CGAN June 23 - Atlantis - WIPs

Atlantis

Brief: The lost city, the man from, depict something related to the title.


Deadline: Midnight on Friday the 30th of June. 

This thread is where you post your WIPs (works in progress). Finals should be posted over here:  cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/current-...lantis-final-entries


Challenge rules and guidelines:
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challenge-rules

Rules in brief:
- All challenge entries must be your own work.
- You should post at least two WIP images that are clearly different from your final entry and each other.
- Your final entry should contain your image (inserted so it shows up full size) and at least two links to your WIP posts on the forum.
- No chatter in the finals thread – if you have questions, post them in the WIP thread or PM an admin.
- Feedback is allowed & encouraged together with the voting and in the WIP thread.
- Deadline is given in UK time (midnight UTC) with a grace period of 5 minutes for getting the post sorted.
- Each member may cast one vote.
- No cheating! Admins may decide to disqualify an entry that does not adhere to the above rules.

You can stop staring now: 
 

 Can I keep staring until it's finished? 

Are those metaballs?

Banj wrote:

 Can I keep staring until it's finished? 

No.  

And Val, yes  

And now if I could remember which tools they used for sculpting and whether voxels were supposed to be big or small... Mine doesn't seem to reshape in any way like the stuff did in the videos I actually watched. At least partially.  

Mmm, meatballs 

Voxel small.

How small?
So far everything I have entered have resulted in a very reduced weird looking mesh...

The last time I remember using remesh was for the Angry God thing and here's the mesh density for that guy...

 

...this had a value of 0.03 and resulted in a quarter of a million polygons, but I'm not sure if the scale of your model affects that.
When in sculpt mode you can also press Shift-R to set the remesh value in a visual interactive way.
For more recent stuff, including Yoda, I've been using the Dyntopo function for details rather than remeshing but that does leave you with horrendous topology.

It's funny. When I first tried 0.01 it just shrivelled up the entire figure into I dunno what. But when I tried it again after reading your post, it worked. Seems that's very often the case with Blender, somehow.

(I tried 0.03 first but me having a full body, it didn't give the same level of detail - 0.01 ended up looking kind of like yours.)