@ Taron, Thanks. To me the surprise images are the most fun and that place looks hungry
@Pilou, Thanks Frenchy. I tried that one long ago and just went back for fun
@ Ovn1 If anyone knows about their perilous situations it's you. I am very close to launching this thing off the ground. More words than pictures but I think I can bastardize it enough to slip into Webtoons Discover
I named this thread Verving the Pipeline originally when it was actually a personal workflow. Pipeline sounds so much better to the ear
But a personal workflow still goes through departments especially in the project I am working on now. MoreOrLess is web copyrighted fortunately so I don't really mind going into the process I am undergoing assembling the pieces or assets I need to really dive into it. Because I am not a sequential artist I have to approach this another way. Ultimately I will be publishing MoreOrLess at Webtoons in a format for phone use.
MoreOrLess is really the culmination of two background universes and a number of stories I set in them. One is Science Fiction and the other Fantasy. The two universes collided in the 90's becoming my Bridgeworld series. (non published of course lol) Bridgeworld is one of the Nexus points of the Multiverse. "It's a place where Fantasy walks hand in hand with the hard struck lines of Reality and Science".
At one point I made the fortunate decision to enlist Ovn1 into the project simply because I love his style and his ability as a sequential artist is of a high caliber. I was quite happy when he accepted. Off and on for three years we bounced it back and forth mainly in character design. My next post will be about that and he gave me permission to post some of his work in that regard. It didn't work out because he just doesn't have a huge amount of time. Work and family. Those three years gave me the time to really dive into background detail and story flow however. I once took a sheet of possible alien races he drew up and assigned brief backgrounds to them all as either characters or races lol.
So I am without an artist and for now that is ok. Over the years I have assembled a vast collection of 3d resources that are free to render for commercial use. Freebies from everywhere lol. But also a rather large number I paid for. Because it's 3d it threw me in my very own little pipeline because you have still have to adapt those assets to the project at hand. That means Mix and Match in Poser and re texturing in Zbrush tweaking in Silo etc. I also want my own creations in it so I am taking the time to do a simply done cyborgish character. The Engineer. The Engineer is one of the lynch pins of the initial story and inhabits Engineer Hall which I posted earlier. If you look at my signature link you it takes you to a thread where he makes an appearance as my first rigged character lol. I have improved his mesh since then and am now prepping his head and neck for texturing. So the first image subject is all mine. I have him very low poly at this point.
The two images after that are using some of the assets I gathered for commercial work in Poser. I am looking for a steampunk feel. I took apart a robot to use his head and pieces as a helmet and rough armor. I retextured him but he isn't done yet. I made his base suit in Zbrush but There is more to do like completely making his pieces fit better. All of this for one scene lol. PLUS before Taron says anything "coff coff" I agree that the last metal ring in the abdomen area looks really strange. Almost as strange as the flare coming out of a characters butt in an earlier post of this thread.
That ring is gone now
Tom
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