PolySculpt

This is the come back of an old model I started in… 2006! I modeled it in Hexagon 2 and started to do a sculpt in ZBrush for my first tests with this software that I was testing… I stopped to work on it as my modeling has never been done for sculpting purposes: too large polygons on the belly while too small on the face and hands.

My old computer wasn’t able to subdivide enough to sculpt some areas with a decent amount of polygons… until my co-worker Paul asked me for this model for a testing purpose. It was time to finish what I started! And no more real polygons limits now as I can push my mesh up to 26 millions of polygons

Then after few hours, I finished the model. It’s not really my original idea, but not enough time to do what I wanted to do (Beeeer is the god of the beer in fact…). Then this model could be a good test for printing purposes too (except for cutting it…)

This is the final model with its pose (which I did quickly) and some ZBrush screenshots (click to enlarge)

I won’t write a lot of personal posts in this blog as it is mainly targeted to 3D and graphic stuff, but as you may heard, Michael Jackson just die. Things like that happen and it was not really a surprise as he always had a weird health (Oxygen box, estethical surgery, oups, was he Black? etc…), but it’s a part of my memories when I was a kid which is now gone, like when Freddy Mercury died too.

Well, why this post? Simply because my first animation I did a long (long long) time ago was a moonwalk, thinking of, as you can guess, Michael Jackson. When I did it, I just worked with a simple IK, no bones as Electric Images wasn’t supporting them if I remember.  I will try to find this video and add it to this post soon (tonight I guess).

Well, good by Michael, your music is still here!

This is a video which I just found in an old directory of my hard drive. It will be a good video for the introduction post of my new blog!

Ths is a timelapse modeling of Gerogette, the caracter I modeled a long time ago, for the over illustration of the software Carrara 5. I have been modeled her with Hexagon 1.21.

Enjoy!