Comicon 2011 | KEDavidson | Conan

[talonhawk]

omg thats friggin crazy lol you are a beast at this wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KEDavidson]

thanks guys

Baj: I kinda left the legs a little thinner on purpose reasoning that while he is stupid strong, he's not a body builder and would use his upper body more often in combat (swinging giant swords, crushing skulls with his hands ets) and therefore have more of a baseball players physique.

Jaco: will definatley keep that in mind in the future and tweak the base to allow proper flow.

devoid: y'know, everytime I look at the thumb in my wip folder of the early head I think that too, but when i try to fix it I just can't seem to get it right. I found with a lot of Frazetta and Nord's stuff that he had a fairly straight nose though so I'm a little torn.

Jeffreak: thanks man, will do.

winXD, talonhawk: thanks guys

I'll have a proper, if small, update a little later on but for now:

[antc]

LOL..#$@# that library. You talk... you die.

[Steamtrooper]

(NAME DROPPING ALERT!!!)
Funny

Looks good in all areas to me.

Mostly unrelated but I was happy to find out so... I was having a conversation with a friend of a friend of Frazetta (RIP), the other day about his take on Conan, and apparently it was pure

Obvious when you think about it but obviously I hadnt %?

Anyhoo I know your not going for that take on Conan but thought you might be interested chap

Great work and cant wait to see the outfit fleshed out.

[talonhawk]

Alot of evil doers threaten to destroy the Library of Forbidden Times, only one can save the books from total and utter destruction. Who else but "CONAN THE LIBRARIAN" lol

[KEDavidson]

provided me by Polycount:
http://youtu.be/mZHoHaAYHq8

small update as I woke up at 4am yesterday with a fever and spent most of the day in bed with netflix thereby loosing a rare full day to work on him, and today isn't looking much better,

[Steamtrooper]

Rambo the conqueror Looking good chap, make sure he has a nice blade though k - a modernised machette with a nice saw blade would be cool to see.

Sorry to hear about the illness, Im on my 3rd cold in 2 months atm and have decided that fruit probably should have a part to play in my diet from now on

Get well and keep on hacking.

[ambitious_nomad]

I agree with steamtrooper on that one. What is Conan with out a sword?

[Dan!]

I agree with steamtrooper on that one. What is Conan with out a sword?

ooooh and since hes post apoc just think of the possibilities.......

[AlexM]

Good anatomy and interesting design!


Comicon 2011 | AlexM | Deadpool Cowboy

[Amethyst]

:think: Sorry that you are sick. I sincerely hope you will feel better soon and be able to finish Conan, one of your best sculpts to date. I agree - he needs a sword .....:thumb:

[KEDavidson]

i guess it's a pretty weak update after this much time but the high-poly is about 98% done,



and also here's a sword;

[womball]

It looks good. The only thing that looks a bit weak is the cape thing, the flow on the wrinkles isn't quite there. The z or compression fold you got going doesn't make sense unless you have him compress that side of his body.

[KEDavidson]

this is the obligatory, probably-not-gonn- finish-on-time, again, post
still going, but going a different way now

[KEDavidson]

better without the chest piece I think

[Erigo]

Great ! Yep without chest-armor piece is much better !

[Roninfang]

just curious how is the workflow process for this?

just trying to figure it out a bit

1. base body scupt naked in zbrush
2. then add the clothes high poly
3. retopo everything
4. then texture

?

[KEDavidson]

Hi Ronin,
wow so this guy has changed quite a bit from that post, but that's almost the order.

1. low poly base for body, clothes, etc in maya/max/whatever
2. Highpoly sculpt in ZBrush of all parts
3. Polypaint base texture pass in ZBrush
4. Retopo, UV and bake. I use ZBrush to retopo, Maya to UV and Xnormal to bake but whatever you're comfortable with is fine
5. Cleanup and final texture pass in Phototshop.

There's an additional step 0 that is when gathering reference, it's pretty essentially to have a proper concept going in and not just grabbing idea's to see what works. I've literally wasted months because I thought I could just solidify the concept as I modeled (this is totally fine if all you're doing is a concept sculpt though).

current version, highpoly is done, a wonderful amount of contract work has kept me from the lows: