WWII Character Improvement

mwallace

Sup guys, I'm new.

3D modeling has been a hobby of mine for a while. I've done a lot of weapons and things like that in the past, nothing serious. I felt like changing it up and started a WWII character. I don't have much experience painting textures or animating either - so I figured this would give me something to sharpen my skills with.

I have been struggling a bit with the body proportions and pose.
The EPIC Skeleton Template proved to be very helpful.

criticism/feedback greatly appreciated!

daniellooartist

Is this a low poly or a basemesh?

mwallace

This is just a low poly project for now, however I think I'll cleanup the poles/tris for when I decide to learn Zbrush.

mwallace

Here is a WIP of my head basemesh:



Still need to do some major work on the cheeks, brow, jaw and ears.. am I on the right track?

mwallace

Will have to fix the forehead tomorrow.. and add some eyes o_o

mwallace

Hey guys,

Here's the head again. I'm thinking of pushing the eyes/cheekbones back a little further.. other than that I'm running out of ideas.

mwallace

Made another pass of adjustments. I feel like I have a better understanding of the nose/mouth area now. The mesh is about 2400 tris.



How can I give him a more heroic appearance?

mwallace

Hey polycount,

I would like to share some changes I've made to the grunt character.

Progress on the head mesh was getting slow so I decided to move on. I'll come back to it once I figure something out..

codyaq2

Looking cool! Keep it up.

mwallace

@codyaq2 - Thanks for the encouragement, I really appreciate it!

Took a stab at baking normals recently. Here's a Kar98 bayonet. 555 Tris.

[SKETCHFAB]94ce85536ded4ac5bcc76a9076d9d627[/SKETCHFAB]

GRAT0R

Hey, almost perfect bakes! the guard could you softer edges to remove the artifacts, cool looking character aswell

Legion_studios

is he a german or american?

mwallace

Thanks a bunch for the feedback GRAT0R. I will definitely touch up the guard.

@Legion_studios - He is Polish (Warsaw Uprising), although most of his equipment will be German.

mwallace

Not dead yet. Here's some lower poly stuff...

mwallace

mwallace

I'm trying to find equipment that's a bit more symbolic of the "Polish Guerilla". This one really hits the mark..


Improvised machine-pistol (Bergmann 1910/21):  https://www.forgottenweapons.com/warsaw-uprising-bergmann-191021/ 

mwallace

Hey!

I've been working on some character stuff recently. I must admit - I got a little side-tracked before, I went a little crazy, modeled a bunch of gear instead of focusing on finishing the main character.. and eventually lost interest. I definitely want to come back and finish texturing the bayonet.. But for now I will focus on the low poly character.  

I switched over to Blender a couple months ago, and remade the character so I could get a feel for the modeling tools. I figured I would share the new model before I jump into the hand painted texture stuff.

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