[RIOT CREATIVE CONTEST 2017] Character Art - Xayah, Bird of paradise skin/ Jungle skin

Hallomy

Hi everyone!  I'm gonna be working on a Xayah skin.

I'm going for a jungle tribal look. My main inspiration are amazonians tribes and tropical island tribes, plus some birds of paradises species.

FINAL RENDER

jmiles

ah-- very interesting theme!  looking forward to seeing what ya come up w/~

polygone

found somthing that you might be interested in. 

Hallomy

Hey everyone, I did a simple concept art to help me a bit before going to the 3d blocking part and the followings step.

Cheers!

Hallomy

Thanks jmiles !

Hallomy

polygone thanks for the ref!

Hallomy

Slowly doing the blocking and having fun with polypaint.

WIP

Amaranthine

This is so super cool!!!

Hallomy

Dinner crunch! I will try to use my fibermesh/yellowfeather to bake maps for the low res.

Hallomy

chemotoledo

Interesting color palette ^^ Nice sculpt so far. I'll look forward to watch how your character is developed  

Hallomy

@chemotoledo Thank you, I'm blocking up the shapes and colors at the same time. It's a very colorful palette and I trying to get a idea of what is too much or not. 

Hallomy

I did some test today for 3/4 integration. Nothing is final here but I really happy about the result.

Hallomy

Done with the sculpt, I need to focus on the lowpoly now. Next step retopo!

Hallomy

Testing some Ao baking on the low model. I need to optimize more the low poly, the polycount is a bit too high.

Hallomy

Color WIP progress from yesterday. I have worked mostly on the face.

doses222

 I love face

chemotoledo

Nice AO bake   maybe put some lines at the sable tiger cloth, like a natural tiger lines so it can brake the flat color and make some interesting texture ^^ I know that its still on WIP, so its just an idea :P great work so far!! 

Hallomy

@doses222 thanks! @chemotoledo I was thinking about a jaguar pattern    but maybe tiger stripes will be good too, I will try some patterns variations after getting the overall shading of the fur.

Hallomy

Texturing is advancing slowly but I'm getting there!

DuskyDaDusty

Great work so far! From what I'm seeing so far, my only suggestion would be to be a little more liberal with your highlights. I'm loving your idea and the execution- keep it up! (Also, your high-poly sculpt is GORGEOUS!!!)

Hallomy

@DuskyDaDusty Thanks! I gonna keep in mind to accentuate some highlights more. (You have a great Nami concept btw). 

Hallomy

Texture advancement during the week-end. Almost there!

andreygheorghe

Hello!1 suggestion i have is to put a gradient map from top to bottom,it doesn't look grounded now.try to put this effect in special from waist down.And like one people mentioned above try to find more contrast between highlights and shadows,it looks a little flat now.Anyway nice work so far!

Hallomy

@andreygheorghe yah gonna do a pass contrast/gradient. It's what still missing, thanks for the reminder XD too focus on rendering parts not thinking about the whole character still.

Hallomy

I have changed the contrast on certain things like the wings and the green cloth parts. Plus I did a pass to create a gradient on the overall characters. Depending on the feedback I wil make correction or going to do some poses et final presentation test. Cheers!

chemotoledo

Hey @Hallomy Nice advance on the texture   if you let me give you some comment, I'll reduce the desaturated dark shadows, like under the knees and interior part of the ears. I know that for the lower part of the model its good to put a gradient from top to down, but I think that that desaturated shadows are making a bit of contrast there. But its good that you are going forward with your character Cheers buddy!  

Hallomy

@chemotoledo Thanks for your advice! I going to do one last pass on texture and reduce the desaturated shadows like your advice. It's really helping me! And again fantastic job on your entry! Cheersss!!!

Dimfist

Looks great.  Only issue I have with it is the feet, something feels a little off about them.  Overall the colors pop well and the shape is great!

Hallomy

So finally, time to wrap this up. Here are my final shots! It was really fun to do the contest and It's been great seeing everyone's hard work during the last months. I learn a lot during the process and hope to make a another hand-painting soon. Cheers!

Hallomy

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Shayumi

nice work! She looks amazing! You should make her wear some panties though, we can look under her skirt in your 3D model    also for a final touch: maybe some kind of tattoo at the side of her torso? Maybe just in a colour that is only slightly darker (or brighter) than her skin colour? It's just a thought, maybe it's even too much because you already have a lot of details .. great job! 

Hallomy

@Shayumi Maybe she is going commando XD. Seriously you made realised that I forget to change some layer placement. Skin layer goes under the panties layer XD. Thanks will make the adjustment.