Taking a small break away from writing episode guides and back to Toms body. Scanned this this weekend. Needs a clean up, but that’s the easy part

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Happy with the hair, now playing with the shader a little. But I am already liking where this is going.
the calibration on my monitor was in need of a long overdue revision, and I am amazed at how far out I was…. And it has of course impacted the work immensely. Just trying to see if Sub Surface scattering of light will be worth the render times or not

So, with the UV’s done, I can get some key parts fixed. Textures, and the baldness maps for the hair fur

Spent today rebuilding the previous version.

here he is now with a small pose. Need to do the uvs, proper shaders, inside mouth and the all important hair. Then I rig for facial animation AND mocap and away we go!

he is looking a little “young” and fresh faced at the moment. Even boyish.. but once done will be a lot grittier!

Tom Stone head rebuild from scan to Low Poly from Craig Crane on Vimeo.

Based on an original Tom Stone head scan, the new build is progressing nicely!

At present you are just seeing a mirror of the left side over on the right. The topology for the right needs to have a slight difference for the scar!

This will develop quite quickly now I am finding some time to work on it

I made the front page at www.nextengine.com!

Whoo hooo!

my good friends at Next engine want to showcase P-P as a WIP for customers and buyers alike. I think thats is just so fantastic! So, I am redoing the Turbo Copter this week and giving them the project scan file so that they can use that as a case study!

It so nice being able to afford the time to just kick back and resume scanning…. I have been so busy recently, and decided a few months back that sharing P-P with other paid work was a bad idea and unfair to both projects. So, now I can relax, I have my evenings and weekends back and its time to pick up from where I left off.

The Sea Wolf still needs to be finished, and that will happen on the commute.

Looking forward to seeing what Dan and the guys at Next Engine come up with for the P-P case study.

Some slight yet effective changes to the Turbo Copter.

New Control arms, based on a Next Engine scan, but took a bit more time on the detail and edge beveling.

Click on the image to get a better look, but hopefully its an improvement on the previous version below.

Textures and straps to be done at the weekend.

I dont normally post scans AS they are scanning, but this is going to be cool as mustard!