Principia Discordia

Principia Discordia => Bring and Brag => Topic started by: P3nT4gR4m on September 07, 2010, 03:32:06 PM

Title: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 07, 2010, 03:32:06 PM
So I aint been around much lately. Here's what I've been up to..

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4528500/4528719_758d_625x1000.jpg) (http://fxb.worth1000.com/entries/598905/rubber-and-string)
Rubber and String

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4645500/4645871_6e55_625x1000.jpg) (http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/600854/french-restaurant-retirement-plan)
French Restaurant Retirement Plan

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4584000/4584114_fa2a_625x1000.jpg) (http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/599908/bella-bela)
Bella Bela

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4601000/4601199_dddf_625x1000.jpg) (http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/600153/the-hermit)
The Hermit

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4549500/4549708_3770_625x1000.jpg) (http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/599245/snap-happy)
Snap Happy

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4801500/4801513_624d_625x1000.jpg) (http://fxh.worth1000.com/entries/603317/did-i-make-you-hard)
Did I make you hard?

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4803000/4803225_d62c_625x1000.jpg) (http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/603367/nobody-here-but-us-streetlights)
Nobody here but us streetlights

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4823000/4823072_ff81_625x1000.jpg) (http://ftrd.worth1000.com/entries/603643/the-shawshank-exorcism)
The Shawshank Exorcism

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4826500/4826809_e3be_625x1000.jpg) (http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/603743/circumstantial-evidence)
Circumstantial Evidence

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4899000/4899267_31ec_625x1000.jpg) (http://fxh.worth1000.com/entries/604885/preservation)
Preservation
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on September 07, 2010, 03:34:51 PM
dude, these are awesome! definitely saving these to my Awesome Pix folder when I get home.

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 07, 2010, 03:40:19 PM
Meant to say - if you click on them it goes to the comp site then, hover over the pic and some buttons will pop up - "zoom" shows it off in extra juicy bigness
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on September 07, 2010, 04:14:03 PM
neat :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 07, 2010, 06:30:16 PM
Fucking amazing.

But no excuse for leaving me here with a pack of colonials.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 07, 2010, 08:14:09 PM
Like I need an excuse. Anyway I didn't leave you alone with them I left them alone with you. I trust you haven't performed "science" on too many of them?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 07, 2010, 08:21:47 PM
Quote from: Doktor Vitriol on September 07, 2010, 08:14:09 PM
Like I need an excuse. Anyway I didn't leave you alone with them I left them alone with you. I trust you haven't performed "science" on too many of them?

Maybe.

But I was provoked.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 07, 2010, 08:31:02 PM
Idle curiosity would never stand as provocation in a court of law :argh!:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 07, 2010, 08:54:42 PM
Quote from: Doktor Vitriol on September 07, 2010, 08:31:02 PM
Idle curiosity would never stand as provocation in a court of law :argh!:

They also annoyed me.  Repeatedly.  In addition, I have made it known that I don't prefer to share my planet with monkeys, yet they will not leave.  They can't even clean up after themselves, and they breed irresponsibly.  They make a horrible noise when you kick them, and they shit anywhere they want.  Plus, they act in ways that defy logic, and bother me while I'm fucking off at work.


Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on September 07, 2010, 09:35:12 PM
Those are absolutely awesome! 
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on September 08, 2010, 01:14:41 AM
Outstanding stuff, Pent.

What spurred you to make these?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on September 08, 2010, 01:16:03 AM
Yeah, those are goodstuff.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 08, 2010, 07:25:43 AM
Quote from: Ne+@uNGr0+ on September 08, 2010, 01:14:41 AM
Outstanding stuff, Pent.

What spurred you to make these?

I was bored and entered one for their competitions. I scored for shit so I tried again and did better. Then I won the top spot with this
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4353000/4353379_12e1_625x1000.jpg) (http://fxb.worth1000.com/entries/596257/friendly-fire)

At that point I was hooked. The competitions give a theme and a deadline which makes it easier for me to to concentrate on what I'm doing and sort of motivates me to finish. Any time I've tried anything like this before I lose interest and, 9 times out of 10 will delete the shit without even saving it. I'm having a lot of fun here - makes me feel like the artist I've always wanted to be.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Xicked on September 09, 2010, 07:40:40 AM
These are awesome. 

So many talented people here.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mangrove on September 09, 2010, 10:37:43 PM
These are amazing!

Good thing all the copyrights are owned by SSOOKN Inc.

:D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Elder Iptuous on September 10, 2010, 02:57:08 AM
nice shoops!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on September 20, 2010, 03:02:55 PM
Quote from: Doktor Vitriol on September 08, 2010, 07:25:43 AM
Quote from: Ne+@uNGr0+ on September 08, 2010, 01:14:41 AM
Outstanding stuff, Pent.

What spurred you to make these?

I was bored and entered one for their competitions. I scored for shit so I tried again and did better. Then I won the top spot with this
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4353000/4353379_12e1_625x1000.jpg) (http://fxb.worth1000.com/entries/596257/friendly-fire)

At that point I was hooked. The competitions give a theme and a deadline which makes it easier for me to to concentrate on what I'm doing and sort of motivates me to finish. Any time I've tried anything like this before I lose interest and, 9 times out of 10 will delete the shit without even saving it. I'm having a lot of fun here - makes me feel like the artist I've always wanted to be.

you made that?? that's awesome dude. I've seen that reposted elsewhere.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jasper on September 20, 2010, 05:54:19 PM
I love the space habitat!  They're really all outstanding, but that one was particularly inspiring.  :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jenne on September 27, 2010, 09:41:09 PM
I don't think I ever sung your praises in this thread!  I meant to.  :( 

These are all awesome, P3nt!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 27, 2010, 11:02:54 PM
Christ v's Cthulhu as painted by Rembrandt (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/fantasy%20ren/ChristvsCthulhu.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on September 28, 2010, 12:04:32 AM
Quote from: Doktor Vitriol on September 27, 2010, 11:02:54 PM
Christ v's Cthulhu as painted by Rembrandt (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/fantasy%20ren/ChristvsCthulhu.jpg)
:aaa:

THAT. IS. FUCKING. AMAZING.

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on September 28, 2010, 01:39:00 AM
Quote from: Doktor Vitriol on September 27, 2010, 11:02:54 PM
Christ v's Cthulhu as painted by Rembrandt (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/fantasy%20ren/ChristvsCthulhu.jpg)

New wallpaper, found.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jenne on September 28, 2010, 04:35:02 PM
Oooh, very nice!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 05, 2010, 08:58:07 AM
Tyra Banks - Fucking Supermodels how do they work?  :lulz:

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/5221000/5221376_676a_625x1000.jpg) (http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/609204/tyra-banks-america-s-next-top-supervillain)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on October 05, 2010, 05:07:18 PM
whoa!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 14, 2010, 11:38:09 PM
New toy - Sculptris alpha - it's like 3d modelling but using a ball of clay instead of all that "primitive" malarkey.

Available HERE (http://www.sculptris.com/) for free!

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/rocky.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jasper on October 15, 2010, 12:13:48 AM
Whoa, how long did that take you?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 15, 2010, 07:39:22 AM
Quote from: Sigmatic on October 15, 2010, 12:13:48 AM
Whoa, how long did that take you?

All in - about 3 or 4 hours. If I done it as a straight photomanip it'd prolly be about a weeks work!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Roaring Biscuit! on October 15, 2010, 05:27:53 PM
just downloaded sculptris.

Fucking AMAZING piece of software, so much easier for organics than Blender, thanks for the link

x

edd
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on October 17, 2010, 01:22:28 AM
Yeah, that looks freaking sweet. Thanks Pent.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 17, 2010, 11:19:49 PM
couple of really good tut vids

Sculpting (http://vimeo.com/12186535)

painting (http://www.vimeo.com/13982936)

latest WIP...

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/reggae.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on October 19, 2010, 03:21:23 PM
YOUR WORK IS EXCELLIANT
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(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/horrormirth1-1.gif)



YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL MIND
            \
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/horrormirth1-1.gif)




AND SOFT HANDS
            \
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/horrormirth1-1.gif)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Sir Fronkensteen, The Hawk on October 19, 2010, 06:10:27 PM
My god, this makes my gallery look like an 8 year old did it   :x
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on October 20, 2010, 12:41:36 AM
Quote from: Sir Fronkensteen of the 9th Realm in Sector 7 on October 19, 2010, 06:10:27 PM
My god, this makes my gallery look like an 8 year old did it   :x

Relatively speaking, that's nothing to be ashamed of

P3nT/Vitriol is like a hundred years old
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 21, 2010, 11:16:28 PM
Moar Sculptris. Spaceman head + helmet. I'm going to finish this one off and spend a couple of days detailing. Updates to follow. I'm fucking loving this package!

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/head1.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/head2.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jasper on October 21, 2010, 11:37:37 PM
FUCK THAT IS AWESOME!

SHIT DUDE! :aaa:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 23, 2010, 05:12:03 AM
Colour test. Will scrap this as soon as I work out how to get a decent resolution render.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/helmet.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on October 23, 2010, 06:06:15 PM
Quote from: Doktor Vitriol on October 23, 2010, 05:12:03 AM
Colour test. Will scrap this as soon as I work out how to get a decent resolution render.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/helmet.jpg)



It's progressing very nicely. Keep up the great work.  :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Sir Fronkensteen, The Hawk on October 23, 2010, 07:41:39 PM
Show us the REAL Master Chief :lulz:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 27, 2010, 08:06:15 AM
Yeehaw! Just snagged my first advanced gold on worth1000 with this

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/5418500/5418648_ba6d_625x1000.jpg) (http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/611711/kevin)

Was an overpaint of this 3d model which I made in sculptris
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/tortoiserender.jpg)

using these sources
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/5418000/5418147_31b0.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ob_Portu on October 27, 2010, 03:53:03 PM
O. M. Gasm
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 04, 2010, 11:31:24 PM
Power Crazed
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/PowerCrazed-1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 08, 2010, 11:15:00 PM
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/5560500/5560972_26ca_625x1000.jpg) (http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/612947/lionheart)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on November 08, 2010, 11:54:50 PM
Sweeeet. More Sculptris?

Also, great lighting, the rim lights/blue edging are well done.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on November 09, 2010, 02:21:24 AM
 I 'specially like the turtle.  :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 09, 2010, 10:00:41 AM
Quote from: Telarus on November 08, 2010, 11:54:50 PM
Sweeeet. More Sculptris?

Also, great lighting, the rim lights/blue edging are well done.

Yeah. Usual heavy overpaint, tho.
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/5557500/5557756_01e9.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 10, 2010, 12:12:37 AM
Vampire - not for a comp or anything, just more practise with sculptris

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/vampire1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 16, 2010, 11:17:49 PM
First time I've managed to get any decent results with poly painting. Teeth need redone from scratch, tho, they're a fucking mess  :oops:

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/Polly.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 17, 2010, 11:26:20 PM
Death Snail of the Apocalypse...

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/snail1.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/snail2.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/snail3.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on November 18, 2010, 03:39:16 AM
:lulz:

Holy shit. That snail is superb.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2010, 02:56:17 PM
Still a lot of modelling to be done on the snail. It's sitting about 170,000 polys just now, prolly take it up to about 500,000 - 750,000 by the time I have the detailing done. Also have to remodel the whole shell again from scratch (that's what I get for not using a reference) Then, when that's done, I'll go ahead and texture it.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on November 18, 2010, 05:56:05 PM
holy fucking christ this shit is teh awesomes!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on November 18, 2010, 06:32:01 PM
AWESOME!!

Hey P3NT, how about some Discordia-related models?

I dunno which one though, the apple has been done already, and I dunno if you could maybe make an interpretation of Eris? Otherwise I'm not sure what imagery would be good in 3D, but eh, I'd love to see some Discordia propaganda in your awesomeness-style :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 19, 2010, 12:05:35 AM
Actually Eris could be a good fun. I'm on holiday next week and GT5 doesn't come out til wednesday. Watch this space.

Finished the snail mesh tonight. Started bumpmapping and colouring in. (background is just something to break up the black)

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/snail5.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on November 19, 2010, 07:47:03 PM
This stuff is pretty amazing, Doktor Vitriol. Do you plan to offer prints for sale at any point?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 19, 2010, 08:31:15 PM
Right now you can get prints of a couple of my photomanips at my deviantart account (http://p3nt4gr4m.deviantart.com/) I got a print of 57, 18"X24" and it came out pretty cool. If you fancy a print of anything in particular gimme a shout and I'll sort it for ya. The 3d stuff, right now is just scribbles for practice, til I get the hang of the whole thing. Wouldn't sell one of those pieces of shit to my worst enemy  :D

Speaking of 3D. I'm done with teh snail now

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/snail7.jpg)

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/snail8.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 10:37:04 PM
SNAIL O DOOM!!!!!!!

Lovely work, as usual, P3nt!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 20, 2010, 01:27:22 AM
 :thanks:

New project for the weekend - Cunty Little Alien Bastard, with Realistic Battle Spaceshiptm (sold seperately) ...

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/invader1.jpg)

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/invader2.jpg)

The more observant will notice a complete lack of little alien johnston.

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/invader3.jpg)

Anyone have any ideas how far-fetched and grotesque alien genitalia might look? let me know
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on November 20, 2010, 11:12:35 AM
Chunky-mucus dripping, barbed hemi-penes!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 20, 2010, 12:45:56 PM
Maybe finished. Might go back and tidy a couple of things up...

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/invader4.jpg)

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/invader5.jpg)

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/invader6.jpg)

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/invader8.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Sister Fracture on November 20, 2010, 03:26:40 PM
He looks like such a happy little guy.



Yeah, he needs a fucking squashing.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 20, 2010, 04:35:37 PM
Don't let the fact that he's only 6" tall fool you. He's a vicious little shit, with futuristic firepower and he's hell-bent on galactic domination!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 22, 2010, 11:38:33 AM
Okay so you wanted Eris, I've started working on one. I've begun with a straightforward anatomy study, since my anatomy skillz are epic fail as can be seen here. It pains me to have to say this but my weakest suit would seem to be bewbs :x

linked on account of bigness (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/fem.jpg) (probably SFW - no nipples or vaginage is modelled and it only vaguely resembles a human anyroad)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 22, 2010, 07:32:49 PM
This is going to take months. I need to learn "rigging" now which seems perhaps one of the most complicated fucked up processes you could possibly subject yourself to, just so I can pose this bastard thing  :x

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/eris.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jasper on November 24, 2010, 01:32:21 AM
It has a creepy, unlikable feeling to it.

Which is perfect.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on November 24, 2010, 03:09:50 AM
I love it, Vitriol. Keep up the great work.  :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Juvenal on November 24, 2010, 04:46:00 AM
This is really impressive, really neat stuff.  Thanks for putting it up.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Roaring Biscuit! on November 24, 2010, 03:32:46 PM
rigging is a nightmare, if it's the first time you've done it I suggest you get a reference for human bodies to get a better idea of what should move where

x
edd
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 27, 2010, 11:24:39 AM
Quote from: Roaring Biscuit! on November 24, 2010, 03:32:46 PM
rigging is a nightmare, if it's the first time you've done it I suggest you get a reference for human bodies to get a better idea of what should move where

x
edd

I've given up and downloaded a generic biped rig for blender and I'm working on attaching it to the mesh without all the polygons flying off into space  :sad:

In the meantime ... ZOMBIES!!!  :eek:

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/zombie2b.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 28, 2010, 12:39:05 PM
And now zombies coloured in 8)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/snookums-1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jasper on November 28, 2010, 09:01:59 PM
That is some truly snazzy shit.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on November 28, 2010, 10:38:24 PM
Nice fine detail normal/bump map there.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jasper on November 28, 2010, 10:49:36 PM
I love the combination of the textures and the perspective blur (or whatever that's called-the way further objects are fuzzier than close ones.)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on November 29, 2010, 01:08:15 AM
"Depth of Field" is the usual term, but you nailed the concept.

What rendering engine does this tool use?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 30, 2010, 07:32:34 AM
No idea. It uses material spheres so it's not a full raytrace. Leaves a lot of inappropriate lit parts, especially inside the mouth and stuff so I run an ambient occlusion map in blender then import that back into sculptris to compensate. 
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 22, 2010, 04:49:17 PM
Quote from: Doktor Vitriol on September 07, 2010, 03:32:06 PM
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/4803000/4803225_d62c_625x1000.jpg) (http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/603367/nobody-here-but-us-streetlights)
Nobody here but us streetlights

I got my poster from dART, recently. Thanks.  :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 11, 2011, 08:21:39 PM
So for xmas I treated myslef to a Wacom GFX tablet. Now I can draws, albeit noobishly  :oops:

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/pistols.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on January 11, 2011, 08:48:10 PM
:mittens: I need a new wacom.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 11, 2011, 09:47:14 PM
Wacoms are the bizness! I scored an intuos4 large for about 10 bucks more than the medium on amazon :ECH:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 19, 2011, 10:24:15 PM
More wacom shit...

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/6296500/6296653_1613.jpg)

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/6315000/6315265_a36f.jpg)

(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/6336500/6336641_1a9b.jpg)

The last two are WIP and will be completed when I have the skillz. The fact that I can't get photorealism is starting to bust my nuts cos with manips it's sorta built in but I'm sure I'll get there eventually - just need to practice like a motherfucker.  :evilmad:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on January 20, 2011, 03:09:10 PM
P3NT FUCKING HELL YOU'RE GETTING DAMN GOOD AT THIS!!

:mittens:

I especially like the monkey, turned out real good.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on January 20, 2011, 05:29:01 PM
I wish I could any of that shit half as well as you.   :aaa:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 22, 2011, 05:10:28 PM
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/6360500/6360760_9392.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 24, 2011, 07:54:18 PM
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/6379500/6379763_7ce4.jpg)
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/6394000/6394151_7c69.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on January 24, 2011, 08:14:27 PM
oh man these are great!

makes me want to see a picard as a frankenstein


or Frankenstein as a borg
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on January 24, 2011, 08:17:31 PM
Getting better all the time, P3nT.  :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 24, 2011, 08:22:46 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on January 24, 2011, 08:17:31 PM
Getting better all the time, P3nT.  :)

Thanks! I'm starting to get a workflow together. The shading part is a piece of piss now so, with Frankie, I've moved on to texturing which is a whole nother level of mindfuck. I'll get there, tho. Just gotta keep practising
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Don Coyote on January 24, 2011, 09:52:28 PM
Awesome work.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on January 24, 2011, 10:20:25 PM
Hey P3NT, I wonder, can you also use all these drawing skillz for drawing textures on your 3D putty clay modelling application?

What would be really awesome is, if you were to have one screen for pushing and pulling and molding on the model, and a window next to it where you can draw with the draw pad and see the texture update in realtime :) Probably doesn't do that, though :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 24, 2011, 10:31:39 PM
Actually it does have direct tablet support. Doesn't even need two windows, you just paint in the 3d thing. I had a bit fuck around when I first got the tablet but it's on a back burner right now cos I'm having so much fun learning to paint all grown up and proper, like a big boy  :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 25, 2011, 10:05:28 PM
Click for fullsize

(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/025/3/f/mistress_of_the_dark_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3814o8.jpg) (http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/025/3/f/mistress_of_the_dark_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3814o8.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on January 25, 2011, 11:24:22 PM
DUDE :eek:

how are you getting so good at these so fucking quickly??

also, she looks familiar ... filename doesn't tell me much more, is the face based on some actress or something? I'm guessing a cross between Cruelle de Vil, Morticia and Captain Janeway.

and, I have to ask, did you cheat and use a photograph of some model for reference? because otherwise, how did you get the shading on her knee exactly right? I would have had no fucking idea where to exactly put the dark and the light blotches to make it actually look like a real knee like that.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 26, 2011, 07:55:59 AM
Whoa there neddy! I'm not getting that good. This is a copy of this photo

(http://www.clattoverata.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/1elvira800x600.jpg)

First I trace the outline in shoop...

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/elviraoutline.jpg)

Then I keep the pic open in a seperate window for reference while I colour it in. It's just colouring in, really. Not that hard.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on January 26, 2011, 02:33:01 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 25, 2011, 10:05:28 PM
Click for fullsize

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/025/3/f/mistress_of_the_dark_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3814o8.jpg (http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/025/3/f/mistress_of_the_dark_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3814o8.jpg)
Just a note to look out for, you made a common mistake with copying a picture from a photograph and made the lines on the face too defined. Of course, I'm no artist so I have no idea how to avoid doing that in the future, but maybe try to figure out something in future works.

But I like it. :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 26, 2011, 05:08:37 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on January 26, 2011, 02:33:01 PM
Just a note to look out for, you made a common mistake with copying a picture from a photograph and made the lines on the face too defined. Of course, I'm no artist so I have no idea how to avoid doing that in the future, but maybe try to figure out something in future works.

But I like it. :)

Yeha, I'm still a noob at this. On the plus side I can only get better  :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on January 26, 2011, 06:16:44 PM
Getting good there. I'm practicing similar techniques with pencil sketching. They key is laying down a "local tone", a shade of grey that will be your 'constant'. Then you layer the shadows onto that (keeping in mind light angles and making sure the blending is subtle, which I think was Phoxx's critique of the face).

There are 3 types of shadows:
- Form shadows (the part of the object in darkness)
- Cast shadows (the silhouette that gets 'cast' down on to the surface the object is on)
- and 'Contact Shadows' (Also called "Ambient Occlusion" in CG.. which you're probably familiar with).

Contcat Shadows happens when light literally can't get to an area of the scene as well as the other lit areas (too many bounces and the light looses intensity). This makes the point in the cast shadow where the object and the surface meet into the darkest area of shadow. Similarly, small details on the object (even if in the Form Shadow) get darker.

Then you add the highlights. As my Concept Design instructor said last week, people tend to make highlights way too large. Most of the sense of highlights are to contrast the dark portion of the image, so you can get away with very small "white hit" highlight spots, and then halos around them that are just a little bit lighter than local tone.


Texturing (even for b&w detail) comes after you have the basic Form, and Lighting/Shadows in place.



I manages to pull off a convincing "Chrome Ball" that reflected the cup and a d6 die I had on the table next to my model object just by focusing on 1) Form, 2) Light&Shadows (reflections included), and 3) Slight Texturing.
Hope that helps!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jenne on January 26, 2011, 06:37:42 PM
Ooooh...ELVIRA!  :fap:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 26, 2011, 07:52:43 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 26, 2011, 06:16:44 PM
Getting good there. I'm practicing similar techniques with pencil sketching. They key is laying down a "local tone", a shade of grey that will be your 'constant'. Then you layer the shadows onto that (keeping in mind light angles and making sure the blending is subtle, which I think was Phoxx's critique of the face).

There are 3 types of shadows:
- Form shadows (the part of the object in darkness)
- Cast shadows (the silhouette that gets 'cast' down on to the surface the object is on)
- and 'Contact Shadows' (Also called "Ambient Occlusion" in CG.. which you're probably familiar with).

Contcat Shadows happens when light literally can't get to an area of the scene as well as the other lit areas (too many bounces and the light looses intensity). This makes the point in the cast shadow where the object and the surface meet into the darkest area of shadow. Similarly, small details on the object (even if in the Form Shadow) get darker.

Then you add the highlights. As my Concept Design instructor said last week, people tend to make highlights way too large. Most of the sense of highlights are to contrast the dark portion of the image, so you can get away with very small "white hit" highlight spots, and then halos around them that are just a little bit lighter than local tone.


Texturing (even for b&w detail) comes after you have the basic Form, and Lighting/Shadows in place.



I manages to pull off a convincing "Chrome Ball" that reflected the cup and a d6 die I had on the table next to my model object just by focusing on 1) Form, 2) Light&Shadows (reflections included), and 3) Slight Texturing.
Hope that helps!

Brilliant!! I've been on the right track. With photoshop you can go back and forward a bit with shadows and highlights whereas in pencils that would fuck you right up I guess but, generally, I seem to be doing the right thing, which is good. I start with 50% grey canvas, lay on the shadows first and then pop highlights on. Where the difference lies is that I can overshadow and then airbrush white to bring it back to grey if I need to. Allows me to fuck about back and forward to get it as close to right as I'm capable. I'm guessing that as I get a bit better at it I'll spend less time doing this cos I'll be able to get it close to perfect first time. As it was Elvira took about 3hours, start to finish, so I'm already seeing an improvement.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on January 26, 2011, 08:28:32 PM
Nice. I'm going to be working my digital techniques after this (near the last half of the term), so I'll have more hints to throw out.

Local Tone doesn't have to be 50%, and should probably be higher for skintone.

Here's a good practice technique that I got a demo of.

Find a ball, setup a one point lighting setup, so you get a single highlight spot.

In your sketch program, use a circular marquee to define the ball, fill it with local tone (try to get as close to the dark/light intensity as your model object). Invert the selection, and with a slightly darker grey, quickly fill out a cast shadow that matches your lighting setup. Invert selection again. Sketch in the form shadow (notice that the area close to the edge of the form catches reflected light, so your darkest part in a crescent in the interior of the form shadow, blah, blah artsy spaggotry).

Add highlight. Blend grays. Using a simple, geometrical, but physical, object really trains the eye on tone (I recommend it over photo reference when learning this at first).

Do a few with different light angles, these should be relatively fast to do because you can use the circular marquee to restrict your brush to just object or just cast shadow. (My instructor broke my head open when he picked up a roll of take and said to the class "You have a circular marquee right here".)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 26, 2011, 09:28:02 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 26, 2011, 08:28:32 PM
Local Tone doesn't have to be 50%, and should probably be higher for skintone.

With elvira most of the skintone was nearly white, compared to the nearly black clothes and hair so I started off laying down a black matte fill for the dark bits and pure white matte fill for the skintones. using these as seperate, transparency-locked layers meant I had less airbrushing to do to fill in the shading and I can work with hard edges without having to mask and remask. A trick I learned from photomanips where I might have upward of 150 layers at any given time. Once the lions share of the work is done set up another layer over the top of everything and smooth in the edges where your layers meet.

I've only just started using layer mattes on Frankie and then Elvira but I'm totally reminded of why I learned to love them before. Going forward I'll probably be using them a whole bunch more.

With regards drawing spheres and stuff - I can totally get where you're coming from but it bores me to tears real quick which is the whole reason I never studied art in the first place. Couldn't stand being made to draw apples and shit. Yeah it'll probably slow down my development but I can live with that.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on January 26, 2011, 10:28:58 PM
That's why I suggested the digital method. It's damn fast compared to 4 hours of laying down graphite on illustration board.  8)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: hooplala on February 04, 2011, 05:58:58 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 25, 2011, 11:24:22 PM

also, she looks familiar ... filename doesn't tell me much more, is the face based on some actress or something? I'm guessing a cross between Cruelle de Vil, Morticia and Captain Janeway.

It's Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.  She hosts a late night tv show which shows schlocky horror and sci-fi B movies.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on February 04, 2011, 09:03:03 PM
A couple of months ago I saw a recently made (!!!) episode that showed Day of the Dead.


HILARIOUS
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: hooplala on February 04, 2011, 09:07:01 PM
Yeah she's back on, but we don't get it in Canada.  I was pretty pissed.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 06, 2011, 10:56:26 AM
Returned to photomanips for a change of pace
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/6475500/6475879_4390_625x1000.jpg) (http://www.worth1000.com/entries/622688/evocation)

So I've moved on to trying to draw shit from scratch instead of just copying photos. Not as easy as it looks.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/nectar2.jpg?t=1297079123) (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/nectar2.jpg?t=1297079123)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 08, 2011, 11:58:35 AM
Start of a zombie overpaint of superman I'll be working on for the next week or so. Updates to follow

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/superzombie.jpg?t=1297165948) (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/superzombie.jpg?t=1297165948)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 08, 2011, 06:09:30 PM
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip2detail.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 10, 2011, 07:54:45 PM
This fucking face is taking forever  :argh!:

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip4detail.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 13, 2011, 01:46:29 PM
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip8.jpg?t=1297604717)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on February 13, 2011, 05:50:01 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 13, 2011, 01:46:29 PM
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip8.jpg?t=1297604717

SWEET MERCIFUL ZOMBIE FUCKING JESUS!  :eek:



That's awesome, dude.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 13, 2011, 06:37:22 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on February 13, 2011, 05:50:01 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 13, 2011, 01:46:29 PM
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip8.jpg?t=1297604717

SWEET MERCIFUL ZOMBIE FUCKING JESUS!  :eek:



That's awesome, dude.

You just gave the most awesomest idea my brain has even happened!  :evil:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on February 13, 2011, 06:38:49 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 13, 2011, 06:37:22 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on February 13, 2011, 05:50:01 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 13, 2011, 01:46:29 PM
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip8.jpg?t=1297604717

SWEET MERCIFUL ZOMBIE FUCKING JESUS!  :eek:



That's awesome, dude.

You just gave the most awesomest idea my brain has even happened!  :evil:
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :x :x :x :horrormirth:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on February 16, 2011, 01:43:58 AM
WOW P3NT that's awesome!!

one thing, the foot on the right seems a bit smaller than the other one?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jasper on February 16, 2011, 07:16:19 PM
Woah.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 16, 2011, 09:52:44 PM
This isn't for a competition or anything. Just for the hell of it. It'll be another couple of days work at least. Can you tell what it is yet? [/ Rolf Harris]

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/scrap-python.jpg?t=1297893112)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 27, 2011, 08:59:44 AM
So I gave up on trying to paint fucking snake and roughed up a model in sculptris.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/headwip.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: LMNO on February 28, 2011, 03:43:21 AM
P3nt, please to consider creating a new image for me to use for The Spider Project.  The one I'm using now was made by a person who later proved to be a drama magnet, and should not be associated with the project.

Something along the lines of SPIDER and MACHINETM.  If you have time.  PM if you want to discuss further.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 28, 2011, 04:58:59 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on February 28, 2011, 03:43:21 AM
P3nt, please to consider creating a new image for me to use for The Spider Project.  The one I'm using now was made by a person who later proved to be a drama magnet, and should not be associated with the project.

Something along the lines of SPIDER and MACHINETM.  If you have time.  PM if you want to discuss further.

I have two projects I'm working on ATM for the next couple of weeks but as soon as that's done I'll be more than happy to help out. In the meantime let me know exactly (or even roughly) what you had in mind?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 02, 2011, 07:31:38 PM
Work continues on teh snake ... this is a collaboration with some canadian chick who's responsible for the background and a mechanical rat/prey-thingy, running along a beam in the foreground.

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on March 03, 2011, 02:07:45 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 02, 2011, 07:31:38 PM
Work continues on teh snake ... this is a collaboration with some canadian chick who's responsible for the background and a mechanical rat/prey-thingy, running along a beam in the foreground.

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip1.jpg)
:aaa:
Nice.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 03, 2011, 07:29:56 PM
I'm so fucking slow! I bet a proper artist would have this shit finished by now  :D

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip2.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Captain Utopia on March 03, 2011, 07:33:08 PM
Awesome work.  I find it especially fascinating to see the intermediate steps!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Luna on March 03, 2011, 07:33:53 PM
It takes as long as it takes, and I'm enjoying watching it come together, too.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 03, 2011, 11:14:56 PM
Forgot to mention - I'm resizing these snake pics using the forum, if you right click them and view in a new tab or whatever you'll get the whole 6megapixel goodness.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 19, 2011, 10:09:20 AM
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/7265500/7265825_7fca.jpg)

The Demon Drink - my all time favourite!
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/Lilith.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Hoser McRhizzy on April 19, 2011, 06:43:21 PM
 :aaa:

These are awesome, Pent!!!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on April 19, 2011, 07:00:23 PM
:mittens:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 19, 2011, 07:50:34 PM
Should have mentioned - the snake pic - rat and background was by Shorra (http://shorra.com/) I took care of the snake, bullet trails and smoke.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on April 20, 2011, 12:08:07 AM
 :mittens:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jenne on April 21, 2011, 04:12:11 AM
Ooh, like both of them!  Awesome job!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 28, 2011, 08:44:23 AM
Yay me, Christ v's Cthulhu just got pic of the day on Worth 1000 (http://christ%20v's%20Cthulhu)  8)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on April 28, 2011, 08:46:40 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 28, 2011, 08:44:23 AM
Yay me, Christ v's Cthulhu just got pic of the day on Worth 1000 (http://christ%20v's%20Cthulhu)  8)

link?

:mittens:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on April 28, 2011, 09:19:41 AM
Quote from: Telarus on April 28, 2011, 08:46:40 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 28, 2011, 08:44:23 AM
Yay me, Christ v's Cthulhu just got pic of the day on Worth 1000 (http://christ%20v's%20Cthulhu)  8)

link?

:mittens:

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/607821/christ-v-s-cthulhu

:mittens:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 28, 2011, 07:44:41 PM
The demon drink one actually makes my eyes hurt.  No hyperbole.  I understand why that happens, but it's still weird as fuck.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 06, 2011, 10:18:02 PM
Simian Rage
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/simian-rage.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on May 07, 2011, 01:36:57 AM
He looks kinda like the devil guy in the Second Reality roto-zoomer.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on May 07, 2011, 07:46:22 PM
Ooooh, I like that one.  :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 07, 2011, 09:54:05 PM
My puppy, staring out through the blinds
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sylar1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Luna on May 07, 2011, 09:57:05 PM
Dawww...
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on May 08, 2011, 01:41:56 AM
Damn! Very nice.

What software are you using again?

I just got a new meduim Intuos 4 (upgraded from a crappy Bamboo tablet). This thing is soo fucking sweet, and I finally have enough tablet space to start digital sketching in earnest.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on May 08, 2011, 06:09:50 AM
 :aaa:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 08, 2011, 09:15:32 AM
Quote from: Telarus on May 08, 2011, 01:41:56 AM

What software are you using again?


Shoop CS5
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Eve Hill on May 09, 2011, 09:03:23 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on May 07, 2011, 09:54:05 PM
My puppy, staring out through the blinds
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sylar1.jpg)

I'm in awe. This is beautiful!!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 22, 2011, 06:48:00 PM
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/142/2/1/morgan_freeman_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3gy50b.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 22, 2011, 07:00:36 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on May 22, 2011, 06:48:00 PM
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/142/2/1/morgan_freeman_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3gy50b.jpg)

Wow!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on May 23, 2011, 03:20:30 AM
 :aaa:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on May 23, 2011, 03:34:52 AM
These RULE.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 30, 2011, 06:06:30 PM
I may or may not finish this

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/kurtzwip1-1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on May 30, 2011, 07:45:29 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on May 30, 2011, 06:06:30 PM
I may or may not finish this

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/kurtzwip1-1.jpg)

I think it looks pretty badass as it is.

Even his ear horn.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 31, 2011, 07:27:31 PM
Earhorn is now replaced with new and improved shiny plastic ear. Also bug!
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/kurtzwip2.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jasper on May 31, 2011, 07:34:18 PM
Do you work off of references, or is that all coming out of your imagination?  It's really impressive either way, but I have to ask because of the striking naturalness of the anatomy and perspective.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 31, 2011, 07:38:26 PM
With the character portraits I take a photo then trace an outline, then airbrush it in with the source pic in a different window for reference. It's kinda cheaty but it's good practice since I'm just a noob at this. The rest of my shit is a mixture of from my head and photomanipulation.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jasper on May 31, 2011, 07:43:58 PM
That sounds like a great way to learn.  I'd love to get a tablet and start doing a little art more regularly.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on May 31, 2011, 10:36:17 PM
That. Is. Awesome.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 31, 2011, 11:26:42 PM
outline (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/?action=view&current=kurtzlines.jpg)

Kurtz reference (http://wallpaperson.net/_ph/27/347208431.jpg)

The rest is just learning to work photoshoop
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 01, 2011, 07:07:28 PM
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/kurtzwip3.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on June 07, 2011, 03:35:31 PM
Nice dude! I'd love to see a Rod Serling. I think your style would compliment him.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 07, 2011, 07:00:03 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on June 07, 2011, 03:35:31 PM
Nice dude! I'd love to see a Rod Serling. I think your style would compliment him.

Defo on my todo list!

click for fullsiez!
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/158/b/9/kurtz_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3iaflg.jpg) (http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/158/4/e/kurtz_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3iaflg.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 07, 2011, 10:22:39 PM
wip...
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/serling_wip1.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/serling_wip2.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/serling_wip3.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/serling_wip4.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on June 07, 2011, 11:37:12 PM
Looking amazing.  :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on June 08, 2011, 06:04:49 AM
Ahh I love that man. He's got that stare like he's looking at some other universe.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 10, 2011, 06:31:46 PM
thanks a bunch Cram, I'm having a cunt of a time getting the expression right  :argh!:

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/serling_wip5.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on June 10, 2011, 09:31:52 PM
That is pretty amazing. On a scale of one to awesome, I would say that it's "super great".
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 11, 2011, 10:44:06 AM
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/serling_wip6.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on June 12, 2011, 04:06:42 PM
Fucking amazing. How did you get the slightly-unshaven texture around the lips etc?

Also, tiny critique, there's something about the right eye that doesn't look right. Maybe it's lsightly too big?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 12, 2011, 05:27:49 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on June 12, 2011, 04:06:42 PM
Fucking amazing. How did you get the slightly-unshaven texture around the lips etc?

Also, tiny critique, there's something about the right eye that doesn't look right. Maybe it's lsightly too big?

Texture is built up over a base, painted using a brush I made from this  (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/roughskin.png)

If you set that up with a bit of spacing on the shape, size, angle and roundness jitter and a touch of scattering it's great for laying down basic skin texture.

The right eye is bang-on, proportions wise. I can vouch for that because I traced it and then went back and checked when I thought exactly the same as you did. The problem is I haven't got the lighting right and that can actually make details look the wrong size.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on June 12, 2011, 07:11:39 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 12, 2011, 05:27:49 PM
Texture is built up over a base, painted using a brush I made from this  (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/roughskin.png)

That's a scan of something you found in the shower sink, isn't it?

Now I can't look at that guy's face anymore without realizing he's got pubic hairs painted around his mouth.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on June 13, 2011, 01:16:05 PM
There's also a visible eyelid crease on the right eye which isn't on the left. Maybe that's got something to do with it?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on June 13, 2011, 05:55:31 PM
Quote from: Cainad on June 13, 2011, 01:16:05 PM
There's also a visible eyelid crease on the right eye which isn't on the left. Maybe that's got something to do with it?

The vast majority of people's faces are quite asymmetric.

I think what's a bit off is the iris shape and pupil location.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 17, 2011, 05:47:35 PM
Having a stab at Kelly Brook (something I'd love to do IRL)  :fap:
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/kellywip1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on June 17, 2011, 11:05:27 PM
 :eek: :eek: :eek:
thats awesome
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 18, 2011, 09:32:41 AM
click for extra bigness
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/169/9/2/kelly_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3j7pnx.jpg) (http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/169/d/7/kelly_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3j7pnx.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jenne on June 18, 2011, 11:19:21 PM
Pretty hawt, there, P3nt!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 22, 2011, 08:43:22 AM
No idea what the fuck was going through my head ...
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/173/8/d/abstract_fish_thing_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3jn1ec.jpg) (http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/173/a/6/abstract_fish_thing_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3jn1ec.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on June 22, 2011, 08:56:00 AM
:mittens:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on June 23, 2011, 07:55:43 PM
Ix-nay to the abble-bay.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Luna on June 23, 2011, 11:39:27 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on June 23, 2011, 07:55:43 PM
No one knows where they came from.

There are theories, of course. Laboratory experiments gone wrong. Hidden species of dinosaur that somehow survived. A combination of nuclear radiation and genetic damage from too much chemicals in the ocean. The natural evolution of a predator that can take down man.

And it is taking us down one person, one town, one continent at a time. England has gone dark. Australia is entirely silent. Japan sent several rather disturbing messages that cut off in mid-transmission. North America's missing persons file has quintupled in size. Even China has been hit hard, though our proof is the sudden fixation they have on problems within their own borders.

The United States government thought it was some kind of elaborate hoax. Then they saw the footage from the school in England and suddenly things got worse. As if being exposed to the public in one country upped the ante and dropped the secrecy in every other country.

Now I'm being sent across the ocean with money and weapons to find someone in England who can help us. If anyone is left to find.

Move this to the Nessie thread.   :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on June 24, 2011, 05:04:59 AM
Quote from: Luna on June 23, 2011, 11:39:27 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on June 23, 2011, 07:55:43 PM
No one knows where they came from.

There are theories, of course. Laboratory experiments gone wrong. Hidden species of dinosaur that somehow survived. A combination of nuclear radiation and genetic damage from too much chemicals in the ocean. The natural evolution of a predator that can take down man.

And it is taking us down one person, one town, one continent at a time. England has gone dark. Australia is entirely silent. Japan sent several rather disturbing messages that cut off in mid-transmission. North America's missing persons file has quintupled in size. Even China has been hit hard, though our proof is the sudden fixation they have on problems within their own borders.

The United States government thought it was some kind of elaborate hoax. Then they saw the footage from the school in England and suddenly things got worse. As if being exposed to the public in one country upped the ante and dropped the secrecy in every other country.

Now I'm being sent across the ocean with money and weapons to find someone in England who can help us. If anyone is left to find.

Move this to the Nessie thread.   :D

Sorry P3nT. I was 3/4ths asleep when I saw your last picture and . . . yeah. Sorry. Love what you do, man.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Luna on June 24, 2011, 12:03:29 PM
First thought through my head was that it was a Nessie eye, actually.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 24, 2011, 03:06:23 PM
Heh, I'm a noob - I've only learned to draw eyes one way  :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 24, 2011, 06:55:12 PM
Now I'm not sure whether this belongs in the nessie thread or not. I let my mind wander. I saw ... TENTACLES!!!!!! OMGZ !!!!!!!!ONE!!!
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/175/c/8/underwater_tentacles_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3jukcv.jpg) (http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/175/0/5/underwater_tentacles_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3jukcv.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on June 24, 2011, 06:59:33 PM
Yoinked for my desktop!!! 

Pnt my friend you are amazing!!!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 24, 2011, 07:12:27 PM
 :D Slowly but surely I'm getting the hang of moving stuff out of my brain onto the screen. Fucking hard going, tho.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on June 24, 2011, 07:47:51 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 24, 2011, 07:12:27 PM
:D Slowly but surely I'm getting the hang of moving stuff out of my brain onto the screen. Fucking hard going, tho.

As it should be. If it is not hard, it is not worth doing. Or something. That's what people keep telling me, anyway.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 24, 2011, 07:53:29 PM
Those people are invariably the kind of fuckheads who will spend their entire lives banging their heads against brick walls until they become brain damaged or their neck snaps. Shit should be easy. If it's worth doing then it should be effortless. Whole fucking world is back to front  :argh!:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on June 25, 2011, 01:04:56 PM
FUCK YEAH TENTACLES
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on July 01, 2011, 08:36:01 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 24, 2011, 07:53:29 PM
Those people are invariably the kind of fuckheads who will spend their entire lives banging their heads against brick walls until they become brain damaged or their neck snaps. Shit should be easy. If it's worth doing then it should be effortless. Whole fucking world is back to front  :argh!:

Truth.

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on July 08, 2011, 12:43:16 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 22, 2011, 08:43:22 AM
No idea what the fuck was going through my head ...
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/173/8/d/abstract_fish_thing_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3jn1ec.jpg) (http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/173/a/6/abstract_fish_thing_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3jn1ec.jpg)

Kind of like if Giger did the eye of Horus...
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 09, 2011, 12:06:47 PM
Andrew Martin
(http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/190/3/4/bicentennial_man_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3lh8kv.jpg) (http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/190/4/f/bicentennial_man_by_p3nt4gr4m-d3lh8kv.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 24, 2011, 10:59:45 PM
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/Dragon1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Luna on July 24, 2011, 11:22:13 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 24, 2011, 10:59:45 PM
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/Dragon1.jpg)

That's awesome, P3nt!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on July 25, 2011, 12:56:55 AM
Niiiiice. I like how there are hints of translucency and bounced light already. Don't go all the way black on the beastie (you have a superdark corner in the background, so if bits of him are super dark it flattens the image.  :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 31, 2011, 06:25:02 PM
Dok Howl. (Click for biiiiiiig)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/212/2/6/doc_howl_by_p3nt4gr4m-d428v4t.jpg) (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/212/2/d/doc_howl_by_p3nt4gr4m-d428v4t.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on July 31, 2011, 07:16:08 PM
WHOA

amazing!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Luna on July 31, 2011, 07:36:03 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 31, 2011, 06:25:02 PM
Doc Howl. (Click for biiiiiiig)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/212/2/6/doc_howl_by_p3nt4gr4m-d428v4t.jpg) (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/212/2/d/doc_howl_by_p3nt4gr4m-d428v4t.jpg)

...  I think I just shat myself.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on July 31, 2011, 08:56:01 PM
EPICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on August 01, 2011, 04:11:06 PM
whaaat are we looking at here?  :eek:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 03, 2011, 11:09:45 PM
For my next trick I will attempt to landscape and shit
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip1-1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on August 04, 2011, 03:00:40 AM
Whoa. :aaa:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Freeky on August 04, 2011, 03:07:47 AM
That's beautiful. P3nt.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on August 04, 2011, 04:05:05 PM
Damn PNT that is stunning....

:mittens:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 04, 2011, 08:15:54 PM
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip2-1.jpg)
This is going to take forever. I'm having to come up with new brushes for all the foliage and water effects and it's a fuckload of trial and error. Took about half an hour fucking about just to come up with something for this poxy little bush
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip2Detail-1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on August 04, 2011, 08:33:45 PM
Wow, nice!

Also, "poxy little bush" made me  :lulz:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on August 05, 2011, 09:34:39 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on August 04, 2011, 08:15:54 PM
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip2-1.jpg)
This is going to take forever. I'm having to come up with new brushes for all the foliage and water effects and it's a fuckload of trial and error. Took about half an hour fucking about just to come up with something for this poxy little bush
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/wip2Detail-1.jpg)


But that's what's cool about it, you didn't just do the whole thing the same way. I looked it up and down about fifteen times. :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on August 05, 2011, 10:55:13 AM
Damn, you're getting a hang of those brushes dude. I'm jealous.....
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 05, 2011, 12:30:16 PM
When I was a little kid, admiring fantasy artwork I always wanted an airbrush. Even before I knew what the fuck an airbrush was all the cool cats were using them and the results stood head and shoulders above everything else.

Now I have something better. CS5 is airbrush2 you're not just spraying colour, your spraying shapes with controllable variation within the spray. It's the artistic equivalent of a soapy tit wank from Kelly Brook :fap:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on August 06, 2011, 04:20:18 AM
I worked for a guy who did airbrush once, we did display windows. Seasonal stuff, like after St. Paddy's he'd get calls from businesses and we'd go dowse the old leprechaun pics with laquer thinner and scrape them off, then put up Valentines shit. It was one of those jobs you have under the table while you're drawing unemployment, where you can wear shorts and sometimes drink. :D He kept kids' coloring books with his equipment for pictures of characters like Garfield to look at if somebody wanted one. He used to get his CO2 tanks filled at the Coca Cola plant, said it was cheaper that way.

When he wasn't showing people his old letters from when he used to correspond with Robert Crumb, he was bragging about how he never paid taxes. To everybody. Dude disappeared at some point after I moved, I don't know if they got him or what. :x

Fun job, though. 
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 18, 2011, 07:27:30 PM
Random doodle turned into this
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/Sea-Demon.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on August 18, 2011, 07:31:29 PM
Now you see that is what Aquaman SHOULD look like......  And talk with a Japanese accent....

I like it!!! 
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 18, 2011, 09:34:55 PM
P3nT4gR4m I am really impressed with your work!  The stuff in the nessie thread is exceptional as well.  My favorite for content is the fiery businessman's handshake.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on August 18, 2011, 09:42:15 PM
That RUUUUUUUUUUUULES.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 21, 2011, 05:26:26 PM
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/femmebot.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on August 21, 2011, 07:29:01 PM
Those tits are obviously fake.  :lol:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 21, 2011, 07:36:58 PM
heh, just a bit
(http://www.ratewall.com/cpics/1f4c94e8-0e51-43f2-b20e-ca9623646cab_Pamela%20Anderson%201.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on August 21, 2011, 07:42:43 PM
 :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 25, 2011, 07:13:20 PM
Click to embiggen
(http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/237/b/7/jessica_by_p3nt4gr4m-d47smm5.jpg) (http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/237/1/8/jessica_by_p3nt4gr4m-d47smm5.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Luna on August 25, 2011, 10:30:22 PM
That's really good, P3nt!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on August 26, 2011, 06:15:26 AM
No it's not.

It's fucking incredible. She looks alive.  :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 28, 2011, 11:06:05 AM
I start by tracing an outline, cos I suck at actually drawing :cry:
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sookieWIP1.jpg)

Next I fill in the outline so I have the subject on a seperate layer (makes the edges easier)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sookieWIP2.jpg)

I usually start with the eyes. Dunno why but that's what happens.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sookieWIP3b.jpg)

I can haz NINJA!
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sookieWIP4.jpg)

Then I scribble in the face roughly to begin with
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sookieWIP5.jpg)

Then I get bored and go do something else til I feel like going back to it...
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on August 28, 2011, 04:20:46 PM
Bet you start with the eyes because it's a guaranteed great start...you're good with them, they always look wet and alive.
A great start is part of what keeps people from scrapping projects, IMHO.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 28, 2011, 04:49:50 PM
That is really cool.  I'm not very good at producing visual art myself.  Please don't feel down about using tracing as a base, you work a magic I ain't seen and definitely couldn't emulate.  I can't even trace well on paper.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on August 28, 2011, 06:38:54 PM
I've noticed (esp with digital) that if I start with a grey (instead of the white) to fill the silhouette, my shading comes together faster. My instructor called this the 'local tone', and I can see you starting to sketch it in by hand. Just use the fill tool. I find I can then work with lower brush opacity, and actually use the white and black swatches and hot-switch between them to build both shadow and highlights. Also, I find it prevents me from detailing too soon, as I get general areas of light/shadow blocked in before placing the eyes.

Always nice to see your method, P3nt.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 01, 2011, 07:17:16 PM
I do most of my shading with white and black, then I pick a midtone and spray the whole thing to smooth the contrasty bits. Wash, rinse, repeat. Also I fill the mask eventually, just with a really thick brush set to 100% flow but only after I've done the eyes. The edges of the eyes define the shading on the rest of the face, which rarely (if ever) bears more than a passing resemblance to the original. If it sounds fucked up it prolly is but it gets me results so I just kind of go with it.

So anyway. I aint been near this for days now so I spent a quick hour tonight, tidying up the face and starting the hair (which is a fucking nightmare. 5 layers so far and it still looks like shit. Shading is confusing as fuck on the dangly/curly bit, my eyes just bounce about all over the place.

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sookieWIP6.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 01, 2011, 07:21:41 PM
It's amazing...and you're doing it with a mouse, right?
I'm ok with a pencil but I can't draw a stick man with a mouse.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 01, 2011, 07:31:57 PM
Mouse??? Fuck no. I couldn't do this with a mouse. I'm all WACOM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IsEXtmqO1k) powered  8)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on September 02, 2011, 06:32:11 AM
I dig your workflow, and it's really interesting to see how styles differ.

'Getting' lighting is hard, I know. I'm still learning stuff, and I know 3-4 different CG lighting engines, so I have some conception of the math involved, bounce behavior, etc. You have a very good eye for it. The hair (and your foliage in the earlier ones) are great brushwork.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 02, 2011, 07:33:14 PM
I'm calling this done. I could spend another month on that pony tail and I'm pretty sure it'd still look like shit  :x

(http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/245/6/c/sookie_by_p3nt4gr4m-d48mu35.jpg) (http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/245/6/c/sookie_by_p3nt4gr4m-d48mu35.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on September 02, 2011, 08:05:52 PM
No way it doesn't look bad at all, I think you did an excellent job!!!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 02, 2011, 08:06:57 PM
Is that going to be the waitress in TFFE?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on September 02, 2011, 08:17:12 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 02, 2011, 08:06:57 PM
Is that going to be the waitress in TFFE?

The hell is TFFE?

That's Sookie, the fairy-girl from True Blood.

I am ashamed of myself for knowing that. I watch it every week.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 02, 2011, 08:18:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel on September 02, 2011, 08:17:12 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 02, 2011, 08:06:57 PM
Is that going to be the waitress in TFFE?

The hell is TFFE?

That's Sookie, the fairy-girl from True Blood.

I am ashamed of myself for knowing that. I watch it every week.

:x

Tales From Fat Ernie's, a graphic novel script that I sent to Pent.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 02, 2011, 08:31:00 PM
Yeah I aint forgotten Dok. It's a bit daunting right now but it'll be winter soon enough, that's traditionally when I spend more of my free time sat at my PC I'll have less excuses to procrastinate then, just watch.

Quote from: Nigel on September 02, 2011, 08:17:12 PM

That's Sookie, the fairy-girl from True Blood.

I am ashamed of myself for knowing that. I watch it every week.

It's a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, too. I guess every now and then the mainstream tosses out a Twilight clone that actually delivers.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 02, 2011, 08:32:06 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 02, 2011, 08:31:00 PM
Yeah I aint forgotten Dok. It's a bit daunting right now but it'll be winter soon enough, that's traditionally when I spend more of my free time sat at my PC I'll have less excuses to procrastinate then, just watch.

No rush.  It's sat for a fucking year in Manubu's "care".  It can wait a while yet.


Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 02, 2011, 08:31:00 PM

Quote from: Nigel on September 02, 2011, 08:17:12 PM

That's Sookie, the fairy-girl from True Blood.

I am ashamed of myself for knowing that. I watch it every week.

It's a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, too. I guess every now and then the mainstream tosses out a Twilight clone that actually delivers.

I don't even know you fuckers, anymore.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 02, 2011, 08:36:18 PM
I really wish I could just turn this shit on like a proper artist and I think, eventually, I'll get there but right now it kinda comes and goes and I have to force myself to trace over a photo just to keep developing my skills :x
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 02, 2011, 08:41:02 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 02, 2011, 08:36:18 PM
I really wish I could just turn this shit on like a proper artist and I think, eventually, I'll get there but right now it kinda comes and goes and I have to force myself to trace over a photo just to keep developing my skills :x

Your shit is really good.  Also, the time frame isn't important...Manubu had agreed to a set date, and I wound up fucked at the Tucson Comicon because he didn't deliver (alongside two other artists).

In your case, just get to it when you get to it.  I never gave you a timeframe, and at least you're being honest about the lack of progress...Something distinctly lacking in comic artists, in my experience.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 04, 2011, 03:52:04 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 01, 2011, 07:31:57 PM
Mouse??? Fuck no. I couldn't do this with a mouse. I'm all WACOM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IsEXtmqO1k) powered  8)

OMFG THAT'S BADASS

WANT

even though I could never touch that shit you're doing. Still... WANT.  :p
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 04, 2011, 07:24:10 AM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 04, 2011, 03:52:04 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 01, 2011, 07:31:57 PM
Mouse??? Fuck no. I couldn't do this with a mouse. I'm all WACOM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IsEXtmqO1k) powered  8)

OMFG THAT'S BADASS

WANT

even though I could never touch that shit you're doing. Still... WANT.  :p
I could never have touched the shit I'm doing before xmas. I've never been able to draw for shit with a pen and paper.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on September 04, 2011, 12:56:28 PM
if you are going for super realistic it might help if you didnt make everything quite so smooth looking... like make things have a bit more texture and whatnot. looks like you get sligtly excited with the blend and smudge tools
otherwise THIS SHIT IS BALLINNNNNNN, YO! and theres no shame in tracing it helps learn, or just make stuff go fasterrr
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 04, 2011, 01:22:55 PM
It's more a case of I don't have the patience to get super realistic, what you see is as far as I can be arsed taking it. There's no blend or smudge in there I build the whole thing up with airbrushes so the smudgy stuff is where I didn't paint in any detail. I actually looked at the teeshirt close up on this one and actually thought about trying to sketch it in but it'd have taken me months so I just scribbled some shade in and walked away  :oops:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on September 04, 2011, 01:25:53 PM
hahahaah i totally get that. i usually go with a sloppy scribble style cause i dont have the patience to do that either lol
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 04, 2011, 01:32:50 PM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on September 04, 2011, 01:25:53 PM
hahahaah i totally get that. i usually go with a sloppy scribble style cause i dont have the patience to do that either lol

If you click the pic for the big version have a look at the bottom of the neckline of the teeshirt, you'll see where I started to draw in the fabric as a series of small white stripey bits. Some of the photorealistic stuff on Deviant Art took 50-100 hours. I couldn't bring myself to pour that much time into one fucking picture so I spend ages on the faces cos it's interesting but fabric and any other stuff that hasn't got eyes in bores me real quick :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 04, 2011, 03:52:25 PM
Yeah, I don't know if it's because things like fabric and buildings and furniture are man-made, or because there's a lot of geometric stuff to them, but they're boring as fuck to draw.

And I don't think anything looks overblended, the contrast is always there when you need it.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 04, 2011, 05:44:28 PM
Moar of the same. Can I shoop the entire cast of True Blood?
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/LafayetteWIP1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 04, 2011, 05:50:09 PM
Stunning. Yes, do. :D

Eyebrows are a little off...looks easily fixable though.

I hate drawing eyebrows too, they almost always do that. Takes a few passes.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 04, 2011, 07:08:28 PM
I'm guessing it's going to take about another 4 hours to finish. I'm going to try and do the teeshirt fabric and the bandanna. maybe add another couple of hours for that shit. All in all about 3 days, give or take.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 04, 2011, 07:11:23 PM
It'll be awesome.  :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 05, 2011, 07:17:21 PM
Story so far...
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/LafayetteWIP2.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on September 05, 2011, 09:47:32 PM
Nice work Pent, the shirt and bandana texture looks really good.

What's the next step after mastering photorealism?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 05, 2011, 09:48:45 PM
YES.  

I think ya just fixed it on ONE day.  8)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 05, 2011, 10:44:40 PM
Quote from: Net on September 05, 2011, 09:47:32 PM
Nice work Pent, the shirt and bandana texture looks really good.

What's the next step after mastering photorealism?

Bolloxed if I know. I want to come up with my own style but I got no fucking idea what that might look like. I think, sooner or later I'm going to have to try out colour, I guess. I've heard you can really express yourself that way. Fucked if I know how tho  :sad:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on September 05, 2011, 11:39:40 PM
you were going to doodle geiger alien crap into those multiscale turing patterns--that's a pretty original style :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 06, 2011, 12:07:47 AM
Or just the naturalistic stuff with one jarring little Giger-type detail someplace...
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 06, 2011, 07:10:42 PM
2 hours later and it still looks the fucking same  :x This is why I hate detailing
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/LafayetteWIP3.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 06, 2011, 07:21:41 PM
I can see what kind of chain he's gonna have now. The beard hairs look more prickly. Generally more alive-looking.  8)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on September 06, 2011, 10:02:32 PM
whatever it was you did with the skin is fucking amazing.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 06, 2011, 10:10:02 PM
Yeah but it kinda slows down the more refined you make it. I kinda hit a wall where I could do even more detail but I'm losing the will to live. That's where the real photorealists would plough another 100 hours in and do the kinda shit that I'm pretty sure I could do if I only had the stomach for it. ATM I'm looking at artists that get really realistic results with a lot less brushstrokes. Like this (http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/242/f/9/f94113e6b73f3b2f4b562cbcd328e1f4-d48dopg.jpg) It's a matter of really tightening up the lighting and then dialling back the brush strokes. Bigger, bolder, more direct...
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 06, 2011, 10:18:23 PM
Yeah, art's labor intensive. And if you sell it, people have the idea that the cost of materials plus a little tip extra is a fair price. Never mind the WEEKS you put into it.

If you ever do start selling (and you could, it's more than good enough) one hint: When doing portraits, charge by the head. Otherwise you'll end up doing an entire family for the price of one pic.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 08, 2011, 07:18:07 PM
Worth 1K annual photomanip comp opens with this (http://www.worth1000.com/contests/27609/b2b-night-and-day-with-a-twist)

So far my initial sketch seems to be working...
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sketch.jpg)
puppet warp is the best new feature of C5 by a fucking mile!


5 and a bit days to go and some fucking extreme talent signed up. This should be worth watching if your into that kinda thing. I'll be quids in if I can make it to the top 20.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Telarus on September 09, 2011, 06:38:22 AM
Nice concept!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 09, 2011, 02:21:42 PM
Oh, yeah and Lafayette is finished now. I'd have spent a bit more time on it prolly but the worth tourney came up.

(http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/251/a/9/lafayette_by_p3nt4gr4m-d4991au.jpg) (http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/251/a/9/lafayette_by_p3nt4gr4m-d4991au.jpg)

Click to see all the fuck ups in extreme closeup
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 09, 2011, 07:18:45 PM
Okay so Steampunk Battletoad is driving me mental! Prolly end up leaving it to the last minute like I usually do with comp entries. Meantime I haz cleaned up my potrait process, mainly by giving up my eye addiction, cold turkey. Usually my detail kinda spreads out from the eyes, via the nose and mouth but this time I'm forcing myself to concentrate on different passes, each with a level of detail what matches overall. I don't know why I'm doing this, only that it feels more disciplined and, so far, it seems to be producing a more even, more consistent workflow. Maybe a bit faster too.

Start with a b&w processed source pic of Samuel T. Shifter
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip0.jpg)

Trace the shapey stuff and the eyes, very important to get the eyes traced very precisely.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip1.jpg)

1st layer. Scribble in the light and dark bits and ... OMFG those eyes look terrible. Surely I can't just leave it like that :x
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip2.jpg)

blur the 1st layer. At least the eyes don't look so bad now but c'mon, seriously. PUPILS?????
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip3.jpg)

Next we do another shading pass, this time with an soft airbrush. Okay so at this point I may or may not have paid an inordinate amount of attention to the eyes.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip4.jpg)
I felt a bit guilty so I ... BLURRED IT, all Gaussian-like. I felt like I'd died a little inside but it was a good death, a noble death. I gave my life for a greater cause
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip5.jpg)

A little bit of tidy up and we can dispense with the outline. Good! Now it doesn't feel like I'm a little baby, colouring-in with crayons
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip6.jpg)

OFUK, yeah - background
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip7.jpg)

... and blur
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip8.jpg)

And a spot of tweak
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip9.jpg)

Right, fuck the background. That'll do.

Hair
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip10.jpg)

And shadow. Dark as fuck cos there's a fuckton of layers going to be going over it to lighten it up
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip11.jpg)

Next I lock the tranny on the hair layer and shade the individual strands.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip12.jpg)

another two or three of those with decreasing brush sizes and we'll have ourselves a barnett

TBC...

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on September 09, 2011, 09:10:59 PM
Damn P3nt you make it look so easy.....

I wish I could do that.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 09, 2011, 09:45:22 PM
I like the way the first few look like "oh shit, this isn't gonna work" but by the fourth one it's obvious you're gonna nail it. :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 09, 2011, 09:51:44 PM
Quote from: Khara on September 09, 2011, 09:10:59 PM
Damn P3nt you make it look so easy.....

I wish I could do that.

TBH it gets easier the more you do it. This was my first portrait about 9 months ago
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sue-s.jpg)

sucked the sweat off a dead man's butt but I could see how I could do it better. Started paying more attention to what I liked rather than what I didn't like - that made a big diff. I'm really enjoying this cos I know I can still take it further, get better. It's a buzz.

Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 09, 2011, 09:45:22 PM
I like the way the first few look like "oh shit, this isn't gonna work" but by the fourth one it's obvious you're gonna nail it. :D
Yeah, that takes a bit of perseverance. Sometimes I'm like all "fuck no I can't do this anymore" and shit. The first couple of times it was really hard to push through that feeling cos I had only pulled it off once or twice. Maybe it was beginners luck? Self doubt is my worst enemy but, the more I get a result I'm happy with the more positive reinforcement. I get used to seeing the initial stages. It's less of a shock to me now  :D

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Disco Pickle on September 09, 2011, 09:58:24 PM
Man THIS is some nice fucking photoshop.  This is the level I always wanted to achieve but never put enough time into it before I gave away my wacom.  An X of mine pretty damn decent drawing in shop but not this good.

Tell me you make money doing this.  You're good P3nT.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 10, 2011, 10:02:04 AM
Hah! No money yet. Maybe I'll be one of those artists who only gets discovered after he's buried in a paupers grave :D

Anyroad More WIP's

Moar hair
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip13.jpg)

blur and shadow
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip14.jpg)

Face detail (starting with the eyes)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip15.jpg)

Stubble and a bit of shadow correction
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip16.jpg)

Bit of texture then a levels tweak, via adjustment layer.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip17.jpg)

Almost done...
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip18.jpg)

TADA!
(http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/253/2/6/shifter_sam_by_p3nt4gr4m-d49efv0.jpg) (http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/253/2/6/shifter_sam_by_p3nt4gr4m-d49efv0.jpg)

I have one thing to say about checked shirts ... FUCK CHECKED SHIRTS! TIA
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on September 10, 2011, 11:25:33 AM
nice work!

I always love checked or striped shirts when drawing, because by curving the straight lines in clever ways you can really bring out the shape of the clothes and wrinkles and everything in a way I find much easier than trying to do with shadows.

Also I just watched that Wacom Intuos 4 youtube vid you posted :drool: NOW I WANT ONE what do they cost?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 10, 2011, 11:50:16 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on September 10, 2011, 11:25:33 AM
Also I just watched that Wacom Intuos 4 youtube vid you posted :drool: NOW I WANT ONE what do they cost?

IIRC mine was about 350-400 quid. I shopped around and got a great deal, picking up a large for just over the price of a medium
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 10, 2011, 03:03:07 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 10, 2011, 10:02:04 AM
Hah! No money yet. Maybe I'll be one of those artists who only gets discovered after he's buried in a paupers grave :D

How much would you want to do something from a photo? I know it's hours and hours and probably not cheap, but I wouldn't mind getting one done later when I've got more cash...it'd make a great birthday gift for somebody.  :)

Quote

TADA!
(http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/253/2/6/shifter_sam_by_p3nt4gr4m-d49efv0.jpg) (http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/253/2/6/shifter_sam_by_p3nt4gr4m-d49efv0.jpg)

I have one thing to say about checked shirts ... FUCK CHECKED SHIRTS! TIA

:mittens:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 10, 2011, 08:04:15 PM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 10, 2011, 03:03:07 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 10, 2011, 10:02:04 AM
Hah! No money yet. Maybe I'll be one of those artists who only gets discovered after he's buried in a paupers grave :D

How much would you want to do something from a photo? I know it's hours and hours and probably not cheap, but I wouldn't mind getting one done later when I've got more cash...it'd make a great birthday gift for somebody.  :)

Quote

TADA!


I have one thing to say about checked shirts ... FUCK CHECKED SHIRTS! TIA

:mittens:

If it's a print you're after check out the prices of my prints on Deviant. I can vouch for the quality. If I do one for you it'll be a tiny bit cheaper cos I'll knock off my markup for ya Markup is only a couple of dollars on the big ones IIRC means fuck all to me.

ETA: Very important you get as good a photo as possible and as many megapixels as you can lay your hands on.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 11, 2011, 01:15:53 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 10, 2011, 08:04:15 PM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 10, 2011, 03:03:07 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 10, 2011, 10:02:04 AM
Hah! No money yet. Maybe I'll be one of those artists who only gets discovered after he's buried in a paupers grave :D

How much would you want to do something from a photo? I know it's hours and hours and probably not cheap, but I wouldn't mind getting one done later when I've got more cash...it'd make a great birthday gift for somebody.  :)

Quote

TADA!


I have one thing to say about checked shirts ... FUCK CHECKED SHIRTS! TIA

:mittens:

If it's a print you're after check out the prices of my prints on Deviant. I can vouch for the quality. If I do one for you it'll be a tiny bit cheaper cos I'll knock off my markup for ya Markup is only a couple of dollars on the big ones IIRC means fuck all to me.

Awesome! Linkie?

QuoteETA: Very important you get as good a photo as possible and as many megapixels as you can lay your hands on.

Not a problem, there's professional pics. Megapixels out the wazoo.....:D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 11, 2011, 07:01:07 AM
http://p3nt4gr4m.deviantart.com
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 11, 2011, 02:02:28 PM
Not bad! Thanks...you'll be hearing from me once I get the bills caught up.  :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 13, 2011, 07:54:18 PM
New workflow is definitely helping me. Managed to get this in just 2 shading passes. Another 1 or 2 and it'll be done

ref
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/AndyWIP1.jpg)

outline
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/AndyWIP2.jpg)

block layers
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/AndyWIP3.jpg)

1st pass
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/AndyWIP4.jpg)

2nd pass
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/AndyWIP5.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on September 13, 2011, 08:28:00 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 09, 2011, 07:18:45 PM
Start with a b&w processed source pic of Samuel T. Shifter
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/merlotte_wip0.jpg)

at first glance, I seriously thought that was a picture of me
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 14, 2011, 07:16:09 PM
(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/257/5/a/sheriff_andy_bellefleur_by_p3nt4gr4m-d49u0b5.jpg) (http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/257/d/d/sheriff_andy_bellefleur_by_p3nt4gr4m-d49u0b5.jpg)

Right, enough fucking about with teh fanart. I am now going to force myself to actually draw something. At gunpoint if necessary  :evilmad:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 15, 2011, 11:26:21 PM
Off the top of my head, facial anatomy test. Need to pack out the right cheek a bit to nail the snarl. Left eyebrow is complete arse. Right eye is too wide...
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/Tough-Guy.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 16, 2011, 03:00:38 AM
I wouldn't refine it too much. Looks like a guy who keeps the tire iron under the front seat for easy access.  :lulz:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on September 16, 2011, 09:42:15 AM
you can also take a smaller step from celeb fan art to pics of people that just look weird but not yet entirely drawing the face on your own yet.

for example : http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/

or maybe people of walmart.com
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 16, 2011, 06:43:56 PM
Fixed the shitty bits and had a go at colouring to boot. I really want to learn how to colour now  :x
(http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/259/6/2/tough_guy_by_p3nt4gr4m-d4a07gg.jpg) (http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/259/0/a/tough_guy_by_p3nt4gr4m-d4a07gg.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Thurnez Isa on September 16, 2011, 06:52:18 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on September 13, 2011, 08:28:00 PM

at first glance, I seriously thought that was a picture of me

It would be so much cooler if you thought that last picture was a picture of you
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on September 16, 2011, 06:59:42 PM
the cigar doesn't really look very good, I think you need to check a few pictures. You also need to sharpen the edge of the chin, it sort of blurs into the neck now, especially on the right side.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 16, 2011, 07:25:05 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on September 16, 2011, 06:59:42 PM
the cigar doesn't really look very good, I think you need to check a few pictures. You also need to sharpen the edge of the chin, it sort of blurs into the neck now, especially on the right side.

Yeah, the cigar was an afterthought but the rule I set myself was - no references - so I just kinda scribbled it in. Hardest bit was the snarl which still isn't right but I'm pretty pleased with the way the rest of it fitted together. Anatomy is a cunt of a thing but I'm getting to the point where I'm happy with faces. Next thing is bodys which are a whole new level of fucked up  :x
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on September 16, 2011, 09:08:44 PM
I think the snarl's pretty good though. You got some freedom with that because it's a bit of a cartoon character.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on September 16, 2011, 09:10:20 PM
Like, I mean, the mouth's not in a place that would be anatomically possible, I think.

But the important bit about cartoonish images is that you can get away with that shit, as long as it's because you're exaggerating the feature that's important. And the snarl is important.

In fact, I'd almost say if you're not exaggerating shit in a cartoon, you're doin it wrong.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jenne on September 17, 2011, 04:03:47 AM
Wow, P3nt. 
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 17, 2011, 02:27:34 PM
Piece of shit frog chop scraped through by the skin of it's teeth. Top 39 qualified for next round. I came 38th  :oops:
(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/9794500/9794869_f073_1024x2000.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 17, 2011, 03:02:44 PM
In is in. Ya made it.  :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Jenne on September 20, 2011, 03:49:42 AM
awesomeness supremo!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 27, 2011, 08:24:06 PM
Worth1K Shoop Tournament, round 2: Ghost Ren with September invention twist (like srsly!)

Take a famous renaissance artwork, remove the main figure by cloning the background then "ghost" them back in. Entry also must feature a famous thing what was invented in september. I give you the hypodermic injecty-needle device made by proto-junkie Anacleto Montero Sanchez on September 27th 1977

Coulda done better but only had 2 nights at it on account of kayak trip timing and a bit of procrastination  :oops:

pls to not be not reposting until comp voting is finished in a couple of days

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/mona-junkie.jpg) (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/mona-junkie.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 27, 2011, 09:34:26 PM
EPIC. :D

How is that different from a regular hype, though?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 27, 2011, 10:29:47 PM
snot - dude invented teh regular hype
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Phox on September 28, 2011, 11:27:58 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 27, 2011, 08:24:06 PM
Worth1K Shoop Tournament, round 2: Ghost Ren with September invention twist (like srsly!)

Take a famous renaissance artwork, remove the main figure by cloning the background then "ghost" them back in. Entry also must feature a famous thing what was invented in september. I give you the hypodermic injecty-needle device made by proto-junkie Anacleto Montero Sanchez on September 27th 1977

Coulda done better but only had 2 nights at it on account of kayak trip timing and a bit of procrastination  :oops:

pls to not be not reposting until comp voting is finished in a couple of days

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/mona-junkie.jpg) (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/mona-junkie.jpg)
:aaa:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 04, 2011, 06:25:25 PM
Start of another True Blood trace
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/PamWIP1.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/PamWIP2.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/PamWIP3.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/PamWIP4.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/PamWIP5.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on October 04, 2011, 07:39:09 PM
Dude you amaze me!

:mittens:  I can't wait to see her completed.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on October 06, 2011, 06:59:28 AM
I like the way he breaks the rules and lays down the light stuff first.  :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 06, 2011, 11:03:20 AM
never knew about that particular rule  :oops:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Triple Zero on October 06, 2011, 02:01:45 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 06, 2011, 11:03:20 AM
never knew about that particular rule  :oops:

It's just some of that environment safe-the-energy bollix.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 06, 2011, 10:40:25 PM
Round 3 of Worth1k tourney

"fractured fairytales"

Pinocchio - rough sketch

Whale, wave, boat ... fine. Dude himself needs redone from scratch with batshit Ahab thing going on

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/sketch-1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on October 07, 2011, 12:24:51 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 06, 2011, 02:01:45 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 06, 2011, 11:03:20 AM
never knew about that particular rule  :oops:

It's just some of that environment safe-the-energy bollix.

Or a vestigal "don't get crumbs from your dark pastels on your light areas".  Please continue to flaunt it. :D
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on October 07, 2011, 12:26:50 AM
ps That new one is gonna rule. It's all kinetic...
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 04:00:13 PM
Badump! Got a desktop PC for the first time in years. Learning how to 3-d art to produce content for VR. Trying to make an spoder for reasons that probably lie buried deep in my subconscious.

(http://orig04.deviantart.net/5c36/f/2016/323/8/b/spoder_1_by_p3nt4gr4m-daowvp1.jpg)

(http://orig01.deviantart.net/2771/f/2016/323/1/e/spoder_2_by_p3nt4gr4m-daowvp6.jpg)

(http://orig12.deviantart.net/71b8/f/2016/323/b/b/spoder_3_by_p3nt4gr4m-daowvp8.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 18, 2016, 04:04:12 PM
That is fucking unsettling as fuck.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Vanadium Gryllz on November 18, 2016, 04:55:52 PM
I like the shape of the abdomen. Or what I can see of it. Looks brainy.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on November 18, 2016, 05:24:02 PM
Pretty impressive. Are you animating as well or just modelling?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 06:39:45 PM
Not animating per se but this is the result of my first attempt to rig for posing rather than animation. Was going great til I went hipoly and sculpted a whole bunch of detail that became detached from the rig so I had to dump 3 million odd polygons and go back to the base mesh which looks like this

(http://orig14.deviantart.net/8e77/f/2016/323/f/4/spoder_lopoly_1_by_p3nt4gr4m-daox999.jpg)

The detail sculpting was only an hours work, been practicing that quite a bit so it's no great loss but the rigging part took ages. Like all these things it'll get better wi practice

Here's some other random shit I've been fucking around with. Learning a whole creation pipeline here from Blender, via photoshop into unreal engine 4.

(http://pre11.deviantart.net/7d11/th/pre/i/2016/323/a/6/highresscreenshot00046_by_p3nt4gr4m-daox98z.png)

(http://pre00.deviantart.net/6fbf/th/pre/i/2016/323/0/3/highresscreenshot00041_by_p3nt4gr4m-daox98n.png)

(http://pre02.deviantart.net/33f1/th/pre/i/2016/323/5/0/rockfly_by_p3nt4gr4m-daox9sx.png)

(http://orig07.deviantart.net/6155/f/2016/323/0/f/troll_fail_001_by_p3nt4gr4m-daox9td.jpg)

(http://orig07.deviantart.net/ab10/f/2016/323/8/f/troll_fail_002_by_p3nt4gr4m-daox9tk.jpg)

(http://orig04.deviantart.net/07ae/f/2016/323/0/d/highresscreenshot00000_by_p3nt4gr4m-daox9tt.jpg)

(http://orig12.deviantart.net/b3a8/f/2016/323/8/3/alien_001_by_p3nt4gr4m-daoxasd.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 18, 2016, 06:49:20 PM
 :eek:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: LMNO on November 18, 2016, 06:55:49 PM
Damn, kid.  That's some nice work.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on November 18, 2016, 07:25:18 PM
I've seen worse staircases in AAA games. Very nice!

What's the VR project? Or are you still at the fucking around stage?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 07:58:06 PM
Very much the fucking around stage. Quick fire projects, as they come to me, intended to be half finished if that. Lot of technical stuff to wrap my head around. Need to approach it in bite size chunks.

I'm giving myself about 6 months to get up to speed with the toolkit and then the plan is to create "Spaces" think VR equivalent of desktop wallpaper or ringtones. I reckon these will be a quick kill market when VR kicks off, however many years from now. I want to be in on the ground floor with a site full of - The bridge of the nostromo - and - the city of rivendell - and abstract trip mandala lazor pulsing brain flatteners.

Zuckerberg is right - VR is going to be social as fuck. People going to want places to hang out and do the shit they do in the IRL whilst they're learning the new shit they can do in cyberspace actual. I'ma give them a bunch of free ones and some premium shit they gotta blockchain me for. If I eventually get really good there's the bespoke route. Top dollar for unique, one-off experience. "I have a P3nT4gR4m in my collection"  8)



Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Vanadium Gryllz on November 18, 2016, 08:04:56 PM
They look awesome and that's a great idea! People are already plying that trade in Second Life (and I guess other games in various guises - hats/skins etc).

VR has the potential to be bigger than any of those though. Maybe.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 18, 2016, 08:15:34 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 07:58:06 PM
Very much the fucking around stage. Quick fire projects, as they come to me, intended to be half finished if that. Lot of technical stuff to wrap my head around. Need to approach it in bite size chunks.

I'm giving myself about 6 months to get up to speed with the toolkit and then the plan is to create "Spaces" think VR equivalent of desktop wallpaper or ringtones. I reckon these will be a quick kill market when VR kicks off, however many years from now. I want to be in on the ground floor with a site full of - The bridge of the nostromo - and - the city of rivendell - and abstract trip mandala lazor pulsing brain flatteners.

Zuckerberg is right - VR is going to be social as fuck. People going to want places to hang out and do the shit they do in the IRL whilst they're learning the new shit they can do in cyberspace actual. I'ma give them a bunch of free ones and some premium shit they gotta blockchain me for. If I eventually get really good there's the bespoke route. Top dollar for unique, one-off experience. "I have a P3nT4gR4m in my collection"  8)

I would like to join your very lucrative cult plz. Where does I haz to sign? Does it have to be my own blood or may I have a wiling proxy do it?

Have you considered how much the OCCULT cats might pay for a fucking meme-lab or something? Virtual reading room - libraries stuffed with books old new as you pay for them!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 08:19:20 PM
Quote from: Xaz on November 18, 2016, 08:04:56 PM
They look awesome and that's a great idea! People are already plying that trade in Second Life (and I guess other games in various guises - hats/skins etc).

VR has the potential to be bigger than any of those though. Maybe.

I think VR will come and go. In the first manifestation. Not even sure if the mainstream will buy into it. There's limited use cases. I think shit like Oculus and Vive and the mobile shit is ultimately a dead end form factor. AR on the other hand, I'm pretty confident, will take the world by absolute fucking storm and VR, as an extended function of AR will finally find a place. So there's probably a gap period where VR stays niche and AR has to moore's law it's way down to something like a normal pair of sunglasses or contacts to gain widespread adoption.

In the meantime I get my Oculus Touch in less than a month and I canModel entirely in VR! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XlnW_Megk&t=44s) :hammer:

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 08:26:36 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 18, 2016, 08:15:34 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 07:58:06 PM
Very much the fucking around stage. Quick fire projects, as they come to me, intended to be half finished if that. Lot of technical stuff to wrap my head around. Need to approach it in bite size chunks.

I'm giving myself about 6 months to get up to speed with the toolkit and then the plan is to create "Spaces" think VR equivalent of desktop wallpaper or ringtones. I reckon these will be a quick kill market when VR kicks off, however many years from now. I want to be in on the ground floor with a site full of - The bridge of the nostromo - and - the city of rivendell - and abstract trip mandala lazor pulsing brain flatteners.

Zuckerberg is right - VR is going to be social as fuck. People going to want places to hang out and do the shit they do in the IRL whilst they're learning the new shit they can do in cyberspace actual. I'ma give them a bunch of free ones and some premium shit they gotta blockchain me for. If I eventually get really good there's the bespoke route. Top dollar for unique, one-off experience. "I have a P3nT4gR4m in my collection"  8)

I would like to join your very lucrative cult plz. Where does I haz to sign? Does it have to be my own blood or may I have a wiling proxy do it?

Have you considered how much the OCCULT cats might pay for a fucking meme-lab or something? Virtual reading room - libraries stuffed with books old new as you pay for them!

The average homosapien is highly susceptible to effective 2-d media manipulation.  VR is a more impactful tool for impacting the psyche by a factor that could be employed to compare a toffee hammer to a gigaton-yield nuclear warhead. There's little doubt in my mind that vast swathes of the populace will become programmable zombies. Programmable, not by clever manipulation and lots of knowledge of psychology and neuroscience but by assets downloaded from the interbutts.

VR will herald the dawn of, among other things, the weaponised meme.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Vanadium Gryllz on November 18, 2016, 08:33:02 PM
My dad was at some sort of Microsoft conference recently and apparently the hot topic was AR.

I suppose that 3d modelling experience is useful in either medium.

I think that a big drawback of VR is that with the headset etc on is that it's such a lonely experience. You can't interact at all really with the people who may be around you in reality. Is virtual contact enough for people? It's fun for a while but maybe not mainstream or long term adoption. AR may be a good workaround - and I can imagine a lot more practical potential uses for AR than VR.

Having said that I do plan on getting a VR headset - probably the PSVR if some interesting looking games come out.

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 08:42:00 PM
It aint like meatpsace but compare it with looking at a screen while skyping or typing shit on a forum or facebook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2U9lXEnHns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2U9lXEnHns)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Vanadium Gryllz on November 18, 2016, 09:07:18 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 08:42:00 PM
It aint like meatpsace but compare it with looking at a screen while skyping or typing shit on a forum or facebook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2U9lXEnHns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2U9lXEnHns)

That is very impressive.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 18, 2016, 09:30:45 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 08:26:36 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 18, 2016, 08:15:34 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 07:58:06 PM
Very much the fucking around stage. Quick fire projects, as they come to me, intended to be half finished if that. Lot of technical stuff to wrap my head around. Need to approach it in bite size chunks.

I'm giving myself about 6 months to get up to speed with the toolkit and then the plan is to create "Spaces" think VR equivalent of desktop wallpaper or ringtones. I reckon these will be a quick kill market when VR kicks off, however many years from now. I want to be in on the ground floor with a site full of - The bridge of the nostromo - and - the city of rivendell - and abstract trip mandala lazor pulsing brain flatteners.

Zuckerberg is right - VR is going to be social as fuck. People going to want places to hang out and do the shit they do in the IRL whilst they're learning the new shit they can do in cyberspace actual. I'ma give them a bunch of free ones and some premium shit they gotta blockchain me for. If I eventually get really good there's the bespoke route. Top dollar for unique, one-off experience. "I have a P3nT4gR4m in my collection"  8)

I would like to join your very lucrative cult plz. Where does I haz to sign? Does it have to be my own blood or may I have a wiling proxy do it?

Have you considered how much the OCCULT cats might pay for a fucking meme-lab or something? Virtual reading room - libraries stuffed with books old new as you pay for them!

The average homosapien is highly susceptible to effective 2-d media manipulation.  VR is a more impactful tool for impacting the psyche by a factor that could be employed to compare a toffee hammer to a gigaton-yield nuclear warhead. There's little doubt in my mind that vast swathes of the populace will become programmable zombies. Programmable, not by clever manipulation and lots of knowledge of psychology and neuroscience but by assets downloaded from the interbutts.

VR will herald the dawn of, among other things, the weaponised meme.

Gigachurches... all paying for space in Father's house before death now able to experience a PREVIEW of their chosen "post-life".

*PSSTT* hey kid! Wanna see Valhalla? I got these dank VRspace hookups!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on November 18, 2016, 09:38:21 PM
That's a huge step on from the last stuff I saw. Definitely a good time to start finding your feet in the medium.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 10:07:41 PM
Short of a global extinction event, I'm pretty sure it's a case of when, not if we transition to an augmented existence. Track record. Human race has widely adopted any half way decent technological revolution that's come along in the past. We've gone from painting stick figures on the inside of a cave to simulating fabrics and fluids and the interaction of light on metal, all in realtime and projecting it onto your eyeballs at 90 frames a second!

Now is always the starting point. Right now the shit is clunky as hell and on the pricey side of any kind of mass market. Couple of hundred thou, here and there. But, for someone in my position, with my long term interest in the medium, it's actually impressively useful. Just enough fidelity to be able to get to work in there. More than I was expecting, tbh.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on November 18, 2016, 10:13:15 PM
AR like you say, pretty much unlimited applications. I can easily think of a couple of uses offhand for pretty much any business sector and gaming applications progress perfectly with the tech.

I guess porn just needs to get involved in a big way now to move shit along faster.


It's odd to think that in a couple of decades, people will literally see the world differently to each other.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 10:37:26 PM
There is something viscerally disconcerting about VR pron as it stands just now. It's wrong on so many more levels than the normal shit. I can't get enough  :fap:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 18, 2016, 11:23:59 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2016, 10:37:26 PM
There is something viscerally disconcerting about VR pron as it stands just now. It's wrong on so many more levels than the normal shit. I can't get enough  :fap:

:eek:... and we never saw P3nT4gR4m again.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 19, 2016, 11:42:59 AM
So I had another fuck around with spiderman. Went more humanoid wi the head this time. Was thinking about what Nigel said about unsettling. I like unsettling. Unsettling is good. More humanoid = more unsettling? :evil:

So now I can pose this little bastard all over the place. I'm totally stoked. First time I've ever managed to do this and it's awesome fun!

(http://orig15.deviantart.net/e7cb/f/2016/324/0/2/spoder_6_by_p3nt4gr4m-daozxc3.jpg)

(http://orig13.deviantart.net/7b45/f/2016/324/1/5/spoder_4_by_p3nt4gr4m-daozxbz.jpg)

(http://orig13.deviantart.net/fc75/f/2016/324/3/1/spoder_5_by_p3nt4gr4m-daozxc1.jpg)

(http://orig02.deviantart.net/9238/f/2016/324/1/a/spoder_7_by_p3nt4gr4m-daozxbx.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on November 19, 2016, 05:34:10 PM
Friendly looking fellow. Looks more like a NPC than a potential enemy now.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 19, 2016, 07:01:55 PM
Heh, you could be right. Crossed right over from creepy to lovable. Nother couple of poses. Going all out for expression here. Wee sleepy baby spiderman and climbing down a thread to greet you.

(http://orig07.deviantart.net/542e/f/2016/324/4/2/spoder_8_by_p3nt4gr4m-dap0p0u.jpg)

(http://orig13.deviantart.net/fc3b/f/2016/324/8/6/spoder_9_by_p3nt4gr4m-dap0p0x.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 19, 2016, 08:00:10 PM
I don't even know what to say. I think that I don't know quite how I feel about it is worth noting. Totally not going to see this fucker in my dreams or anything.

Ever go to bed and dream about a new game or job? What if you do both for a living practically every day? How could you tell for sure that you weren't dreaming? Or did you just forget to save the file?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 19, 2016, 08:12:41 PM
Awww, sweet little naked antspider manbaby!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 19, 2016, 08:13:05 PM
I imagine it both eating and laying eggs.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on November 19, 2016, 11:56:34 PM
It's not far off the humanoid hybrid from alien resurrection.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 20, 2016, 12:20:37 PM
More adventures in poseland. Knocked up a quick humanoid with horrible and wrong anatomy and gave him a skeleton. Took about an hour start to finish. Getting quicker at this...

(http://orig15.deviantart.net/8007/f/2016/325/1/d/dude_1_by_p3nt4gr4m-dap468k.jpg)

(http://orig01.deviantart.net/8c1d/f/2016/325/c/b/dude_2_by_p3nt4gr4m-dap468o.jpg)

(http://orig02.deviantart.net/46b4/f/2016/325/0/d/dude_3_by_p3nt4gr4m-dap468b.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Vanadium Gryllz on November 20, 2016, 01:04:54 PM
Do you have a particular VR-environment in mind for this or is the theory that these skills will be transferrable to any VR architecture?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 20, 2016, 01:46:14 PM
I'm learning the basics. I can't build any kind of VR environment unless I can use the tools. I'm grabbing a process at a time and modelling things until it's comfortable and fluid before moving on to the next process in the pipeline. There's a lot of overlap. To learn bones and rigging I need a mesh to pose about so I get to practice sculpting and anatomy while I'm knocking these out. The key for me is not getting bogged down in trying to complete things. Just quick scribbles to test the techniques then dump and move onto the next thing. Make a lot of mistakes and learn the solutions as fast as possible. Taking on a complete project right now would probably overwhelm me and lead directly to frustration and boredom.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 21, 2016, 06:49:08 PM
Speedsculpting a head. Running with the superhero theme. This time - Batman

(http://orig01.deviantart.net/17bc/f/2016/326/5/9/batman_1_by_p3nt4gr4m-dap98w7.jpg)

(http://orig09.deviantart.net/0100/f/2016/326/1/2/batman_2_by_p3nt4gr4m-dap98w1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 24, 2016, 07:47:05 PM
(http://orig09.deviantart.net/d706/f/2016/329/9/2/angelina_1_by_p3nt4gr4m-dapknwd.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 24, 2016, 08:30:09 PM
Dig it!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 28, 2016, 07:13:34 PM
Sweaty little goblin bastard
(http://orig08.deviantart.net/312b/f/2016/333/3/c/goblin_by_p3nt4gr4m-daq0oh0.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 29, 2016, 07:11:00 PM
Angry little goblin bastard loosely based on the middle one (http://alexshatohin.deviantart.com/art/Orcs-6-648293986) trying more to capture the expression than the whole awesome.

(http://orig03.deviantart.net/a343/f/2016/334/1/a/goblin2_01_by_p3nt4gr4m-daq47t9.jpg)

(http://orig13.deviantart.net/cda3/f/2016/334/4/3/goblin2_02_by_p3nt4gr4m-daq47wy.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 29, 2016, 07:58:56 PM
Dang! That second one makes me want a battle axe.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 02, 2016, 05:50:27 PM
Next week hand controllers arrive for oculus and I get a free copy of Medium - sculpting in VR. Also UE4 has controller support already. I get to build VR, in VR :fap:

Minotaur-pig-rabbit-demon. Brainfart-doodle from today. (don't ask - I have literally no idea)
(http://orig14.deviantart.net/126c/f/2016/337/7/2/rabbit1_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqevut.jpg)

(http://orig03.deviantart.net/7960/f/2016/337/7/b/rabbit2_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqevwm.jpg)





Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 03, 2016, 04:54:13 PM
Keeping going with the WTF-theme

(http://orig14.deviantart.net/86f6/f/2016/338/3/7/birdthing_1_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqik16.jpg)

(http://orig07.deviantart.net/e2c3/f/2016/338/7/6/birdthing_2_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqik2l.jpg)

(http://orig04.deviantart.net/c432/f/2016/338/c/6/birdthing_3_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqik3y.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on December 03, 2016, 04:59:17 PM
Wildlife!

This would fit in pretty well to Morrowind or planescape without much more fucking around. Small versions are food, larger ones as pack animals or transportation.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 03, 2016, 09:13:13 PM
Neat!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 05, 2016, 06:43:50 PM
I'm calling him "Shostrich" cos there's a bit of shark and a bit of ostrich in him (along with fuck knows all what else)

Imported into unreal engine and squared off against spiderman. I've stood next to these guys in the rift and they're about 10 foot tall. This is my future. As advertised. Does not dissapoint!

(http://orig05.deviantart.net/9da1/f/2016/340/a/1/shostrich_vs_spiderman_003_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqrbuh.png)

(http://orig04.deviantart.net/4a26/f/2016/340/f/3/shostrich_vs_spiderman_001_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqrbr9.png)

(http://orig13.deviantart.net/7903/f/2016/340/e/5/shostrich_vs_spiderman_002_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqrbss.png)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 05, 2016, 07:31:53 PM
Wow. That must feel absolutely "Bob"like!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 06, 2016, 06:58:40 PM
Still going with the detailing and the paintjob. Takes f'kin ages this does  :eek:

(http://img03.deviantart.net/8c22/i/2016/341/6/9/shostrich_001_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqv1sz.jpg)

(http://img01.deviantart.net/dad2/i/2016/341/2/6/shostrich_004_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqv2gg.jpg)

(http://img03.deviantart.net/3db6/i/2016/341/0/6/shostrich_003_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqv1z1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: minuspace on December 06, 2016, 08:59:50 PM
This is really cool.  So, what's up with this sculpting tool?  Do you have to know how to sculpt IRL to use it?  I was really impressed when you said you could knock out a face in an hour - how cuz?  Could I do something like that in Blender, and, what's wrong with how I'm holding my tools?  Do I need a special mouse or something?  (I've only worked with meshes - should I try bones?)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 06, 2016, 11:12:23 PM
I never sculpted IRL. Need to know anatomy to sculpt organics. I'm still learning. The more anatomy I learn, the easier it is to model, more methodical, a-b-c. Sculpting in dynatopo mode adds polys to the mesh where needed. Gives epic results down to tiny detail but the mesh you end up with is a fkin mess. Distorts and creases all funny when you use bones. First learn retopology. A bit like anatomy but using polygon flow to describe forms. I can speed-sculpt a face now, either with references or made up in my head, in about an hour. I practice doing that. The retopolgy takes me several hours. Then I need to model hipoly detail back in, on top of retopo'd mesh for normal/bump maps.

By all accounts is kinda bog standard workflow for game assets and/or posable meshes. The other way is build lowpoly, nicely topologised mesh from the git go but I prefer starting with a dynamic mesh. Plenty blender/z-brush sculpting vids on youtube. Principles are the same across both but there's more z-brush ones.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: minuspace on December 06, 2016, 11:50:44 PM
Cool.  Gonna check retopology.  I see the tools, have to figure how to hold them.  Using a trackpad is kinda messing with my flow *blames his tools* Ty for inspiring me to up my game.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 07, 2016, 11:29:11 PM
Got my hand controllers tonight. Sculpting in VR is more awesome-the-absolute-fuck than anyone could possibly imagine. If I posted enough :fap:'s to describe how good this software is the intertubes would just back the fuck up and stop.  :eek:

(http://img10.deviantart.net/66f1/i/2016/342/a/0/p3nt4gr4m_2016_12_07_21_12_30_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqzkpt.png)

(http://img05.deviantart.net/7d01/i/2016/342/2/0/p3nt4gr4m_2016_12_07_23_05_45_by_p3nt4gr4m-daqzjhv.png)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on December 07, 2016, 11:41:13 PM
Awesome work P3nT!! I'm very much looking forward to the day I get my mitts on some VR sculpting interface. Looks like SO much fun!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 07, 2016, 11:51:50 PM
I still remember a "Jesus vs Cthulhu" painting you did way back when I was first here. I thought that was neat.... it was just THE BEGINNING!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 11, 2016, 02:21:11 AM
Haven't seen meatspace for 4 days... no sleep... sculpting constantly. This is too much fun!

(http://img14.deviantart.net/5825/i/2016/345/f/4/fish_by_p3nt4gr4m-darbmby.jpg)

(http://img07.deviantart.net/666a/i/2016/345/3/a/zombie_3_by_p3nt4gr4m-darbmk0.jpg)

(http://img01.deviantart.net/c66d/i/2016/345/5/c/p3nt4gr4m_2016_12_10_12_25_47_by_p3nt4gr4m-darbmtk.jpg)

(http://pre04.deviantart.net/908d/th/pre/i/2016/345/0/b/medium_hires_by_p3nt4gr4m-darbn4m.jpg)

(http://pre06.deviantart.net/a166/th/pre/i/2016/345/0/3/mask_by_p3nt4gr4m-darbn1r.jpg)

(http://img10.deviantart.net/de3d/i/2016/345/1/9/scarecrow_by_p3nt4gr4m-darbo4m.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 11, 2016, 03:02:52 AM
 :eek: P3nT4gR4m is evolving! :fnord:

The robot face was particularly nifty! It's also awesome to see a new medium giving you an enthusiastic drive man! Those 3d creatures could already be posed for pics and or storytelling! This without seeing them in 3d!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 11, 2016, 04:26:32 AM
One more before bed. On a long enough timeline everything ends up zombies...

(http://img11.deviantart.net/3a0c/i/2016/345/d/c/dawn_by_p3nt4gr4m-darc5vr.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 11, 2016, 04:44:17 AM
Too true.
Adieu!
Until then
Good P3nT!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 11, 2016, 08:31:13 PM
Two from today
(http://img15.deviantart.net/a1a8/i/2016/346/6/3/no_girls2_by_p3nt4gr4m-dardtsu.jpg)

(http://img03.deviantart.net/85a1/i/2016/346/c/a/baron_by_p3nt4gr4m-daresea.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 11, 2016, 10:24:59 PM
Nice eye effects!

The idea of scale for the tree house hit me. You could make it an item and "shrink" it pocket sized for transport.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 11, 2016, 11:50:30 PM
I'll go one better, right in the middle of sculpting that I scaled it right the fuck up until I was the size a 5 year old would be then I got out of my chair, IRL while still in the rift and I sat down on the floor of that little treehouse with my legs crossed and marvelled at what the actual fuck I was doing  :eek:

(http://orig02.deviantart.net/e0e5/f/2016/346/b/4/big_kid_by_p3nt4gr4m-darflvg.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 12, 2016, 12:12:24 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 11, 2016, 11:50:30 PM
I'll go one better, right in the middle of sculpting that I scaled it right the fuck up until I was the size a 5 year old would be then I got out of my chair, IRL while still in the rift and I sat down on the floor of that little treehouse with my legs crossed and marvelled at what the actual fuck I was doing  :eek:

(http://orig02.deviantart.net/e0e5/f/2016/346/b/4/big_kid_by_p3nt4gr4m-darflvg.jpg)

Sitting on a floor with a headset on,
But not!  :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: minuspace on December 12, 2016, 12:23:50 AM
QuoteI'll go one better, right in the middle of sculpting that I scaled it right the fuck up until I was the size a 5 year old would be then I got out of my chair, IRL while still in the rift and I sat down on the floor of that little treehouse with my legs crossed and marvelled at what the actual fuck I was doing  :eek:

P3nT Trips the Vertiginous Light Fantastic :cool:

I wonder what may have happened to sense of anticipation in that split second longer it took to reach the floor than suggested by visual cue :lulz:

Keep on rockin'!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 16, 2016, 07:41:22 AM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/va/cbkwrt85rgmz.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 16, 2016, 06:34:52 PM
And another. Can't believe I can actually do shit like this so damn quick. It's like I just think of something and half an hour later it's appeared in front of me  :eek:

(And, yeah, the anatomy is fucking horrible. In my defense I haven't practiced much with bodies. Been trying to perfect heads first)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/4p/wfriv6zxluqh.gif)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: minuspace on December 17, 2016, 01:32:49 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 16, 2016, 07:41:22 AM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/va/cbkwrt85rgmz.jpg)

That's crazy vivid/detailed/lit.  Is that a spotlight with short quadratic falloff?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 17, 2016, 03:29:33 PM
It's gpu output. Not even rendered. Just capped in medium. Missing pbr materials but i canexport to ue4 if I need that
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 18, 2016, 11:47:32 PM
(http://orig04.deviantart.net/8ee4/f/2016/353/3/3/mr_clementine_by_p3nt4gr4m-das6i67.gif)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: LMNO on December 19, 2016, 01:33:05 PM
Wow.  Nice.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on December 19, 2016, 01:50:10 PM
So how long until these bastardy are animated? Looks like you're progressing pretty quick.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 19, 2016, 08:17:30 PM
Shit, you've come a long way in just a couple of weeks. Nice!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 19, 2016, 08:55:15 PM
Quote from: LMNO on December 19, 2016, 01:33:05 PM
Wow.  Nice.


Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 19, 2016, 08:17:30 PM
Shit, you've come a long way in just a couple of weeks. Nice!

Thanks! I'm kinda taken aback, myself. It's like I'm watching someone else do this shit at times. What a trip :eek:

Quote from: Junkenstein on December 19, 2016, 01:50:10 PM
So how long until these bastardy are animated? Looks like you're progressing pretty quick.

TBH, animation is not something that even remotely interests me now. I've rigged a few models for posing but with medium even that aint necessary, there's a kinda rapid quick workflow where you can do a cut through like an arm or a leg, twist the bits individually then join them back together. Used that workflow for this one...

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/mo/9kmby04vn3ad.gif)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on December 19, 2016, 10:15:48 PM
Color me impressed! Great work!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: LMNO on December 20, 2016, 01:11:52 PM
I have the weirdest boner right now.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 21, 2016, 12:10:28 AM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/7h/feuejtpnzk0z.gif)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/y7/68lbv27lw3tb.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ce/u9oc14i8xojd.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/us/4xfp89xk8o73.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: LMNO on December 21, 2016, 01:03:22 PM
I see you spent a lot of time on those tits.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 21, 2016, 01:19:02 PM
Quote from: LMNO on December 21, 2016, 01:03:22 PM
I see you spent a lot of time on those tits.

Tits do my head in, tbh. IRL I love them but in art stuff I try to avoid like the plague. Nekkid is no bother, they kinda hang like bags of water south of the pectorals but in a push up bra it's a fucken nightmare to get right. Unfortunately for a pin-up style fairy there was no avoiding them.

Spent longer on the face, tho. That expression was a bastard to nail but it's pretty close to what I was shooting for. All that anatomy study is starting to pay off cos I knew which muscles to "pull on" to get the smirk.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 22, 2016, 12:14:08 AM
Moar tits

(http://img10.deviantart.net/ce2a/i/2016/356/6/c/hulk4_by_p3nt4gr4m-dasimtu.jpg)

And faces

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ab/osmls1xb9716.jpg)

(http://img02.deviantart.net/d60c/i/2016/356/2/8/hulk5_by_p3nt4gr4m-dasimwk.jpg)

This is made up in VR with no references. Tomorrow I'm going to check some anatomy diagrams and pics of people snarling and see if I can tidy it up a bit.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 22, 2016, 11:44:21 PM
And ZOOMBIEEES!!!

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ev/3qvu9f47tpo9.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: LMNO on December 23, 2016, 12:44:43 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 22, 2016, 12:14:08 AM
Moar tits

(http://img10.deviantart.net/ce2a/i/2016/356/6/c/hulk4_by_p3nt4gr4m-dasimtu.jpg)

:fap:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 23, 2016, 02:52:11 PM
So I spent last night hacking up zombie heads wiff a chainsaw.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/dj/q0l1rg30m5q0.jpg)

Timelapse making of malarkey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0F3OcA94xk)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: minuspace on December 23, 2016, 10:22:34 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 17, 2016, 03:29:33 PM
It's gpu output. Not even rendered. Just capped in medium. ...

That's it.  Game over.  This is me about to become a consumer again. 
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 24, 2016, 07:40:48 PM
MERRY F'KIN CHRISTMAS YOU SLAAAAAGS!!!

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ld/xlvlol5ecxa6.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 28, 2016, 04:14:32 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/jm/cxm8dvi48zfh.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/uz/akzycom7lnn2.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Vanadium Gryllz on December 28, 2016, 04:24:03 PM
Gollum! Gollum! Gollum!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 31, 2016, 01:15:23 PM
I've always had trouble in the past trying to artistic expression on a 2-d surface. I have to try and get the thing from my head from one very specific angle. That's just not how things exist in my head. It's hard as fuck. Makes my eyes go together and my tongue poke out the corner of my mouth. Results are mediocre on a good day.

I don't have this in VR. The immediacy of what I'm creating means I can hold the guitar or the chainsaw and align it up with my minds eye. The simulation and my imagination fuse to create some new kind of thing. More than the sum of it's parts. I can't tell where one ends and the other begins. I'm wearing a motherfucken mental prosthetic that creates a feedback loop. Dreams and vision collide. Reinforce each other.

I place a ball of gloop in space that's rendered to my eyes and from my imagination at the same time. I'm tracing over a mental image, manipulating it in simulation space. Art, any art, is one part learned and practised technical skill and the other vision and imagination. Thing is I always had the imagination part but one of the most important core skills -translating perspective. Nailing down a perfect 2-d representation of the creature in my head, it always seemed slippery and elusive to me.

Last night I jumped into the Rift with a guitar in mind. Knocked it up actual-size. I can't see my hands in the HMD but I can grab the neck of the guitar where I would and my kinaesthetic memory gives me how my hand should look were it there, at the angle I can feel it at.

So much easier to draw a stick man in 3-d space. Don't have to guess the perspective. If his leg is bent toward the viewer the line should be shorter? Fuck right off with all that bollix! If his leg is the length of a motherfucken leg then it's done. Hold my hands apart. About yay-big.

45 minutes speedsculpt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZlslxU_8UQ)

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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 05, 2017, 07:39:30 AM
This was easier than it had any business being. Medium has no facility for importing/viewing reference images so the workaround is to lift the HMD off my face and glance at the screen. That's annoying so I haven't done much. Just found out I can copy a reference like a boss. My brain doesn't do 3-d to 2d cos of my perspective-blindness or whatever the fuck you call it but going the other way - looking at a photo then sculpting it in 3d, that's a piece of piss. Copied mostly from a spider anatomy diagram with a few photo refs flung in.
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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on January 06, 2017, 05:43:17 PM
Your Hulk anatomy looks great for not using reference! Lovin' this stuff!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 08, 2017, 11:40:44 PM
Here's one I just did with refs.

(http://img14.deviantart.net/2e16/i/2017/008/7/1/pinhead_2_by_p3nt4gr4m-dauqhke.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 11, 2017, 09:18:42 AM
Finished Pinhead
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/vh/fvsj9m9j05um.jpg)

And had a stab at Weird Al Crowley. So much wrong with this but it's progress. Just gotta keep practising I guess.
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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 13, 2017, 07:41:20 PM
Calling this one "Derek and the Bug"
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Been fucking around with Pinhead in Blender trying to make him all realistic and shit. If you stand about 50-60 foot away from the screen it's kinda headed in that direction
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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 13, 2017, 08:08:49 PM
You're progressing at an impressive rate!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 14, 2017, 01:00:05 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 13, 2017, 08:08:49 PM
You're progressing at an impressive rate!

Thanks! Lot of seemingly unrelated stuff I've picked up over the years is coming together. Plus the sculpting software means I can churn out  shit like this (https://youtu.be/gzrzwcQkW6g) in half a motherucken hour! Nothing else is as fast as this. Is like steroids for practice.

My body anatomy is still sketchy as hell but it's headed in the right direction. Heads and faces, tho, I'm getting confident as fuck with now. Spent the best part of six months learning the piss out of that. Still make the odd mistake but is all little stuff now and every time I spot one it gets more dialled in.  By summer bodies will hopefully be the same deal.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bu🤠ns on January 14, 2017, 01:41:38 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 23, 2016, 02:52:11 PM
So I spent last night hacking up zombie heads wiff a chainsaw.

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Timelapse making of malarkey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0F3OcA94xk)

This was fun as hell to watch!  When I saw you first spraying the 'grey matter' I immediately thought of pre-cooked chicken nuggets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67DvoH2H3E). I can't wait for this technology to mature but I love the early adopters.  I know you've worked in ...zbrush, iirc? This looks very similar so I imagine it was an easy transition.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 15, 2017, 12:58:39 PM
I haven't used zbrush but blender sculpt mode is the same idea.  Transition was a bit weird cos all the tools look the same but they're used totally different in vr.  Imagine if you went into a garage and found out that wheel nuts were now used to loosen and tighten the monkey wrenches which hold  the wheels on. Bit of a mindfuck but very intuitive.

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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 23, 2017, 01:56:32 PM
So I spent most of the weekend on a long-ass project. Ukko the dwarf from 2000ad's Slaine strip, as drawn by Jim Murray

This playlist is long and probably boring as fuck but the soundtrack pwns so at least there's that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig6bErvBkCk&list=PLu-6O5vdYHKYCgyi1mXRL3EXDNYfy_G_7 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig6bErvBkCk&list=PLu-6O5vdYHKYCgyi1mXRL3EXDNYfy_G_7)

Some more quickfire doodles

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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on January 23, 2017, 04:07:18 PM
More great work! Be careful with that Hermit...you're going to make me want an entire 3D tarot "deck!"

Dammit, too late. I want a tarot spread I can "walk through."
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 23, 2017, 05:43:58 PM
Quote from: Ziegejunge on January 23, 2017, 04:07:18 PM
More great work! Be careful with that Hermit...you're going to make me want an entire 3D tarot "deck!"

Dammit, too late. I want a tarot spread I can "walk through."

I'm thinking Renaissance. One of the aspects of that artistic period that always appealed to me was the use of/hiding of occult symbolism in so many of the works. Sacred geometry, depictions of archetypes, the whole nine yards. VR can do this. I already sign my public releases with a small pentagram, usually hidden away somewhere that maybe no one will ever know is there. I actually drew it, like in the rituals, at arms length, real size.

By this time next year I'll progress from creating objects to creating places to be and that's the real transformative artform that VR enables. Right now I could make my sculpts in anything from flatscreen to IRL and the experience would be pretty similar between formats but the next step is to put the viewer in a whole space, every molecule of which is chosen to convey the experience I design. You won't look at my tarot, you'll go there  8)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on January 24, 2017, 06:38:36 PM
QuoteYou won't look at my tarot, you'll go there

I honestly cannot wait!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 24, 2017, 11:07:08 PM
Keeper of the dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U_BQfZQ-Fw)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on January 25, 2017, 07:59:51 PM
So fun to watch. Someday in the not-far future I really want to try my hand at some VR sculpting.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 26, 2017, 12:35:39 AM
You'll love it. It's my new favourite thing in the universe. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5bT-oRY9o)

(http://orig07.deviantart.net/f468/f/2017/025/5/6/exit_by_p3nt4gr4m-dawq52r.jpg)

yeah, I have no idea how bikes work  :oops:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Freeky on January 26, 2017, 12:44:03 AM
I love it.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 30, 2017, 11:43:57 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ek/f4oli1u4r4ci.jpg)

Invented a way of "tricking" multiple lightsources for this pic
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Making of timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydUVJlT3A9A)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: 00.dusk on February 01, 2017, 04:29:09 AM
I just stumbled into this.

P3nt, you're great. If I had known what you were working on my life over the past three years would have been so much easier.

Your work actually reminds me of a piece I had a cool guy make for a personal project of mine over the past couple days. Maybe you'll like it? Not really meaning to threadjack here, FTR, more to try and give you something to look at in return for what you've given all of us to look at.

https://gyazo.com/18d23600ff62d3cb2de65776078eaa66

If I ever come into money and you happen to need work, I'll trade you cash for stuff not far off of things you'd already be making.

Keep it up.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 01, 2017, 11:36:04 PM
Last couple of days worth.

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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 02, 2017, 12:02:14 AM
Nice!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 04, 2017, 01:10:33 AM
Ta! :)

Anatomy practice tonight. No references. Testing my memory. Heads getting tighter every time I do one. Feel like I'm on the home straight. Torsos still have a long way to go but more of it is making sense as time goes on.

(http://orig02.deviantart.net/7c4e/f/2017/034/e/f/randomdude_by_p3nt4gr4m-daxrrpe.jpg)

Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJpecwu9aA)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 04, 2017, 11:11:56 AM
Woke up this morning and decided what random guy needed was some voodoo

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Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCw2bUhLW5g)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 08, 2017, 01:41:49 PM
moar doodling on the general theme of artistic license as an excuse for shoddy anatomy. Carving out a niche for myself here. My sculpts have so much anatomy. The best anatomy. Ignore those liberal media anatomy books, they publish fake anatomy. I'ma build a model and make Loomis pay for it.

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timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPEiPWoMjB0)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 16, 2017, 07:45:21 PM
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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 16, 2017, 08:25:29 PM
P3nT4gR4m I think this is probably the coolest thing going on with the board right now. Not that other things aren't amazing or worthwhile, but watching you make brain-images out of light and electrons with a crown and magic wand, so to speak, is truly awesome to me!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 16, 2017, 08:55:01 PM
You think its awesome to you? You should try being me. It's honestly like watching someone else doing this shit at times. I'm just a passive observer.  My job is to wear weird googles and watch my imagination pop into existence in front of me. I used to envy talented people but I'll settle for fluking semi cool shit as the next best thing. I don't think it matters how many times I do it,  I'm always gonna feel like a fake. No way is real art this easy.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 16, 2017, 09:25:29 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 16, 2017, 08:55:01 PM
You think its awesome to you? You should try being me. It's honestly like watching someone else doing this shit at times. I'm just a passive observer.  My job is to wear weird googles and watch my imagination pop into existence in front of me. I used to envy talented people but I'll settle for fluking semi cool shit as the next best thing. I don't think it matters how many times I do it,  I'm always gonna feel like a fake. No way is real art this easy.

I'd bet the first stone carver that upgraded from a bronze chisel to iron felt something similar.

This is just my opinion, but I figure that most often the artist gets in their own way by trying to judge themselves by their works. The secret is in continuing to do things until it's too easy, then push yourself and either make more than ever or try something totally new. You're clearly getting joy out of this new thing and making "more" with better tools.

I sing to myself very often, though less than I used to. I'm not a pro, I can't read music very well other than a choir staff. I usually sing alone and that's because I fear to be judged. When I go to sing karaoke or hit an open mic with my bro, who equally unschooled taught himself guitar and a bunch of other instruments (he's waiting on reeds for his new bagpipes  :cry:) he and I show folks a new thing no radio or album can do. It's just a moment, but it's always "good stuff" even when we fuck up. It's the "just doing it" over and over that made those moments happen.
It's that were "not artists" in a sense. The judgement came from folks seeing the product!

Keep on keeping on P3nT4gR4m!
Shit's fucking awesome  :elvis:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 16, 2017, 09:58:34 PM
Aye! I reread that post and it kinda comes across as downbeat but that's really not what I was meaning. Been coming to terms with what I've started calling "the myth of talent". I'm fast coming to the conclusion that there's no such thing as talent, in and of itself. What "untalented" people refer to as "talent" is actually just someone who has practiced something enough times to get good at it.

I'm pretty active on the oculus forum and there's a good mix there of pro guys, the dude who made the Hulk for the movie Avengers Assemble, the chap who did some of the transformers in Revenge of the fallen, and then there's total novices who just enjoy having a scribble and then there's me, somewhere in the middle and I'm looking at the ninja guys and thinking "fuck me, if only..." and then I'm looking at the noobs and thinking "All I have on them is six or seven months studying anatomy" and that's the  trick, that's where the "talent" comes from - work. Practice. Study.

And people say "You're talented" or "I wish I had your talent" and that's a crock of shit. I don't have talent, I just put in the graft and those, ninja fuckers who get paid to work on movies, the godlike fuckers? They just been at it longer than me but, having been at this for half a year or more now, I was kinda waiting for the talent fairy to pay me a visit or something. Flash of light, heavenly chorus kinda deal and it never happened and I don't feel talented. All I feel is I know my way round a skull and bones and I know how to plug the muscles in cos I been staring at them for half a year.

The magic of VR and Medium is I'm not wrestling with interface anymore so I kinda got a free pass learning all that technical bullshit and that fast forwarded me at least six months to a year in terms of my capability. That's the cheaty part but I don't mind. I got there a year quicker than I would have done but I would have got here eventually. I miss the notion of talent, tho. Like I'm doing stuff now that a year ago I would have looked at in awe like a magician done it and now I can do it but I don't feel like a magician. It's a minor irritation, tho. I love being able to get stuff out my head and give birth to these creations. That more than makes up for the complete lack of voodoo.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 16, 2017, 10:40:26 PM
I prefer "kung-fu" as a concept. It means something like "hard work". The power of sheer bloody minded repetition and incremental improvement.

It's not a complex concept and has little to do with martial art per se. When i worked in the laundry I got VERY good at "laundry physics" over time. The first year I went to bed every night with my arms in agony, but with time and tiger balm as needed I both got stronger and learned the more effective methods of working with the often shitty equipment. Because the work was boring I'd make a game of it for myself. Where do I stand for best leverage? What can I do other than deadlift this whole goddamn thing again because fucking Gary left me with the same problem AGAIN? How fast can I untie this knot, drop load, and refasten? What are the odds that load needs to go up to the hospital because someone dropped the ball again? After a while it was like a dance through a shit storm that left me mostly clean. The last year and a half when I switched shifts got more "esoteric" and I had to deal with a different problem set, but by then whenever I had to do the heavy shit... it wasn't even like effort. It helped that I have a very strong body and high endurance, but the process of learning actually settled me into doing less of that for more effect.

I'm also rather accurate with a wet towel now. I can flip light switches. My throwing accuracy is pretty good too.

I'm hoping to get that accomplished feeling back through formal martial art training. I'm never giving my heart to a workplace again, but I have no regrets about what I learned to Do.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 18, 2017, 09:10:34 AM
Totally get what you mean with the kung-fu thing. I have this rough concept of "Ninja" that I aspire to. Immersed in the task, whether it be paddling a kayak or making a cup of coffee, I try to approach it with the same focus on perfecting the action. On doing it the way a ninja would do it. Immersed in a flow state, striving for perfect execution. Quote from Last Samurai always at the forefront of my mind - "From the moment they wake, they devote themselves to the perfection of whatever they pursue."

BTW, I might have said this before but it bears repeating - VR is like an amplifier for flow state. In medium there's a default background. When you first load it up, generic HDR blue sky and clouds but you can turn this off and pick a plain background colour. Instant sense of sensory deprivation. You can feel all the visual distraction melt away. Actually feel it, like a jolt. Like when a loud background noise stops and you realise some part of your brain has been paying attention to it but you don't notice til it's gone.

I start getting uncomfortable in the rift after an hour or so but that hour is guaranteed perfect focus and perfect flow-state every time. Medium is the only thing I've used in VR that's anything like this but I'm predicting the technique could be used in any productivity software.

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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 18, 2017, 01:58:22 PM
I saw your use the term ninja and thought I'd share the bit about kung-fu. I tried to explain it to my shitbag manager once when I he watching me work at speed and be in so fluid from task to task, but he just laughed in the way that someone who doesn't understand but wishes to still feel like an authority will when confronted with shit they fundamentally don't get. And gave me the old "keep up the good work".

The QC that I mostly reported to was ex-army of the sort that they teach all of the Macgyver type of shit to and one of the only people from there that I keep in touch with had far more character and real world experience. He understood. We were very different guys, but similar kinds of crazy.

The eyes on that little dude with the tentacles are dopeshit!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 18, 2017, 04:03:25 PM
Homage to the greatest zombie in cinema history. Pretty stoked with how this guy turned out.

(http://orig15.deviantart.net/4f72/f/2017/049/4/a/bub_by_p3nt4gr4m-dazhsq5.jpg)

Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa4x5ve8m_8)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 18, 2017, 05:42:37 PM
I forget that you can arrange your "space" to suit. You have your example images right "there". Neat.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 19, 2017, 08:23:58 AM
"I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?"

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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 19, 2017, 01:23:39 PM
 :eek: ..... no
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 21, 2017, 11:08:21 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ys/8ljm1b8wgcgt.jpg)

Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fU6zO6XRqs)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 21, 2017, 11:46:28 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 21, 2017, 11:08:21 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ys/8ljm1b8wgcgt.jpg)

Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fU6zO6XRqs)

Looks like my dog Leda.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 22, 2017, 07:51:50 PM
So I went back in tonight, intending on finishing him off, maybe adding some wings and a scorpion tail but I got a bit sidetracked

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/t4/7s19bck0udzx.jpg)

Moar timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdGkcNeeqw0)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 22, 2017, 08:00:05 PM
Oh sure just go ahead and totally fuck with my sense of scale whydoncha?

:p
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 22, 2017, 08:28:39 PM
Goblins are pretty small, right enough   :lulz:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on February 22, 2017, 09:01:10 PM
The timelapse is pretty sweet. Nice to see the process unfold. What are you using for all this in terms of programs and rig? Sorry if you already said.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 22, 2017, 11:16:36 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on February 22, 2017, 09:01:10 PM
The timelapse is pretty sweet. Nice to see the process unfold. What are you using for all this in terms of programs and rig? Sorry if you already said.

Is software called Medium, running on Oculus. Software was developed by Oculus in house and shipped free with the hand controllers in october.

It's available on steam for about 30-quid(ish) and runs on the vive by all accounts.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 23, 2017, 11:13:59 PM
This is fast turning into my life's work. I have a pretty clear end result in mind right enough, just need to throw a couple more hours at it

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/2o/6pvpip9oenwd.jpg)

Moar timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2BBdR5-fnQ)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on February 24, 2017, 06:22:21 PM
You've successfully infected me with a 3D sculpting mindworm. Last night I dreamed I was sculpting in VR, despite having never done so IRL. It's going to be a bit before I have the startup cash to get into this proper, but I'm hoping to get my toes wet between now and this time next year, if not sooner.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 24, 2017, 07:24:53 PM
Aye, it's a dear game to get into. Especially if you don't have a current game-spec pc. For the money I laid down, I consider it worth every f'kin penny. YMMV

And the epic continues. Today I spent 45 mins posing the beast. In Medium this involves hacking your model up and rearranging the bits in space.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/uy/wd45rd7m6lu6.jpg)

Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb3WsP11p2I)

Next I move on to detailing. If I can manage to avoid tapping out cos I'm sick of the sight of it, I'm guessing another 3-4 hours. Plus I have another 1 (perhaps 2) characters planned to complete the diorama. Add another hour or two for that shit. Staying motivated is always the deciding factor.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 26, 2017, 11:07:49 AM
Dumped another couple of hours into this, resulting in another 20 mins worth of timelapse on youtube

Part-005 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me6vg_bqFpw)
Part-006 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxvy5BvbuN4)
Part-007 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJvnaqsN6G4)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 26, 2017, 03:45:12 PM
Those were neat! The acoustic Bohemian Rhapsody on the last one kinda left me just grooving and watching the things form.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 27, 2017, 07:30:42 PM
Nearly finished
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/85/fxxx9lvhcktt.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 27, 2017, 09:52:30 PM
I had a bit of a (waking?) dream at some point about sculpting bas relief images like the stones of Gobekli Tepe but I think it was more like the sculpting in your vids, kind of. Weird thing is that I seem to remember watching someone at work with their bare hands, but don't remember at all WHEN exactly this first appeared in my mind. Definitely sometime in the last couple days. The figure being made didn't seem... terrestrial. It was like living rock or something.

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 27, 2017, 07:30:42 PM
Nearly finished
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/85/fxxx9lvhcktt.jpg)

This looks amazing!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 27, 2017, 10:01:42 PM
There's more timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inyhiefuMEc) if you have the stomach for it. Personally, I'm losing the will to live here. One more session and I think I can finish it.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 28, 2017, 08:17:05 PM
Finished! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaWQj9b68s)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on March 01, 2017, 12:19:06 AM
Very cool! Suitably epic choice of music for the imagery! It's not been clear to me, is Marty the goblin or the steed? The Assassination of Marty if the goblin, the Liberation of Marty if not methinks.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 01, 2017, 07:24:52 AM
Marty is the manticore. He was the original sculpt. All the rest just grew in round about him.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Slipper on March 01, 2017, 11:08:03 PM
Ya gotuh sketchfab?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 03, 2017, 07:38:36 PM
Quote from: Slipper on March 01, 2017, 11:08:03 PM
Ya gotuh sketchfab?

model has way too many polys for sketchfab if that's what you meant?

After about 8hours spent on that fucking manticore I just wanted to let off some steam and hack up my zombie template

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/9w/pbh526bv3ihe.jpg)

timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voLkgYGW3dg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 08, 2017, 08:08:39 PM
Jesus hates you!
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/Rev%20Spike2_zpswshhivxn.jpg)

Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7fFOwsp8rc)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 11, 2017, 09:03:48 AM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/1q/3ujk5bqs4d06.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on March 11, 2017, 01:31:08 PM
Looks like a fight-promoter or something. Not sure other than the cigar why I think that.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 11, 2017, 02:34:57 PM
So the GL output from Medium is a PITA to work with and the results are GL as fuck. The alternative is import into blender and hook up to cycles render pipeline which takes three times as long as the fucking sculpt and is just monotonous clicking and sliding little settings about. So I hardly ever do it. Decided to make the effort for Goblin Fight Promoter (Ha, I like that!). Feel like it was worth it.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/nv/l21up45vv8xk.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on March 11, 2017, 06:01:11 PM
Duuude! I don't know what GL is, but the glow effect is neato!

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 11, 2017, 02:34:57 PM
So the GL output from Medium is a PITA to work with and the results are GL as fuck. The alternative is import into blender and hook up to cycles render pipeline which takes three times as long as the fucking sculpt and is just monotonous clicking and sliding little settings about. So I hardly ever do it. Decided to make the effort for Goblin Fight Promoter (Ha, I like that!). Feel like it was worth it.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/nv/l21up45vv8xk.jpg)

Be like "Ay meatsack. Yeah I'm talking to yous get up! It's yer turn in the pit fightin' crazy 'Erl unless yous would prefer we just put yer carcas in the pot live... either way the tribe's gonna be getting dinner anda show."

*big plume of FOUL smoke hits your face and fills the shallow oubliette you've been held captive in. The light from that cigar is the only light you've seen since being dragged underground... you have no idea how long ago anymore. You stand up to fight, knowing well by now that the screams you've heard are the ones that refused or just talked too much*

"Yous only hafta remember the One Rule down here. Winner gets to eat, losers get 'et. Follow me scat. Wouldn't wanna lose your way down here. Haw *hack* haw haw!"

*you follow his red outline wondering for the first time why if the gods love you they didn't make you able to see in the darkness*
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 11, 2017, 06:57:41 PM
Lol, wild! GL is not proper render. Just fake output from video card. This second last pic was GL you should be able to see how the lighting was isn't quite right, highlights where there shouldnt be and stuff. Last pic took 5 minutes for blender to calculate. Proper shadows and highlights and even funky sub surface scattering where the light picks up a red tinge passing through the ears and whatnot.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on March 12, 2017, 12:57:14 AM
Hm... i see a bit of the lighting inconsistencies in the second pic. He appears toplit with a fairly normal white light and the cigar stub is giving a much stronger sort of counter-light. With the black background it looks menacing as hell despite that. Maybe even because of it.

The first one with the cool lit background looks more emotive like. Almost soulful by comparison. Like he was almost feeling sorry about what he's looking at.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 12, 2017, 09:14:22 AM
For shiggles try covering up the left and right sides of the second pic alternatively. First I made it symmetrical like this
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/40/oxkug3jlljds.jpg)

Then a dude on facebook dared me to "break symmetry" which is a thing in digital sculpting where the symmetry mode mirrors what you do on one side of the plane so it's half the work to make a face but totally symmetrical faces look just fucking wrong. Uncanney valley kinda shit so once the bulk of the work is done you turn off symmetry mode and work on making each side just a bit different. You can moles and scars and just generally fiddle about with shit so it looks more natural.

So I decided to practice expressions but I had two in mind - "Goblin has no requirement for the bullshit you offer" and "Goblin regrets choices he made in life that brought shame on himself and the horde". Couldn't make up my mind which to do so I decided to try half of each and see what happened.

(http://orig14.deviantart.net/bc58/f/2017/071/d/a/gob2comparison_by_p3nt4gr4m-db20slq.jpg)

First pic was just slightly rotated in favour of the sad side. Second one is pretty much straight-on. So it turned out that rotating the head gives me emotional volume control for the final shot. Like a crossfade from mean to sad. I kinda like the juxtaposition so I framed it straight on.

:ninja:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 18, 2017, 08:23:48 PM
God of War

He was originally going to have a full helmet but everything I tried was teh suck but I totally wanted the crest so I ended up just bolting it on his skull. Think it went better with the look I was going for - "I'm Mars and I will fucking anybody!"

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/q7/nhglj5pb0kwt.jpg)

timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyf6vCgefp4)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on March 19, 2017, 12:11:35 AM
Having it bolted to his head does in fact add that certain indefinable "oh shit RUN!!" factor so very desirable on the fashionable battlefield.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 19, 2017, 08:17:40 AM
Mars is misunderstood. Deep down inside he's like a little puppy. Just wants to play :evil:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 20, 2017, 06:47:34 PM
Meet your Martian neighbors - Mrs Sneddon from number 17.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/pp/q4xa113tzmlh.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/r4/q2zlwlkqk8mp.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on March 21, 2017, 01:39:01 AM
 :nope:
This is why HIMEOBS is a thing!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 21, 2017, 01:51:49 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on March 21, 2017, 01:39:01 AM
:nope:
This is why HIMEOBS is a thing!

Mr. Sneddon needs to join HIMEOBS.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 21, 2017, 09:34:33 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/11/9qg0oiv8pmvq.jpg)

timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXdJqOnbQQ)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on March 21, 2017, 11:09:06 PM
Holy shit, the last few here are really showing huge progress. Will be good to see what you're capable of after a few more months, I'm expecting great things.

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 21, 2017, 11:50:07 PM
Still a long way to go but getting comfy with the anatomy down to about the tits lets me bang out shit that I'm happy enough with to spur me on. You should have seen the full body figure study I attempted before this, tho. Fucking zero idea what's going on down there. Got fed up after an hour and a half trying to get the bastard ankles right and scrapped it then blasted out the woodland fawn prick in 40 mins as a pick me up for my shattered ego.

Much easier to wear the defeats than it was six months ago when everything I tried was fail. Now I can at least score a win every now and again. This time next year the plan is full body sculpts from memory. That's when this shit'll really get interesting 8)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on March 22, 2017, 02:49:56 PM
damn, man! You've come a long way.

if I ever actually repair my 3d printer repaired, it'd be cool to print one of these.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 22, 2017, 03:14:51 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on March 22, 2017, 02:49:56 PM
damn, man! You've come a long way.

if I ever actually repair my 3d printer repaired, it'd be cool to print one of these.

No worries. Just hit me up and I'll fire some .obj's your way. Be cool to see one printed out. Some dude from facebook was threatening to print Mrs Sneddon the other night. I'll post pics in here if he ever does.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 23, 2017, 08:06:59 AM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/0g/ghhcw53xnjcg.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on March 23, 2017, 11:48:02 AM
So guys.... orks in power armor. Pretty sure the Imperium is fucked, clearly da Brainboyz is back!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 23, 2017, 01:14:55 PM
He's General Zog, leader of the Martian Imperial Invasion Force. Pictured here on the eve of the grand conquest of Earth. They had a solid plan and it would probably have gone without a hitch if not for the fact that General Zog stood a quarter of a millimeter tall by earthling measurements. The Martian Physicists manning the telescopes had made a mistake with the decimal point and the whole fleet was destroyed when it was run over by a kid on a skateboard 2 minutes after landing.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on March 23, 2017, 04:42:43 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 23, 2017, 01:14:55 PM
He's General Zog, leader of the Martian Imperial Invasion Force. Pictured here on the eve of the grand conquest of Earth. They had a solid plan and it would probably have gone without a hitch if not for the fact that General Zog stood a quarter of a millimeter tall by earthling measurements. The Martian Physicists manning the telescopes had made a mistake with the decimal point and the whole fleet was destroyed when it was run over by a kid on a skateboard 2 minutes after landing.

:lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 23, 2017, 11:53:08 PM
Here he is after the blender treatment, with a dash of shoop to wash it down.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/l1/erwp2n0o3r2a.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 27, 2017, 11:46:20 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/rv/wio39m30jz4w.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on March 28, 2017, 01:31:41 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 27, 2017, 11:46:20 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/rv/wio39m30jz4w.jpg)

I think it's the nose hole that's giving me an impression that's almost skeletal as much as alien. The mouthless head feels like the aliens from Independence Day. With the eyes it's like some sort of psionic lich... subjectively speaking.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 28, 2017, 11:08:49 PM
Had a bit more fuck about with quiet guy. More detail in Medium then more fucking about with knobs and dials in blender.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/be/uncsmunc60wy.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on March 29, 2017, 04:04:38 AM
I kinda like the second one better. Are those scar marks on the chin? I missed them the first time, but after flickering back and forth a while for comparison the oddity of the angle stood out.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 29, 2017, 11:10:06 AM
The mouth and chin is supposed to be like wrinkled skin, you know how your fingers go when they've been in water too long? The effect was there in the first version but not so pronounced, plus the light wasn't hitting that part of the face very well so most of the chin area was in shadow.

I took the model back into Medium and built up a lot of detail, especially the chin and the sides of the head but pretty much all over. Then I redid the paintjob to highlight the forms better. Then I booted it back into blender and redid the lights so I had better coverage


Here's another render from front-on
(http://pre00.deviantart.net/8757/th/pre/f/2017/087/5/5/silence_003_by_p3nt4gr4m-db3v6uj.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 03, 2017, 08:28:23 PM
Some shit from the weekend
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ei/qegyks2sig6d.jpg)

(http://orig04.deviantart.net/cae7/f/2017/093/5/3/mean_002_by_p3nt4gr4m-db4k1dq.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/cx/j5j0ibgw6dxf.jpg)

The last guy (wino-taur) is a WIP. I'll post pics if I ever get him finished.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on April 03, 2017, 08:42:27 PM
Is that first one jar-jar after 18 months of Meth?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on April 03, 2017, 08:45:13 PM
Wino-taur is speaking for my soul. I've been icy-stone sober except for whatever this damn stuff I'm on is doing (not nothing but hard to describe and possibly not helpful so far) for about a month now. I never did drink much, but no weed, no drink, and this shit.... Pratchett had a word for it I think knurd. The opposite of drunk attained from too much Klatchan coffee. IIRC it's a sobriety so SHARP that it's actually dangerous.

The first guy looks like, forgive me, a post-apocalyptic Jarjar Binks and it's super cool. I think the middle guy is from Judge Dredd no?

Quote from: Junkenstein on April 03, 2017, 08:42:27 PM
Is that first one jar-jar after 18 months of Meth?

:lulz: I'm not alone here then!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Freeky on April 03, 2017, 10:58:27 PM
Yeah, knurd is the state of sobriety so powerful that the fluffy pink clouds of your normal, everyday filters go away and you see the world in hard, cold detail and you become super aware of EVERYTHING and can't really forget much.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on April 04, 2017, 02:14:50 AM
Quote from: Freeky on April 03, 2017, 10:58:27 PM
Yeah, knurd is the state of sobriety so powerful that the fluffy pink clouds of your normal, everyday filters go away and you see the world in hard, cold detail and you become super aware of EVERYTHING and can't really forget much.
That's pretty much it yeah.

I CAN lie on the mattress in my tiny room and stare at the back of my eyelids or the ceiling in despair though.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 04, 2017, 08:06:36 AM
First guy I was pretty stoked with and then I suddenly saw Jar Jar and now I fucking hate the prick  :argh!:

Second dude is Mean Machine Angel, the only thing that shitty '95 Dredd movie got right IMO
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on April 04, 2017, 04:07:32 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 04, 2017, 08:06:36 AM
First guy I was pretty stoked with and then I suddenly saw Jar Jar and now I fucking hate the prick  :argh!:

Second dude is Mean Machine Angel, the only thing that shitty '95 Dredd movie got right IMO

Firstly they're probably not even the same species.
Secondly your dude would certainly kill and immediately begin to devour Jarjar in the first few minutes of the encounter and use his bones as decorative items for his radioactive machine-gods and Mean Machine Angel.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on April 04, 2017, 04:40:29 PM
I need a prequel trilogy fan-edit where Jar Jar is replaced with your dude, but I'm stuck on whom I'd want to do his voice acting.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Vanadium Gryllz on April 04, 2017, 04:42:31 PM
Quote from: Ziegejunge on April 04, 2017, 04:40:29 PM
I need a prequel trilogy fan-edit where Jar Jar is replaced with your dude, but I'm stuck on whom I'd want to do his voice acting.

Joe Pasquale
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Junkenstein on April 04, 2017, 05:34:27 PM
Quote from: Xaz on April 04, 2017, 04:42:31 PM
Quote from: Ziegejunge on April 04, 2017, 04:40:29 PM
I need a prequel trilogy fan-edit where Jar Jar is replaced with your dude, but I'm stuck on whom I'd want to do his voice acting.

Joe Pasquale pesci

Ftfy.

If you replace jar jars lines with the exact running order of his lines in casino it becomes a work of art.

"Blah blah force bullshit"
"I've got your head ina fuckin vice"
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on April 04, 2017, 06:02:20 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 04, 2017, 05:34:27 PM
Quote from: Xaz on April 04, 2017, 04:42:31 PM
Quote from: Ziegejunge on April 04, 2017, 04:40:29 PM
I need a prequel trilogy fan-edit where Jar Jar is replaced with your dude, but I'm stuck on whom I'd want to do his voice acting.

Joe Pasquale pesci

Ftfy.

If you replace jar jars lines with the exact running order of his lines in casino it becomes a work of art.

"Blah blah force bullshit"
"I've got your head ina fuckin vice"

:lulz: :dream:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 05, 2017, 07:54:47 PM
In VR this dude is about fifteen foot tall.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/6n/cb3bf1mn7fbg.jpg)

Bit more work on winotaur while I was in there. Still get a stupid grin every time I think about that - software you go in. I fucking love this future!

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/QuietDays-004_zpstdrywp5g.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on April 05, 2017, 08:42:42 PM
Software you go into to draw forth what's inside of you... like cyber-demons and things!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 08, 2017, 06:55:40 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ty/oanyraxsevzc.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/4t/ezx68vbjxgo2.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/o8/iemzkl2qlgs7.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on April 08, 2017, 08:03:57 PM
Your sense of body proportion looks pretty good to me! Your sense of composition is as always beautiful and horrific in equal measure.  :)

Zombie about to mess up his 'do!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 09, 2017, 12:01:13 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on April 08, 2017, 08:03:57 PM
Your sense of body proportion looks pretty good to me! Your sense of composition is as always beautiful and horrific in equal measure.  :)

Zombie about to mess up his 'do!

In fairness I used a posable mannequin to rough out the positions. Proportions are easy as fuck in VR, tho, cos I have a body IRL. So say I'm trying to do an arm and get the shoulder - elbow - wrist right, I can actually hold my left arm the right way and trace over it with my other hand.

Also the zeke head in this one was a repurposed goblin head I did months ago which already had the expression I was shooting for. Just needed to lop off the ears and fuck around with the skin a bit.

original
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/k9/blgfl9be5auk.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on April 10, 2017, 05:28:47 PM
Chiming in to say again how impressed I am with this work and how your skills are developing! Thanks again for continuing to share your works!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 10, 2017, 11:18:22 PM
Thanks! I feel like I'm getting better. Practising like fuck seems to help (who knew?) Still fucking miles from where I want to be, tho.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 16, 2017, 09:47:27 AM
So the latest news is they dropped a point release for Medium and now we can haz a whole bunch of new toys. Reference images is a game changer as is the addition of a roughness slider for the default material - doesn't sound like much but without it, everything looked like plastic.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ov/8lsvyfz0f77v.jpg)

I did a speedsculpt of the resurrection of christ cos it's easter and I'm feeling all religious and shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB3AMoQUgHA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB3AMoQUgHA)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on April 16, 2017, 12:44:04 PM
That video was a lot of fun to watch!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 01, 2017, 09:45:36 AM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/r1/u8vgqk0whbv3.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on May 02, 2017, 04:56:53 AM
P3nT4gR4m, your work is amazing!!  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:

and such an awesome medium to be working in, great googily moogily, what a future!!

Do you happen to have these posted anywhere I could check them out in VR w/ google cardboard?

I'm currently teaching high school computer science, and recently had my students make 3d designs in tinkercad, and then post the object file to sketchfab, so we could explore their work in VR. It was a totally blast  : :fnord:

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 02, 2017, 07:11:33 AM
Thanks, dude! These things can be posted to sketchfab but there's a bit of fucking around involved that I haven't looked into yet. Might have a try later on and see how it goes.

And, yeah - VR is clunky and 1st gen but already it's shaping up to be more than I imagined it could be. And I can imagine quite a bit ;)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 02, 2017, 11:20:35 PM
Soz mate I didn't get around to the sketchfab thing. Been working on Elvira for a couple of days now. I've always been a tit-man but, after trying to sculpt the bastard things a couple of times now I've gone right off them. Asses or GTFO  :argh!:
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/hr/phqxn6owucyb.jpg)

Couple of WIP stages.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/sm/6bpbukjtzd60.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/2f/k4a36osxzamw.jpg)

Here's a realtime cap of my third or fourth session. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ8Ftf71UKY&) My workflow is all over the place cos still learning and shit. Nose is too short and a whole lot of shit still needing filled in and fixed. This might get finished...









Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 03, 2017, 06:50:53 PM
Haha! Figured out the sketchfab thing. Only a small amount of pretty straightforward fucking about involved.
https://skfb.ly/6qnU6 (https://skfb.ly/6qnU6)

and another... (https://skfb.ly/6q6rn)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on May 06, 2017, 05:46:55 AM
HOLY SHIT! That's incredible  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:

Art in the VR space is straight up magic, that is a completely different experience than 2d viewing. It felt like I was confronting a real presence.

So much potential in this, my mind is racing.  Thanks so much for sharing this in the VR format!! GREAT WORK!

Also, to whom it may concern, for like $15 you can get a google cardboard, or 3rd party, viewer that turns your phone into make shift virtual reality goggles, and it is genuinely amazing. I got a few at the beginning of the year for my computer science class, and have been delighting in getting to turn people on to safe little glimpses of psychedelic immersion   :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 07, 2017, 01:10:43 PM
Quote from: Bobby Campbell on May 06, 2017, 05:46:55 AM
HOLY SHIT! That's incredible  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:

Art in the VR space is straight up magic, that is a completely different experience than 2d viewing. It felt like I was confronting a real presence.

So much potential in this, my mind is racing.  Thanks so much for sharing this in the VR format!! GREAT WORK!

Also, to whom it may concern, for like $15 you can get a google cardboard, or 3rd party, viewer that turns your phone into make shift virtual reality goggles, and it is genuinely amazing. I got a few at the beginning of the year for my computer science class, and have been delighting in getting to turn people on to safe little glimpses of psychedelic immersion   :fnord:

If you have the spondoolicks handy, shelling out for a full blown oculus or vive setup is worth every penny. The jump in quality from carboard is pretty much exponential. Head/hand tracking and low persistence have to be experienced to be fully appreciated.

Here's links to some more. If you sign up to sketchfab and sub me I'm planning on uploading a ton of these now that I've figured out a pipeline that gives me reasonable quality with not a lot of fucking around.

Silence (https://skfb.ly/6qqXw)

Baron Samedi (https://skfb.ly/6qt7W)

Regan Macneil (https://skfb.ly/6q6QF)

Elvira (https://skfb.ly/6q7GY)

Goblin Fight Promoter (https://skfb.ly/6q7rN)

Freddy Krueger (https://skfb.ly/6q6MN)

Pinhead (https://skfb.ly/6q6FB)













Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on May 08, 2017, 04:55:31 AM
Fuck yeah dude this shit is crazy good!!  :fnord: :fnord:

Adding in the background atmosphere enhanced the experience considerably!

I don't know where you're going w/ these, but I can't wait to see what's next!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 14, 2017, 03:53:29 PM
So the big news in VR sculpting is the Medium team pushed a new update which allows the export of tangent space normals. Up til now it only spat out object space and realtime engines like UE4 and Sketchfab require tangent space. Use the wrong kind and fine detail comes out looking shonky as fuck. Long story short, I can now export from Medium, straight into UE4 and use my Medium sculpts as assets in Unreal Engine whereas, before the update, I had to do a ton of arsing around in the middle and still couldn't get it completely right.

My portfolio shall be an interactive VR art gallery in the style of a fairground house of horrors.  8)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/p8/aqg8l5y3k98g.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 16, 2017, 11:29:34 PM
Some anatomy practice, this time creases and wrinkles. Can't take credit for the base mesh that was released by the insanely talented Steve Lord, I just aged him a bit.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/xq/5me6tqf5upgs.jpg)

Here's the original before I got all scribbly on his ass
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/slord-original_zps6sadrtwt.jpg~original)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on May 17, 2017, 04:54:24 AM
Incredible!

The interactive VR art gallery is where it's at too  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 17, 2017, 06:14:43 AM
Quote from: Bobby Campbell on May 17, 2017, 04:54:24 AM
Incredible!

The interactive VR art gallery is where it's at too  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:

I can record selfies now. Here's me working on the entrance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEnKKrytEOc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEnKKrytEOc)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on May 17, 2017, 03:38:24 PM
I really like the virtual fairgrounds idea. I don't have much constructive to add, but hotdamn you're lightyears from where you started on this. Like holy fuck man.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 17, 2017, 04:26:03 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on May 17, 2017, 03:38:24 PM
I really like the virtual fairgrounds idea. I don't have much constructive to add, but hotdamn you're lightyears from where you started on this. Like holy fuck man.

Yeah, thanks man. Pretty stoked myself. I've wanted to be able to do this shit for decades but flatscreen tech always held me back. I knew if I stuck in I'd get there but wrestling with 2-d interfaces sucked any fun out of it for me. VR and Medium feels like art. Z-brush and the like feels like software engineering which I get more than enough of at work.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 26, 2017, 08:02:02 PM
Letting my fucked up mind wander (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L8IEPXwT4)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Salty on May 27, 2017, 07:04:50 PM
Wow, that is super badass.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 27, 2017, 07:44:33 PM
Quote from: Salty on May 27, 2017, 07:04:50 PM
Wow, that is super badass.

Cheers! "Badass" was totally my mantra while I was doing this dude. "Badass" and "Murrica" those were my inspiration.

So I started today with a face study all serious and grown up, like.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/xb/rb5zp7bru76s.jpg)

Then I sculpted over her with a custom stamp I made a while back called "Xenomorph" Think of custom stamps like custom brushes in photoshop only you're using them to fill 3-d voxel space.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/6l/xmea21d92voq.jpg)

Timelapse here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut2M_scstBc)

Check her out on Sketchfab (https://skfb.ly/6rzOx)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 29, 2017, 12:31:00 AM
Same head with a dash of T-Virus
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/yh/xk1qr2ynbv63.jpg)

Sketchfab (https://skfb.ly/6rBxO)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 30, 2017, 07:43:21 PM
I've always had a love/hate relationship with portraits. Maybe sounds dumb but I kinda form a deep emotional connection with the subject. It's a bit like falling in love but not quite. Hard to put into words exactly but it feels great. Problem is, I always get to a stage where it's not quite right but there's fuck all I can do to fix it and I niggle away at tiny details but it makes no difference and eventually I just ragequit out of pure frustration and that's when I'm finished and it's time to upload to deviant art  8)

I did karloff years back in photoshop so this is a romance rekindled. Those deep soulful eyes, the primitive prosthetic. Such a striking, iconic image. The perfect illustration of Shelley's tragic creature. I'll spend another couple of hours on this and I know already it won't be right but, hopefully I'll be closer to the truth than I was before I started and, if not, at least I get to spend a bit more time falling in love with a dead actor.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/dq/rrbutuxnza4w.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/4k/ah71xhc702w9.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 30, 2017, 11:32:46 PM
That's probably the most relatable Frankenstein's Monster I've ever seen, short of the first film adaptation. He actually looks sad, and not just dumbly horrific.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 31, 2017, 12:03:06 AM
Thanks an absolute ton! I was totally shooting for the pathos he brought to the screen which was so on point in keeping with the book. You want to see awesome, tho,check out this guys work. I was using it as a reference, examining it in microscopic detail all day yesterday and I only found out today it's not a photo of Karloff, it's a life-size fucking sculpt by a stupid talented guy named Mike Hill. I feel like I'm getting the hang of this shit but, fuck me, have I got a long way to go!

(http://www.theofantastique.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Scan-1.jpeg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 31, 2017, 07:15:04 PM
Finished! Almost. Couple of bits of the sculpt to tidy up and it's off to sketchfab. Purely subjective and I feel like I'm too close to the thing to be 100% sure but I feel like I just took a major step up in quality. I trust you motherfuckers hate me enough to not blow smoke up my ass (especially if I ask you not to) but is this like f'kin miles better than anything I've done previously?
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/1o/2x1al1ctmh0p.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/go/m0f5o1sy1ynm.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on June 01, 2017, 02:38:23 AM
Holy shit! That is insane!! It totally looks like the real deal, not just a representation of a character, but the monster itself. You're leveling up!  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 01, 2017, 07:03:16 AM
Certainly how it feels, man. Totally stoked! He's on sketchfab now (https://skfb.ly/6rJqX)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 01, 2017, 09:24:53 PM
So my Monster sculpt just earned a staff pick on Sketchfab which means it's featured on a feed that goes out to about half a million users. I feel like I've arrived :hammer:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 02, 2017, 12:33:13 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 01, 2017, 09:24:53 PM
So my Monster sculpt just earned a staff pick on Sketchfab which means it's featured on a feed that goes out to about half a million users. I feel like I've arrived :hammer:

Hey, that's really cool! Congratulations on having the quality of your work recognized!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on June 02, 2017, 02:59:51 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 01, 2017, 09:24:53 PM
So my Monster sculpt just earned a staff pick on Sketchfab which means it's featured on a feed that goes out to about half a million users. I feel like I've arrived :hammer:

Oh snap! That's fantastic! I think you're so early to the VR Art party that you're gonna be a master before people even know what's what. Go go go!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 03, 2017, 01:52:46 PM
Sometimes progression for me is in small, incremental steps. I keep practising and, every time I create something new, I get a little bit more fluid, a little bit better. Other times there are what feel like huge leaps, like with Karloff where a number of different things I've been working on seem to fall into place in a - better than the sum of it's parts - kinda deal. At least that's how it feels.

These leaps feel fucking awesome. With the incremental progress I hardly notice it happening, the difference in quality from one project to the next is barely noticeable. Only when I look back at earlier shit do I see the difference but with the "Level Up" crap, that's almost like a choir of angels or some shit. An orgasm maybe, it's a total buzz anyway but it's both a blessing and a curse.

Sometimes it's a bit of a fluke. My next dozen things will be back to where I was and that's frustrating as fuck but I just have to hold on to the memory of managing it the one time, to spur me on through the increments I have to plod through in order to get back there. TBH, it doesn't feel like failure exactly but it's a kick in the nuts from a very similar boot.

"Can I turn on the Karloff shit at will now or was that just a tease?" I was wondering to myself. Bit nailbitey but WTF, only one way to find out. Happy to report, I think it's a proper level up and not just a preview! So this guy is my "Big project for the weekend" New training regimen, to accommodate and build on my newly acquired hi frequency detail skillz. Even for the pros, detailing is a fucking time consuming thing. Time to cover a whole model raises exponentially with resolution so at weekends I'm going to dedicate 10-12 hours to ninja-ing the fuck out a sculpt and then through the week I'll stick to speedsculpts and anatomy studies.

Based on a concept sculpt I scribbled down a few weeks back. Should have this guy finished by tomorrow night
(http://orig09.deviantart.net/2e7f/f/2017/154/5/7/third_time_lucky_011_by_p3nt4gr4m-dbbdxzx.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/e9/kybjnsatmlbz.jpg)

(http://orig08.deviantart.net/ba82/f/2017/154/b/4/third_time_lucky_012_by_p3nt4gr4m-dbbdyh0.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 04, 2017, 05:13:50 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/od/5h1t07er8t1r.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on June 04, 2017, 05:46:18 PM
Fucking wow!  :eek:

Just as a stand alone image that's impressive. To imagine it creeping up on you in a virtual environment is good reason to fucking get a pair of Depends to go with the headset.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 04, 2017, 08:42:24 PM
I like how in that last one he's all "now hold on just a sec..."
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 04, 2017, 09:31:08 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 04, 2017, 08:42:24 PM
I like how in that last one he's all "now hold on just a sec..."

Was trying to catch the dynamic of him getting shot by a machine gun, so I looked in the mirror and imagined myself being shot in the shoulder, the cheek and then the head and trying to figure out where the arms could be. I went for a kind of left arm out doing the - graspy zombie - thing. And the right arm sorta just hanging down.

So then I acted out taking one in the shoulder and that obviously twisted my shoulder back but I could feel the momentum pulling on my left arm so that came across and then my head twisted back with shot-2 but the force on the left arm was still (I felt) coming from shoulder rotation.

And then my hand was between me and the shooter...

Dunno, does that momentum thing come across in the final sculpt? Also the ridiculousness of his eyes focused on the bullet that would have been out the back of his head before this brain would even register there was something to look at. Thought that might be worth a laugh?
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/tp/g9x7z4i0vawp.jpg)




Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 04, 2017, 11:34:39 PM
I feel like it does capture this moment of "Oh fuck is this really what's happening now?" as everything kinda goes sideways.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on June 07, 2017, 05:54:17 PM
Wow, Bobby's right -- you leveled up!

Your Karloff is simply stunning. I love the bullet-riddled zombo too, but that Frankenmonster is just on-point. Major kudos!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 07, 2017, 09:01:13 PM
Thanks! Been working on a Bob Marley portrait for a couple of days now that still looks like shit and is currently walking the fine line between - right, lets get this figured out - and - fuck bob marley in his stupid dead rasta face  :argh!:

Took a break from him tonight and did a detailing redux on Goblin Fight Promoter. Been dreading detailing for so long but I gotta tell you - it's my new favourite thing in the world!
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/lp/hnohe748vuvg.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on June 08, 2017, 04:18:36 AM
That skin texture is intense! The depth of detail is astonishing  :fnord:

With the software you're using is there an animation component? Because if you can eventually make these gd things MOVE, even just a a little bit, you'll be on some hyperspatial type shit!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 08, 2017, 07:05:11 AM
There's no animation in the actual Medium software and with animation you have to do this horrible retopology shit which I haven't practised enough to get comfortable with yet. Same with "rigging" which is adding the virtual armature that poses your model .I'll probably get around to it at some point but I got a whole bunch of other things I want to learn first.

Over the next couple of years motion capture technology is going to become dirt cheap, like practically free with the next generation of 3d sensors being built into smartphones and VR/ar rigs. No more of those weird suits with the ping pong balls and a dozen ridiculously expensive lidar cameras. At that point retopo-ing and rigging will be worth my while when I can just act out the animations.

People going to want virtual avatars to interact with their friends in the metaverse. 8)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on June 09, 2017, 02:37:23 AM
Makes sense! Thanks for the overview of the emerging tech!  :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 13, 2017, 07:19:06 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/x8/9j6n9sli2g26.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on June 14, 2017, 05:03:30 AM
Steady doing what thou wilt! Externalizing the interior in increasingly vivid detail, great work! In theory, could you 3d print these things? bc that cd be pretty darn interesting  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 14, 2017, 07:51:59 AM
I've never tried but apparently all you have to do is load it up in a 3-d print program and press "go" Plenty people in the Medium community printing the shit out of all the things.

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 16, 2017, 06:38:13 AM
So I started by seeing THIS (http://rossdraws.deviantart.com/art/Orange-spectacles-686247471) on deviantart. About half way through, before I'd even started dialing in the expression, I noticed it was headed somewhere different. I heard Bobby Campbell in my head - "...leaning into the trajectory of my misfire". And that's how I ended up with this

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/gx/q7pwhbkxt8rv.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 16, 2017, 07:18:49 PM
Did a bit more work on Uncle Al then uploaded to Sketchfuuurb (https://skfb.ly/68FQP)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on June 17, 2017, 05:05:22 AM
Nice design! I like the looks of this new direction  :fnord:

and holy shit that Crowley model is intense! The way the eyes glimmer when you spin him around, there's a real sense of life to it  :eek: :eek:  :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 17, 2017, 06:39:01 AM
Cheers Bobby! Eyes have always felt to me like something I have covered. Like, "Yeah, cool, I totally don't suck at eyes"

Bringing the rest of the face up to the same level as the eyes is the challenge for me :lulz:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 17, 2017, 07:33:35 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 16, 2017, 07:18:49 PM
Did a bit more work on Uncle Al then uploaded to Sketchfuuurb (https://skfb.ly/68FQP)

That's very impressive!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 20, 2017, 07:59:27 AM
Thanks Nigel. I thought I'd replied to this days ago but I must have forgotten to hit "post"

Anyroad, the big news this morning is my Karloff Monster was just featured on UploadVR (https://uploadvr.com/sketchfab-favs-monsters-monarchies/).

QuoteThis might be one of the most realistic models ever created with a VR tool (in this case, Oculus Medium). The raw emotion visible in this take on Boris Karloff's monster here is incredibly compelling, reminding us a little of Wilson's Heart.

I'm actually feeling a bit emotional that some complete stranger just wrote that shit about something I did!  :aww:

Oh yeah, and heres what I meant to post the other day. Not sure there's any compelling raw emotion in here but, hey, I'm sure even Picasso had days when he'd just seen the DoomVFR trailer and wanted to paint demon skulls, right?
(https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=488240&d=1497849202)

sketchfap (https://sketchfab.com/models/c02333ab037941ff936e002750030717)




Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Vanadium Gryllz on June 20, 2017, 10:58:34 AM
That's awesome that your work's getting some recognition, P3nt.
It's been really interesting seeing your progression.

Now to bide my time until Dreams comes out and I can have a go at VR modelling fun.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 20, 2017, 12:33:51 PM
Dreams! Fuck me, I'd forgotten all about that. Cheers for the reminder.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 22, 2017, 08:17:12 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/gi/qctfkyzj7lr3.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/a6/544ldciframo.jpg)

Youtube showy-offy thing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zxAMAQ53Zc)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on June 23, 2017, 12:50:04 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 22, 2017, 08:17:12 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/gi/qctfkyzj7lr3.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/a6/544ldciframo.jpg)

Youtube showy-offy thing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zxAMAQ53Zc)

:eek:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on June 23, 2017, 04:14:59 AM
Cthulhu fhtagn!  :eek: :eek: :eek:

Seriously and entirely badass! The youtube channel is awesome also  :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 23, 2017, 04:59:14 PM
Thanks, man! Here's squidface on sketchfab (https://skfb.ly/68QrC)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 25, 2017, 07:15:43 AM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/dl/j9bxnjri4m7z.jpg)

Sketchfab (https://sketchfab.com/models/04d9527610cd4820926b6cbea435c07b)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on June 26, 2017, 02:43:08 AM
 :eek: :eek: :eek:

Your range is expanding at an astonishing pace! :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 26, 2017, 08:07:08 AM
Thanks Bobby. The more I practice the more I'm finding my eye getting dialled in. Borg Queen was a pretty awesome experience for me, the least amount of fiddling about with forms back and forward. I'm able to get a lot more right first try. Even a couple of weeks ago this would have taken three or four days. As it turned out this one was about 3hours. I pissed about with the paintjob more than the actual sculpt.

Some process wips.

First rough using an old anatomy study as a starting point. Mouth on the original was open so I had to redo the lower jaw and tweak the cheekbones and eye sockets to match the subject. Eyes haven't been touched at this point so that's why they look totally wrong.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/6b/krav2z956lnr.jpg)

Second session, concentrating on secondary forms, fixed the eyes and trying to push some expression in there. Was about this point I noticed one of my refs had a huge bulging cranium (must have been a post fx process - none of the others had this). Considered going in this direction but decided to stick with a slightly elongated normal size skull.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ym/dgbp2qhkqdwm.jpg)

Third session, more detailing, added some pipes and metalwork and whatnot. More detailing. Normally buy now I'd still be fucking around trying to the nose the right shape or some other stupid bullshit.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/tm/qu32ngunng6j.jpg)

Last session, adding the shoulders and funky glowing spinal column and she's good to go
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/gw/g0y6wddgwh1u.jpg)

And then about 3 hours yesterday fucking around with shaders and textures in blender. I hate this so much but the results are just about worth it.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/0p/mkjvlhf8on6n.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on June 26, 2017, 02:55:21 PM
So I think I figured out what the Borg Queen saw in Picard. He had an artificial heart. Isn't that sweet? He was already "in process" before he got upgraded to Locutus, which I think means "one who talks". She gave him a little individuality and everything, but he said "nah, I'm a Federation man fo life". No wonder she got so salty and tried grinding on Data like he was just her usual flavor in  reverse.

This is yet another amazing bit of work P3nT.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 01, 2017, 08:36:09 PM
METAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/wc/6hgrpuujrcfs.jpg)

Sketchfab (https://skfb.ly/68XEV)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 01, 2017, 09:13:01 PM
That image could be an album cover!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on July 02, 2017, 06:14:43 AM
Yooooo!  :evil: :fnord: :evil:
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Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 04, 2017, 11:56:26 PM
Yay, so Ed the Head got me another staff pick on Sketchfab. The reputation economy - after my basic needs are met with a bit of breathing space, my life is devoted at present to gaining likes on media sharing channels. This currency rewards me with centuries of hardwired feelgood chemicals and is psychically fullfilling, whereas hard currency and it's aquisition feels dated and sub-optimal. Like we (as a species) should have improved on this bullshit by now.

In other news - I have 3-d printed one of my sculpts which is kind of a trip. Haven't painted something like this since brief flirtation with warhammer in my teens. Any advice would be much appreciated.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/go/qiuvazdxta32.jpg)

Also, this guy...
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/js/dltycsyckd8h.jpg)

Youtube Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmHMNlsce78)

And on Sketchfab (https://skfb.ly/6snvv)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 05, 2017, 11:19:19 PM
Did a remix of the dude I'm calling "Stamphead" on account of I wasn't happy wi the final image. Had to go in and photograph about 20 separate lighting passes then bang them all together in photoshop. Lot of work but I'm pretty satisfied with the results. Half the battle with these things is showing them off. Often takes longer than making the fuckers in the first place.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/0k/p08kp4thipl2.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on July 06, 2017, 06:31:50 AM
YOWZA! I took the kids to an anthropological museum today, and those faces are on par w/ all of the ancient shamanic sculptures we saw today  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:

And the 3D print! Phenomenal! Seems like a major artistic threshold to cross. Being able to bring an object from your imagination into the real world. Pure wizardry!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 06, 2017, 07:55:34 AM
Thanks Bobby! Yeah the 3-d print thing is a trip for sure. I've been toying with the idea of ordering up a bunch of sculpey and having a go at sculpting in meatspace but now I'm wondering if that's a just a whole bunch of muscle memory and technique I don't really need to to waste time learning.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on July 08, 2017, 02:55:56 AM
My 9yo son is reading Frankenstein so I had him check out your model using google cardboard and he absolutely flipped his lid!  :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 09, 2017, 05:09:58 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 06, 2017, 07:55:34 AM
Thanks Bobby! Yeah the 3-d print thing is a trip for sure. I've been toying with the idea of ordering up a bunch of sculpey and having a go at sculpting in meatspace but now I'm wondering if that's a just a whole bunch of muscle memory and technique I don't really need to to waste time learning.

One day there might just be an interface so precise that some of those reflexes could be quite handy..

That Stamphead fella gave me the full on body creeps. Nice work!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 09, 2017, 06:24:07 AM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/bh/mfgtevjs3pdc.jpg)

Sketchfab (https://skfb.ly/6spXZ)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 09, 2017, 06:34:58 PM
So today I got another pick of the week on UploadVR. (https://uploadvr.com/sketchfab-favs/) Is like winning a competition I didn't even know I'd entered 8)

Knocked off Puddles in under an hour (hence the reason he only looks right from the front. I'll throw another hour at this, tidying up anatomy and adding fine detail.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/9h/lqhkf6ymugth.jpg)

Sketchfab (https://skfb.ly/6s7CG)

Long-ass timelapse (https://youtu.be/nid1HYMiTC4)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 09, 2017, 11:55:14 PM
Fucking awesome! I hope Puddles sees it one day.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: hooplala on July 10, 2017, 12:59:07 AM
Me too. #onions
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bu🤠ns on July 10, 2017, 03:57:15 AM
Wonderful likenesses ITT
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on July 10, 2017, 05:54:13 AM
Phenomenal!!  :fnord:

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 11, 2017, 07:54:52 PM
Puddles got his hour and I'm pretty stoked with the final result. It's a brand new thing to me, seeing the difference just scribbling about and breaking up the smooth surface makes.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/os/t7ghqvgjgk09.jpg)

Sketchfab is updated too (https://skfb.ly/6s7CG)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on July 12, 2017, 02:58:28 AM
That's awesome! It's crazy what a difference those little details can make.

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 11, 2017, 07:54:52 PM
It's a brand new thing to me, seeing the difference just scribbling about and breaking up the smooth surface makes.

Totally agree! It feels like bringing dead space to life, if that makes sense.  :fnord:

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 12, 2017, 06:03:31 AM
Totally get you. I tend to think of it as giving the light something interesting to do, other than just sit there in a big clump, shining at you.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 12, 2017, 02:24:20 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 12, 2017, 06:03:31 AM
Totally get you. I tend to think of it as giving the light something interesting to do, other than just sit there in a big clump, shining at you.

I'm pretty sure that is exactly how God was "In The Beginning". Then G was like, "Ok Let's get you all sorted and see what you can do."
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 04, 2017, 04:54:29 PM
His Late Majesty. I got a little piece of Lemmy now. A little impression he made on me that I took a mould of in cyberspace. And I can turn Ace of Spades up to f'kin 10 and look him in the eye and remember the fucking legend. And I got a rift on so no cunt sees the little tear in my eye.  8)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/3i/fpy5s0q0nsqa.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 08, 2017, 07:31:59 AM
Cycles...
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/hi/m6lg295qfygd.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 08, 2017, 02:29:19 PM
You're doing pretty damn good with these portraits man!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on August 08, 2017, 04:30:16 PM
Hear hear!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 14, 2017, 12:13:33 AM
Cheers, guys! I'm reasonably comfy with my current level of faces although the end goal is way in advance of this. Bodies on the other hand are a whole new kettle of worms. Had a bit of a breakthrough this weekend tho. Via VR Sculpting community I have the ear of some world class artists. Couple of them suggested I concentrate on gesture first when studying body anatomy. Had an epiphany weekend. With faces, other than a bit of jaw movement, the underlying bone structure is static so once you've learned it, you've learned it. Everything else is about learning muscles and their interactions to drive the expression. Bodies are all over the place though and there's whole new factors around balance and poise to replace all the expression of the face to make it believable.

The quality of the bodywork here is where my faces were 6 months ago. I only have a vague idea how a couple of the bits join up. Mission statement: 6 Months time, I'll have this shit down and be styling it. At this point I shall return to this guy and finish him off. Lot of theory and practice between here and there.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/0g/w8j06pjk9erf.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on August 14, 2017, 05:40:29 PM
I like your approach, and your ability to put it into frank words. I have little doubt, given said approach, that you will be very near the skill level you hope to achieve in six months' time.

Also it made me happy to see Panthro.  :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 16, 2017, 09:37:37 AM
Haha, yeah Panthro was always my favourite. So I seem to have accidentally wandered into fine art territory. I'm sure the natives will notice I don't belong here soon enough and turf me back out. In the meantime...

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/mx/thit9ztmbw32.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ko/fo3ehyr69vkp.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on August 17, 2017, 04:20:53 AM
Fantastic stuff!! Fine art in VR will be a hell of a thing, happy exploring! Looking forward to the results  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 17, 2017, 07:33:22 PM
Cheers Bobby! Art in VR is fucking awesome. Only just started mucking about wi Tiltbrush and it's a whole nother level of weird. You paint your own light, like in traditional painting but that whole concept takes on a life of it's own when you're immersed in it!

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QnL5MMefVnhQYthtRs8hj-iaFF-Rk0lzzg-uCzmN8CjUwuLMQyZhACvRSD6NfyhBDBxvoNx5o0JuLGzwWmcSKLwarro5fW26Awa_8_leynAkk2nLBjBRYiG_HjTDTigkWxsSPjnqJ6wFFI3ZHnoGTx5w_HAZoSo_1PD3sJrNsuWXUegZBe5GnbV8Y8t4Et0r5CEDkTyopoTgzuFqSrDWVUrm6mJgDABsyvxNzzKR7ZKa9msuiUlTYVznP24f-EkRxJtyn-DMqRgKFB90slcwqqBB8fayOA1SM35tT586n1vL5agndxF86TpEgVN9IWxYJ_tKeQapBBRbdV-FMOvLsenmc_mjNEqmnpBmmmr0bKu0k7papjh-ZymFwY907KhtTEDeBQ9xW0y6HA6sp04Vzakw7zm2n7lOlgjiEhdMisPGz8m8BiZ0RNp9YDZcur_rPTCzQJGBEoxmxxPFx59_UZnTqcAsSAhl3FQYulwlPrZJNkRb4kQpfV8B_KXYLKPqKotWm9kXS6SP5HzapKuTB3CaqU17kUtH4iSIHKLSwp6pT7205J7_Lsq2OFQyWQoMvVTcrigDkz8Lehof1KjdKsoGDn0gCJ5hz8WJ3rUsXfpbE9nJNNKWfQ=w709-h894-no)

Here's more Medium stuff

Real Demons 01 - Depression
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/9x/z40u0blibi2d.jpg)

Perpetual Motion - The Square Root of Time
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/hb/2faguhtzmbx8.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on August 18, 2017, 05:15:38 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on August 17, 2017, 07:33:22 PM
Cheers Bobby! Art in VR is fucking awesome. Only just started mucking about wi Tiltbrush and it's a whole nother level of weird. You paint your own light, like in traditional painting but that whole concept takes on a life of it's own when you're immersed in it!

Inconceivable! The idea of being able to create the environment you are in, while you are in it, is absolutely mind blowing. The crafts of magic and art seem mixing together pretty nicely :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 18, 2017, 07:48:26 AM
Totally, man. Magic is real in VR. In fact, it's on by f'kin default! Now I've got the hang of Tiltbrush LBRP has moved way up my todo list  8)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/hs/nszgsoqubi2j.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on August 19, 2017, 06:10:32 AM
God damn that is cool!!

The implications and possibilities of all this is overwhelming my McLuhanesque sensibilities  :eek: :fnord:

Keep bringing these jewels back from the other side!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 21, 2017, 08:00:57 PM
Face anatomy practice. Still not perfect but it's headed in the right direction.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/45/q8uupsljenrg.jpg)

Timelapse (https://youtu.be/SDgUHCFX4CM)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 22, 2017, 08:53:19 PM
Went back to an old sculpt from february and applied 6 months worth of progress. Spot the difference...
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ru/u889vhd3umjn.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 22, 2017, 09:11:26 PM
The eyes look more natural for sure and the cheek bone and temple area are better defined. Skin texture and the color of the teeth are really detailed and realistic looking.

For emotional context the older one looks more like his mind is getting blown. The new one looks almost sad like he's actually remembering something and it hurts a bunch.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 22, 2017, 11:53:50 PM
Cheers, mate! Pretty much everything you said there was specific stuff I was hoping I wasn't imagining. Seriously, the expression on the right is what the guy on the left actually looked like to me 6 months ago. There's a degree of projection goes on where my imagination fills in the blanks almost like augmented reality. I've only recently noticed this effect and it's probably why a lot of artists recommend sleeping on a sculpt or walking away for a couple of days or, in my case, six months.

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 25, 2017, 06:35:51 PM
Quick doodle that I think I'll develop this weekend
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/lt/2xs8zydl7ocl.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 26, 2017, 04:27:03 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/55/kn7742bqj4c1.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 26, 2017, 05:53:34 PM
I like how that turned out!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on August 27, 2017, 06:31:40 AM
Rock solid!!  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 27, 2017, 06:32:29 PM
After spending most of my weekend fighting what was always going to be a losing battle with torso anatomy, I decided to cut loose and rattle out a quick portrait. Alan Moore, inspired by the Frank Quitely one which I had the pleasure of seeing in the flesh a couple of weeks back.

In two minds about finishing this. I kinda like the sketchiness but at the same time there's a couple of bits really bugging the piss out of me.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ib/m1t4uv9w0z0p.jpg)

Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PBZNN0-fnU)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on August 28, 2017, 06:11:31 AM
Oh man do please finish this!

Chances are he might even end up seeing it himself  :fnord:

(http://i.imgur.com/VAZzsdr.jpg)
http://dailygrail.com/Computer-Games/2014/9/Alan-Moore-Wearing-Oculus-Rift (http://dailygrail.com/Computer-Games/2014/9/Alan-Moore-Wearing-Oculus-Rift)

Frank Quietly is one of my all time fav comic artists, that guy puts in work!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 29, 2017, 08:28:54 PM
K so after a couple of days staring at him I got to the point where all I could see was Charlie f'kin Manson. Softened the eyes, dialled back the brow, totally redid the cheeks and jowls and refined the nose. Much happier but then I was happy before. I'll let it percolate for another couple of days then, if I can't see anything wrong, I'll finish off the hair and detailing. And get him up on sketchfab.

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/5v/5z9i1oemvdmn.jpg)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on August 30, 2017, 04:23:54 AM
Extraordinary! The likeness is dead on and the presence is there. Great work!  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on August 30, 2017, 03:59:55 PM
I liked "Manson Moore" quite a bit, but I like retooled Moore more!
Great work!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 30, 2017, 09:04:01 PM
I've gone and totally fucked up the eyes now in a kinda insane tweak-frenzy. 2.5 hours down the shitter. Plus whatever it's going to take me to get back where I was.  :argh!:

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/cj/9syp3kwwz4nz.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on August 31, 2017, 05:18:26 AM
It still looks great to me! But I totally understand what it's like to chase a particular vision, and to lose hours upon hours in pursuit. Happy hunting!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 31, 2017, 07:02:33 AM
Aye, the key for me (that I'm only just learning to turn) is to resist that feeling that I can't get it back. As if what I had was down to luck and now I should just scrap the shit cos lightning won't strike twice. That mindset leads to confinement, I get locked in to a - not quite there but scared to try and fix it in case I fuck it up worse - trap (which actually happened here) A negotiation of quality.

Trick was figuring out that lightning can strike as many times as I want it to - I'm the fucking lightning! 8)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: POFP on August 31, 2017, 02:15:17 PM
I'm not usually the artsy type, but I wanted to drop in and say that these are fantastic!

Also, maybe a couple pages back you had mentioned VR Sculpting, and I am now incredibly interested in that idea.

Anyways, keep it up! I'm liking the progress. Watching an artist's skill increase over time in a measurable, visible way like this is more interesting to me than the art itself, sometimes.

:mittens: All the way down
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 31, 2017, 05:26:28 PM
Cheers, dude! Should be getting kept up for a while yet. Still enjoying my ass off.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 31, 2017, 07:22:58 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/qg/ml18dre33hqy.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on September 01, 2017, 02:00:04 AM
Holy crap! I think you even got his forehead wrinkles spot on.  :eek:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on September 01, 2017, 04:10:47 AM
There he is!! That is a truly awesome invocation  :fnord:

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on August 31, 2017, 07:22:58 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/qg/ml18dre33hqy.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 01, 2017, 07:20:56 AM
Thanks guys! Uploaded to sketchfab (https://sketchfab.com/models/8afd8c0718924d11898f0280477de445)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Eater of Clowns on September 01, 2017, 09:33:00 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 01, 2017, 07:20:56 AM
Thanks guys! Uploaded to sketchfab (https://sketchfab.com/models/8afd8c0718924d11898f0280477de445)

So everybody who loaded those zoomed to the inside of the model to try to look through the eye holes right?

Wasn't just me?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on September 01, 2017, 09:51:51 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 01, 2017, 09:33:00 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 01, 2017, 07:20:56 AM
Thanks guys! Uploaded to sketchfab (https://sketchfab.com/models/8afd8c0718924d11898f0280477de445)

So everybody who loaded those zoomed to the inside of the model to try to look through the eye holes right?

Wasn't just me?

:lulz: I  would but I'm not tech savvy enough. It could make a great model for a mask though! One day IRL and Internet will be indistinguishable and woven together inseparably.  ... not sure that's a good thing it's pretty 'effin cool!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 04, 2017, 05:30:07 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 01, 2017, 09:51:51 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 01, 2017, 09:33:00 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 01, 2017, 07:20:56 AM
Thanks guys! Uploaded to sketchfab (https://sketchfab.com/models/8afd8c0718924d11898f0280477de445)

So everybody who loaded those zoomed to the inside of the model to try to look through the eye holes right?

Wasn't just me?

:lulz: I  would but I'm not tech savvy enough. It could make a great model for a mask though! One day IRL and Internet will be indistinguishable and woven together inseparably.  ... not sure that's a good thing it's pretty 'effin cool!

There's currently a competition in progress - "design your virtual avatar"

We already post "selfies" on the facebook art groups where we use the oculus avatar and turn the camera around in Medium. Oculus avatar is one of those user defined things like in any bethesda game you ever played where you got sliders for sizes and shapes of things.

Mine looks like this only without the meat and bones thing. I'm basically a head and thorax and a couple of hands at this point. Not exactly the "residual self image" that Morpheus promised. Sensors are coming. All will be user defined soon enough.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/59BwL9YplUjzVrBPqy4vun8oanfD-KSeJ9j0XnhKbawC6LZSe-4Ixl6LQ_uY9-XFKIVGpSaqnpcP4GM8aPuAZEvNMTvJRFN6XTbboYU7jOE3uSasjnzpf9rdw9AtIjdJWAERWmNFdJrAUoVER9CrIdi7EA1fe0Xn7b2QlXJsVckzbVSQOpKWsfbMxod0QkOUYZw7QJ9CmC16H6PJOhjiYLvmR2fD-3ylrE3ZVz49ZCdYNCXhMLBcGq1YuMVWlujtOa7yOU4yYbD-kV-pT21nAnP934DiNGpA-zNLpzfeapF4ZnR7SjxoMWNmnrD0jNuq-amyhmhTtDIXLZvbu6Dj4vdvFTnQFKls6A7QVNZ-GiGMt0xqUSvv0labqRkpj5Bb0sa6skFlYHIz5zy7oAe4zL-WKTyrxsuV2j_F_NC5nXMce43gtwP4MTVZ8MYNONh_qEtk1Zh2UY4wlIiMSVVyaXo2qsgsOSe0Z9-R1Yuu0ldc9BQ9zwswak-E7g1ShimRQo_Bi0Bg0ChOXdLBXcEB73i5cqSRfKbAQSYJIpgzs4RbonAkAb2nUq-FkEEjCclN3N8l4KmwQnOnCPUtPhBBHmyK8L0wA3WWh8MeagfB570x1yKnwtU2MA=w596-h894-no)

So this weekend just gone I was stuck for a project and I decided that the Alan Moore thing has highlighted a need to figure out some decent workflows for hair.

First thing I needed was a head sculpt and I felt like the practice so I knocked up a quick - seeing shapes in clouds of clay - number that turned out to be a Gobliness. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-47Jh2yLgLA)

Enter Barbie Goblin. Who I proceeded to use as a model for various cutting edge, couture stylings. I got bored with the face after the first couple and started fucking about with expressions

"The Bonnie"  The classic look of Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/q9/le2nsoj2sb29.jpg)

"The Sarah Connor"
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/xq/xcrvffaym0sw.jpg)

"The Miss Jones"
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/no/1rc726dum7v4.jpg)

"The Princess Judy"
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/nh/5wwsos8ql2ji.jpg)

"The Gypsy"
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/8q/l1cx1w2d2llu.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on September 04, 2017, 10:43:44 PM
I have the weirdest boner
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 08, 2017, 08:07:09 PM
Break out the Crisco, strap yourself down and prepare for that boner of yours to get a whole lot weirder.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/0k/6xm43t18n66d.jpg)
Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXt8k8ZcMco)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: POFP on September 08, 2017, 08:12:38 PM
 :mittens:

I SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS BONER
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on September 09, 2017, 03:33:46 PM
 :eek::hi5::fap:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 24, 2017, 10:40:23 PM
Took a few hours out of the nessie project for a quick concept sculpt
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/m5/1y1z8q3n1jdn.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ya/jr1h86j4g6oy.jpg)

I'll tidy up the raggedy bits and throw him up on sketchfab at some point
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 28, 2017, 07:29:31 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/16/tag86esm9fub.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on September 28, 2017, 09:29:01 PM
Nice! That is the old Thoth deck Mage card isn't it? Joker is on point!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on September 28, 2017, 11:34:34 PM
Cheers. Joker is wip but I dunno when I'll get round to finishing. Got a lot of Nessie stuff I want to get stuck into this weekend.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on September 29, 2017, 12:30:12 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 28, 2017, 11:34:34 PM
Cheers. Joker is wip but I dunno when I'll get round to finishing. Got a lot of Nessie stuff I want to get stuck into this weekend.

Think I spotted you on FB and sent you a request. I couldn't miss your work!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on October 13, 2017, 03:42:19 PM
Continuous excellence! Looking great, P3nT!  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 18, 2017, 10:58:05 PM
Taking a break from the Nessies project and kicking back with some comfort sculpting - Zombies, what else?

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/am/hyunwdc1budf.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on October 19, 2017, 02:40:03 PM
 :fnord: :eek: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 23, 2017, 07:36:20 PM
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/y2aq5tkGVvKfHsK5GTj0WkXUDHVsQcPPKkH_J8urHRWm8Z_RDsSuED3FvxMo77lKMaYnpHINu-IBpsbqh7J_T7WhOoiEFEab8ZanP6Z4sezbe4HJ53K0P0FmHHMPeSMQACOgZg6-C90OYYm80s-Z1lcTQKAm86trAT-u2QetI7QN1sWvmDJY5G6pUswIy1sgusoMGaOBBOwy5spI7fp3Rm-JmLqQj3Cms6L150rumIqqZ3QRo8ZHMubiHYeJn_hvIZ4W0KtbUGpdpNhvXesmYRxLw4XP64BlkEpSvyK2xLbUCEZFZJeLSup0wCgfrXUAKOd4RifHVr-MQ34z8ZOQRCSFaeUIlTgP7SMD9Q7dH07DdiRtGcrWLCf7MOZUtlOizKCvXa6PX61d4Jyk8kY0q9mqRTNBw4z599L_QyOFIohOSkG-UzMfswwkyfBwmpRg_7rxvW2CKIC2bT0f_apO-1HYN6a_9iq_xz3XW-JCzGK68XQEp1e_bi9vXdcvO3q4RiZsvNgdz0rCVg0BCUUmfu2vwl1zB3FCWkTmu9viNrgQN1ym39DBoe5A_wzmvzK3QUsi0CcttmdTFM7AYulo5Upwky8YmR-R2lhssabhus4=w596-h893-no)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 24, 2017, 02:53:24 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/cl/aisj3bbg3t5g.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 30, 2017, 11:42:27 PM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/2w/46mf12yu5zmz.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/a7/geiof7com3uk.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/uq/1roqr18t7m8f.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 12, 2017, 02:30:36 PM
Boomstick!

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/qq/5c1ugz1u8byg.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/6b/k9nv7tx6rpij.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 03, 2017, 09:34:28 PM
Lt Saru from the new Star Trek

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/i5/1bz4gs8ud2sc.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/u3/2mvovmy39zpn.jpg)

Sketchfab (https://sketchfab.com/models/7386b092b9214854a8b1b9759ac408ee)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 04, 2018, 08:07:31 AM
So, yeah, I can do shit like this now
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/jv/m1trhqpgn5y8.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/mz/n762j12r9g44.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: POFP on February 04, 2018, 05:42:36 PM
 :mittens:

D-D-DAMN SON, WHERE'D YOU FIND THIS?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 04, 2018, 10:53:53 PM
Is a mixture of Substance Painter which Santa Clause gave me and Blender which I've been using for ages but only just started exploring a bit deeper
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on February 05, 2018, 05:13:00 PM
Wow, looks like you've reached a new skill plateau! Nice work!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: POFP on February 05, 2018, 07:28:24 PM
Badass, man. Keep it up!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on February 06, 2018, 02:52:04 PM
 :eek: :eek: :eek: that is seriously spectacular! Shit man! I don't know where you're going w/ this stuff, but I'm totally here for it!  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 06, 2018, 07:16:49 PM
Cheers guys! The plan is pretty straightforward, Bobby - improve. Photorealism has so many aspects - anatomy has to be spot on, texturing has to be spot on, rendering has to be spot on. There's always room for improvement. Opportunity to impress myself. It's amazing how hard that is. I'm a real nitpicky fucker when it comes to my own work.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on February 12, 2018, 03:52:17 PM
I can dig it!  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 18, 2018, 12:01:43 PM
Pretty Boy Zeke. When there's no room for boy bands left in hell. (Zoom in for extra juicy detail!)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/tq/r331sl09y2qh.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/cl/jcw2cf7yfeup.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 19, 2018, 07:48:57 PM
I continue to be absolutely amazed by your work man!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on February 23, 2018, 05:54:56 PM
Yoooooooo!  Those strands of hair are wild! Hyperrealism  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 23, 2018, 09:13:15 PM
Hair is a total trip, Bobby. Gets set up all on it's own with a fancy interface to manipulate it. The computational physics modelling that goes on behind the final render is staggering. Here's how it looks before I commit to a 4 hours of busy pointer.
(https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/009/427/135/large/ross-young-wires.jpg?1518952816)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 28, 2018, 09:50:42 PM
So I've been making a man. With blonde black hair and a tan corset. Full body, cos it's time I quit fucking around with dismembered heads and built the whole shebang. This is a mountain of work and will take me weeks but when I'm done (whether it comes together awesome or crashes and burns) I will totally be in a position to pick up where I left off with the Nessies project and see that fucker right through to completion! Shit is going to kick serious ass!

(https://orig00.deviantart.net/2295/f/2018/059/2/c/cycles_011_avi_by_p3nt4gr4m-dc4kcv8.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/31/cwxjxakrvajp.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on March 03, 2018, 10:16:18 PM
Yowza!! Your likenesses are so gd striking  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 19, 2018, 08:39:52 PM
Thanks Bobby. I think I'm still kinda hit and miss with likenesses. Sometimes I feel like I've nailed it. Other times I can't quite seem to get there. Current plan is practice like fuck and hopefully, in time, I'll get to a place where it works more often than not. For Yoda I went out on a limb. The original Yoda never had eyelashes. I'm guessing this was because he was basically a muppet and eyelashes would have been hard on something like that but with the prequels, the fuckers seemed to stick to that motif, even though he was CGI by this time and could easily have had some means of keeping little bits of dust and grit out his eyes. Some art director obviously deciding "Nope. Original Yoda never had eyelashes..." Well fuck that noise. If poor yoda is having to use the force to keep shit out his eyes then that'd be less force left for fighting or else, if he turned off the eyes force, he'd be subject to the old - kicking sand in your face - gambit and might get his tiny little ass kicked that way. So I gave him sexy lashes!

TL/DR - Yoda with eyelashes :P

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ok/om34pf5fk7ib.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/z2/pwbyja8y6d2a.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/mr/7zlzlv0bmlua.jpg)

Timelapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXl4gOT-TTs)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on March 19, 2018, 10:30:06 PM
Excellent Yoda! I don't think I would have even noticed the eyelashes if you hadn't mentioned them. They don't draw attention to themselves; they look nice and "organic" to the character. Well done!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 05, 2018, 07:50:22 AM
Marla Singer
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/x9/gvpao7jnfcqx.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: minuspace on April 05, 2018, 09:36:04 AM
WoW, I nominate the board to provide P3nt with more cycles, which would be wise
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on April 06, 2018, 03:46:46 PM
Continuing excellence!

Love how you were able to split the difference between cgi Yoda and puppet Yoda and Marla's skin is flawless! You're hitting Alex Ross levels of photorealism and in 3d no less  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: POFP on April 06, 2018, 06:20:23 PM
^^^ Seconded

These are amazing. The longer I look at these, the more details make themselves known.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 07, 2018, 01:34:55 PM
Thanks guys! Progression is a weird effect involving dialling in my eye. I can see things now that I didn't even know to look for before. In hindsight it's really obvious but at the time, these details were somehow invisible to me :eek:

What I'm missing now is really nailing the likeness. I suspect there are more levels of nuance that I'm still blind to. What I hope is that with enough time and practice, whatever it is I'm missing will be revealed to me. Right now the likeness is elusive and actually comes and goes throughout the sculpt. Or maybe that's my noob eyes playing tricks on me.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 09, 2018, 10:52:25 AM
Taking a break from copying and just blurting out brainfart. Feels liberating to just fuck with anatomy for the hell of it and see where it leads me.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/hh/wduziyeha1gw.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 20, 2018, 04:37:01 PM
Ton of room for improvement but progress too. I'll take it.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/yi/mrig5bzdtmxx.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/w5/wdebu0533vao.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on April 20, 2018, 05:31:19 PM
Good grief. Your Trejo is a masterpiece. One of my favorites so far. Astoundingly good work on that one, P3nT! You're an inspiration.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on April 20, 2018, 05:57:51 PM
Quote from: Ziegejunge on April 20, 2018, 05:31:19 PM
Good grief. Your Trejo is a masterpiece. One of my favorites so far. Astoundingly good work on that one, P3nT! You're an inspiration.

Seconded!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: disco accordion on April 25, 2018, 09:10:44 PM
Amazing!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 26, 2018, 01:33:37 AM
Steve Buschemi Gandhi, pls.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on April 26, 2018, 03:53:49 PM
That Trejo is so gd cool! I'm starting to picture a hyperspatial wax/pixel museum.

I've been teaching some environmental science type stuff at a local nature park and wildlife center, where they are in the early stages of building this giant glass virtual reality laboratory w/ NASA grant $$$, the stuff they have planned is truly wild. VR & AR slowly but surely integrating w/ IRL  :eek: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 28, 2018, 07:25:26 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 26, 2018, 01:33:37 AM
Steve Buschemi Gandhi, pls.

Ooooh, good call!

Quote from: Bobby Campbell on April 26, 2018, 03:53:49 PM
That Trejo is so gd cool! I'm starting to picture a hyperspatial wax/pixel museum.

I've been teaching some environmental science type stuff at a local nature park and wildlife center, where they are in the early stages of building this giant glass virtual reality laboratory w/ NASA grant $$$, the stuff they have planned is truly wild. VR & AR slowly but surely integrating w/ IRL  :eek: :fnord:

Heard a rumour the other day that Apple is planning something for around 2020. Seems a bit early to me but maybe not. There's also the no Steve Jobs factor but Apple do have a track record of being in the sweet spot to push mass market adoption. Lot of tech in the stack needs to come a long way but I reckon if anyone can get the snowball rolling it'd be them.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 03, 2018, 11:29:35 PM
"Beach Life"
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ro/8zuhhe5qr4g9.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/y3/wf7mm9zxgh7t.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on May 04, 2018, 05:18:01 PM
The socks with sandals are pure joy. Great work as usual!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 05, 2018, 07:49:55 AM
Quote from: Ziegejunge on May 04, 2018, 05:18:01 PM
The socks with sandals are pure joy. Great work as usual!

Yeah, I actually managed to gross myself out with that part. Mission accomplished  :lulz:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Joshua123 on May 23, 2018, 07:15:39 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on May 05, 2018, 07:49:55 AM
Quote from: Ziegejunge on May 04, 2018, 05:18:01 PM
The socks with sandals are pure joy. Great (https://www.studypug.com/basic-math-help/factors-and-multiples/greatest-common-factors) work as usual!

Yeah, I actually managed to gross myself out with that part. Mission accomplished  :lulz:

It looks so real and yet so disgusting and terrifying. Great work tho!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 26, 2018, 05:39:22 PM
Somebody said Buscemi. Thanks for that. Hardest sculpt I've ever done  :argh!:

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/zb/ja4hcrcrx2fe.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on May 27, 2018, 03:21:04 PM
God damn! That's a serious leveling up!  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 30, 2018, 05:52:05 PM
"Brains"
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/94/hqc6ebjtnyvd.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on May 31, 2018, 02:04:52 AM
 :horrormirth:

I love it, but yuck!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: POFP on June 05, 2018, 05:07:15 PM
These are fucking brilliant. They look real.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 30, 2018, 02:20:04 AM
Spent two months of my life on this. Most work I've ploughed into one sculpt.
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/eb/hzgx5xp8hqo5.jpg)
Artstation - Wild West Challenge. Full - making of - shit here  (https://www.artstation.com/contests/wild-west/challenges/42/submissions/30805?sorting=survivors)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on July 02, 2018, 05:04:18 PM
That is one awesome cowboy! Great work!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 02, 2018, 08:42:30 PM
Quote from: Ziegejunge on July 02, 2018, 05:04:18 PM
That is one awesome cowboy! Great work!

Thanks!

My latest fanart portrait. Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) from Peaky Blinders
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/so/0mhn532nm45y.jpg)

Link to full res 16MP version (https://photos.app.goo.gl/gtDyFH6sycrykvp76)

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 02, 2018, 09:18:52 PM
Okay, that's incredible.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 03, 2018, 08:07:55 AM
Cheers doc! Between this guy and the gunslinger, I think the final parts of the production-jigsaw have fallen into place. Reckon I'm just about ready to do Nessies now
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: minuspace on July 03, 2018, 09:53:30 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 02, 2018, 08:42:30 PM
Quote from: Ziegejunge on July 02, 2018, 05:04:18 PM
That is one awesome cowboy! Great work!

Thanks!

My latest fanart portrait. Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) from Peaky Blinders
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/so/0mhn532nm45y.jpg)

Link to full res 16MP version (https://photos.app.goo.gl/gtDyFH6sycrykvp76)

Uncanny!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on July 04, 2018, 04:31:02 AM
Whew! Another level up!  :eek: :fnord: :eek:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 19, 2018, 08:25:49 PM
Thanks Bobby!

This guy started reminding me of Moloch from watchmen so I kinda leaned into it. Zombie Moloch
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/21/dw6049jmmd7c.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 25, 2018, 07:00:52 AM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/e0/hmq6hods0zbj.jpg)
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/un/l4stbaewipdd.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on October 01, 2018, 11:22:02 PM
Art dump. Some recent stuff..

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/f7/bze8t2r9ydem.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/8b/qwva7cqx797m.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/e1/wwagtpfonitt.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/p9/asnajkd3hflh.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/q4/sjcus8nntja8.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/th/2ecgjcl1pmuh.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/fb/avp2gs1hpdrm.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/ol/wlnkcyi347ox.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Ziegejunge on October 02, 2018, 04:18:42 PM
Phenomenal work. Thanks so much for sharing!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on October 13, 2018, 02:23:42 PM
Absolutely astounding!! 

Would be awesome to tour a collection of your work in VR space, like a digital wax museum :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 14, 2018, 08:09:24 AM
(https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/014/575/344/large/ross-young-cycles-020.jpg?1544549003)

(https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/014/564/998/large/ross-young-cycles-020-clay.jpg?1544511087)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 24, 2019, 08:08:06 AM
(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/9u/1a4jcmpto9by.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/9s/cdqp691v82ea.jpg)

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/mn/gbvywtaxoe48.jpg)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Al Qədic on February 24, 2019, 07:12:19 PM
Love the texture on the pearls, and the look of that hair. All the shiny bits really make it pop. Heckin' beautiful, P3nT!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Con-troll on February 24, 2019, 07:52:40 PM
Her eyes look pretty. Which form of zombification did she go through again?
and if it isn't clear from the above, good work you. It must take a long time to finish one fo these?
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on February 25, 2019, 07:10:02 AM
Thanks guys! Cont-troll - I was a bit fast and loose with the zombification cos I wanted to go for a kinda pinup/hawt look so the eyes didn't get cloudy, the teeth are a bit to clean and the hair not as fucked up as it probably would have been. Took just over a month, working nights and weekends. Yeah - a lot of work.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 21, 2019, 06:04:12 PM
New superhero - The Crimson Taint :lol:

(https://us.v-cdn.net/6024342/uploads/editor/x7/iqnv6gkyudrp.jpg)

Sketchfab! (https://skfb.ly/6JKZZ)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on April 22, 2019, 07:20:59 PM
amazing texturing - I want to touch it



yeah, I really want to touch The Crimson Taint
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on April 23, 2019, 04:44:59 AM
God damn! That design is astounding!  :fnord: :eek: :fnord:

Great to see ya, P3nT!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Al Qədic on April 23, 2019, 05:28:00 AM
I love how from a distance, with that skin texture and lighting, it actually kinda looks like a comic book-y sort of cross-hatching or shading. Tis neat. :)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 21, 2019, 09:10:37 AM
So I get told they're gonny make an internet TV show with me in it and I'm like - "Yay, I'll be all cool and suave like a young Sean Connery". Nope - I'm more - Spud out of trainspotting :oops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlYqLRXd5DU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlYqLRXd5DU) starts about 20 mins in
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: LMNO on June 21, 2019, 04:36:40 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 21, 2019, 09:10:37 AM
So I get told they're gonny make an internet TV show with me in it and I'm like - "Yay, I'll be all cool and suave like a young Sean Connery". Nope - I'm more - Spud out of trainspotting :oops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlYqLRXd5DU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlYqLRXd5DU) starts about 20 mins in


"And all I gotta do is... Act Naturally."
:asshat:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Al Qədic on June 21, 2019, 04:54:38 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 21, 2019, 09:10:37 AM
So I get told they're gonny make an internet TV show with me in it and I'm like - "Yay, I'll be all cool and suave like a young Sean Connery". Nope - I'm more - Spud out of trainspotting :oops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?bv=rlYqLRXd5DU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlYqLRXd5DU) starts about 20 mins in
You can at least come away from this with confidence in knowing that you're a really good kayaker. :) Good showing, man.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: MMIX on June 22, 2019, 09:44:28 AM
VAR has an inherent bias against the Scots. QED

Loved your wing thing man
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Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 13, 2019, 01:14:18 PM
When you decide to do a self portrait but secretly really want to just sculpt zombies...

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Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LILEblacdOw)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on July 15, 2019, 02:00:33 AM
Absolutely amazing!  This led to the kids and I watching your "puppy" speed sculpt on youtube, with great wonderment  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 15, 2019, 03:01:15 AM
I just want to say again that I love your work man and I hope that you continue to share it here. Every time I see this red bump up I get a little excited!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on August 25, 2019, 11:46:31 AM
So it's been about three weeks since my tenure with Clusterfuck Inc. ended and the plan for a while has been to put sculpting on the back burner and concentrate on engine development. That way I have an end to end pipeline to something marketable and, thus, the foundation for my next business venture. Having looked at both unity and unreal engine a fair bit over the last couple of years, I decided to plump for UE. Unity is sickeningly "open source", in the sense that - it looks like an ugly, cobbled together pile of shit and, whilst UE comes with a license, it's a fairly generous one, especially during the initial growth phase. Effectively making it free to use and sell, until I'm making enough wedge to more than cover the fees.

Given that that's the case, I now have two choices - do I develop in native C++ or do I try my hand at this weird and whacky visual scripting system they've included in the bundle. My C++ is rusty as hell. Like actual rust. In actual hell. It's been close to 20 years since I even looked at it. I've been using PHP, almost exclusively for the last decade which might be similar enough to make it feel familiar but different enough that I'm sure to find myself constantly fucking up, trying to do PHP shit that has no place in a persistent memory space. Yeah, I got a lot of bad habits that don't really matter when your whole variable stack disappears every tick ;)

So I figured I'd start with the "Blueprint" visual scripting and bite the bullet and switch to Visual Studio if it ended up feeling like I was handcuffed to the railings. So first I needed a project. Something simple, not too much in the way of art assets, as little in the way of animation as possible but with enough operational complexity to allow a decent deep-dive into what this engine can do and how to make it purr like a kitten.

Remember the movie Cube? I remember talking to a mate of mine years back about it. He's a screenwriter and he pointed out that the whole movie was shot using only one set, plus a partial seen through the open door. Blew my mind at the time. Film was awesome (even despite the shitty acting and dodgy script) and they'd shot it all for a back o five. Fuck yeah, I thought, that serves my mission admirably. I only got to actually model one room but, if I take it one step further, I can have the rooms spawning and being destroyed on the fly as doors open and close and the player navigates from room to room instead of building a static environment with however many cloned rooms I decide to fill it with. The upside of this is I'll have system resources all up the wazzoo and can essentially blow my entire budget on the two rooms that will be visible at any one time. This means I can go nuts with polycount and texture resolution and still have it running like a fucking cheetah in VR!

Side bonus - managing the room spawning and syncing up the doors and whatnot will be a non-trivial task that's going to require me getting my hands dirty from the get go. So that's what I did. Sure there's been wailing and gnashing of teeth and banging my head against a brick wall and rewriting the whole thing from scratch half a dozen times but I gotta admit - I haven't had this much fun coding in years. The node graph is live and shows dataflows during runtime with breakpoints and watches and everything you'd expect from a "proper" debug environment but syntax errors are impossible. I'm fucking loving this to the point where any lingering anxiety I might have had about my latest career choice has been kicked into the bushes.

When this is done I'm planning on it being more of a virtual tour of the movie than a game, per se. Because the level is generated procedurally, I have total control over what the player will experiance, regardless of which direction they go at any time. So they'll always start in the white room, the third room they go in will have the guy from the start of the movie lying in pieces, the fifth or sixth room will have a discarded boot, a couple of rooms later, the body of Rennes with his face melted off, etc. but, from the player's perspective they'll feel like they're exploring the map and just randomly coming across these things.

So far I got the doors synced up. Opening one will close any other that's open, destroy the room behind that one and then spawn another behind the doo you just opened. This video is illustrating that by exploiting a glitch that I haven't locked down yet, whereby it's possible to open a door on the other side of the next room, thereby destroying the room you're currently standing in. Handy glitch cos it lets me show off what I have to far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVevoDOI6SI&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVevoDOI6SI&feature=youtu.be)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 01, 2019, 01:16:05 PM
Halloween sexy pinup witch
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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on November 09, 2019, 02:42:18 PM
Absolutely incredible!!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2019, 04:58:46 AM
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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: altered on November 18, 2019, 05:32:51 AM
I demand you name this creature for us. They are excellent and wonderful.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2019, 11:26:05 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 18, 2019, 05:32:51 AM
I demand you name this creature for us. They are excellent and wonderful.

Rabbit Slug.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: LMNO on November 18, 2019, 01:06:25 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2019, 04:58:46 AM
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This is really great, P3nt.  It's been cool to see your progress in real time.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 18, 2019, 07:09:22 PM
Thanks man!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on November 19, 2019, 10:40:07 PM
WOW!

That's a great mix of cute and creepy - like a mashup of gizmo and sloth

Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: altered on November 19, 2019, 11:22:25 PM
I ended up sharing it with friends who will appreciate it for what it is: one of the best things there is.

Next stop: one of the WORST things there is, when I link them to this forum  :lulz:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 12, 2020, 08:08:05 PM

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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Cramulus on January 13, 2020, 03:53:49 PM
He seems like a cool guy. And he's in a pretty good mood considering his nipples are cut off.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 14, 2020, 06:31:08 AM
Best way to keep them docile in my experience
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 14, 2020, 02:19:41 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 14, 2020, 06:31:08 AM
Best way to keep them docile in my experience

A man with his nipples torn off will not make the same mistake a second time.
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 26, 2020, 11:46:08 PM
Nuke Your Parents!
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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on February 05, 2020, 04:25:25 AM
THIS!!!   :eek: :fnord: :eek:

God damn, I absolutely love it <3<3<3
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 03, 2020, 08:08:36 PM
Got a brand new bag. Can you imagine how Baby Jesus would look with this stack at my disposal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB38HewjG5w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB38HewjG5w)
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: minuspace on June 03, 2020, 08:27:20 PM
Fuck yeah! Time for the second coming then, paint away!
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: Bobby Campbell on June 04, 2020, 02:53:18 PM
Amazing! Psyched to see where you go with this  :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on June 29, 2020, 09:54:07 PM
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Title: Re: P3nT's Shoops
Post by: minuspace on June 30, 2020, 01:49:02 AM
OH YEAH!!!
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 29, 2020, 09:54:07 PM
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