• Welcome to the Community Forums at HiveWire 3D! Please note that the user name you choose for our forum will be displayed to the public. Our store was closed as January 4, 2021. You can find HiveWire 3D and Lisa's Botanicals products, as well as many of our Contributing Artists, at Renderosity. This thread lists where many are now selling their products. Renderosity is generously putting products which were purchased at HiveWire 3D and are now sold at their store into customer accounts by gifting them. This is not an overnight process so please be patient, if you have already emailed them about this. If you have NOT emailed them, please see the 2nd post in this thread for instructions on what you need to do

WIP MEC4D - Creations for Dawn 2 and Dusk 2 , work in progress

MEC4D

Zbrushing through the topology
Contributing Artist
Only just found this thread...love what you're doing Cath! Looks fantastic!
Thank you Pen , lovely of you to drop in . Happy you like it .
I tested some morphs yesterday on Dawn2 and looked great. I loved how the African morph actually created additional ethnicity looks as the slider go up. I did not made yet the skin, but playing with my temporary painted textures ( no iray shaders or SSS just base 3DL ) once I have the iray shader set up and proper textures , it gonna looks realistic and great. I used here slider on 68% , kinda dark and old school look of the renders, but hey just a work in progress after all. I still need to work on her eyes ( eyelids) excuse the prop hair just for visualization .
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot 2021-02-19 175844.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-02-19 175844.jpg
    20 KB · Views: 194
  • Screenshot 2021-02-19 175941.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-02-19 175941.jpg
    32.5 KB · Views: 175
  • Screenshot 2021-02-19 180013.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-02-19 180013.jpg
    38.4 KB · Views: 201

Pendraia

Sage
Contributing Artist
My pleasure to look Cath! I really love what you're doing. Being able to mix and match slider dials is really useful also.
 

MEC4D

Zbrushing through the topology
Contributing Artist
Hi Guys hear some work in progress , this time custom East Asian morph character for Dusk 2.0
it is preview in low geometry.
I hope you like
Cath
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot 2021-03-02 155409.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-02 155409.jpg
    62.3 KB · Views: 128
  • Screenshot 2021-03-02 155626.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-02 155626.jpg
    46.7 KB · Views: 139
  • Screenshot 2021-03-02 155141.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-02 155141.jpg
    70.9 KB · Views: 145
  • Screenshot 2021-03-02 154951.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-02 154951.jpg
    74.9 KB · Views: 144
  • Screenshot 2021-03-02 154739.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-02 154739.jpg
    53.8 KB · Views: 136
  • Screenshot 2021-03-02 153051.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-02 153051.jpg
    152.9 KB · Views: 129

MEC4D

Zbrushing through the topology
Contributing Artist
Fantastic work! Will you be making custom skin for him?
Thank you, yes all my first Ethnic characters will arrive with their own skin, hair and clothing/accessories , straight out the box characters. I enjoy to make full dressed characters , you see the morphs are so far from the original base it requires own emotions pack to look naturally while smiling , I don't know how it going to work with the Facial rig Paul is working on yet , but anyway my dynamic facial expressions need to be unique to the base character and not the base figure since the bone structure is different or it going to looks creepy . The only thing that is left untouched are the eyeballs , everything else on the head is completely in different space from the base.
It Sounds complicated , but the result is going to be wonderful .
I am so curious to see how the face would look like with skin , I may do some preview tests today before doing Dawn 2 Asian morph.
 

MEC4D

Zbrushing through the topology
Contributing Artist
Just loaded some test skin text in Zbrush :p back to Dawn 2.0 now :coding:
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot 2021-03-03 163134.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-03 163134.jpg
    24.5 KB · Views: 137
  • Screenshot 2021-03-03 162742.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-03 162742.jpg
    25.3 KB · Views: 149
  • Screenshot 2021-03-03 162602.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-03 162602.jpg
    21.9 KB · Views: 149
  • Screenshot 2021-03-03 162517.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-03 162517.jpg
    19.2 KB · Views: 137

MEC4D

Zbrushing through the topology
Contributing Artist
made a new North Hemisphere female morph
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot 2021-03-04 180651.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-04 180651.jpg
    138.7 KB · Views: 139
  • Screenshot 2021-03-04 175209.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-04 175209.jpg
    34.8 KB · Views: 124
  • Screenshot 2021-03-04 175351.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-04 175351.jpg
    30.8 KB · Views: 129
  • Screenshot 2021-03-04 175323.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-04 175323.jpg
    31.3 KB · Views: 142
  • Screenshot 2021-03-04 180748.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-04 180748.jpg
    103.2 KB · Views: 121
  • Screenshot 2021-03-04 181355.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-04 181355.jpg
    23.3 KB · Views: 132

MEC4D

Zbrushing through the topology
Contributing Artist
Final touch up :coding: as something battered me as usual , can't let go lol
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot 2021-03-04 200234.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-04 200234.jpg
    107.8 KB · Views: 114
  • Screenshot 2021-03-04 195751.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-04 195751.jpg
    104 KB · Views: 109
  • Screenshot 2021-03-04 195149.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-04 195149.jpg
    113.7 KB · Views: 105
  • Screenshot 2021-03-04 200738.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-04 200738.jpg
    24.4 KB · Views: 107

MEC4D

Zbrushing through the topology
Contributing Artist
Here comes the Asian girl ...
not polished yet ..
what you think ?
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot 2021-03-05 010030.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-05 010030.jpg
    65.5 KB · Views: 113
  • Screenshot 2021-03-05 010057.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-05 010057.jpg
    68.5 KB · Views: 113
  • Screenshot 2021-03-05 010336.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-05 010336.jpg
    27 KB · Views: 111
  • Screenshot 2021-03-05 010249.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-05 010249.jpg
    31 KB · Views: 110
  • Screenshot 2021-03-05 010008.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-05 010008.jpg
    55.5 KB · Views: 107
  • Screenshot 2021-03-05 011438.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-05 011438.jpg
    25.3 KB · Views: 129
  • Screenshot 2021-03-05 011540.jpg
    Screenshot 2021-03-05 011540.jpg
    27.7 KB · Views: 103
Top