Roxen the Faun

latorril

Hey guys! I've been lurking these forums for a while, and just rustled up the courage to post some of my work. I've been working on this little guy for a couple days now.

Critiques are more than welcome - I would like some outside perspective

Tidus

I really like the design of the character.. it's awesome! The mesh looks great, though there are some kind of little crevices (pectoral, white render), but maybe it's just the low poly. I hope you paint it a nice diffuse!

TehSplatt

Shapes look nice but he looks very off balance at the moment

latorril

Tidus wrote: »

I really like the design of the character.. it's awesome! The mesh looks great, though there are some kind of little crevices (pectoral, white render), but maybe it's just the low poly. I hope you paint it a nice diffuse!

Thank you for the reply! The white sculpt is an earlier stage, so he's a bit lumpy there.

latorril

TehSplatt wrote: »

Shapes look nice but he looks very off balance at the moment

Can you tell me where you feel he's off balance? Is it in a particular view?

FullSynch

Something like this I'm assuming.



Ideally he should be distributed more evenly across the center of balance.

latorril

Oh! I see, he's a bit front-heavy. Thanks a lot.

butt_sahib

Not front heavy, you just need to make its posture believable.

latorril

An update of the detail work and retopology:



Here's a vid of some of the retopo:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ft7RtkGBk"]Character Hand Topology in Zbrush - YouTube[/ame]


Thanks for the previous comments! I didn't change the pose yet, but I'm aware of the imbalance now, I'll keep it in mind when I plan his final pose.


Do any of you have suggestions on accessories? So far I've got some facial jewelry in mind.

Steve Schulze

If he's a faun, shouldn't he have antlers? Nevertheless, he's makes for a pretty appealing character.

latorril

Jackablade wrote: »

If he's a faun, shouldn't he have antlers? Nevertheless, he's makes for a pretty appealing character.

I think you're confusing faun with fawn. A faun is traditionally a goat humanoid. It would be cool to make something with antlers though. maybe I'll make him a buddy someday.

latorril

He's got some lively eyes now, and a belt. I have to give him teeth and a tongue next.

Fun fact, goats don't have top-front teeth. Just a padded gum, and a set of molars in the back.
I think I'm still going to give him a set of top teeth, just so he doesn't look like he's missing them

latorril

I took this silly close-up
Here's a bit of his detail work.

latorril

Dental plan!
Lol, his teeth are too big right now, I'll be scaling and placing later.

Rmunday

Since I know nothing about character modelling I actually really like those big exaggerated teeth, adds to the whole cartoony stylistic look you got going on

latorril

Hey, Thank you Rmunday. I'm still working on his mouth, but the big teeth are beginning to grow on me

latorril

Posed composite render at my boyfriend's request.

Roxen's coming along, just needs a diffuse.

latorril

I also took Rmunday's advice and kept the adorable buck teeth.

Aga22

he's adorable. buy why the belt?

Rmunday

Wow you took my advice, I'm honored

almighty_gir

this is so cute, i love it!

latorril

Thank you for the kind compliments everyone.

@Agga22, the belt is to hold his pan flute while he's out adventuring. Haven't modeled it yet It does seem a little strange right now, seeing as he has no pants!

latorril

Alright, I know it's been a while, but here's an update. Low poly model with half done texturing - rendered in marmoset:


I've been tinkering with different tools and trying to figure out the way that I want to go about texturing efficiently. I've come to the conclusion...

xNormal: Bake high to low normal map
xNormal : Use normal map to create cavity map using the normal to cavity map tool
Photoshop : Texture paint - main paint tool & editor
Blender : Texture paint - cleaning up seams on the Color layer

Well, back to texturing, tata!

ivanzu

Sweet,reminds me of characters from blender movies,cant wait to see more!

latorril

Thanks ivanzu!

latorril

3D Preview: http://p3d.in/ZLTSa

Saig

Haha, he's absolutely adorable! I could definitely see this guy starring in a Pixar short or something. One thing that jumped out at me in the 3D viewer was the diffuse on his teeth and gums. Maybe you just haven't gotten around to painting that part yet, but the inside of his mouth is missing the nice variation in color and surface that you have all over the rest of the model.

latorril

Thanks for the compliment Saig,

And you caught me - didn't pay as much attention to the inside of his mouth as I should have

I reworked the colors and normals of his tongue and gums, and gave his teeth a bit of yellowing.

latorril

For lols.

Finished the first rigging phase today. Now to add some IKs.

latorril

A more serious attempt, heh.

The pose is very much the opposite of his character; just seeing how far I can push in the opposite direction