Was getting burned out with the muscle bound characters a bit and thought to try something a bit more fun, so I did a look through my HD. Somewhere in my external HDD, I happened upon a bunch of Joe Madureria's work from when he was doing video games. SO, I figured I'd turn this character of his into 3D, since he never got the chance too. Should be fun. Silo WIP, about two hours of work.

After a short dinner break, I started the arms. :)

I am so envious. Great work your organic skills are amazing.

Thanks! Still working out the kinks though...

la la lala la laa....

Amazing work keep postign I loveto look at this in progress. Do you have wire frames for it too? Just curious where you start to get something like this.

Thanks. Sure thing, here ya go...

Excellent. It looks like a very efficiant model. I was reading on the Silo website that they were planning on implemnting a bones system in the future. Thsi woudl be great for peopel who are not doing real animations but want to have reusable characters that you make yourself. Also find it a bit easier to deal with a cage then with every single last polygon. I do want to get a copy of Silo as soon as i can. (I have played withe the demo and liek it a lot)　Ｉstill like wings a bit mor efor mechanical type of things because of the way it works with edges. But I want to work on more organic models. I liekthat you can up and down the number of poilys per patch to get the look you want.

Attached Link: Tractor being made in Silo by a user....

Yeah, Silo kicks some butt. Not only are bones in the works to aid modelers just wanting to pose a model after creation but they also have displacement painting in the pipeline too. We should be hearing about it after Siggraph. It'll be fun for us modelers who want to add ZBRush or Artisan like detail to our models but still maintain control of the model after we're done (I understand ZBrush turns it 2D after you're finished). Silo can do non-organic stuff pretty well from what I've seen but as I've always said, "If it ain't broke don't fix it." If Wings is more comfortable to ya for non-organic work then I'd suggest sticking with it.

Here's a small update. I think I got the shape right, so now I can start adding the details and stuff. Wish me luck, anime is hard to do in 3D and even harder from a single image.

cool stuff as always Teyon.
im liking Silo a lot myself:)
fully paid up member btw ;)

nice loops mate,very clean work.
shes got a real nice ass ;)

stu

Message edited on: 07/31/2005 18:08

Thanks, could you tell I paid extra attention to her bump? :)

Attached Link: http://diterlizzi.com/art/games/index.shtml

Modeling from anime is not really ideal. I have doen a lot of drawing and drawing anime I find that they for lack of a better word cheat. There is a lot that they do that can't be doen in 3D there are only certain angles taht they are usually seen from. There is a certain way they draw lines where a simple line correctly places with a few curves can do a lot. Are you into fantasy art? I am and there are soem that don't just do muscle bound hero's. Tony DiTerlizzi has a lot of great stuff. His characters are fun and a bit odd. Have you looked at Rodney Mattews stuff very stylized and it is interestingly detailed. Can't wait to see this one done. Great work .

very nice work, looking forward to seeing this one completed

"(I understand ZBrush turns it 2D after you're finished)." umm nope..the "tool" itself is still fully 3D, by marking and using layers you can keep full 3d control of an entire scene. even when you drop your tool onto the canvas, it still retains all z-depth information = 2.5D. really neat toon figure BTW! very clean cage! only thing i can see is the arms look "very" long. J.B.

Ah okay, I stand corrected. Perhaps that was 1.55 that I was thinking of. Now I hear ZBrush has its own version of Silo's topology brush and that Silo has its own version of ZBrush's displacment painting...that seems like a huge coincidence to me. Perhaps they exchanged ideas? Ah well...updates galore.

Thanks everyone for the comments by the way and Dann-o, I'll have a look at some of those artists. A few I have heard of before and truth be told, I get inspiration from all types so keep them comin'.

Message edited on: 08/03/2005 21:52

minor update.

Awesome modeling. I never cease to be amazed.

Great work the eyes look good waiting for the finished pic.