[Mixamo Contest] Knight

jeebs

Hello everyone
I think I might also join this contest, found out about it yesterday and just couldn't miss it.
here are the inspiration references, probably going to first draw a concept art of my own rather than sculpting from imagination.
As you could guess I aim for a female knight.
Good luck to everyone.

3d:


concept:


refs:

jeebs

here's my first update, most of the time, including this, I start by drawing a concept on a piece of paper using pencil. I only have basic figure, but going to add everything else with photoshop.
the work will go slowly, have lack of free time. hope to finish concept as soon as possible, because already have a whole concept in my mind.

jeebs

finished the concept, now I'll begin 3d modeling.

Texelion

Looks good. The half-pants are pretty weird imo ^^.

jeebs

thanks for the comment , i have made some modeling of the body, but it's not complete yet. I probably should make corrections in zbrush, and then start modeling the armor.

jeebs

small update on 3d:

jeebs

new update, also having trouble with the hair, looks messy so know I think I should make a retopology of it and fix it. the body is not yet altered, only face.

lotet

WOW! looks great! really like how the design turned out in 3d, much better then I expected =P keep it up!

TigerGD

The armor looks, thick, heavy, and solid with a lot of ornamental flare. I don't think the sword matches well with that. The holes make it look light, and the taper suggests its more for stabbing than hacking or defense.

jeebs

thank you for the comments. I guess I should think something about the sword. I will not do an entirely new sword but just make some adjustments.

jeebs

today I will add another update if I can call it like. I had an accedent with my zbrush so I have lost a file. now I only have untoutched models.. thinking if I should continue to do anything at all, kind of bad mood because of the loss.

Texelion

Yeah shit happens, but you have more than 20 days to finish it, c'mon. Shee looks really good.

jeebs

thanks, when thinking how much time there is I should probably continue modeling. it would be a shame to loose all that time spent on this work.

TigerGD

Consider it a windfall. If you thought you were doing great, you can do better. It won't take as long to figure out how you want things to look, since you've already done it before, and you can re-do some things without the burden of attachment to prior work.

Ahoburg

too bad you lost your file, but you still have time. Also, download dropbox or thebox, or something like that to store your projects in cloud storage.

jeebs

thanks for the idea

jeebs

after a small break I have modeled all the necessary models in 3ds max, and only now I will start sculpting. by the way I forgot about the shield. I wonder if it is important to do one? maybe a sword is enough. also could anyone tell me is it ok to create weapon and shield textures outside the 2048x2048 limitations?

lotet

looks great, can we get a render of the whole char without he wireframe?

and no, your weapons must be inside the 2048 map, but you can do 4x 1024 maps instead if u wish. and yes, you need to have a shield.

jeebs

thank you for the answers, and here is the model without wire.
I guess I will have to model a shield, but not right now. first I want to finish this model.

jeebs

small update:

sipher3325

This is coming along nicely

lotet

the sculpt turned out GREAT!

nechnechmo

wow!your knight is very appealing.

greyskill

Very cool, I really can't wait to see this finished. I love your concept drawing, and your sculpting style is really nice and clean!
I like the flow of the character, it works very nicely!

jeebs

thank you all.

the sculpt of the body is probably done, I will still chande the proportions a bit but right now going to sculpt the sword and the shield. time is my enemy right now...

jeebs

made a quick sketch of a shield. don't know if it looks ok, but starting to model this right now.

jeebs

also I have modeled a sword, and I think I'm kind of finished with it.

jeebs

more update:

lotet

looking aweozme, keep it up!

jeebs

thanks

I have done low poly of the body and everything that connects to it. it's only 8500 triangles right now. but there still is a shield, a sword, a small dagger and hair to make. so I'm not going to do anything just yet, if the amount of triangles is a lot less that 15000 than I have to add them somewhere, maybe face, don't know yet.
this retopology was done in zbrush.

jeebs

the low poly is finaly done, total of 13170 tris.

going to unwrap it now.

lotet

nice work, looks good, Did you try the new retop zbrush features?

jeebs

no I didn't try them yet didn't even know that there were new features.

jeebs

ok so finaly I unwrapped it and tested the maps, I think everything is pretty much good.

and I should probably think about color variantions.

Texelion

The colors of your concept were good, you could just add some darker parts.

jeebs

those colors on my 2d were just an effect put on colorless picture. I didn't really thought about colors during concept art creation.

sofabound

awesome progress so far! only weird thing i see is your design/functionality choice with the pant... seems like there would be a quite a bit of chafing and bunching going on down there- and it looks like armor in the front but a cloth wedgie in the back so its a bit confusing. you may want to rethink maybe adding a little more cloth on the other leg so it's more balanced.

Keep it up otherwise!

Dan!

this is coming along nicely- I dig the overall design- nice touch of asymmetry and the helmet shape is cool- good luck!

lotet

that...looks...great!

greyskill

Looks beautiful, the bake came out nicely! You could always add polys to the face and hands, but it really doesn't look like they need it!

I agree with Texelion about the colors. Even if you didn't think about it, there could be some nice strengths from drawing from that. It would look really nice if you used the gradient from bottom dark to light top in the coloring.

I really look forward to seeing this complete! Good Luck!

jeebs

thank you all for your comments!

sofabound, yeah I didn't really think about the functionality when I was doing a design. it's too late to change anything when there is not much time left.

right now I was testing the textures of just the body, not weapon or shield. there are still lots of smal problems that I have to fix.
for now I have this:

Texelion

Looks good. Will you let the hair white ? She could be sexy with reddish/ginger hair.

I suggest you add some details ont the half pants too, some stitches maybe, it looks really flat here.

jeebs

thanks for the suggestion

almost finished the model:

alphajayel

Awesome work! Congrats on finishing early!

almighty_gir

it looks good, but it could be better.

you need to mix some blues, greens, purples, into the brighter metals, give it some vibrance, some colour! give it a sense of life!

the biggest problem with the final image is that nothing pops, it all just reads as really flat, and that's a shame. crank up that contrast and make those materials stand out! that leather shouldn't look like red skin! her belt buckle looks the same colour as the leather strap on her leg... you see what i'm getting at here?

Texelion

I never noticed this dagger on the belt buckle... will hurt a lot if she moves ^^.

jeebs

thanks for the crits almighty_gir . texturing is my biggest problem. I still have a ton to learn, but I understand what you are saying, and I will try to fix everything, I was just in such a hurry since it was few days left. but I just saw that it was extended. what a relief... now I can take it a bit slower, and finish it properly. thanks

nechnechmo

Congrats on finishing this one but you might want to enhance the texture because the deadline is extended 'till august 31!!!

lotet

looks great, two things, you should make some sort of facial expression on her in the posed version, just a little smile or something. and you should do some more work on the metal parts, some color/hue variations would looks great.

Gemstigma

wow a pretty solid one!

jeebs

nechnechmo, soon going to finish that
lotet, don't know about the facial expression, but I definitely am going to change metal. hope I will not ruin it.
Gemstigma, good to hear that

small update with the textures, soon going to change more, right now not spending a lot of time because of this extension ). also thinking about creating a pedestal.