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RUCCUS
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 15:25
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Something Ive been working on for my portfolio:



Using 3DS Max and ZBrush.
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Asteric
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 16:55
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Looking solid so far, few crits ok?

The thing around his leg doesn't seem to fit that well, seems too think if it is a bandage or something.

Those hind legs need beefing out, they look very weak right now.

The blend between his back and the horse back seems a bit awkward, looks like he is trying to keep his back up if you know what i mean.

Maybe an easier to read matcap? Seems a bit harsh to me when i look at it.

Like i said, its early days, and its looking very good.

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RUCCUS
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 17:11 Edited at: 25th Feb 2010 17:12
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Thanks, yeah still very early in the dev process. I've only flushed out the front, haven't done any work on the back. The leg wrap will have a belt attatching it to the foot and waist. Its not a matcap, its not rendered in ZB, I rendered it in max and threw an orange diffuse on it, just thought it looked cool .

I generally work the entire mesh at once, so Im now going to flesh out the back half of him, add some musculature, then go up a layer and start adding in the next level of details.

Thanks again.
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 17:17
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Wowswers, never would have guessed that to be max lol.

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henry ham
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 17:17
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the model looks good so far mate,but it looks like a human model with a horse stuck up his a**. take a look at this pic it may help you out.



cheers henry

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RUCCUS
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 20:36
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Its an issue of which anatoym I choose to go with. Typical centaurs have both sets of legs as a horse style. I've chosen to make the front legs human style. If I went with the horse style, it would look a lot more fluid, as they would be spaced farther out and more beside the stomache instead of coming out of it. Im still tweaking the transition between horse and human, I plan on making it more fluid, but I want to retain the human legs, and not go all-out with the horse.
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lazerus
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 20:41
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Serious or very stupid here.

If he has mans front legs and a horse back legs, what on earth are you going to do with the groin area??


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RUCCUS
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 20:44
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Cover it up with the cloth as I've done . In my mind his family jewels remain in the human orientation.

Then again, I could give him both .
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David Gervais
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 22:21
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Not to be too much of a critique, but you better beef up his 'human' legs if he's gonna carry around the weight of a horse on them. I doubt that a centaur with human front legs could even run. walking will be hard enough.

Maybe it's me, and my being set in my mythological ways.

Cheers!

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bond1
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Posted: 26th Feb 2010 07:54 Edited at: 26th Feb 2010 08:05
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Those strong horse back legs are totally gonna faceplant him into the ground. No way those human legs are gonna be able to keep up.



EDIT: It does give an idea for a HILARIOUS render piece. You could name it "Centaur Anatomy Epic Fail". Then show him in a similar pose as this picture. Or perhaps an animation.

Very cool model, but yeah right now it basically looks like a man with a horse growing out of his butt.

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zaphos
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Posted: 26th Feb 2010 14:17
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I'm no anatomy expert, but I think the human front legs plus horse back legs is going to be hard to animate, as the knees do not match hightwise. Plus it is hard to blend a human run with a horse galop, there isn't much similarity. Good luck with it though. =)
The human part its starting to look pretty good, but I think you need to consider how the spine of the horse part goes up in to the human back, I have to agree with the others. Have fun!

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RUCCUS
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Posted: 26th Feb 2010 18:51
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The entire model isn't really worth the effort to change too much. This isn't for my professional portfolio, just a small demo reel I need to do for college showing rough ZBrush sculpts (we're only supposed to spend 4 hours on each). He wont be being animated, just a still pose. Generally I would care if it was for anything more than this "portfolio" assignment, but in this case it really doesn't matter too much. Just figured Id throw him up here since I haven't posted anything on 3D Chat for quite some time now.

Anyways he's pretty much done now, I hit my 4 hours so I've left him alone. Ill post with the final version in a few days when things aren't so hectic with my assignments.
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That's cool, hope you didn't take my post the wrong way. It's an impressive sculpt. Just picturing in my head how he might move makes me giggle.

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