Zoltan Manyi Blog

Freak out comp entry

2012-02-27T12:33:00.003+01:00

Here's my entry for this competition :

I will take this one to finish and put it into marmoset.

latest wip

2012-02-17T16:26:00.000+01:00

work in progress

Jack likeness

2012-01-21T22:53:00.003+01:00

My Jack for the Cgfeedback mini challenge 8. Hopefully you can recognize him.

Wish I had more time to put into it but I learned a lot and it was a lot of fun to sculpt this one.

Sketch and new sculpt vid

2012-01-08T01:40:00.002+01:00

Trying new things out with dynamesh:

Timelapse vid:

Studies

2011-12-23T13:33:00.002+01:00

I'm trying to improve my anatomy. I was doing these studies lately.
Sculpted in Zbrush, Rendered in Keyshot.

Here are some pics of my workflow :

Almost everything started from dynamesh, I made a basemesh only for the more complicated parts like the pelvis or the ribcage.

I'm trying to apply what I learned, here's a study of an arm:

Some other stuff:

Here's a Making Of I wrote for 3dtotal about the Monk characer:
http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php?catDisplay=1&id=1385#.TvRzotSXT5x

And a cover i did for a hungarian magazine:

Sorry about this huge post. Happy holidays!

Dynamesh Sketch

2011-10-18T16:01:00.000+02:00

This is my first sketch using dynamesh, already got me hooked.

Mordred

2011-10-12T21:29:00.001+02:00

Long time no post. I've been busy but more updates are coming soon.

Meanwhile here's a new sculpting vid with Mordred from excalibur:

DV V, wip stuff and 3d total

2011-04-18T20:56:00.003+02:00

Monk got on the front page of 3dtotal !
I feel honored.

Entering Dom War V

Godess of manipulation

She controls people with the threads coming from her fingers.

silhouettes:

Blocking in the anatomy right now.I want to make her very beautiful, she's very neutral right now since I don't know which direction I will take. She needs lot more work:)

Concepts for the hair:

Another model I'm working on:

This will be a pair of the Monk.In a sci-fi setting.

no red streaks

2011-04-07T19:22:00.000+02:00

After some feedback decided that it's better this way:)

Monk finished

2011-04-06T17:05:00.001+02:00

Finally done. Learned so much.
Realtime, rendered in maroset engine

Higholy:

Turntable video

Some studies:

Tribal Creature

2011-02-14T01:23:00.000+01:00

I sculpted this creature for fun. At first I had no idea what it's gonna be.This is how it ended up.
Maybe I'll take it to a more finished level.

Heres a fast Ps paintover:

Timelapse vid:

In the video the last part is missing because the recorder crashed.Sorry about that.

Turntable:

Update

2010-12-07T18:42:00.009+01:00

I made a timelapse video of me sculpting a head in Zbrush.
This is a 20 min video. The sculpt took about 3 and a half hours. This is just for practice.

Head sculpt practice from Zoltán Mányi on Vimeo.
You can watch it on Youtube too if you want.

Heres a fast Zbrush render:

Check out Lunchcrunch! :)
http://lunchcrunch.blogspot.com/

Progress :

Highpoly part is finished ,now building low res mesh.

More Stuff

2010-11-04T19:01:00.000+01:00

Final touches on this one. I'm adding real small details now. After that building a low res mesh for Marmoset.

Better studies this month:
Trying to capture the character of these people:)

Progress and studies

2010-10-04T21:49:00.001+02:00

Here's my progress with the monk character. When I finished it in zbrush I will build a low res mesh and put it into Marmoset.

Plan to draw a study of 100 different heads. My progress so far:

Alchemy is fun

2010-09-27T23:44:00.001+02:00

I recently installed alchemy and it's a lot of fun.

Started in alchemy:

Then Ps:

Zbrush after that:

Progressssss

2010-08-31T18:45:00.005+02:00

Trying different mech stuff :

Bust

2010-07-28T03:21:00.000+02:00

Making progress with the character:

Check this out!

2010-07-21T14:12:00.001+02:00

Brad Rigney (Cryptcrawler) - A Hostile Takeover

An awesome and inspirational tutorial worth watching!

"People ask me a lot what do I have to do to improve my skills.
I think the question is what are you willing to give up rather then what you're willing to do."

Trailer:

Finally an Update

2010-07-08T00:35:00.004+02:00

I'm sorry for the lack of updates recently. I've been quite busy.

Anyway heres some stuff I should upload:

This creepy girl is a fast Zbrush sculpt.

I'm working on a big personal project right now in my free time. I'm really trying to push myself with this one. Learning a lot of new things on the way.

Here are some work in progress and concept images.

I'm trying to mix christian symbols like halo and crown of thorns into sci-fi

bio mechanical stuff.

If you have any suggestions don't hesitate to drop me an email.:)

On Deviant Art there is a contest called Skin a TRiK.

You can create your own design for the new sony trik.

Here is my design:

Link to the contest:

http://news.deviantart.com/article/122455/

Wip stuff - Studies - Render

2010-03-29T14:02:00.007+02:00

I thought this one deserved a better render so here it is in Mental Ray.
I used the great tileable fingerprint texture from Jeff Patton. It makes it look like fingerprints on clay.
Jeff Patton's Blog

I study human anatomy everyday. Need to improve my skills.
Studies from Barcsay Anatomy and Hogarth:

If you want to improve your skills check out Crimson Daggers. It's great motivation.
( Magyarországon 15:00 kor van.)

Cheesy spring and skull study

2010-03-07T12:46:00.000+01:00

This is not my usual style I know.This will be a part of a bigger image. I made a scene with vue than tweaked it in Zbrush and Photoshop.

Still watching Crimson Daggers. Skull study:

Crimson Daggers

2010-02-22T23:43:00.008+01:00

Crimson Daggers is an online study group led by Dave Rapoza. They meet every morning , well it's the afternoon here:) I started to listen to it, It's really great.

Some of my crappy studies:

Start!

2010-02-21T11:35:00.001+01:00

So I decided to start a blog. I’ll try to update as much as possible.
The blog is mainly about 3d . About digital sculpting ,3d modeling , other techniques and my w.i.p stuff. But I think I’ll post all kinds of stuff here.
Something for start.
Digital art secrets team asked me to write an article about 3d modelling and rendering for beginners. Here