Saturday, 7 December 2013

Week 13 - 8th of December - Rendering the models

This was the most relaxing part of the project.  The BPR tool in Zbrush is a fairly new system which allows you to render out different passes of the figure and compose them together in post using a programme such as photoshop.  In this case I rendered out an ambient occlusion, shadow, master beauty, a mask, and a depth pass.  My favourite pass to play around with was the depth because it allowed me to play with the lens blur effect in photoshop, giving some good realistic results.

I used a matcap shader with a clay finish and applied it to the models.  I wanted the eyes to stand out so I applied a basic material 2 shader to that. This gave the eyes a more shinier feel to it.  Ultimately I wanted the renders to look like they were clay sculptures and I was pretty happy with the result.

To present the models I also sculpted something more realistic as a base for the models to stand on besides the usual box or cylinder.  For the female I wanted something to accompany her sexuality, so I thought a silk cloth would be good for this.  For the man I wanted something heroic and manly.  This got me thinking about creating sky scrapers, however I wanted something simple so I just sculpted a rock.  This still proved effective in my opinion.

Overall I was pretty happy with my success with this project.  I learnt alot about the way the human body is shaped and sculpted and drawn.  I wish i could name all the muscles off by heart but I would probably be able to name a handful at most.  However whats important is that I know, at least, sub consciously, how the body looks, and have a deeper appreciation for it.  The names of each muscle will come in time.

The last few weeks were, admittedly, rushed to an extent.  I ended up having to fit in 3 weeks within one week, however it proved pretty achievable as I tend to work more efficiently near the end of tri.

The female figure was not a part of the original weekly tasks, and it is something that I do not regret doing.  Doing the original plan meant doing 3 male poses, and this would just be exhausting after a while.  Sculpting and posing the female was a refreshing experience and rejuvenated the project for me in a sense.  

I hope you all enjoyed my journey to discovering the human body and I will try to keep updating my progress with things that I continue to learn along the away.












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