Hard-Surface Ninja Dude looking for some feedback
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Hey guys!
Here's something I've been working on the last couple of days following a concept and some tutorials by Pierre Rogers. Postponed learning hard surface in zbrush for a while and I thought I give it a try when I got over the process of importing back and forth from 3ds max.
I'd really appreciate some feedback on how this came out to be.
Here's the rendering I did of him. It was rendered in keyshot and composed in photoshop.
And the sculpt exported from zbrush:
Here's something I've been working on the last couple of days following a concept and some tutorials by Pierre Rogers. Postponed learning hard surface in zbrush for a while and I thought I give it a try when I got over the process of importing back and forth from 3ds max.
I'd really appreciate some feedback on how this came out to be.
Here's the rendering I did of him. It was rendered in keyshot and composed in photoshop.
And the sculpt exported from zbrush:
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I was trying to achieve a look of plate I found on the internet, you know, with trial and error and such, don't know how much I got out of it.
Joltya is right, the discoloration is indeed distracting at full res,
aside from that, you might want to make the armor plating on his thigh smaller, it looks really uncomfortable to move his leg as of now.
I also agree with the others, the discoloration is somewhat jarring, maybe if we see a few different angles to get a better feel for the material. I also think the reflections are way too tight and mirror-like, and don't match the grainy rough surface the diffuse is showing.
Here's the concept made by Pierre Rogers:
I tried many different version, I also thought that it might have problems moving becouse of their big size and initially I thought of changing their positioning to the positioning that was used in the armors that samurai warriors used to have. I changed that thought because I wanted to keep the positioning of the concept. I have to work on those reflections asap though.
To me it also seems that some of the armor on the back for example doesn't sit as snug on the character as in the concept.
Rendering wise you should up the irradiance rays of your GI to get rid of that noise on your metal since that's the main material of this character and you should focus on nailing that.
With the face mask I think you did a great job but I think you should make that hard case computer thingy he's got on his head. Keep it up and I suggest looking for inspiration from a lot of awesome hard surface artists like Bulgarov, Snefer, Nash and what have you.
And the artists you recomended are awesome, thank you for that! And thanks for the overall feedback aswell!
P.S.: Forgot about this post, sorry, for my delayed answer. XD
Cheers!