{"id":142059980073,"date":"2017-11-03T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sketchfab.com\/?p=142059980073"},"modified":"2021-05-17T21:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:33:43","slug":"art-spotlight-ursula-morays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/blogs\/community\/art-spotlight-ursula-morays\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Spotlight: Ursula and her Morays"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Rosa B. Iglesias, 3D artist born in C\u00f3rdoba, Spain. I have been working in video game and animation industry (3d and traditional) for more than 10 years. At the moment I am living in Berlin and I am part of the Sandbox interactive team (creators of Albion online<\/a>), working as a characters, set and props modeler.<\/p>\n

As I have been dedicated almost exclusively to low poly modeling for the last years, I wanted to practice high poly modeling at home again (I missed it so much) also for learning more about Z-brush and retopology tools. So I picked up one of the most awesome Disney\u00b4s villains: Ursula, which I found very interesting for her volume, and a challenge for the complexity of her tentacles.<\/p>\n

First, I searched for documentation about the character: watching the movie and searching for images on the internet, where some times you can find some interesting original sheets, with turn-arounds and facial expressions. I save the images I think are more useful for modeling, and check them constantly.<\/p>\n

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Then, I started with a very basic primitive in ZBrush, creating a simple sphere, and adapting the volume as much as I can. The topology is not important in this point, is more important to approach as much as possible to a nice shape that defines the character. Later I added more detail, till I think I have enough definition to start doing retopology. This time I tried with topogun, just to learn more about the program and its tools.<\/p>\n

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I modeled the tentacles in 3ds max, as I think it\u2019s easier for me to model them directly with a correct topology and copying them later. For make it easier, I modeled a tiny cylindrical tileable module, in which you can see the suction cups (one in the middle, and half in top and bottom). Then I copied it vertically till I am happy with the length, I close the lower tip and deform it using FFD boxes.<\/p>\n

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Then I put everything together and ta-da!! the body is complete.<\/p>\n

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Now it’s time to add the rest of the details such as hair, pendant, earrings etc. for that I like to work with basic polygon modeling.<\/p>\n

For the colors I use the basic vertex paint tool in max, picking up the colors from the original movie screenshots to get better results.<\/p>\n

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The most difficult part for me was posing the model and searching for a good silhouette. I duplicate the mesh, and divided the geometry into necessary parts to pose it. Then applied a skin wrap modifier to the original mesh to deform it as the splitted mesh, and worked hard in the skinning to obtain better results (it was really a mess in the beginning).<\/p>\n

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Then I just noticed she looked very lonely without her two morays, I also thought that adding them would help to tell a story better.<\/p>\n

The Moray\u2019s modeling process was exactly the same as Ursula\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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I have a random youtube channel in which sometimes I do 3d modeling streamings while talking with friends. I did this summary video with some parts of the process, hope its helpful and interesting for you:<\/p>\n