Superman
This was our last assignment on Drawergeeks.com. Here’s some of the steps I used to create this:
Starting with the sketch. I wanted him to have a nice strong jaw, and big swooping hair. I thought replicating the curly motif found in his hair, in his cape would give the image a sense of symmetry. Plus I just like swoopy hair and curly capes.
Next I modeled him in Maya. This is a side, orthographic view of his wireframe model.
And here’s a shaded view of the model with the clouds.
And here’s the final rendered illustration. I used image-based lighting for this, my first time trying that. That’s where you use a high dynamic range image to generate the lighting in your scene. There are no actual lights in this scene. Kinda nifty huh? Click on the image for a bigger version.
July 7th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Bryan, I really like this superman. It was one of my favorites from the last drawer geek. It is really cool to see how you went from drawing to 3-D illustration. Also your new site is great!
July 7th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Thank Chuck, I really appreciate it. Hope to see you back on DG soon.
July 9th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
This is very cool, the cape and the whole stylized look was really captured in 3D from your drawing. Great work :thumbs up:
July 9th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Hey, thanks Nick. My drawing style is so un3d, it’s always interesting to see what’s going to happen when I take it into three dee.
July 11th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Bryan Singer, eat your heart out.
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:56 am
really nice work !!!