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polygroups really help with sculpting eyelids, they give a lot of fine-tuned control over tiny areas of geometry by selecting and masking loops and using the move brush. I think I must have spent 2 months just trying to get eyes looking right. Another thing that really pushed faces to the next level was remembering I was sculpting in 3d, so making sure the eyelids, lips, chin, were curved not only from the front but from top and bottom

good advice, thanks melomad xD
I actually had BG3's character editor running while putting on the finishing touches. Tried to do the helicopter first thing, but it didn't work since characters only rotate on an axis with no up or down

ooof hard to describe; I've just recently learned how to make faces that cross the uncanny valley and that took me months of grueling work. A lot of it has to do with proportions; faces are so exacting that even a millimeter of change can trigger the instinct of, "that doesn't look right."

I think a good place to start is to imagine the skull under all the layers of skin, fat, sinew and muscle, and how all of that hangs by gravity and is bound together. You can also try adding basic colours; add in some placeholder skin colour and especially colour the pupils and eye area, the pupils are a 'landmark' and the more landmarks you can identify, the faster you can pull together accurate proportions. The concept of your sculpt is stylized, but stylized art still conforms to a number of IRL rules.

Try to get a copy of Anatomy for Sculptors, that helped me a lot

I think probably he meant there isn't enough variation and definition around the eyes. The upper and lower eyelids wrap around it evenly almost like a circle without much hint of fat or tendons causing variations, but at the same time the eyelids aren't quite wrapped over the eyeballs shape, they're sitting around it.

The eyebrow arch could also use some variation, for a more extreme example of hollow inner corner and regular outer corner look up Jessica Chastain without makeup.

It depends a lot for what amount of stylization and shading you're going for, but I think you style lends itself well to this kind of anatomical detailing. You could also sharpen the ear structure, areas with cartilage or bone like the transition of the nose bridge and it'd look very good. It'd also be a small step ahead than a lot of character art out there because people tend to overlook this kind of sharper x rounder rhythm. Think about Disney's guidelines of curves and lines, it's the same spirit but instead of silhouettes you're thinking about planes. Done with intent this is also stylization.

You're doing a really good job of translating from 2D to 3D by the way, and your style is lovely! "The Chronicle of Western Costume" is staring at me from my desk, so I'm also greatly enjoying the costume. 😄

Edit: I took so long to type this up he answered too and I 100% agree about layering and attention to details!

As a game developer and big proponent of the phrase "DEI or die", I've been upgrading the sheer gooner power of the moneybags and shilling satchels of the human basemeshes. 

I take one for the team and channel my inner gay to ensure the male mesh is just as lustful as the female. Bowls of fruit are simply no match for the raw, unbridled kamasutra-esque energy that I put out on display before the general public. Cheers



Have a great week!

zetheros said:

As a game developer and big proponent of the phrase "DEI or die", I've been upgrading the sheer gooner power of the moneybags and shilling satchels of the human basemeshes. 

I feel like this sentence should go down in Polycount history

And those are some nice looking genitals, mazel tov