The design of the Ford F-150 in recent years has really caught my eye. A couple months ago I started this project in my free time to take a stab at recreating the truck in 3d.

I pulled from a variety of references I found on google which included off the lot models and custom work that many talented enthusiasts have done over the years.

That said this F-150 is a mash up of different references so that I could enjoy the overall process and not be limited to a blueprint approach. I learned a lot from this process and I am looking forward to the next vehicle.

The model work was done in Maya, from there it was brought into Keyshot for several rounds of rendering before landing on something I was happy with, and finally wrapping up in Photoshop.

Flushing out a process for tiling rocks/pebbles.

After several iterations and some feedback I landed on a process I am happy with. Now it becomes a game of layering shapes.

Moonstone // Cant help but mess around with the z materials.  

Adding a couple of speed sculpts this past week.

1st sculpt // Anatomy foundation and exploration.

2nd sculpt // Elderly gent // Saw a picture of Jeremy Irons and tried sculpting in some of his facial features shortly after foundation setup.

Speed sculpt for the evening.

 Rock Walls continued

Back after a long break // Got burnt out working on the male character so I began working on a female variant of the same concept to move things along. Picked up a few new techniques from the last run, trying to put them to work here.

Preview of gear...

Bouncing between projects // this character is starting to land on a particular feel, a bit like "near future peace keeper"... the type of peace keeper that needs a ridiculous amount of magazine capacity.

Zbrush Notes

 -Zremesher was used to lay down better typology before moving into finer detail with some of the pre existing shapes. I had been using dynamesh for all my remesh needs like a total noob. The added benefit of clean topology has allowed me to move a bit faster on these elements.

Geo is wrapped up with UVs laid out.

Some render work to take the visual interest a bit further.

-Revisiting the pelican case that was made for the XDS a few months back. Cleaning up geo and spinning off a larger variant.

Another session of armor exploration and commitment to shapes for the torso, shoulder and upper arms.

 This bad guy is finally starting to feel menacing.

Still a bit of refinement to go but for now I am going to shift focus to the boots and leggings to reinforce the work done on the torso.

Been getting my feet wet with more Marvelous Designer work and I wanted test a saran wrap like effect on a prop. The idea came to me at the store picking up a couple cases of water.

Tonight's quick exercise

I started by sculpting out a quick rock in zbrush, followed by decimation before unwrapping the low poly in maya.

 From there I brought the asset into painter and wrapped up not long after.

Refined the face a bit, spent some more time on armor exploration.

Speed sculpt for the night. Trying to break through that next threshold. 

Decided to take this vampire a bit further.

I often wonder what Tolkien's universe would have been like with a Vampire element. Imagine even further that these Vampires had a kingdom with a standing army. What would it look like?

Still roughing in ideas of potential shape language for the armour.

  

Update #1 // Armor work and thinking about prop placement.

 

Speed sculpt for the evening. Vampire inspired by a recent D&D game.