ZBrush masterclass

This is a model I used for a Zbrush production demo masterclass. The initial base head and hair mesh was supplied by one of the students, Rachel. Dynamesh was used to work off it mainly from the bowl hair which inspired me to create this design.
Covered some Zremesher but ultimately had to cleanup in Maya since the edge loops in the eyes were spiralling. Thereafter it was brought back into ZBrush for some texturing using layers. We also went into details and intricacies of what goes on in production and ways to solve them. I really enjoyed this session. Thanks everyone !!!

updated blog. quick post.

quick post. updated blog with tabs. website marcusng.com has been down for a while. all thoughts and feedback welcomed to improve this site. :). navigation. design. placements and what not. take care.

Aokiji Kuzan finale!!!

Lazy Justice.

So today was the deadline. and I wasn't able to put in as much as I wanted to due to other commitments. But priorities matter and I hope to post some updates on progress and wip stills on this later on. Almost everything was done in zbrush except for the glasses and boots, and rendered in Vray.

I'm bespectacled and studious.

Added a head shot since we never see his face upclose.

Aokiji Kuzan - One Piece update

For this one I focused much on the posing, I wanted to bring out who he was as a character at this point of the story. He's a recluse, a banished marine, an outcast. So his pose had to be cool and simple, very reduced. It reminded of this Cammy figure by REFLECT introduced to me by Jowy. It's simple yet dynamic.

In the end, the pose was not as such. Still figuring out how the coat flows.

Aokiji Kuzan after timeskip

Decided to continue with Aokiji sculpt. In short, Aokiji Kuzan is a character from the One Piece world/ Universe. He used to be an admiral in the Marines against the pirates. But There was a battle against another admiral in which he lost and hence he left the Marines. After "time skip" he returns as a vagabond type person who comes in and out lending his hand when needed. His new persona is portrayed mainly in One Piece: Film Z so far.

"My arm is frozen ~ Let it go, Let it go..."

Prince Abubu from Aladdin.

Prince Ali/ Abubu as called by Jafar from Aladdin. Apparently he has an underbite. Sculpted in ZBrush

Aokiji Kuzan sculpt

Caught One Piece film: Z and Aokiji Kuzan looked so much cooler than the old one. "Lazy Justice!"

Might do more to this one.

quickSketch

This is a sketch that started from a ball last night. Gave ZB BPR render a go, and for some reason, the mask wasn't aligning to the render. So I just used the flat shader and just render it. BPR is suppose to be quick and dirty right?

female sculpt update

test rendered in keyshot.

female sculpture

Taking a break from cumberbatch. it's still wip.

for some reason I kind of prefer the original over the edited one for facebook... lol. ironically it's cleaner, well readable.