Warrior Girl
polycounter lvl 17
Been working on her for a couple of days. I plan on rigging her and making a scene later.
I'm not sure if I did the metal on the vambraces right, and not sure how to go about doing the blade. Tips, crits, or comments?
I'm not sure if I did the metal on the vambraces right, and not sure how to go about doing the blade. Tips, crits, or comments?
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Her legs seem kind of squareish, I can see its stylized but it seems like the top of her thighs should be a little thicker.
Her face/hair feel very incomplete, needs more detail in the texture and the hair could look a little thicker from the side.
other then that, I like the design!
The wires, too.
Doing some expressions
I think you might be able to unify the colors a bit more. Toss some purple in the armor, less yellow in the flesh and leather.
A very subtle shift but I think steps like that help tie all the elements together.
She's one of the main characters. Here's another of 'em
Nice work otherwise.
see, totally cartoony, but it has posture and a sense of anatomy. Mostly I htink if you brother the thighs together near the crotch it would look a lot better.
-or does it not matter if its not being sculpted and just being triangulated from this point?
What do you mean by that, Werez?
Here's the last of the hero characters
Really great progress and I look forward to seeing more of your stuff
Here's another. She's the progenitor of the story's events
Good luck.
QFT. Your stuff's gotten loads better in a relatively short time. These are pretty cute, though the first thing that stood out to me is pink-haired-girl's tits. They're really small, but not in an A-cup sort of way. They're vertically really short, and extremely narrow in front-view. She could use a minor boob job, methinks.
I like the look of the most recent one, but she needs more dark. Right now she's ever-so-blindingly bright.
Oh, looove the expressions sheet.
Interestingly enough, Titus, Dragonica is what inspired me to start this.
I'll get right on that, TekK.
Here's a mockup of the Character Select GUI. You'll be able to switch characters during gameplay. Each of the three have special abilities that allow them to traverse the levels. For example, Gil, the big guy, can do a shoulder tackle to destroy walls. Van, the ninja guy, can run up walls. And Ellie, the pink-haired girl, can ride on her shield over lava, water, and such.
(Sorry for the crappy image quality)
QFT. Keep at it man..your work keeps getting tighter
By all means, Vrav, blather away. The parts that I've worked on are finished, unless anybody has anything to say.
Also, the completed characters will be presented as such, cept posed:
You also have some "dirt shading" going on. Mostly you've shadowed the undersides, but for example on the bare skin of the guys arms, you deeply shadowed some up facing planes, making it look like dirt, rather than shadows. Don't just darken crevices, follow your false light source in where to put shadows. You should probably also do some fake AO shading, darkening the crotches, the areas under armor, etc, so that things don't appear to be so floating.
Mainly you need to do more large scale stuff. You've focused too much on small and medium scale details. Squint your eyes, or walk across the room and look at the monitor, and see how hard it is to read the character visually. Everything from the top of the head to the tip of the toes is equally attention drawing. Use value to help organize this.
Anyway, her face looks terrible from the side and I dunno how to fix it. Ideas?
Just a note: For the face, I have some alpha'd planes (the red bits): two for the eyes, and one for the mouth. This is for all those expressions.
WIP
Is this the same topology or a completely new start?
love the new simple medium scale shapes your using, the softer tones for the body really halp focus on the head and eyes
Snader: This one was started after Render's paintover.
Marlfox: He should be mysterious, cause he's a ninja. The game's called Key of Ethios. There's some info about it, as well as some crappy art, on its DA page
Anyway, more progress:
(Don't mind that n-gon on the belt)
Sword
Also, quick rigging question: The hair, as you can see, is made up of several objects. How do you think I should rig it for maximum dynamic... ness?
One suggestion, you can try to bake the AO map from the actual object and multiply it into you texture (in Photoshop), at least it will keep the color not just flat.
Well, more thing, do not paint the nose like the one you did before, it looks like she's getting a cold with that red nose lol..let your AO map shaping the nose's under part.
_Revel
if so id do a short bone chain for the cowlick so it can bounce and be all cute, and do three chains down the bulk of the hair, one on each side and one in the middle.
For the side view of the face, I think the muzzle of the mouth area needs to be pushed forward more. It's one of the defining characteristics of cute, anime art. Check out this side view of Polka from Eternal Sonata:
http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/889/889975/eternal-sonata-20080715031324172_640w.jpg
In fact, you might want to check out that game for reference on textures too. I always thought they did a really nice job on the characters (although perhaps a little more detailed than what you originally intended).
Revel - She's about 2,200 polies. Also, I have AO map. Should I have one?
Woogity - Gotcha
Haikai - Ah, Eternal Sonata. Been planning to get that. Anyway, I fixed her face as per your suggestion. Is the chin too strong, you think?
First shield done:
How's the wood? The mirroring on it shouldn't be much of a problem, since her arm goes in the center.
As for the side view, I think her face is still looks flat. I show you what I mean on the this pic..
As you can see try to avoid to have the line 1 and line 2 to align to each other, cus this will make your character's face looks...I don't know, something wrong?..heheh :poly132:
Hope this will give you some idea!
EDIT
I forgot to include your original pic on this edited one, but I guess you can see the different what I'm trying to say between the one that I edit and you currently have. Good luck~!
_Revel
I like this design style many thousands of percent better than the other wip shots you have posted. The outline style is very tired now, but the above still feels fresh to me.
Can I suggest moving her eyes out to the edge a little, same with the tits. they seem too close together for this style.
Like your avatar too :poly121: