Battle Angel Alita

afxwinter

I've always wanted to create a game model for Battle Angel Alita and have decided to start even though I'm not sure which game I'm going to port her over to. Here's the model as of now:



So far she's weighing in at 1300 tris but there will also be dynamic hair + a cloak that will flow over her form as she moves so I anticipate the final model will be 2000 - 3000 tris.

In case you haven't heard of Battle Angel Alita I've included some of my reference material here:

Xaltar

Pretty solid start. Keep going.

afxwinter

Here's a bit of an update, created hands and hair and made a few small adjustments:

Grey

ohhh yeah, Im really looking forward to seeing your finished Gally/Alita. Im not much of an anime fan, but I LOVE Yukito Kishiro's work. Your model is looking spot on so far!

afxwinter

Yeah Yukito's been a hero of mine for awhile, the guy's truly a genious.

Small update, I tweaked the geometry and added extra detail to make certain areas a lot rounder. I'm pretty happy with the silhouette and am wondering if anyone can see any issues with this mesh that might cause deformation problems when it comes time to rig/animate. Thanks!

Joseph Silverman

Hands are awkward. Fingers are way too short and bend outwards weirdly, plus, despite a lot of divisions, you don't really have much form or weight in them.

The rest looks pretty solid, although you may be able to trim some polies around the joints, and, especially, on the calves.

spider2cool

there are some issues with the face...reminds me of a 2 year old. make the bottom of the cheeks less puffy...maybe some higher cheekbones. i know your ref is kinda flat but tweek it a little. do you have a profile and frontal reference of this chick or are you kinda freestyling it. email me at spider2cool@hotmail.com and i will draw you up some profile and frontal sketches for you to help you get proportion better. if you want =

afxwinter

About the hands, I've tried to thicken the palm pads a little so it would look a little more shapely, as for the fingers being turned out, I just did that because they're fully extended atm and I noticed that fingers tend to curl up a bit at the tips, or are mine just weird?!

I totally agree with spider about the face and have included a render of it to reinforce that. Today I plan on maturing her a little so hopefully it'll go smoothly. Here are a couple new shots:

afxwinter

Here's a little YouTube video i made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHlbTsZY15E

Japhir

pretty cool! i do think the cape seems a bit stiff, as if it where made out of rubber, because the folds are so big and wavy.
cool!

StJoris

Promising, you should do something about the face, it looks as if it were a baby. The big eyes and pruwling lips reinforce that.

hawken

black magic


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Skizot

if the cape didn't pass through her left hand i'd say awesome.

adam

now get the hair going.

i looove gunnnnm

afxwinter

Well I think I solved the hip problem (there was a diamond pattern that didn't flow with the rest of the topology)



And I've posted the objects used in my cloth sim. Now I've ALWAYS had terrible results with the cloth in Max clipping my meshes even when using a system like this. I tried increasing subsamples and the offset of the collision object + the thickness of the cloth. I just assumed it's not possible to get good results with it heheh. I took the low-poly cloak and placed a turbosmooth after the cloth modifier to speed up the sim time.

PolyHertz

This's comming out good. Seems fairly acurate to the character so far.

A few things: You might want to relax the arm-pit area a bit, it looks sort of 'crushed' atm. Also, the ankle seems to be blending into the foot too gradualy, and the fingers should be bent inword slightly so that its easier to get them to deform properly when you rig her.

Well, thats it. Keep up the good work