Fight Club's Tyler Durden (3d model)

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:45 pm

I'm modeling Tyler Durden from Fight Club... Any comments are appreciated. Here's a couple WIP shots

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Still a long way to go I know. Feel free to point out any glaring problems

peace

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:44 pm

Only thing right off the bat is that the eyes are way too wide.

Looks awesome otherwise though.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:52 am

something about the forehead ridges aren't right. too few and they don't follow the brow curve.

but yeah like Tetrad said. awesome otherwise.

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:59 am

Thanks for the suggestions guys!

Can you elaborate on too wide? Is it that they are set too far apart, or each eye is too wide itself? Or maybe you mean they are just opened too wide?

Also, if anyone knows of a place where I can snag some good orthographic shots of Brad Pitt, let me know. I have a lot of stills captured off the Fight Club DVD for reference but they're not the best...

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:38 pm

Opened too wide.

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:18 pm

Did a fair amount of tweaking tonight, please let me know if you think I am going in the right direction. Always good to hear what someone else has to say... I've been staring at this way too long.

Here is right now, the hair is hidden:

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Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:04 am

A few more changes before bed...

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Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:18 am

very nice.

what you can do as a substitute for an orthographic is raise your own eyebrows and feel how the ridges on the forehead are. or use a mirror.

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 11:00 pm

STILL plugging away on this head.... But it's getting there. Check out the progress I've made since my first post...

The new head is on the right

Anyway I'm still holding off a new post to CGTalk till tomorrow when I'm done with my tweaks. Then I can throw it back to the wolves and get verbally raped with crits again.

But you guys are pretty sympathetic so I don't mind showing you where it's at as of right now

And I did start his jacket... maybe halfway done.

Thanks for any feedback... more to come later

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 11:58 pm

Holy cow... looks amazing.

Gavotte · Post by **Gavotte** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 7:48 am

Looking more and more like Brad... awesome!

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:06 pm

Thanks Vin and Gav.

New front a profile shot has been posted in the top post. Let me know what you think. Jacket should be done tonight (I hope); I'll be posting soon...

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:58 am

Jacket is almost done. I realized that I forgot to model the side pockets, so I'm going to do them tomorrow.

Defender · Post by **Defender** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 7:35 pm

Dark's taking over Kuman's spot.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:30 am

hey yeah DT he does kinda look like brad pitt, good work

. with the clothes, you can really give him anything coz tyler durden gets all his clothes from lost items bins.

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 8:15 am

Thanks guys. I'm trying to model him with specific clothes on because by the end of the semester the plan is to composite the CG Tyler into Fight Club footage over the real Tyler. Will have to wait till then to see just how seamlessly this is pulled off...

The scene I'm going to be compositing my character into is the one where he says "I want you to hit me as hard as you can", I might be doing 1 or 2 cuts from this scene.

Plus when I think of Tyler I always think of him in that vinyl-ish red jacket.

Anyway it will be a few days before I make another update. My little sister's wedding is this weekend... AND it's valentines day and the girlfriend wants some of my time after all this workin'

peace and thanks for the comments

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 10:32 pm

hey guys.. still plugging away... here's a WIP of the jacket texture... still needs some work (haven't done anything for the shirt yet)

thanks to all who have given feedback thusfar... very much appreciated

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 1:56 am

clothes look kinda plastic.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:12 am

Yeah, the jacket looks more like Saran Wrap. The contrast in the highlights should be pretty harsh (ie. the highlights are bright, but anything else isn't), not smoothed out. You might have to put more wrinkles in too.

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 1:06 am

but vinyl IS plastic

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:08 am

yea but it's not supposed to be that plasicky(sp?)

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:09 am

It's nogahide ... not vinyl. btw.. do you have ANY idea how hard it is to skin a noga? ..take my word for it.. it's not easy.

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 7:54 am

jacket looks fine..

don't touch the jacket until you almost done, then put a noise modifier with diffusion

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:36 pm

wtf is nogahide? I'm still working at it; it looks more leathery right now...

I'll try what you said bubba. Shots later on.

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 2:45 pm

Not perfect but I'm already slipping behind schedule so going to have to move on to the hands for now. Might get an opportunity to go back and touch things up toward the end of the semester.

I wasn't ever able to figure out what his shirt pattern was in that scene, and all my references were crappily lit and/or small. So I ended up just giving his shirt a floral pattern that somewhat resembles the actual shirt.

Hopefully I can post the hand models in a few days.... peace

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 12:13 am

Hands...

Going to be working on this a lot over Spring Break... Might even finish him.

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:13 pm

Added the scar to the right hand.

I also started the pants ... but unfortunately this project is on the backburner till Spring Break starts (March 6)

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:57 am

That looks absoloutly amazing!

Although the scar looks like it's raised a little too much off the hand, not sure if that's what you were going for...

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 8:00 pm

Dude the pics are awesome. Except the "scar" .

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 8:46 pm

Nitro & JMeat;

Thanks for the replies guys.

This is the only reference shot I have of the scar..

I'll watch that scene on the DVD again to compare more thoroughly...

roid · Post by **roid** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:37 pm

the book has a good verbal description of the scar.
but my friend has had it for the past year, i'll have to grab it back off him and quote it.

you have to remember that that scar is a KISS. symbolically very important.

any pics you get of any of the space monkey's kiss scars would be the same. they are all tyler's kiss.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 1:19 am

lookin at the photo and the model, imo, the face needs to be narrower from about the cheekbones on down. ..but can I do this?? no.

Lookin great!

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:17 am

Shoes...

Pants and hair soon...

Floyd · Post by **Floyd** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:56 am

awesome dude!

check the thumbnail and compare it with your reference pic for the scar, i think the nail bed is a little lower.

Iongchimp · Post by **Iongchimp** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:42 pm

This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Ryujin · Post by **Ryujin** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:47 pm

I think this is all very, very different.

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:46 pm

DT Okay, I hadn't seen the movie so I didn't know what it looked like. Looking at the DVD pic, it looks about right

Awesome job dude

Darkside Heartless · Post by **Darkside Heartless** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:51 pm

Furious, chimp, if you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all. If you think can do better, prove it, then you can bash his work.

I'm impressed at how good the model has looked so far. It's very well done, looks like something you could sell.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:02 pm

Whoever resurrected longchimp,

@ you. And last I heard DT and FM were still pretty good friends...

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:48 am

i just reaized something. your model has no adam's apple.