Little Monsters

[ghandi666]

hey everyone,
after messing around (intensively) in maya and zBrush i felt comfortable enough to begin my own project.
since zBrush creates such great monsters, i decided to creat a suite of miniature monster movie monsters.
Starting with The Mummy.

anyhow, here's a concept sketch and a couple renders.
my biggest question is this: i would like to match the bandages to my sketches more accurately. kinda baffled as to how to get them to wind over and under each other. any help and/or criticism would be great.

keep in mind, i have started the project over from scratch (made some fundamental modeling blunders) so the displacement maps are not as they will be in my final render. these pics are test renders. just finished re-UVing my new model and am in the process of zBrushing. i'll post as soon as i get some more renders.

thanks again. hope y'all will like 'em.

[joojaa]

Your wrapping needs a bit of sss or a fake of one.

[ghandi666]

hey, thanks for the response
not sure what "sss" stands for.
if it'll help me get the bandage geometry to look more wrapped over and under itself then PLEASE lemme know how to achieve it.
thanks again

[joojaa]

sss= sub surface scattering, linen actually has that and especially because it has this very prominent bump its most likely to scatter more or less.

[e321]

Cool, Joojaa sss would look really nice on that model.

With his dark eyes you could put just a single eye in the bigger eye socket thats kinda freaky looking - that might be cute. Lol like a little oober realistic eye looking out at you. Might be a good way to show emotions from the character during animation as well. Picture him raising his bandaged eyebrow with a little eye peeking out at you from the dark socket. (I'm a little scared)

In anycase I think this model is really cute.

Shacarah

[ghandi666]

absolutely. i'm messing around with that corkscrew eye look from my sketches but it's not as effective a betrayer of emotion as i would've liked. zBrushing away in the meantime. here's an older test render w/out texture. i like the clean lines.

[sdrost]

This is actually quite nice. I think he need some glowing eyes though!

Fight it up!

[kdf]

Very nice, indeed. placed against an egyptian tomb with animated hiroglyphs