Cinderella Turntable.

Associated turntable of Cinderella. I couldn't not show off the boots right?


Cinderella Turntable from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.

Fables Cinderella.

From a comic cover by James Jean, part of the Fables series, where traditional fairy tale characters are reimagined in modern and fantasy world settings.  Cinderella is of course a hit lady in this universe heh.

Original art from here.

I like:

• The consistent fidelity, there's nothing that is massively more or less detailed than the rest.
• The hair, new technique involving curve tubes from Ryan Kingslien, lengthy but worth it.
• Face texturing, from a tutorial by Cezar Brandao, again not quick, but again I can't argue with the result!
• The face in general, after Alison winding up looking a bit of a shrew!

I dislike:

• The fur, I mean it's okay, and works as part of the piece, but there's no easy way to sculpt, or fudge it, unless I went down the fibers route which I was intentionally avoiding.
• The lights, but only because I tried again to get a Lightcap working in ZBrush and failed hard, what you see there is almost three point lighting.
• Whatever is going on on the side of her nose, should've spotted that.

Next project I intend to finish isn't a lady and isn't clothes!  Complete switcheroo, until that one ceases to spur me on.

Thief Turntable.

Associated turntable of the thief.  Actually version three, after adding eyebrows and fixing the back straps after one, and then removing some post production noise in number two.  Good job this was a "simple" one!

Thief Turntable from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.

A Thief, With Goggles.

A "little" project from a sketch by an artist called Jake Parker, one y'all should check out *nods*.  Didn't paint it or put it into Photoshop as I was after something that looked like it might have been 3D printed.  Job done!  Also, always write an asset list, I'd finished the render *and* the turntable before realising I'd not done eyebrows, not that ya can really see them anyways!

I like:

• That he does look like he's about to be 3D printed!
• Torso armour, the straps looks strapped in with some tightness.
• The base.
• The hair, although...

I dislike:

• The hair.  It does work, but could be better.
• The bag, which to be fair looks like that in the illustration.
• The head, it's functional, but the biggest departure from the source.

Speaking of the original, you can find it here.

Paintball Turntable.

Okay let's see how Vimeo embeds a video then!  Here's the associated turntable for Paintball.  Enjoy!


Paintball Turntable from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.

Holey moley, it embeds it perfectly!  Nice one Vimeo!

Paintball Project Polished Off!

Finally I finished a big project.  Alison Brie from Community's Season 2 Paintball episodes.  Yeah the face isn't right, but I had to call it at some point.  Looks like her from some angles and some distances, honest!

I like:

• The boots.
• The lace.  Really, that's come out lovely.
• Fingernails.  Done a bit more sculpty than as separate tools.
• Sock wrinkles.
• That badass orange gun.

I dislike:

• The fact the face isn't close enough to the subject matter.
• The too nondescript texturey textures, on the shorts especially.
• That odd lump on her left forearm, should've spotted that.

Overall it's continuing the "better than my last project" theme, so yeah, very pleased with the end result all in all.

One Hour Head 03

Again posting something I did a week ago.  More monstrous, started by thinking "Lion" but have wound up more with "Bugbear" heh.  Oh, and I've switched my matcap for these to Shiny Old Skull to pop the contrast up.