Mudbox: Head and facial expression

Mudbox to Maya: Facial Features

We first created our face shapes on Maya by grab the facial features around, I went for a angry skinny look. We then took this into Maya, duplicated the face twice, moved parts of each of the duplicated faces and put on a Blend Shape, so made it so we could then move the facial features of the first head, causing it to smile, frown, or raise an eyebrow, depending on what we done to the duplicates. I have a raised eyebrow on one and a pulled out nose on the other.

I also had a play around at the end with another face.

Artist Toolkit - Mudbox: Hammer

Building from Maya, importing into Mudbox.

Artist Toolkit: Mudbox - Bell Pepper

Here is the model from sphere to pepper

The texture

Painting

The stem painting

Side

Top

Bottom

Final piece

Change of lighting

CGArt Toolkit: Mudbox

We started learning a new piece of software named Mudbox, it's very easy to use and see quickly how a face could work and be changed, I started with a simple head shape and in the pictures below you can see how I have molded the face, trying different tools. I went quite hard with the pen pressure by image 4.

 

I was going for a Sea beast/king.