Many Arms UE4 Project

Goeddy

Hello polycounting people!

i've been working on this character for some time now and i am at a point where im not 100% percent shure in wich direction to proceed.
I am pretty much done with the highpoly. I'll bring her into unreal, build a little hill with some grass on it, simple rig, try out apex cloth and then a lot of shader work.
im going for kinda realistic but still stylish.
anyhow i want to focus on whats important for the result and ignore everything that slows me down on the way there, so expect some nasty zremesher lowpoly and lazy skinning.

her background is that she is on a comming of age quest to kill a dragon. she succeeded and therefore will be a bit roughed up. the dragons in her world spew acid instead of fire so she will have some marks of that on her clothing and her sword.

i would appriciate any kind of feedback, critique or advice.
still need to come up with a name...

heres what i got so far:

Freemouse

She is pretty cool from what i can see, love the hair ! Did you use marvelous for the cloth ?
Also just a little thing that bugs me, i'm not sure since the picure is small, but i think the thumbs are too small and thin, and the fingers' joints too emphasized.

ThunderClouds

Love her outfit. It goes well with a so-called "dragon-slayer". I see some problems with the fingers too, kind of skinny compared to her body.

Goeddy

Freemouse said:

She is pretty cool from what i can see, love the hair ! Did you use marvelous for the cloth ?
Also just a little thing that bugs me, i'm not sure since the picure is small, but i think the thumbs are too small and thin, and the fingers' joints too emphasized.

thanks mate,
i used MD as a basis for all the wider cloth parts; pants, coat and the waist scarf. did some resculpting though to get folds in the right places.
her thumbs definetly need some enlargement, the pronounced finger joints are intentional though. i tried to get some joe madureira style in there.

(not that extreme though ;P)

ima work a bit on the fingers in the evening to incorporate that.

Leinadien

I know hair is a pain to do but longer hair would probably distinguish her from the anime boys and imo look better. The folds are amazing and looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Her big swords at ther back though look out of place or odd.

Goeddy

thanks dude, my plan was to give her some kinda tracer style hair, but for now i gues it remains in blockout limbo.
after an eternity of retopo, baking and uving i was able to put some color on her. 

Goeddy

Hi again, texturing progress is slow, but its happening. sooner or later

Goeddy

worked a bit on the environment

Goeddy

even though it might look like nothings happening here.... there is
https://youtu.be/ydW-15mK3ZY

also i found this little gem

whenever you feel like john snow, just remember you're not the only one.

Maxilator

Suddenly a wild djent appears, but really, looks good, I'd work on the cape material a bit, seems very even and flat I would also add some indication for the edge in the normal map, it just kind of ends right now.

Goeddy

thx for the feedback max,
you are right on the cape. im kinda going to reduce the dirt on it aswell, going to have to find a way to make it more interesting using other means.
probably some stronger gradient, some ao influence and a pattern.
i'll also add some alpha goodness to break up the polygonal shapes, could also add some more overall waviness to the normal of the cape to break up that flat feeling.

Goeddy

this is not dead, its going to happen... eventually


so... much... work... left...

Goeddy

sooo....
https://youtu.be/sHI4P-somNc

Goeddy

so.... gues its done now


https://youtu.be/w9vF8SwwTx0