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Thanks mate!

Hey, I think it looks really good! What I really like, is the overall shape of the chest and the sculpt damage details you have added across the border of the metal parts.

A few tips that might help improve it further:

Textures: I think it would help calming down the textures a bit. Right now, there is a lot of small details in the texture that makes the overall impression a bit busy. What I would do, is keep the damage at the edges strong but the parts that look like it's been hit with a hammer (especially at the feet) can be toned down a tad bit.

Materials: I would consider maybe adding some specular/metallic to the metal parts so the wood and metal feels more like two seperate matrials.

Color: This is personal preference, but I like to add a bit of hue to my colors. So instead of treating silver as pure grey, consider adding a tiny bit of purple or blue hue to it.

Also, try adding a gradient to the whole model! I'm not sure what software you use, but you can add a layer on top of all your other layers. choose a desaturated purple ish color and set to multiply. Make it so the bottom is the darkest and top is the lightest. Adjust opacity until it looks good.

Hope this helps! 

Loving the details in the armor! Looks good overall, excited to see your progress!

I have started on Theodn Full Character. Im now half way in HP. After that one more pass on the whole thing, adding wear and tear in the sculpt. 


This is my lifelong favorite movie and the book ,and I was waiting for a moment to have enough skill to make it happen. 
Hope you like it so far!

marmo_arts said:

Woow Amazing!
can you please tell me what skin material have you used, do you have NODE look? Also what eyes looks so lifelike!

The eye shader is just metahuman's eye shader

Fabi_G said:

Looking good

I think with the final asset, some of the forms of the sculpt got lost, in particular with the head. This probably in part due to the different lighting/ reflections between the matcap highpoly render and final render. It's up to you (or how you intend to render) to what extend you paint highlights into the textures or use a roughness and specular map, perhaps a combination. With the latter, the lighting situation is important to allow the maps to work.

Then you could also add some color zones to the face and add in some color variation in general.

Perhaps decrease brightness of eyes in a gradient going away from pupils, so the eyes appear less flat. Similar teeth when overly flashing.

Here is a rough overpaint, overlayed matcap for specularity/highlights, painted in reds on nose and ears, darkened eyes and teeth some, some slight blue on the lower face:



Keep it up!

Hello Fabi_G! I see what you mean, I 100% agree! I feel it got very flat after rendering it, and I miss the details from the sculpt. I will look at my light setup and materials, seems like the textures overall roughness is very high which probably makes the model read flat and normal gets no chance to pop. And I assume it doesn't help that I'm using a large rect light to light my model either, so I will take a look at a different lighting setup.

I love the overpaint! I will follow your advice and add some color zones in the face and add gradient to the eyes so its not too bright and flat.

Thank you so much for giving such detailed feedback, it helps a lot!

I just sculpt and texture this one (base from sketchfab https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/fancy-picture-frame-b54984abe2394345a81621719bf8bf1a#download)

Muzzoid said:

Your character is solid!

when you say it isn't working, It might be helpful for you to put it into words what isn't feeling right.

I would honestly say though, try and wrap up this character and do another. This sort of thing you just need to do a lot of, and you will naturally improve.

Like if you were to say aim to do the next character in half the time, but maintain the quality, it would be a solid goal for you!

Hello, Muzzoid! You're right, I should have explained better what I feel like is not working. After reading the character guide Zetheros sent me above, I think that my biggest issues with it is the color palette, values, and the materials that feels off to me.

I think your advice is on point, sometimes you just need to say you're done and on to the next project. Take note on what didn't work and how I plan to conquer it this time around. Definetly feel I spent way too much time on this, so I will take a look at my approach and finish the project quicker! Thank you for feedback and advice!