Modelers Realm

2007-07-10T23:36:00.000-07:00

Long time no see, well it was 2 weeks off school (although I done) so I decided to do an update on muddy

2007-06-19T21:54:00.000-07:00

Ok well I need to update once again.
So here are my latest images of Muddy.
he's got alphas, and I think rather well.

Hope y'all enjoy
~Cass

2007-06-12T17:57:00.000-07:00

Ok I made my alphas. Here ya go.
Got the images from http://www.mayang.com/textures/
Check it out it is an awesome site.

Hope ya like em.
~Cass

2007-06-12T14:30:00.000-07:00

Hey hey
Muddy is back with VENGEANCE
haha
well he is back and becoming more muddy as we speak. so Today Graeme and I talked about how to make him look good, so we decided to make his animation minimal. He well first get up (straighten up) then watch as the camera goes around him. He will then after the camera stops grabs mud off himself and throws it at the camera thus starting a transition.
But berfore that we are making him mudding and appealing to the eye - or well.. unappealing like mud...Whatever you know what I mean.
So here he is currently.

Ok well, I hope y'all like em so far. I am going to tweak this a little bit more, but I am going to also start on the alpha maps (Orrie sent me to a great site).
Tata For now
~Cass

2007-05-28T10:32:00.000-07:00

Hello Again
Well not much has changed on my mud monster quite yet. I have recently got a job at Rona due to my whole LACK of money (Needed to pay rent and such) so yeah my life has been very busy, butyet enjoyable, Rona is a good job for a while, it is busy, and pays rather well so no complaints.
But Yeah lately I have bee workin on Ste phens Poodle, Princess ( click on his name to check out his blog)
I really wanted to model to look great so I have put quite a bit of time into it. so here are some images of her Currently.

Hope y'all like her
Enjoy
~Cass

2007-05-14T22:17:00.000-07:00

Well Hello again
Muddy is working out quite well he is ...well not quite muddy.
You see i wnated to do a HUGE portion of him last week which I did.

Basic Low poly Modeling (adding little twigs coming out of him)
Un Wrapping
Basic Rig

I did do that last week, and I also started a new job (not industry, just something to make money) and it was great, but also very tiring, so I was unable to finish him

I did Envelope him as well but it turns out, I needed to touch up the rig as well, so it works.

Well Earlier in the week Orrie wrote on the Student Only Digimill Forum that I needed to play with mud to understand it, and I didnt waste anytime, I went out there and took many a pics and it was quite fun, cause mud is fun.
Well here are some of the more recent images (including the mud) and tell me what you think.

2007-05-08T11:23:00.000-07:00

ok Mudmonster has begun

here is my model, i began it today. It is pretty low poly, 640 Triangels.
I am going to take this into either Mudbox or Zbrush to make it all slimy and such.
he is not going to be semetrical at all.
Well here are some images.

I am starting to like him, I mean he isVERY different from what I normally make so it should be good.
Well C & C are welcome

2007-05-07T23:21:00.000-07:00

Hello
well i finally decided on my newest model. somethings completely out of my style. so here he is
(yes he OMG)
a mud monster!

so here he is
I am of course gonna draw more.
ok
bed for me
~Cass

2007-05-07T22:59:00.000-07:00

Well I went to Edmonton for a week to visit my sister, and it was fun. I didn't take any pics and I don't know why. Yeah we went on the roller coaster OMG i thought i was going to die, I had to peel my hands off a the end. Everything is SOOO expensive and I don't really have any money, just going on the roller coaster cost for me and my sister $20, we were going to go to the pool, but that alone was $20 each, that is not why I didn't go, it was because the pool got shut down because of contamination (higher pee>chlorine ratio) when i was there, so I avoided it. Also when i was there my sister took me to an art store so I bought a new sketchbook, and new marker paper, and as well as a new outlining pen. Well I got this really neat book from chapters it is called Fantasy Cartooning by Ben Caldwell. It is a How to draw book, but I love the style and I think it is awesome!! so some of my sketches are from the book, others are just referencing the style.
so here are some new sketches.

Well I had fun! My sis Stephanie is cute, especially when she plays Crash Bandicoot.
ok well done for now
~Cass

2007-05-07T19:09:00.000-07:00

Animal within has come and gone, and I figured I would post my finished piece of work. I really enjoyed making this peice I know I could have done a few things better but I have to say it is one of my best works in a while.

I did not place but those that Won did a fantastic job. check em out
1st Katie: Caged Bird
2nd Ian: Manimal
3rd Balazs: The Judgement
Great job to all!! I saw some great entries.
~Cass

2007-05-07T18:55:00.000-07:00

I made a tutorial:

Click on image to get Tutorial.
I made it because I have seen some people have trouble with creating a women's upper body and I really find that is truly a beautiful part of a women.
so Check it out....
~Cass

2007-05-07T18:15:00.000-07:00

ok here she is textred enchantress. I tried to make her very dark. She has 3 scratches on her face, across the one eye, and because she was scratched there she is blind in that one eye. the symbols on her dress are evil (made up actully but lets pretend) . Enjoy.
on and BTW the reason she is colorful in wireframe is because that is her normal map.

~Cass

2007-05-07T17:43:00.000-07:00

newer model time! YEA
Enchantress. Well I decided to create a little bit of a less nice model , my models are always like look at me Im so nice and pretty, so i decided to make a character a little more evil a little less cute.
so i made a concept.

I mostly referenced Maleficent off Sleeping beauty, I think she is one of the best villians Disney ever made, she is truly evil, and yet so beautiful.

so this is her SO far. More updates coming.
~Cass

2007-05-07T17:04:00.000-07:00

As for the centaur I wanted to pose her in a way that would show her at peace with the forest. So that is what I did. I made a huge stump that the centaur would give honour to. so this peice is called honoring the ancients.
so I posed her to bow to the tree. I used reference from the lion king when all the animals give honour to the new prince (princess according to Lion king 2)

I also watched the movie many times. so I poesed her to bow and added alot of fun things to make the scene more mysical, like little fairies, pretty mushrooms, grass (both hair and poly) , and rocks. so I hope y'all like.

~Cass

2007-05-07T16:00:00.000-07:00

Update! Well it has been a while but I figured I would update a bit. So here is an update for the centaur.

Well as you can tell i decided to go with the buckskin for texturing. I had a heck of a time texturing this properly in Zbrush, I kept doing little messups like when I textured to legs balc I would hit the stomach and all that was a pain. But all and all I really did enjoy texturing her.
~Cass

2007-02-16T10:37:00.000-08:00

The Animal within contest hs begun...Yesterday
Feb 15 is the starting date.
I am super stoked. I managed to be the first submit my idea, and so far the idea is catching on, and people like it.
Although i do need to color, but I figured that I would post my sketch.
so here she is.

~Cass

2007-02-16T10:00:00.000-08:00

Howdy y'all
I have finished Unwrapping w00t it is a pretty basic unwrap just so i can textur nicly in Zbrush. and I kept it organized just in case I need to edit in photoshop. So far so good.

I have also a little while ago just started Zbrushing. I tried to inXSI do as much detail as possbible, but it became that I got a way to many polys. So I figured I had enough topology
and I could go zbrush and I would perfect it. I finished the body with the mane going up the back of the human part of the centaur. I really thinkf that is going to give nice transistion from Humn to horse.

The hardest part was the hair and the tail. Because i really wanted to the hair to have a nice appeal, the part that is going to make or break my hair is going the be the texturing and transparency maps.
But I am not going to ramble, because i am in one of personal fav classes, and I want to work. SO off I go.
Here are the images

Hope y'all like em
Next come the super awesome texturing (or at least I hope)
~Cass

2007-02-09T10:56:00.000-08:00

Hello, Long time no post.
I have been currently posting on Forum.digimill.net
Check out the progress here: http://forum.digimill.net/index.php?topic=27.0

But I want to keep up my blog because well being on a blog is AWESOME!!
Well after many discussions (or one) with Graeme that my face was all wrong, and it looked to generic, and not girl-ish enough. Soo what I did was reasearched a good face, more feminine and such. I was really looking for a well defined jaw, and nice nose. I manage to find some pretty good reference. Took my orginal face (because it hade some decent edgeloops) and tweaked points and also used porportional modeling to get the face just right. it took awhile and some pretty good crituques from my classmates, and thus a new face was made

New Face-Side-------------------------------------New Face-Front

NewFace-Hair-Side-----------------------New Face-Hair-Front

Old Face - Side-------------------------------Old Face -Front
Now lets take a vote:
New or Old
Ok you dont get to vote, I lied, it is without a doubt the New Face.
The ear remained the same---but that is all. I made a quite a bit of changes and I dont regret it. I think it has turned out very nice, especially the womanly features. so happy :)
I have not really worked on my body due to the fact that I need to go onto Zbrush or Mudbox.

She is now has hair, a tail and a shirt. All in progress, of course, I think the shirt is ok, I am going to what I can do with it in zbrush and texturing.

so I hope you enjoy

2007-02-01T08:31:00.000-08:00

First I would like to take the time to say Digimill forum has gone live. Congrats to Graeme for putting together an awesome site www.digimill.net, and now has made a wicked forum to go with it at www.forum.digimill.net.
Congrat Graeme, and everyone who has posted on Digimill, You all have done a wicked job!!!!

~Cass

2007-01-28T11:16:00.000-08:00

Hello Hello
Im back again and still busy with my latest project, the Centaur, she hasn't been named yet give me time, lol. Yesterday I have never been so glad that I love my toys and keep them all and now I can use them for reference; I have my Bryer Horse sitting beside me and it helps me soooo much with the muscle structure (for those who don't know what bryers are they are detailed horse figurines, that are made to look like very famous horses.) it is the perfect reference because i can turn it around and view close up where the muscles are. sooo I have been busy with muscle structure, but I dont want the topology to go way out the wa-zoo, so it is working. I also made the ears, I orginally made them human, but then i stretched them out so they have a point, so she look a little bit more like a horse. i did not want to give her horse ears because well lets face it, it would look awkward. I haven't really touched the feet yet, nor the arms or hands, but she is coming along quite nicely

2007-01-27T10:45:00.000-08:00

Well the Centaur continues, and it has been a while since my last post. Yesterday at school we went to visit a company Club Penguin, it was SUPER AWESOME!!! if you have got some kids and haven't found a game you feel you can leave them with check out http://www.clubpenguin.com it is a fantastic game for kids!!! ...and of course I play it too, I really enjoy it, and it is a relaxing and fun game to play. soooooooooo well I got distracted thinking of the coolness of this company, and was barley able to sit down and get some work down, so for a good few hours I was tweaking some points, over and over again until finally I was able to crack down and fix some edge loops in the face. I worked on it yesterday for like 2 hours of actually working. sooooo and like 1 hour this morning. Doesn't look like i got a whole lot done but I really was trying to make all my edgeloops work and I dont even know if I got that, haha but she is looking pretty good, I am still going to make the face more, what I like, but all and all I think she is coming together.
~Cass

2007-01-23T10:44:00.000-08:00

Soooooooooooo
Aura is still in the WIP zone, BUT I have also started my newest project The Centaur
She is going to be female, but more a realistic body, not cutsy like the last project. She is going to more of a fighter.
I am still debating in my mind weather she will have armour, or just a shirt. But here you go, this took me an Hour and a Half to get done. I will when i get home ( I am currently at school) going to post some of my pics I sketched out
So here she is so far.

2007-01-20T15:42:00.000-08:00

Hello
I am SOOOOOOOOO excited my Aura character is finally going to where I want it to go. My teacher Graeme helped me, and it just made it amazing, We of course had trial and errors , but we finally got it to the look that we wanted.
So I did a quick test render (if you think 8 - 9 hours a short render) and got it today and it looks allllllll pretty.. hehe Im giddy

I hope y'all like it
~Cass

2007-01-16T08:46:00.000-08:00

Hello Fellow Blogger-ese long time no see.Well break was great, Christmas was fun. Newyears was a smashing party, DDR all the way baby. Then for the next 3 days after I watched to entire season (22 episodes) of Supernatural, By the way AWESOME!!!!!!!! Well the break fun is over, and the real fun begins, Last semester of school. Been a week, I have had been busy with my courses. I have 3 (I consider 2) 2 are classes all for making my portfollio, and one class to finish our short film. So for this first week I have gone back to my Aura character to make her pretty. You see her textures we not bad ( I dont think I posted her last semester pictures) so here they are:

As the textures go, they are not horrible, they are just not good, the scales are not shiny enough. So I have been working as hard as I can and trying to figure out how I can make the scales shiny and still have the skin look appealing. I have started pretty much since the beginning, except the colors.

so here she is again:

I changed the eyes , I think they are still a tad to bright and wide, but they are comingthe scales are well, VERY SHINY!!!! yay, the skin is pretty good, of couse not as good as the SSS, but pretty good. I am really trying make it look..well skin like. For a while it looked way to much

Still in progress. I hope y'all like her

~Cass

2006-12-18T07:51:00.000-08:00

Hello Fellow Blogger-ese

Well I have been workin on my Zbrush work, and it is proving to be very fun, and a tad bit time consuming. because I made my character as...well detailed in XSI before bringing it into Zbrush, Zbrush has been liking to well shut down on me, which I believe to be very-much NOT Cool, but after De-Fraging, and work steadily to see if I can get Zbrush to work on level 5, or 6 I have finally found a way to switch between levels with little or NO shutting down YAY. so and that happened completely by accident today, early morning.
Aura is coming along very nicely, because of the detail put in before I have very little detail to put on her, other than well the deformation, and bumps.
Her scales were a little difficulty because I want them to look neat, and tidy. I did it once took me a few hours, than I was like NAH, and started way back, re-did the scales, and made her prettier.
I dont have much left top do other than well texturing, and i REALLY excited about that (also deformation in XSI). I hope to finish texturing later tonight. I am not going to mainly do my texturing in Zbrush just because I want some effects that only XSI can pull off. a whole lot of nodes and well awesomeness.
The hair bumps are not going to be done AT all in Zbrush, because ti will look really funny (believe me i tried) I will create texture in Zbrush, tweak it in Photoshop, and than take the texture and create an appropriate bump to it.
so well enough rambling.

Check out the Pics ( from top to bottom 1. Upper body tweaks, most detail already created in XSI so not to mush to be done to it. I worked mainly on the breast, collar bone arm muscles, elbow, stomach aand neck. 2. close up of upper bdy 3. worked on the alpha bumping, and it looked kinda messy so I scraped it and went back and redid the scales. 4. redone scales, and aswell as scales on the face, and arms like the concept art. Fixed up a few things in the upper body and such.)

Check out Zbrushcentral.
http://zbrushcentral.com
or if you want to go directly to my char in the Forum, go to:
http://zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=40555

2006-12-13T09:14:00.000-08:00

Hello,

Well for this assignment we were suppose to make a sculpture before we did our actual 3d model. So I finished her..like 2-3 weeks ago (I think) but i figured i best be putting her on my blog

She is different, but pretty much has the same qualitites, Her head is a tad to wide because in one the steps that I made her, (wiredframe, tinfoil, sculpy) I put a little to much tinfoil on her head, so after I was workingon her for a while i realized that he head was large, and could not go back.

She does have scales, I textured it with a onion bag , and it gave it a nice effect . I need to take a closer shot of it.

So i hope ya like it ~Cass

2006-12-06T17:00:00.000-08:00

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

12hours COMPLETE

I remained to tweak , and make pretty. I made the boobies less round, well because it was a tad too.......Jessica Rabbit-ish.

Well here she is I am really proud of her. she actully turned out the way I want, and in 12 hours I mananged to accomplish a rather nice model.

well here is the 12 hours pic

I will continue posting on what I do in zbrush ...also I will add a linkto zbrush when I get a pic in there.

and also she will betextured. She is a Goldfish, so she will a orange..of course. But I had to add the shine the you see on scales.

~Cass

2006-12-05T21:07:00.000-08:00

Well hello Again, I am Currently Finished my...11th hour..lol. That is truly amazing it only feels like I have been working on this for 10 hours before this post..

Oh yeah..
Well since it is coming close to a close, I will still remaining to work mainly on detail and edgeloops. I have tried to take em down, but it does seem that the amount of edgeloops I have is kinda needed. to keep the shape that I want in this girl.

I did take some time to work on the eye, so it looks a tade bit better. I personally think it is actully coming along. I do think I will be taking my attention from the face, and working on the body, (even though I have inbetween) I making the arms have a tad bit more musculerture, and the stomach to have some shape. I do tend like my girls to have waistline, I dont like super skinny girls (even though this one is pretty skinny) BUT I am trying to give her a little pudge. This girl is more like a bratz character, bit head, bit lips, and a little bit of a decent sized bust.
Speaking of the bust, this ones boobs, are not natural looking for a reason...does she look natural? she is to look like a chartoon character I designed , and she has rather, busty, but not HUGE either.
Well she cute nevertheless. I hope the next hour will go well.

2006-12-05T19:39:00.000-08:00

Howdy Y'all
10th hour..DONE!! ....
when you look at these next pics, you will AMAZED AT THE CHANGES..

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ok i lied, the past hour has been mostly tweaking, finding EVIL 5-sided, and triangles, and well Suffering through it all. Also making sure that all my edgeloops are needed, I think in mid making I went a TAD bit edgeloop happy.
So here she is
again
hope ya arnt sick of her yet because well..still 2 more hours to go
~Cass

2006-12-04T23:48:00.000-08:00

Howdy, one hour again, done.

Sooo I did not put off the hair, I wanted it changes, so thus...I changes it.
I really think it looks pretty cool now When the sides are put together, I do want to make the other side so so symmetrical, because I does look cool, but too even.
That alone took me ..proabally 30mins....so i did a bunch of tweaking. all around. then I move the hair curves around a bit because they were WAY to spread out before. now as you will see in the pic, they look pretty good.
Hope Ya enjoy ~Cass

2006-12-04T20:20:00.000-08:00

8th hour, OMG I m cuttin it close.
4 hours to go, I am NOT panicking. YAY
oke here is her latest pics. I did her hair more or less, Im not to sure if I like it, Ilike the top of her head , and I like the curls that come off in front of her fins. But the BIG MASS, doesn't do it for me. I think was a decent idea, but...Noooooooooo I might do it a bit different. I think even z-brush wont make it look the way I want it.
so I will re-do it, either now, or after i feel i have done everything else to the way I like it.
SO I dunno. You will see a change
~Cass

2006-12-03T14:00:00.000-08:00

Hello This be the 7 th hour. I have 5 hours to go, I think when I am done I am pretty sure she will look pretty good. I am rather proud of her so far.
Well as for the hair, the idea of it being a separate object did not work, It would have taken double to amount of time to do the top of the head, because I would have had to shape everything to fit her head.
Yeah so this took me an hour , The big pony tail it still remaining to be a bit tougher than imagined but it will look good Im sure.
She now has the side of her head fins, which make her head look a little better.
sooo yeah here are the most current screenshots , i mainly worked on the head so it is just head shot (boom - HEADSHOT, lol had to) ..hehe

2006-12-01T12:09:00.000-08:00

5th Hour. YAY..actully I have a confession, I finished this hour like 2 days agao but I have been SOOO busy with other work, and such that I have not yet been able to post it. I have 7 hours left to go. I have the dorsal fin and the hair fleft, then a whole lot of tweaking.

2006-11-30T11:11:00.000-08:00

3 hours projects . We have to do theses drills and this time it was a Head. But it was alittle different of a head, more like a monster with human qualities. Now I was a tad bit nervous when he showned us the head we were using for the drill because i am rather used to working with female faces . But when I started getting into it, it was really quite fun . so here is the head in 3 hours.

Left is the low poly head, and the left is the high poly head.

Here is the ref pics

We were not suppose to do the hair, but get mostly the face to the same point of the clay model. Ears, teeth, and gums were to be done.

I tried to make those inbetween, so I wouldnt miss them. THe I made the higher res model, and used to lower res model as a cage, and it made it easier to make the wrinkles.

2006-11-28T18:27:00.000-08:00

Hello once again , my 4th hour coming right up

Pretty much just worked on the webs of the hands, getting the right amount of edge loops to the arm, and then attaching them

But with adding more edge loops, come a WHOLE lot of tweaking in the fin area or I would get a flat spot on the fin, so thus, here is my 4 th hour, next come the fins.

2006-11-28T14:28:00.000-08:00

Hello, 3rd hour is done...YAY
so --- so far I have made, the basic, body, the basic face and NOW the basic hand (still need webs between the fingers.

Next after that is the fins. that will approx be 5 hours..then it will be a whole lot of clean up and making hair.

here is pictures of the basic hands.

2006-11-28T11:10:00.000-08:00

2nd Hour...YAY I have been working on this project off the time, practicing thing, like edge loops, then I finally put it toward this project.
I have mostly worked on the face, at tweaking and adding a few points
I hope it works
Here she is

2006-11-26T21:37:00.001-08:00

Hello, First hour of work, YAY!!

This is for one laragest assignment, we have to model a creature in 12 hours. My char was already created and as well modeled with sculpy sooo..I will be posting every hour till it is done..well...for at least 12 hours...sooo here it goes

2D Design that I made for this character. Her name is Aura. She is a GoldFish Gal. This was created like 2 weeks ago, not in the hour along with the 3d model. If I did that, and the 3d model in 1 hour...I think I would deserve a job...like now..lol.

3D model, soooo far. She will be of course more detailed and have proper muscle structure and have a face.

see ya in an hour.

~Cassandra.

2006-03-21T08:31:00.000-08:00

My Bouncing balls, yay they work.

I like em.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3z6xAny7uuI

ok so the video player wornt work, or I dont know how to work it, so thus you get link.

2006-03-07T11:51:00.000-08:00

This is the whale, w00t

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O3-ylUnMPI

2006-02-28T10:36:00.000-08:00

This is My Blog for school.
Iam currently in CATK, and I have to upload my anomation because my teacher, has left for a week, and he still plans to see our work.

~Cass