moonjam

I’ve been attending an evening class in sculpture from life & have been enjoying it immensely. Things are incredibly busy at work at the moment, so it’s been nice to have a break from things & get dirty with physical media.

This is a torso study that I worked on over three 2 hour sessions. It was a really challenging pose, especially for my third attempt at working with clay – but I had a lot of fun trying to solve the anatomical puzzle!

I still have to hollow it out & get her fired, will post some photos of the process in the next couple of weeks.

Had a very thin scraping of free time & did some more work on my female character bust. Retopologised the face & rebuilt the hair. There’s still a lot I could do with her but I’ll probably call it a day on this one…

Some more images here

Been playing around with V-ray SSS2 & thought I’d try rendering my female character. I haven’t done any more modelling so her hair is still very sketchy at this stage, definitely needs more styling!

Nothing too exciting (or new for that matter) but a female bust I started for one of the challenges on the excellent CGFeedback forum.

I had posted this just before I accidentally deleted my previous blog & thought I’d pop it up again, partly for posterity but mostly to kick myself into actually finishing her!

While I’m hoping to upload some new things I’ve been working on shortly I thought I’d share something interesting I’ve been playing with in the last few weeks.

There’s a fantastic thread started by Lee Perry-Smith over at CGFeedback about 3D Scanning, which has had some great discussion about the different methods, techniques & technologies. From a variety of people I was pointed toward a remarkable piece of software called Agisoft Photoscan which can create full 3D geometry from nothing more than a series of photographs.

The ability to translate real world objects into a 3d data has always been something that fascinates me & at work we’ve been experimenting with building a crude scanning system utilising a CNC controlled laser. As exciting as this sounds (lasers!), it’s quite a laborious process with a number of hoops to jump through. Photoscan does away with a great deal of the setup process – in fact all you needs is a camera!

This skull was created from a series of 40 photographs, I then crudely cleaned up the geometry with Topogun and smoothed out some of the projected noise in Zbrush.