I'll photoFly away!

I decided to put my few photofly (photoScene Editor) tests on this blog just because photofly is so cool that everyone needs to know about it!

From the Autodesk website:


Capturing the reality as-built for various purposes (renovation, rapid energy analysis, add-on design, historic preservation, game development, visual effects, fun, etc.) is now possible using your standard point and shoot digital camera thanks to advanced computer vision technologies made available through Project Photofly.

Here some tests I did (up to 24 photos each):


Ratman - The Action figure (fletto i muscoli e sono nel vuoto) : 

One of my shoes (find the hidden rigging clue):

xtruding Xtruder (this one was easy huh?)

Moving forward from 2D illustration to 3D volumes.
That's actually me.
Since everybody is asking: NO this one has not been photoflied.
This is just a quick sculpt I did in zBrush.

Added a quick sculpt of some pants:

Added retopologyzed shoes. Now is time for a bit of details and proportions:

Finally Anatomy: back to skull!

Okay guys,

I've finally arranged some time to study the full human anatomy.

This will be almost designed to improve myself as a character rigger. Why? Because to proper deform a computer generated human / creature the more we know about anatomy the better.

So here we go, back to school again.

As a starting point I've decided to purchase this book, which covers almost every muscle using a 3d sculpting software called zBrush.

So stay tuned for updated (if you care of course!)

Step 01:

The boxed man. Following the first chapters of the book above I've created in Maya a simple boxed human mesh that will be exported and subdivided and then of course sculpted in zBrush:

Step 02:

The skeleton reference, this is useful when dealing with muscle insertions and boney landmarks. Is a nice little tip I've found at the beginning of the book. Also there are proportion planes took keep track of the general human proportion: height = 8 skulls.

Step 03:

Bring everything into zBrush, and we are ready to go. I guess next update will take a while :P (yes I know, this was the easy part)

Step 04:

This is the same mesh after 1 hour of sculpting. Nothing really great, I am still sketching the volumes.

There is also a 4 minute long timelapse.

Oh I love timelapses! 

Magic coloring book, no wait..... I didn't mean...

Just a quick update I did today.
This is the first attempt on painting  the book of spells that each mage is supposed to have.
Nothing fancy...but still....
If any of you is interested on which book it is just follow the following link:
Standard Book of Spells by Miranda Goshawk

Judging the jinxed jeans - (repeat x8)

Quick update for my magical mystical magician jinxed jeans. I am really happy on how they turned out, I've used a picture as a reference but every single pixel has been hand painted :)

I also shifted hue of the warrior's shirt 'cause it was disappearing into the background. Contrast is the way!

Half horse half polygons

This one is another attempt to sculpt something anatomical interesting just for rigging purposes. The quadruped nature and the high amount of muscles in this centaur is a perfect starting point for muscle and skin sliding deformations.

One last thing: as usual this one is a work in progress ;)

Painting under the hood(ie)

First attempt to paint a hoodie in photoshop, I will totally go for a dark color since I'm supposed to be a mage in this picture.

I'm also thinking to paint the overall background darker as well....... what do you think compared to this one ?