elf character
polycounter lvl 15
yo sup 
so i haven't been doin many characters in my spare time latley... or if i have i usually never go back to them after about an hour or two's work :P
hopefully i can change that around a little ^^
anyways, doodled out a head last night. i suck at concepting so might need some help on the designing and all when i get to it. Thinking fancy royal clothes with like stripes in there somewhere, or a checker pattern (they cool).
updates to come (fingers crossed![:\](https://polycount.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/twitter/confused.png ":\")
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so i haven't been doin many characters in my spare time latley... or if i have i usually never go back to them after about an hour or two's work :P
hopefully i can change that around a little ^^
anyways, doodled out a head last night. i suck at concepting so might need some help on the designing and all when i get to it. Thinking fancy royal clothes with like stripes in there somewhere, or a checker pattern (they cool).
updates to come (fingers crossed
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quick scribble i just did, might not make sense to anyone but me at this stage :poly136:
kinda what i got in mind, mostly cloth and leather and frilly lace bits everywhere (and there's a sword in there too :P)
Judgeing by the look of your concept, it doesnt look like wowish, so yeah keep going!
Looks a little fable 2 like in clothing style, interesting choise, id suggest some small armor plating around the fabric, maybe on the hands and feet, not a full set, just something to give the thing a dynamic look, unless your going for a non combat character that is.
Hows the job been treating you so far?
looking forward for updates
Clothing looks interesting. Looking forward to updates.
now, this is entirely subject to which "genre" of elves you're trying to go with, but generally speaking (throughout all the different lores they're involved with), the eyes should be slanted, the face should be much longer, the nose needs to be sharper, more... hawklike, and the lips could do with being thinner.
also, depending if you're going for male or female, either way it's a very very defined face so far, and even male elves have very soft features.
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Really dig that sorta noble cloth designs..
theres a male chin in there. Im guessing your aiming for a female. It should be pointier since that is a distinct aspect of elves. Also, the ears get too thin near the tips. The clothing design is great though. keep at it!!!!:)
Great stuff.
spitfire: hehe, yeah the wow type look is a bit overdone i think... tho this style might be overdone in like korean mmo's maybe? dunno, can never get them to run on my comp :P cool idea on the armour bits, gonna have a play around with it
muzz: =D jobs been goin good so far man... leavin me little energy to do my own stuff tho
conte: haha, yeah agreed on the chin (sapmson said the same thing yesterday), gotta try and fix it
stutts: ty
tim: cheers man. Yeah i think i gotta retopo the head, there's like zero polies in the ears right now :P
gir: some cool idea's i might play around with (pulling the eyes around a bit, etc)...
wayfa: ty ^^
marlfox8: yep, defo gotta fix those things now :P
kanga: was just thinking that. Thinking of just making her legs a bit longer and ending in a point... so less bulk and stuff
achmed: zb all the way man :P did a little 'prog' pic early on, might as well throw it in here :P (madea cube then sculpted away, then retopo'd the 'strips' of hair in topogun)
CJE: haha, cheers dude ^^
yeah, still prolly too early to see where i'm going with the details but gettin the blocking out of the way so i can sculpt away the weekend :poly142: (and only did some minor tweaks to the face, i'll have to go back and adjust it proper after some more bsmeshes get in there... prolly can't tell much difference yet :P).
man, i gotta boosh out character at (relativley) lightening pace at work yet it's taken me 2-ish weeks to get 4 hours done on this character... :poly127:
Anyways, i kept adjusting the face this evening and it kindof looked more female then looked more male, thinking a do-over might be in order (earlier head back in place for now).
can't wait for the blocking/base meshing phase to be ovar ^^
ivanushka: ty
blenderhead: yeah agree'd, dunno what happened on this one (female heads be hard
I Love her clothes. Awesome cleavage too.
It will be interesting to see the hair
anux: woo, i win (ty ^^). dunno how im gonna do the hair yet tho tbh, might try half sculpting those chunks and half low poly texture painting (i have neither of those skills atm so we'll see :poly136:)
firebert: haha, agree'd :P
woog: ^^ cheers dude
hntrluc: thank you
brad: cheers man : D
seth: haha, oh man i haven't looked at harajuku stuff in ages... so much cool outfit ideas =O
ty for the replies all... only got a half update today so yeah, just spammin the ole polycounts
Legs look weird all nekkid atm but hopefully will look cooler once i get these damn boots working for me :P
also thinking of going with the stockings then leather straps and armour stuff that run into boots. Might streamline and taper the lower half of the character... need pictures to describe this stuff i think ^^;
Keep it up
-Her neck looks a little too long
-Her face still looking masculine in my opinion...maybe some work on her chin would help
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i love the little details in the clothing ;P
Otherwise, this is looking really good! I like the outfit you have going so far, can't wait to see more progress on it.
fabio: good point on the neck dude, got a bit more proportions tweaking to do still i think
DKK: cool stuff, i've tried warping this head so much it's gettin really crazy, redo coming up asap (gettin lost in the cloth stuff atm :P)
Anux: haha, really wanted to go with the pantaloons but decided to roll with some fancy patterned stockings instead... shame the thighs are so covered, i dig thigh high stockings (too much information, yes i know
haikai: haha, yeah i'm leaning more towards the final fantasy tactics style noble fasion... i imagine their tailors don't know what the hell clothes are without frilly dress bits everywhere
jungsik: ^^ cheers dude, here's hoping i can carry them through to the sculpt :P
marlfox: ty
achillesian: :P
EricV: cheers man
aight, had to write friday night and saturday off (hangover plus cartoons > everything) but yeah, more or less done with my initial first pass blocking phase thing i guess... can finally move onto proper sculpting and detailing (woo).
Got heaps more trims and belts/straps/buckles and frilly details to stick in there as well as fancy ornate designs sewn into the fabrics but yeah... Still kinda tweaking proportions around a bit tho (and head's gotta be redone still yar), thinking the dress could be lowered a bit more too and need more back details.
One obvious thing I notice is the boob feels like floating, with that outfit, the breast would be pushed up.
Hm...probably it's just me..
Yeah, I think it's triangular jaw and blocky area above the eyebrows.
I love it though
Keep it up, Mate. It's coming along well.
scooby: haha, yeah face is still the same
moosey: yeah, defo think it has something to with the brow area
junkie: haha, now all i need is teh awsomeness and french-ness and i'm set ^^
jackablade: ^____^ cheers man... i haven't tried pushing the head towards the 'manly' direction yet, don't tempt me :P
sorry for teh random post but i gotta post somewhere... oh god why didn't anyone tell me this stuff was so fuggin awsome (now i know why there's a billion hellboy sculpts out there, i think i love you mike mignola ;_;)
...just started reading hellboy btw
Damn you and your awesomness, loving the styles. Keep going man, I want to see more more more! Don't let your job beat you :P
seconding this, yes its different, but not mannish in my opinion, just a more stern, more resolute woman, and i like her! Strong female lead, "Cameronesque"?
achillesian: yeah i'm not sure where i'm goin right now. Could be that right now i've kinda fallen halfway between a distinctly male and a distinctly female face if that makes sense... dunno if that's the case but maybe :P
arg, new forums are slow (but awsome... tho weird
little more tweaking on the face... and a friend got me into the goon as well, so i gotta do a billion hellboy sculpts and now a proper goon sculpt (gonna pose him and everything and have a base for him maybe... super crap sketch below)
(oh and my 'new' head...)