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December 19, 2007

Digital Maquette: Butterfly

By Ryan Kingslien in Artist's Series, Transpose, sculpting | 4 comments

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Digital Maquette: Butterfly

In this video, I explore a new pose using the DemoMaquette_Male model.

I begin with the vague idea of some sort of Don Quixote. The general idea, though, is of a man staring off into the void in search of something.

Along the way, however, I find that I really like the pose when his hands have the palms facing upwards. So, now, I begin to ad lib the pose and work with each individual section.

I spend alot of time tweaking the legs, the hips and the chest as I learn more about the pose. I find that sketching in a pose like this really helps me learn more and more about the structure of our bodies.

For example, when posing the arms and trying out the pose, myself, I find that the left arm is more stretched than I was making it. I often spend as much time in front of a mirror trying out the pose as I spend making it in ZBrush.

I should probably mention here that these lessons are as much learning for me as they are teaching. I spend a lot of time with anatomy and kinesiology books to understand the motion of your body.

I also spend a lot of time on an unlikely source of reference, YouTube. Check out my collection of motion reference here.

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4 Comment(s)

  1. Yong | Dec 19, 2007 | Reply

    Very useful indeed.Amazing as usual!

  2. Lasse Eriksen Bjørseth | Dec 19, 2007 | Reply

    Love this blog! Keep it up, Ryan!
    It would be so nice if you could create some tutorials about sculpting cloths. Like pants, shirts..Really like the techniques you showed on hairs. Super nice!

  3. Sergio carreiras | Dec 20, 2007 | Reply

    Great Ryan I´m learning a lot here.
    Can I ask you a favor? Its a litle offtopic but still Zbrush.
    I nead a help with normal and displace maps from Zbrush to LW3D 9.3.1 I´m realy lost with the new nodal textures in LW and it is not working propelly. Can someone do a video tut in the Zbrush class like the ones for Maya and Solid?
    Thank you in advance
    Merry Xmas from Brazil!!!

  4. Danny | Dec 22, 2007 | Reply

    Hi Ryan.

    I realy think your videos are very helpfull, and look forward to seing more.

    I dont know if you do request, but I would very much like to see some videos of muscle form and how muscle shape different in poses. The sholders would be a good one.

    Thanks.

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