Hellchick V2: Slow Goin

I haven't been working on Hellchick much since I got back from Texas, but I think it's about time to start kicking it back into gear. I've spent most of my time the last few nights just messing around in Mental Ray so that I don't have to port over to Zbrush to get some renders kicked out all the time. So, tonight I just watched Orphan, which I dug, and really just sat down and started moving sliders and really trying to figure this stuff out.

So peep it, nice big renders today so you can get in and really see what's going on. I got the gauntlet pretty much finished and will probably go all tech for that right arm of hers. Time to get back in the groove. More updates on the way.

Hellchick V2: Back on it

Small update, haven't had much time to work on her since getting back home. Tweaked the body proportions and pulled back from the crazy stuff for now. Did some stuff with the neck and trying to get the glove figured out now...

Hellchick V2: I Hate Football

I wish I had spent the last 4 hours working on Hellchick instead of watching the Dallas Cowboys play like assholes. At least I had a good chunk of Saturday to work on her.

I got the legs just about finished and got a good first pass on her torso in Zbrush. I'm going to leave it alone for now but will come back once I've got a first pass on the face/head and try to get a more demonic look out of the flesh portions. I also decided tonight to go mostly tech with the tail so I'll probably jump into that next.

Hellchick V2: She's Got Legs.

I should've been in bed hours ago and didn't plan on updating so that I could get that extra 20 minutes of sleep, but this one's for you, Holt.

Threw in a rough proxy of her planted in the legs from a little earlier in. Hopefully I'll be Zbrushing by this weekend!

Hellchick V2: Needs More Cables.

I didn't get to work on HC as much over the 3 day weekend as I hoped. Most of the time has gone into figuring out the forms now that I'm not working verbatim from the concept. I was getting too into the details a few days ago and am trying to get back into bigger/bolder shapes.

Hellchick V2: Baby Steps

Not a huge update, but jusssst about finished with this section of the leg. I should be working my way up to the next piece by tomorrow.

Hellchick V2: The Fun Stuff

It's been a long, long time since I had the chance to do some all out hard surface modeling, so to prepare I spent a lot of time just watching these vids on the making of Vadim Bakhlychev's Recon Elite model for the latest Dominance War. Repeatedly. This thing is a masterpiece. I don't know any other way to describe it. Vitaly Bulgarov's gnomon DVD was also a huge help.

I started the hi-res stuff yesterday and I guess my wrist isn't used to the abuse of hours and hours in front of Softimage anymore because my wrist is bumpin! Here's what I've got as of tonight. Still plenty of work to do along the back of the first leg section, but I'm pretty pleased with where it's going so far.