Legacy of the Barbarian Wip - Blenrig (nudity)

Artwork Works in Progress
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Hey!

I wanted to start showing some of the progress on a work I’m planning to do, a kind of Medieval Fantasy picture.
With this work I’m also putting a lot of effort in the development of BlenRig for Blender 2.5 (www.jpbouza.com.ar). This time I think that the rigging system will be really useful for a lot of people, as the script written by Bart Crouch is fully automated and also has its own GUI :eyebrowlift:

Well, this is as far as I’ve come with the character of Zepam in Blender 2.5. This model is about 4 million polys and I still have to do 2 more subdivisions before it reaches 18 million polys (which is as far as my computer can go)

http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/134041d1275873056t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-perspective.jpg http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/134040d1275873056t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-back2..jpg http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/134039d1275873056t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-side.jpg http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/134042d1275873056t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-face2.jpg
http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/134043d1275873056t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-front_wire.jpg http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/134044d1275873056t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-back_wire.jpg http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/134045d1275873056t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-face_wire.jpg http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/134047d1275874000t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-perspective2.jpg

This is the new controls panel of BlenRig in Blender 2.5:

http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/134046d1275873239t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-blenrig_panel.jpg

Well, I’m a bit busy now making a film with some fellow blenderheads, so I don’t think I will be posting very frequently!!

See you!

PD: I’ve got to thank Giuseppe Canino for his amazing topology references!! http://www.mixolydian.biz/

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Well, in the little spare time I’ve had lately, I’ve been working on his face a little bit, to give him more personality…

These are the results, I think it is much better than before.

http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/135240d1278306694t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-jisalaiv.jpg

Apart from working on the proportions of the face, I also added a little bit of asymmetry to it, and I think that that adds a lot of life to it.

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I’m finishing up the textures now. Eyes, nails and particles are still left to do. As soon as I can I will make a tutorial on how to use blenrig in blender 2.5 for rigging a character from scratch and then I’ll publish the blend file.

http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/138174d1286458466t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-front.jpg

http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/138173d1286459890t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-fly.jpg

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I’ve modeled the eyes now, I’ve also given a little touch to the texture of the face and I modified the eyelids a bit. I think that the only things left to do with the eyes is to put an angular map for reflection, and to add a humidity effect to the lower eyelid. I also have to rig the eyes so that he doesn’t look cross-eyed. :stuck_out_tongue:

http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/138239d1286639000t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-cara2.jpg

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Great, as usual !

For the asymetry of the face, did ever tried to symmetry the two faces of somebody, will see the two faces of a man, or woman … :yes:

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The topology around the eye makes a spiral, nice.
Cool control panel !

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What can I say? Bravo!

I can’t wait for your blenrig tutorial!

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I corrected the shape of the eyes and of the lips a bit, and I finally finished the nails… I spent a whole day with that… it was a torture!

Here is the bald guy in a “romantic” pose :stuck_out_tongue:

http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/138549d1287584506t-legado-del-barbaro-nudity-sentado1.jpg

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Here is a video showing the progress of my work with BlenRig. I’ll make a release of the system on March. I will also make 2 or 3 video tutorials before the release, so that anyone can learn how to use the system with this model or any other model.

http://vimeo.com/18835603

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Thanks for the update, looks like it’s coming along great.

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nice poses, i should finally use 2.5 !!

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If you don’t mind me asking, how did you make those “menu groups” that you can expand? Looks pretty ace as usual by the way.

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dude WOW!! good job. I especially like the Subtle wrinkles on the face; it really helps with the believability keep it up :slight_smile:

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well, I did a simple render with particles

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Anyway, I think this will be that last render like this, I’m going to change a little bit the focus of the character, maybe I’ll do it more stylised or something. I’ve realised that trying to do this kind of “correct” human characters is boring…

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Ups! The eyebrows were not binded to Mdef…

That’s better now.

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