Show Us Your Sculpties!

Nice stuff!

Thanks for postings these 2k. I couldn't bring myself to use those crowded, confusing links!

That katana is truley awesome!

Thank you both!!! It was my first actual sculpted prim project, other than just making individual sculpted prims for learning purposes, and I bit off more than I could chew so it took me forever

Good lord, that was your FIRST project? Well away, we shall expect great things out of you

Well... When I say it took forever, I do mean it took a few months. I must have tweaked and fiddled and started over enough times to make up for a few projects, lol. But thanks for the compliment!!!

By the way, I showed my wife and daughter the snapshot of the My Little Pony you posted above, and they absolutely loved it! It's very cute

That Katana is kick ass. One of the best I've seen. Very pro. Not only solid modeling, but super nice texture work.

Wow, thanks! I appreciate that!

Have to agree. Superb texture work on that, Robby. Very impressive!

Now there is nothing more to achieve in SL. I can virtually die now

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WOW...amazing work, model and texturing! One of the best sculpts I've seen, easily.

*blushes*

Wow, I didn't expect so many compliments. I am honored

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Well, here's another! This katana is totally awesome, even moreso that I have one now in my posession! Thank you very much.

I don't RP at all, but I might just have to purchase that one to hang on the wall...that's how nice it is.

What program do you model in?

I can handle creating a nice mount for it (unless you have one made already)...

Nah, stick around...keep making swords.

I just checked out your webpage--hell man, *all* your shit is pro. Love it. Great work. I'm going to go check out your shop right now and pick up the new piece.

Thanks.

You should really consider checking out the "NOT JUST ANOTHER" Texturing Competition I host. There's some super talented folks involved, and you'd fit right in. The purse is very handsome too.

Check out the "NJA" Gallery: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Silicon%20Island/97.1712/123.328

I model in AC3D mostly, but use XSI Mod Tool to do some stuff that AC3D just isn't suited for. Basically "budget-friendly" tools, though I did decide that ZBrush was worth the price tag for texturing. I also use PaintShop Pro X, again for budget reasons.

Sadly, I don't have a mount I just haven't really found the time to make one, even though I know it would really add a nice touch.

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I can't take credit for all of the weapons you see on my website, as most of them are made by other CI developers : Ayame Musashi, Archanox Underthorn, and Esprite Xavier. I'm actually the "new guy", with only two weapons under my belt

It's very rewarding to see that people like what I've done, though. As much as I like to complain about Second Life's instability and quirks, it's really a great platform for learning to do creative things and to share them with others. Prior to making SL stuff, I never did anything I would consider "artistic", unless you consider writing code artistic


I'm flattered It takes me so many iterations to make anything even remotely decent, and more than half of that is just luck, I don't think I'd be a very good contestant. But I'd love to check out everyone else's stuff!

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Here's some new projects of mine. The horse, for one thing, is mostly sculpties and is 24 prims (not bad for a rideable horse), and the saddle is something I'm still working on. It needs a few texture touch ups and to be scripted to move properly with the horse (There's a trick with jumping that separates the horse and rider's bum, and the saddle has to go to the right place and not stay stuck to the rider.)









Since the forum change, I don't know how to insert images directly. If anyone could clue me in, I'll redo these.

Speaking of superb texture work... that looks amazing Fiona!

Hell ya. That's some very nice texturing. Excellent use of baked shadows. Great choice of highlighting. Very good stuff. Very real.

That is truly beautiful, wonderful job! Where can I find one?

Absolutely beautiful work, Fiona. I especially like the baked shading on the saddle. BTW, just use the IMG tag for photobucket, and it will post.

Well, like parents flashing pictures of their progeny, I suppose I'll take this as an excuse to post a picture of some of my silly ponies. Well, a Shire Horse, actually--a BIT bigger than a pony. But they had such cute snuzzles, I couldn't resist making one--



For that one, I outlined in Archipelis, then imported to Wings3D to shape. Plain vanilla Photoshop combined with Sculpty Space for texturing, reimport the texture to Wings and use that as a guide for the final sculpting. Needless to say, fairly exciting with my new Zbrush, as all those steps can be done "inhouse". Still a LOT to learn there, but here's my rough draft of an Arabian (please ignore the ugly mane...):



Sculpts are a godsend for the horsey set in Second Life. As Fiona said, one can completely slash the prim count. That means fewer prims to animate, which translates into MUCH smoother animations. Here's a little video of the above pudgy pony prancing--I tried to turn sidewise to demonstrate the leg animations--
http://www.wegame.com/watch/Shire_Horse_Jumping/

Okies, that's probably far more than enough for now Happy trails!

Great job on the animations Virrginia! That looks awesome. So much amazing work being done now. I've been slacking lately and really need to get back in the saddle (so to speak).

I thought i had better show n tell too (just some) ...really not trying for more sales (sorry about SLEX links)

Buddha head...multi textures including silver - 1 prim



Original Moai - now a few months old - 1 prim


Laughing Buddha - 2 prims


Olmec head - 1 prim


Using 3dsmax poser Photoshop sculptypaint PloppSL... anything really.
Big thanks to Chip midnight, Gearsawe Stonecutter, Abu nasu and Shack Dougall for steering in right directions

Some origami like folded sculpties..


Been playing with rock-piles lately. 48 rocks in 1-sculpty.

Lovely work from the Father of SculptyPaint! Is origami a new sculptypaint function? I love the nice sharp edges.