The Beast - Shaman RYE

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Back Story

Amoung the Ceronians, Shaman Rye ranks highest as he has evolved beyond 

both body and mind.  The Shaman are trained from birth in martial arts and channeling their energy. For ages they have protected their homeland from the encroaching doom of the Ziragins, the Dark Ones that dwell on the lower planes. Their expanded grip tightens onto the higher realms of Ceronia. 

Thanks to all the feedback, I had a great time working on this and hope to join in on more challenges.

bejibo

Wip 

leslievdb

haha nice shapes so far!

TytanTroll

Lookin good mate. 

Highly Topsecret

looking sweet

bejibo

thanks guys ! update  

bejibo

Update on proportions gonna try a cloth sim in MD 

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dreadleft

cute beast

KellyJohnson3DArt

Here's some tips:
1. Add a belt to the waist to hold up the cloth. Next, on the back view - once you add the belt add some tension wrinkles on the skin + cloth so it feels tightened. 
2. Scale up some of your bag shapes. Like, the buttons are pretty small and metal buckles could be bigger.
3. Thicken your circular bird shapes on the armor in the front. Makes it more noticeable from afar and more attractive design wise. 
4. Make your shapes bigger on your buckles on the front as well as medallions. 
5. Add some detail pimples, scratches done manually (dam standard) and a few alphas. Play with some anatomy more. Also add some veins.
6. Play with your cloth by working with your wrinkles more. I use Hpolish!  

RakibHasan

cute beast 

harry1511

Kungfu Panda 3 inspiration perhaps  

slosh

Haha!  yes!

bejibo

Thanks guys, Kelly I'll take your crits into consideration as I develop the character more. going to move onto retopping, added hand straps and belt, thinking of adding  shoulder armour to his other side what do you think? 



and something like this for his staff

bejibo

Idea Direction  

vickgaza

Looking cool ! I love the belly shield and the grass in his pouch is a nice touch

Dabou Master

This character would have been so cool in a Bloody Roar game ...
He doesn't look scary though, any plan on getting him creepier or anything ?
I really love the style !

TheChallenger

Very cool!

Goolbegg

Awesome character. Looking forward to see how he progresses.

aos1979

Really nice!

bejibo

Thanks here is retopo and test in marmoset and new face, ears,
not going to be too creepy  but i will detail it more with skin

8-Bit

Love this! I can't wait to see it completed. 

bejibo

Thanks! here is first pass on some skin detail, changed topology around shoulder, better render
also question is it 4x 4K maps  so I can have body, cloth on seperate 4k maps? 

bejibo

compiling it into maya, thinking of using  4x2048  maps  skin > cloth > metal > staff 

bejibo

start on weapon staff wip

fantasymaster

I think 4k for the body schuld be fine. Or you split the head and arms to a separate map. 
Nice staff by the way. 

bejibo

Thanks I messed around with the staff, I thought about it being like a bird cage feel to it as I might use birds for the decoration. 

calixel

This is looking so good, can't wait to see the texturing on this guy  

Spoon

This is sooo nice

Sandy

nice detailing

bejibo

Thanks guys added a belt knot, this is it in maya right now, need to figure out more lowpoly stuff 

nightwoodwolf

love the character design, sculpt, and expression, the staff looking cool as well  ... looking forward to see more, is the cloth still WIP  ? 

bejibo

Thanks yeah, I plan on putting more expression on him and detail. next update should have lowpoly on him 
I did some messing around with the shield in substance - that's all for now. 

Intervain

gosh you're flying  

fantasymaster

Looks cool. I'm a bit confused, is it the Subd mesh from the shield or the lowpoly?

bejibo

Thanks guys, fantasy it's Lowpoly use substance height from alpha, and render test in marmoset.  
here is a rope bake test render in marmoset. 

borodin

I think too many polygons, which do not affect the overall shape. They can be spent, for example in the form of a round shield.

bejibo

Thanks for feedback! i think it's rounded more, here is a mini tut how I did the shield  

borodin

so much better

fantasymaster

Much better now but you can still see the tesselation. I would subdivide the high poly model a bit more before baking.

Shamaz

This character is looking really cool! Great work so  far!

bejibo

Thanks guys here it is in marmoset testing some materials. 

Green Pirate64

I love the style man. Can't wait to see where this goes.

Kraken

wow, amazing progress. Looking forward to see more.

bejibo

thanks, not much of a update worked on the lowpoly staff, trying to get it to the characters level so I can work on them both together for detail / texturing 

bejibo

Render in marmoset with some normal applied need to do a higher quality bake yeaaa

RakibHasan

cool props..detail. love them 

miezis

You are going strong! So keep going!

bejibo

thanks! Got the character setup, all about refinements on textures, I might add shoulder l'armour to his other side what do you think? 

TheChallenger

Oh is looking great! the shield improved a lot as well as everything in general.

 Two things that i see are:

- The head is looking too even in terms of colors, i think that you need to break it a little and add some variety.... at least a different color for the horn if nothing else.

- The shield is looking great...but is drawing too much attention compared with the head. Is like the shield is the main subject and the character a prop to justify the shield existance (just imo of course).

 That is because the shield not only is big and in the center, but is the most saturated and shiny thing.

Bottom line,  I'd try to shift the focus from the shield to the head. 

Keep it up and thanks for the tut!