed the lighting a bit too and added a plane to act as a shadow catcher under the bike.

Also, I added the speedo and gear selector detail which cant be seen from this angle – so I will render a few more camera angles as my next step.

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