July/Aug - Norm - cgrein
 

I got the words "Meaningful Instrument".

hmmm, so many possibilities... ;)

Re: July/Aug - Norm - cgrein
 

Yep, but let's try to keep it clean ;)

Nice to see you in this one - best of luck with it :beer:

Re: Re: July/Aug - Norm - cgrein
 

:lmao: don't worry, I'll keep it clean...

I didn't have time to participate in the last one
but I'll come up with something this time.

good luck to you too!

Hey cgrein! Goodluck with the challenge, looks like you got a good set of words there - a few things came to mind [none of which were "seedy"!].

Cheers! priimate.

Hey priimate,

Good luck with your "armed machine" !


cgrein

hey, good luck CG, look forward to see your idea...

Hey admiralbcd, here's my idea:

This old man has dedicated all his life
to produce a meaningful musical instrument;
one with astonishing sound qualities.

Since I'm not a drawing artist I traced over a photo to make this
concept sketch.(talking about "amazing fraud")

The picture shows him working on his "perfect violin".


What do you think?

Nice concept, Cgrein. I like the idea and it could be very nice for mood lighting as well with the window in the background. Should be interesting to watch how you progress with this.

that's a very original approach to the subject.
I like it a lot !

thanks guys!

I'll start modeling the old man.

first step...

Good start - might need to push the eyesocket in a little but I know its early days.

Very early days...

some more polygons:

looking good!

Yep, looking very good already :beer:

thanks Mike and Fallenswordsman! :D

another update:

Looking excellent although still a bit too early to make too many comments. You're really steaming ahead with the modelling though. :attn: :beer:

Looks top notch!

Thanks guys! :beer:

I just can't stop working... :eek:

the ear still needs some work, but I need to sleep now. :zzz:

Still - he's coming along nicely and he has some great character in his face - as for the ear, I think it might need to come up a little bit - looks a bit low perhaps?

You are right about the ear.
I used two different pictures as reference,
so the ear ended in the wrong position.

oh my ....:eek: you're going at lightspeed...no make that super ridiculous speed.....this is going to be great....

Looks sweet - plenty of character in there already and you've not even begun texturing yet...

admiralbcd: I'm not going at lightspeed, I think the model looks more complex than it really is... ;)

mark: thanks.

I spent some time cleaning the mesh of the head and fixing some bad loops.

Now I'm working on the neck:

very nice modelling so far :) keep at it!

//Matt

Thanks DigiMatt!


updates coming soon....

small updates in the chin/neck area, some wrinkles added:

quick test:

nice stuff so far. can we see a wireframe? keep going!

Thank you bullet.

Wires: (remember, it's still a wip)

Nice wires! Looks like a pretty clean mesh and the model looks great!

Thanks colto!

I'm beginning to work in the hands now...

I didn't have much time to work in the hands:

Looks cool!

Looks like a good start on the hands so far :)

yes, a lot of work to do yet. :)

wow - great work so far cgrien - I like your idea and the head is looking awesome - the only area that I am not sure about is the back of the head - it just looks like it maybe needs a bit more mass at the back, above the ears.

Great work mate - good luck in the challenge! :beer:

Thanks for the tip arran, I'll check it out.

Good luck to you too! :beer: