Almost done with this, but a little feedback would be great!
polycounter lvl 8
I worked on this a while back, but decided to x-post from the '13 WAYWO thread. I'm pretty happy with him so far (aside from the head/neck connection), but there are probably some glaring problems I haven't spotted yet!
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-looks like a clay face
-riduculous polygon count (around 7500~10.000?) for an uninteresting low detail model.
-all hair is textured flatly on
-no eyelashes
-no eyelids
-no noseholes
-tooth are one wibbly wobbly clump of putty
-textures are muddy/blurry/stretched
-jaw seems to be unhinged
-no proper looks for wrinkles
-near-nonexistant concept art
-which isn't even followed (no brown patch, different chin strap, helmet, hair)
Anything goes? Nothing works. Sorry.
Here is what you should work on about the shapes:
- The structure of the eye. The eye without the eyeball is not just a gapping hole. There's an upper and lower lid, the relation between the brow and the upper lid, the way the lids meet, etc... It's a very complex area, that you shouldn't sculpt without references if you're not very comfortable with sculpting faces
- The shape of the mouth. When wide open a mouth is not a square. Checks refs
- Where's the chin?
- The nose is HUGE! That's what really give that cartoon feeling. It's fine if you wanted it that way but it's very lumpy and lacks structure.
The technical side :
- The polygon density is way too high. I bet you could delete half the triangles and not notice any changes in the silhouette.
- The topology is incorrect and wouldn't deform well if animated. Check the Polycount wiki to get awesome ref ===> http://wiki.polycount.com/FaceTopology?highlight=%28\bCategoryTopology\b%29
Now about the texture :
- There's no highlight in the eye, that's why it looks so lifeless. Paint the spec/gloss in pure white, that should do the trick.
- Overall texture is very flat. What your texturing base? Only an AO? If so, consider adding a cavity map in overlay and the green channel of a normal map in world space (in overlay too).
- The helmet texture is too noisy.
I'm gonna stop here. If you work on that you'll improve quite a lot.
Hope that helps!
Thanks for the response, guys! Fortunately this one was made about a year ago, I just gave it a test with textures (never worked on a proper face texture) yesterday. Fair to say, judging from the feedback, that it wasn't exactly a success!
Because of that, I won't continue with the model. Gotta say though, a dose of reality is great sometimes. This information is incredibly useful for any future endeavours, however, as it acts as a sort of guideline to follow in case I fall into any ruts!
Thanks again!
I like it a lot more, a proportionate nose, eyelids, proper mouth (and refs!). No eye-lashes yet, I'm afraid!