More highpoly lovin'

EarthQuake

Got motivated to do some modeling last night/early this morning when i saw this: I'm about 5-6 hours into it so far and its my first real attempt at doing cloth folds.


[Edit] Seems like 4chan dosent like external links, updated with ref

johnwoo

Excellent start...what sort of character are you planning btw...

motives

yea agree, nice start indeed. maybe the pants are a bit too wrinkled tho. what kinda material are u after?

nice ass btw

EarthQuake

refresh to see the reference

johnwoo

Damn..you are definately off to a really good start...I got a good feeling this gonna kick ass!!...excellent work so far...

Josh_Singh

id love to see the wires! those wrinkles are awsome!!

joolz8000

Wow- looking really nice. Only thing I see that bugs me is the fold/bulge that the straps are making on her thigh- way too extreme, and not in the photo. Minor nitpick though- really great work so far.

EarthQuake

Heres the wires, nothing special just some super messy mesh flow =D

vahl

yup great work indeed clean cage too

EarthQuake

Some more progress on her, arms might need to be smoothed a little i dunno shes got pretty buff arms in the ref.

SouL

Careful with the arms. They're looking too skinny from the front view. Also... the arms shouldn't bend inwards. I know they are in the ref image, but that's because she has her arms rotated backwards and twisted inwards a bit.

Personal Opinion:
I wouldn't go with her body type. I'd go ahead and create something abit more "ideal" and "stylized" There's something about the outfit that makes her lower half seem like it's too small for her upper body.

Wrath

I think it's the fishnet 'tunic' and gunbelt across the hips rather than around the waist. The tied off lower pant leg on her left is just stupid and completely impractical...I remember it bugged the crap out of me while watching the movie (which in itself bugged the crap out of me for being crappy)

It's a really solid start

Daz

Yeah great start EQ and a nice subject! Along with the stuff that's just been said, I just wanted to remind you to go easy on commiting to detailing this too much before you're absolutely certain of basic shape and proportions. Theres some density in those pants there thats gonna start getting hard to manipulate soon. Still, there's always a lattice Looking forward to seeing more.

EarthQuake

Heres a version without the wierd leg thingy, fixed up arms and the russian girl's head slaped on it

and wires:

EarthQuake

Some holster action

Updated head to look more like her

graves

Milla. Nice work

IceWolve

Wow, did you do those pistols from scratch or did you just re-use those from something? Looks realy good, and i was disappointed in the movie too

EarthQuake

I did them from scratch, but maybe a month or so ago ill probally do some high-poly m1911s like she had in the movie to go with her.

tubboy

The nose. Something about hte nose throws it off. Can't really be more specific. Anyone else see this?

Daz

Well, Im not sure If EQ has made a serious stab at the face or not. But If he has then yeah, the plane of the nose that faces forward is too narrow. It's fairly wide in Milla.

EarthQuake

I've done a little bit of work on the face, not a lot my main problem is trying to differentiate specific details from her and the old head. They look very similar to me when i have the tweaked head loaded up over the reference im using. So if anyone has any suggestions for increasing the likeness please do feel free to post and let me know. Im going to do some more tweaks(make eyeballs smaller and reform the face to them, and widen the bridge of her nose a little bit) and then ill post some more shots and the specific reference image im using.

EarthQuake

Ok, smooth shaded:

wires:

ref:

Sean McBride

I think the foorhead needs to be rounded out a little bit, but thats looking mighty fine! Great work. Can we see your side ref?

EarthQuake

Couldnt find a very good side shot, but i have this:

and heres a body shot, the SMG is just a place holder and the clips are all i have done on the high poly m1911 so far

Daz

Cool man, looking much better. I'd be careful of using that front ortho too much. Although I guess it's fine for basic proportions. Shes very young there so theres a lot of puppy fat. It's also ever so slightly looking down and the lighting is a bit flat to tell you anything about her bonestructure.

Features that I think are VERY distinctive in her:

1) Striking eyes:

http://starophile.free.fr/wallpapers/resident_evil_milla_jovovich_001.jpg

2) eyebrows that angle upward

3) The bridge of the nose is quite unique. It's similiar to the deal Rachel Weiss has going on.

4) The quite apparent infraorbital brow. ( the indented diagonal from eye corner down cheek ) http://www2.filmweb.no/multimedia/archive/00031/Milla_Jovovich_Wallp_31157i.jpg

5) She actually has bags under her eyes too:

http://www.new-video.de/da/1863.jpg

6) Fatty upper eyelids. i.e you dont always see an upper lid crease. Quite common in a lot of women from Eastern Europe:

http://www.phoenix-c.or.jp/~equrean/Diary/Dia9912/milla_jovovich.jpg

Are you sure you cant find a decent front and side? I'd recommend getting out a DVD, and grabbing a 360 of her head turn. It's a fantastically useful method of reference.

EarthQuake

Thanks daz, i must be retarded to not see all that stuff on my own =D Heres some new shots with the updated head and some WIP hair too:

EarthQuake

The expression on her face sucks, but its getting there

lkraan

Great model! Loved those movies
Head is coming along great but there are still some things not quite right yet I think.

Looking at her profile she should have a bigger chin. Also the part of her profile where her eyebrows are should stick out a little bit.
Here some pics I grabbed quickly of the dvd...

usagi

that is looking really nice, adn you're getting a pretty good likeness too. it think her cheeks should be more sunken in though. also i think her eyes arent quite the right shape. fix up her profile with those refs from Ikraan adn she'll be prefect.

Toomas

Milla has very masculine face: low hairline, rough forehead and rather powerful looking jaw. Without makeup and different hair she would be quite belivable guy :P

Anyways you should rework her forehead, cheeks and chin like Ikraan pointe out, just use the side refs he posted and you should be ok

EarthQuake

Ok thanks for the tips guys heres another wip shot. It seems like the more work i put into her the uglier she gets, i guess thats just her facial structure though.... I think i liked the younger version better even if it didnt look anything like her. I feel like im doing something wrong still either way i go, if i stay with this version or try and smooth it out to make her look younger, i guess ill work on something else and think about it a little bit.

Etienne

just one word ...

MILLLLAAAAA!!!!

Etienne

Daz

Ok cool well no need to panic just yet The words 'masculine face' aren't really gonna help you here though. You've gone too hard. She's a bit, well, lumpy now. You have the basics, you need to sort of relax the cage. I would simplify the facialy topology quite a bit to smooth things out now. Your previous iteration was actually better I think.

EarthQuake

Daz: i think i agree with you ill either smooth it out, or just go back a step in my files... But until i get to that i have a wip on her m1911:

Toomas

Touch yourself a lot while modeling
What i mean is that some stuff you cant see from pictures but you can feel it.

EarthQuake

I touch myself even when im not modeling.

johnwoo

WOW...such effort is most visible, and to be honest it looks soooooooo like her, and the rest of her is just fantastic you've absolutely nailed it with the torso IMHO...I think you owe to yourself to texture and weight her...this is looking spot on....good stuff Earthquake!!

EarthQuake

Johnwoo: Thanks.
Ok got to doing her hands today:

EarthQuake

Ok tweaked proportions to make her less beefy/butch

now i gotta get some damned sleep =D

MoP

Ahh, good tweaks there. I hadn't actually noticed the butch-ness too much before, but now you've fixed it, it's way better. Her hands look a little too big to me?
Turning out really nicely though, and you're totally speedin' on her... keep it up!

Sean McBride

yum, keep it up man. The fingers do look a tad to long to me too. It is turning out extreamly well though!

Crash

mop: hes speedin cos hes ON speed. and im NOT joking! O_o

EarthQuake

Ill look into the hands, i made them a little bigger when the arms were bigger maybe i need to size the down to go with the tweaked arms now.

Lies, i havent been on my ADD meds for like half a year crash.

EarthQuake

Ok giving her a winter coat... wip obviously

rooster

looking real nice man, glad you got rid of the leg thingy. It looks kinda cool in a character design sense, but when I see stuff like that I cant help but wonder about what the actual point of it is.

EarthQuake

Updated the head a little bit:

EarthQuake

arrrr! more work on the face

and a test render with GI(no AA and low quality settings = grainy)

vahl

pretty good mate
honestly I really prefer the wiewport snapshot than the GI render, I think a simple 3 points and depth map shadows would do better and give this model more justice.

anyway, good work Keep it up !!

EarthQuake

Another WIP shot of the coat:
[edit]slightly newer pic

Daz

Cool man. Aw youre covering up da boobies with dat big coat!

The outer eye corners feel like they're being pulled up?

EarthQuake

Per: Ill be doing two versions, one 3000 or so polys without the coat for d3, and one quite a bit more with the coat for the hl2 thing