BIOWhy Sixus1 ??? When I was a teen, I wrote a short story about a line of android. They were referred to in the story as the Sixus line of "helpers" and were set loose in society to fulfill a wide array of menial tasks. The first one off the assembly line, appropriately enough dubbed Sixus1, eventually rebelled, killing his masters trying to get the other Sixus androids to take up the fight for their freedom from what they felt were dominating and oppressive masters. The whole thing was really a pretty thin allegory by a very pissed off teenager, but years later when I first started using bulletin boards online I needed a handle (this was around 94 and in a college that was still using tons of windows 3.1 machines). The first thing that just popped back to mind was Sixus1 and I've used it ever since. Nowadays, I freely use my real name online because I really just find online handles to be kind of annoying most times. Over the years, the sentiment of the story came back to me as I became more frustrated with the corporate bullshit I had to deal with as a budding professional artist going from office to office, studio to studio, trying to find a home for my work. In the end, this frustration spawned our company, Sixus1 Media. The name is supposed to make you ask "what does it mean", and it does that a lot. On a side note, which I find really amusing given my interest in a wide array of cultural theologies and history, I found out a few years back that the name, which I thought was just a made up piece of gibberish, actually had a place in history. Apparently there were three popes, Sixus I, Sixus II, and Sixus III, the third of which was excommunicated for heresy from what I read. Very amusing irony in all that... For more information, please visit: www.sixus1.com
Comments (16)
Mondwin
amazing and col creature..bravissimo!V:DDD.HUgsxx
doarte
Thanks for the inside look at your creation! +5 from doarte's MADHOUSE
moviehawke1
Very excellent work!! Thanks for the inside peek .. looking forward to more!
MaPPer
excellent
5391151
Very cool work
jif3d
Nice to see your work-flow and super result Les, but at 31 million poly's, I would hate import it back into Poser or some other 3D app...it would have a heart attack ! Well done & ~Cheers~
Biffowitz
A very interesting glimpse of what goes on Les, it's great to see the progression. Damn I need Zbrush!
dayna2
Fantastic work Les and character excellent modeling a pleasure to see behind the scenes on this, Dayna xx
sixus1
Thanks everyone! Just so there's no confusion, the multi-million poly final sculpts are only used inside Zbrush. The way zbrush works, you subdivide a model up to these insane poly counts and sculpt/paint all the tiny details, then it uses the difference between the lowest resolution mesh and the highest to generate your color, displacement and normal maps. The normal maps are absolutely the most important, IMO, because those really capture all those high res geometric details in a a way that allows them to be seen on a low res mesh. -Les
NefariousDrO
That is such a cool creature you've created, it's fascinating to see the sequences that led to the final product.
722
dang awesome work
Daidalos
I so need to invest in Zbrush. :lol: Thanks for the peek Les and Rebekkah!
AlphaWolf007
OK, wow, Thank you, and Wow!
ViciousCircle
Thanks for showing us, Les. I love your tutorials
A_Joker_B
Excellent render, thank you for sharing your work process. I find it very interesting to see how other artists work.
Incarnadine
very impressive!