Vulcano planet

After heavily inspired by some mattepaint artist and my friend Patrick Chin.
I start to explorer the world of mattepainting. This is heavily photoshop version.

To be King (Koning van Katoren)

Just finish my work for Koning van Katoren. Been working there since March this year. It's been a wonderful experience. Learn a lot from some talent people at Hectic. I was mainly hired to do modelling texturing of the moving churches sequence and some concept of the dragon called "Smook". 

Some info about the movie :
The shooting period of 'Koning van Katoren' (To Be King), the screen adaptation of a book by Jan Terlouw, has begun. The director Ben Sombogaart (De Storm, Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek and De Tweeling) and lead actors Mingus Dagelet and Abbey Hoes have traveled to Italy to take part in the shoot. The film tells the story of 17 year old Stach (Dagelet) who has to fulfill difficult quests to become the king of the fictional country of Katoren. He is being assisted by Kim (Hoes). HecticElectric has been brought on board to provide lots of various visual effects sequences for the feature. The grading of the feature will be done at Hectic as well. The movie opens in theaters on December 5th 2012.

New HULK

a new day a new hulk



Day 12: New Pose and exterior light test


Major overhaul on the pose and overall design of the head .Less action pose more bodybuilder neutral pose. Couldn't lock down design on thepectoralis major partially because its hard for me to model in that bend pose. It's a hard way to find the right balance between anatomical correct muscle and stylish proportion. I guess I should have start the other way around modelling a realistic human then transform into Hulk proportion.I love the new pose and probably stick with it for a while.

Finally I can get a trial of Arnold renderer to try for myself. Convert all Vray shaders and I absolutely love it ! Amazed by the speed an quality of this renderer. For more example check google
here

Day 11:  Eyeball and Teeth modelling/Shading

-Reduced pores bump intensity
-Tweak eyeshader
-Add tearlines

Day 10:  Eyeball and Teeth modelling/Shading

-Reduced eyeball size
-Mouth shape less underbite.
-Less wrinkle thickness on cheeks

Day 10:  Bump shader and skin wrinkles

Here is a crop of a 4K render. Click on it for a bigger version.

Day 9: Head details & Facial hair test

Day 8: Mudboxing & Shader tweaking

Day 7: Texturing The Pink Hulk


My current workflow for texturing human characters is always
limited to mudbox 4K per UV layout. This time in order to crank
up more resolution. I'm benefitting from the fact that you can use
the UV space beyond 0-1. To avoid resolution difference among
all patches  maintaining the UV ratio is important. Each patch is
now 4K x 7 is effectively 28 K :).

Before I really finalize my modelling and texturing. It's good to 

see your model in context. This mean setup an lighting rig for 

previewing textures is a must for me.

This typical studio turntable setup should give me a good preview 

of what issues I can expect when the character moves through light 

and shadows. Also using SSS is not so straight forward as just 

texturing diffuse channels. So a solid SSS shader with the right 

scale is very important.

So here you see my reddish skin shader for the hulk. I think starting 

with human skin approach will gives me likely more realistic look 

then going straight for green. There are no real life reference for a 

green man unless you paint your friend green :).

So I decide to HSV shift my texture once the human version is done.

Day 6:

New beauty render with some mockup chest hair.

Day 5:

Sculpting hands details.Trying the new BPR shadows settings

Day4:


Pants details added, simpel polypaint. Update arm & hand anatomy a bit. Make the hand beefier and more suitable for his
big body.

Day 3


Some update on the hands and feets:

Day 2

It's been a while that I post new stuff. I've working on a dutch feature film for couple of months. Title of the movie will be announce soon. In the meanwhile I found
a little time (2 hrs) to remodel my Hulk.I went back few iterations and found the first version I used and add extra geometry to support extra details like toes and mouth.

I don't the proportion and this time I want to go over the top a bit. Stylized and new pose.