Melanin

[Frenchy Pilou]

Here the prog
Prog + Doc + Theory (1200* 1000 max)
And my speedy test !
That's works perfectly
The trick is to load a BMP image in Colors (and not a grey level image!!! I have losted 10 minutes to find that!
Import BMP, JPG, PNG, PMG
Pilou
Ps Gainsbourg of course : I will find a cool song for you

[Frenchy Pilou]

I have find it !
Comic Strip by Serge Gainsbourg
Very well adapted of your animation

A man like that were a very cool guy !
The brother of Melanin of course
Serge Gainsbourg by William Klein

[joe_seig]

Frenchy merci bien, beh oui ils se ressemblent...I knew you would see it!



Okay "comic strip", I think I have it at home somewhere. I'll listen to it again.
and Thanks for showing me the software, I'll explore later with it.
Cool Frenchy!

[Jason Belec]

That's a cool app Frenchy Pilou. Of course a good app like Photoshop or Gimp can do that as well. Photoshop for example sees no colour at all, only levels of grey - since day one. Oh my that makes me sound old.

Back to work Joe - wrecking stuff is fun and should not be left to those that can't appreciate it. Love your character here by the way.

[Frenchy Pilou]

good app like Photoshop or Gimp can do that as well.

...not with this sort of way
...or with a maybe with a special plug in like this one

[Yainderidoo]

I was wondering where this wonderful crazy guy has gone to:



Yainderidoo

[droarty]

love how much character he has..

looks great

[elarcano]

Ok, I'll try to keep it short this time -Sir Belec must be regretting the day I stepped in his thread-

It's funny how things start to make sense to me -no, I'm not talking about Zbrush / looong way from that- but some respectable names connect with some great images I've seen randomly in the zgallery and Mr. Seigenthaler's no exception... in fact... he's the one I have in mind when saying: OH MY PLASTIC DUCK! THAT'S F-blip-NG AWESOME MAN! YOU SURELY MAKE MY SPRINKLER GO OFF DUDE! ... wait... that didn't come out very well... huh!... I think I'll stick with the formality

Melanin... one of the best images I've seen so far... keep up the great work Mr. Seigenthaler... see you in Sir. Belecs Thread

PS.
-yes... I'm stalking you-
Muuuahahahaha

[breakneck]

can we vote favorite thread?? This one has my vote!!!!!! please don't give up on this wip!!!! i'm beggin for the finished video!

[monica.t]

Not only yours is a very interesting subject, it's also technically challenging because of teh peculiarity of the skin.
I really like it, especially the balance you found between stylization and realism, very nice. my congratulations!

[Slosh]

Hi Joe...this thread is so old, you might not even get to read this, as you may have unsubscribed to it and moved on. But I hope you do see it. Aside from telling you how awesome the character is and how much I loved watching the animation, I mainly want to thank you for helping make weight mapping clear to me.

I saw this Melanin character while lurking in ZBC a couple of years ago, but the thread at that time was too confusing to me. After reading it again today, from start to finish, I actually learned a few things. I never understood what weight maps were intended to do. I use Lightwave as my "traditional" 3d app and there are many references to creating weight maps to go with your morphs. Could never understand the point. Now I do. It helps to control stretching of the mesh during animation! Thank you so much. I don't think you were even intending to teach there, but you did.

Brian

[SNARK]

Hi.

This is such a great thread, I felt it needed to be resurrected.

Joe!

Great work, man. If possible, could you clarify some blend shape issues for me?

Okay:

I guess one of the big questions I have is about building my meshes and sculptures in ZBrush.

If I have a fully modeled character in ZBrush, with multiple SubD levels, how do I use this with Maya’s blend shape animation?

Here is my understanding:

1. Export Neutral Pose ZBrush .OBJ

2. Enter Maya > Import ZBrush .OBJ

3. Save as .MB

4. Duplicate Neutral Pose Model in Maya > Offset in ‘X’ > Rename Copy > Export as .OBJ

5. Enter ZBrush > Import Maya .OBJ > Sculpt New Blend Shape > Export .OBJ (to overwrite Maya import)

6. Enter Maya > Import Modified ZBrush .OBJ > Offset in ‘X’ > Continue

However: am I dealing with whole bodies or just heads that can be attached to a key framed body? Questions. Questions.

I have seen tutorials that show whole bodies and tutorials that show heads only. I have done several ‘head only’ blend shape exercises but I am ready to go further.

Thoughts?

~S.~