My Halloween Mask - Polyloop

jbshorty · 31st October 2008, 07:25

Happy Halloween! I sculpted the mask as a subd mesh using Modo, added the eyes and strap in Rhino. Rendered in Brazil for Rhino... The eye texture is a combination of freebies which I found online and composited together. Unfortunately the images were not signed. So whoever authored them, thank you for sharing... jonah

Wася · 31st October 2008, 10:25

Shorty, you used to talk about buying 3ds max. Am I right?
Please, do it faster.
Your mentral ray trainings will be useful for XSI also. I will buy them.

jbshorty · 31st October 2008, 16:26

Hehe… I think I’d once mentioned being interested in Lightwave. But never mentioned XSI or Max. Actually I would probably lean more towards Max so I could use Brazil… And these days I want to focus on squeezing the most I can from my current software. No new software unless I absolutely need something to get a job completed…

shorty

Wася · 31st October 2008, 16:29

shorty, I'm absolutely sure you need to have XSI to get your job completed. Absolutelu sure. Definitely.

jbshorty · 1st November 2008, 21:03

only if i change jobs...

Couerl · 2nd November 2008, 05:54

Halloween masks all suck (Not yours shorty, it looks cool),.. I mean the cheap 10 dollar ones you get that all come from China and all that.. I was talking to a sculptor about making some cool (good quality) masks, props and the like in 3d and then maybe making 3d prints and molds, injection molds, plaster casts silicon or whatever like Daft Punk helmets and doing high end costumes. I think there's a market for them, I'm just curious about the overhead, process and such. What do you suppose it would cost to produce that and what kind of material would you use? Fiberglass resin? Plastic? Carbon Fiber? I know some cost tons more than others (carbon fiber for instance), but I'm pretty clueless as to what might be cost efficient (more than cheap rubber Chinese Halloween masks) and what materials and methods would be feasible.. Why aren't there any good quality masks for Halloween and crap like that? It's almost 2009 fcs...

jbshorty · 2nd November 2008, 06:59

Hi Couerl. It's been a while! What's going on?... I guess they all suck because little kids don't want to dress up in last year's outfit. So they make everything disposable (what's not disposable these days?). And how many adults really have any appreciation for the craftsmanship of their Halloween outfit? I went to 2 parties last night. Most people had obviously dug around in their closet for some oddball things to wear. A few had bought actual costumes (cheap crappy ones). But the coolest and funniest were all homemade of cheap-ass materials (cardboard, egg cartons, etc). I just glued some giant ears to my head and it was big hit with the ladies... ;)

Couerl · 2nd November 2008, 07:36

Ah well, I dunno... The 1st Starwars movie came out 30 years ago and maybe I'm just being nostalgic, but I thought for sure we'd all be wearing cool stuff like stormtrooper outfits all of the time by now..

No party for me, handed out candy to the kids and am just doing the bob villa thing and rebuilding my old '59 brick ranch here in Denver and carving marble, limestone, alabaster and such..

jbshorty · 3rd November 2008, 03:06

In my neighborhood, nobody knocks on doors. they just go around to the local deli to get candy directly from the source. The middleman's been cut out and I could not be happier about it!... Glad to see you stuck with the carving. I started school a few weeks ago to study programming. I would like to start making 3D tools, not just be using them. Who knows where this might take me...

jonah

Couerl · 3rd November 2008, 03:40

That's cool, you going to NYU or someplace else? So you wanna be a programmer? Side job doing plug-ins maybe? I think it's hard to squeeze a buck out of this industry, but you never know, one thing can lead to another and suddenly there you are working for Microsoft or Apple or whatever making decent money..

I cut my own schedule back to 4 days a week in January and got a new/old house and am rebuilding it from the joists up, almost done with the first floor and the basement is already finished, just gotta do new windows etc.. Got all new water heater/ trane furnace, plumbing installed, added a bathroom and a shop room and big bedroom etc and will keep my schedule down next year too until I'm all done and then who knows?

jbshorty · 3rd November 2008, 04:15

Yeah, taking night courses at NYU. I'll start writing some (very) minor plugins and see how it goes. My goal is to eventually work from wherever I want, whenever I want, dressed (or not!) in whatever i want. I'm at a point where i need to make a change and also want to divesify my career to be more future-proof. Programming might put me one step further towards that goal... But it sounds like you are already one step ahead of me

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jbshorty subhuman infection Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: in a dirty sock Posts: 1,412	My Halloween Mask Happy Halloween! I sculpted the mask as a subd mesh using Modo, added the eyes and strap in Rhino. Rendered in Brazil for Rhino... The eye texture is a combination of freebies which I found online and composited together. Unfortunately the images were not signed. So whoever authored them, thank you for sharing... jonah Attached Thumbnails

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Wася Misinterpreted signal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 407	Shorty, you used to talk about buying 3ds max. Am I right? Please, do it faster. Your mentral ray trainings will be useful for XSI also. I will buy them. __________________ (Vista 64-bit, Intel Q6700, 8GB, GeForce 8800GTS)

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Wася Misinterpreted signal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 407	shorty, I'm absolutely sure you need to have XSI to get your job completed. Absolutelu sure. Definitely. __________________ (Vista 64-bit, Intel Q6700, 8GB, GeForce 8800GTS)

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31st October 2008, 16:26	#3 (permalink)
jbshorty subhuman infection Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: in a dirty sock Posts: 1,412	Hehe… I think I’d once mentioned being interested in Lightwave. But never mentioned XSI or Max. Actually I would probably lean more towards Max so I could use Brazil… And these days I want to focus on squeezing the most I can from my current software. No new software unless I absolutely need something to get a job completed… shorty

1st November 2008, 21:03	#5 (permalink)
jbshorty subhuman infection Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: in a dirty sock Posts: 1,412	only if i change jobs...

2nd November 2008, 05:54	#6 (permalink)
Couerl Polygurbs Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Denver Posts: 1,309	Halloween masks all suck (Not yours shorty, it looks cool),.. I mean the cheap 10 dollar ones you get that all come from China and all that.. I was talking to a sculptor about making some cool (good quality) masks, props and the like in 3d and then maybe making 3d prints and molds, injection molds, plaster casts silicon or whatever like Daft Punk helmets and doing high end costumes. I think there's a market for them, I'm just curious about the overhead, process and such. What do you suppose it would cost to produce that and what kind of material would you use? Fiberglass resin? Plastic? Carbon Fiber? I know some cost tons more than others (carbon fiber for instance), but I'm pretty clueless as to what might be cost efficient (more than cheap rubber Chinese Halloween masks) and what materials and methods would be feasible.. Why aren't there any good quality masks for Halloween and crap like that? It's almost 2009 fcs...

2nd November 2008, 06:59	#7 (permalink)
jbshorty subhuman infection Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: in a dirty sock Posts: 1,412	Hi Couerl. It's been a while! What's going on?... I guess they all suck because little kids don't want to dress up in last year's outfit. So they make everything disposable (what's not disposable these days?). And how many adults really have any appreciation for the craftsmanship of their Halloween outfit? I went to 2 parties last night. Most people had obviously dug around in their closet for some oddball things to wear. A few had bought actual costumes (cheap crappy ones). But the coolest and funniest were all homemade of cheap-ass materials (cardboard, egg cartons, etc). I just glued some giant ears to my head and it was big hit with the ladies... ;)

2nd November 2008, 07:36	#8 (permalink)
Couerl Polygurbs Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Denver Posts: 1,309	Ah well, I dunno... The 1st Starwars movie came out 30 years ago and maybe I'm just being nostalgic, but I thought for sure we'd all be wearing cool stuff like stormtrooper outfits all of the time by now.. No party for me, handed out candy to the kids and am just doing the bob villa thing and rebuilding my old '59 brick ranch here in Denver and carving marble, limestone, alabaster and such..

3rd November 2008, 03:06	#9 (permalink)
jbshorty subhuman infection Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: in a dirty sock Posts: 1,412	In my neighborhood, nobody knocks on doors. they just go around to the local deli to get candy directly from the source. The middleman's been cut out and I could not be happier about it!... Glad to see you stuck with the carving. I started school a few weeks ago to study programming. I would like to start making 3D tools, not just be using them. Who knows where this might take me... jonah

3rd November 2008, 03:40	#10 (permalink)
Couerl Polygurbs Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Denver Posts: 1,309	That's cool, you going to NYU or someplace else? So you wanna be a programmer? Side job doing plug-ins maybe? I think it's hard to squeeze a buck out of this industry, but you never know, one thing can lead to another and suddenly there you are working for Microsoft or Apple or whatever making decent money.. I cut my own schedule back to 4 days a week in January and got a new/old house and am rebuilding it from the joists up, almost done with the first floor and the basement is already finished, just gotta do new windows etc.. Got all new water heater/ trane furnace, plumbing installed, added a bathroom and a shop room and big bedroom etc and will keep my schedule down next year too until I'm all done and then who knows?

3rd November 2008, 04:15	#11 (permalink)
jbshorty subhuman infection Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: in a dirty sock Posts: 1,412	Yeah, taking night courses at NYU. I'll start writing some (very) minor plugins and see how it goes. My goal is to eventually work from wherever I want, whenever I want, dressed (or not!) in whatever i want. I'm at a point where i need to make a change and also want to divesify my career to be more future-proof. Programming might put me one step further towards that goal... But it sounds like you are already one step ahead of me