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Woaw just learnt about your project, so many skulls, I already love it. And the conceptart/handpaint work is top tier ♥

Hi there!
The lady seems nice.
It does feel like the big guy is somewhat unbalanced though, as if the upper back was from different body type. Maybe you could expand your reference pool with side and back views for heavier bodies.

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Agreed with everything that was said so far. 
One reason for the grass being so high contrast seems to be that the tufts are mostly unlit. Maybe a translucent/transparent shader that can't receive shadows or needs some serious dialing in? Either way, it's a major problem that needs solving. 

There doesn't seem to be much of a color scheme and the values and saturations are all over the place, making it hard to tie things together with the lighting, which is very harsh right now. The main light source is also close to the camera, which can make things look flat. Some elements seem to lack shadows. I can't tell if that's due to the perspective and light direction hiding them or maybe the shader as well.
You did differentiate between the "game" elements and the background, though, which is good, but if you limited your BG to a smaller value, hue and saturation range, they could stand out even without being primary color (which isn't bad per se, though) and you could use a more subtle lighting with less harsh shadows. If everything harmonizes well, you might not even need additional lighting (and therefore normals) at all.

The round bushes seem a bit out of place. They also seem to be lit from different directions. That might be, again, due to a strong perspective and directional light from the front, but in some instances, it looks like there might be some problems with normals as well (you perhaps have used projected normals to make the leaves blend in / have an overall softer impression, but in the process, some things might have broken or gotten switched around).

The water barely reads a such. Depending on style, you can get away with a lot of simplification or even without sharp highlights, but right now, the surface mostly reads as some cloudy noise. It might be a bit better in motion, but ideally, it can be identified immediately in screenshots as well. You'll probably want some transition at the edges (e.g. froth) and a different geometry and texture underneath. Currently, it looks like it is simply overlaid over the normal path texture (would make sort of sense if some paths will be covered by water dynamically, but even then you'll want to work on the readability).

The stone slabs are too uniformly colored / have too little detail (within the slabs, the slabs themselves almost seem too small) and the small pebbles on the ground texture are spaced out too far and evenly. This might be less apparent when you replace the path with stones and the ground texture ends up being less prominent as a result, but it's one of the elements that do lack a distinctively painted look. The best elements in my opinion are the rocks, especially the stretched out rock ranges. It mostly seems to be lighter peaks/edges, but that's a common property of a more standard stylized look.

Lastly, the scale seems off for quite a few elements, the most obvious example being the large conifers that look like scaled up versions of the small ones (needles and all). The conifers also offer an opportunity to go for a more clearly stylized and simplified look. With a distant camera like that, you don't need to have individual needles in your texture. Likewise, you could  simplify your grass texures (a bit more compact than having invididual long blades of grass standing next to each other).

Hi! Multiple ways to get a gradient mask across meshes, to then use in the shader to modulate values/colors. For example the gradient could be stored in a UV set, vertex color, generated from the y-pos in the shader, ... The way to go is something you have to decide on.

SharelleCottee - Off to a good start, before you start beveling things I'd add some support edges around the main body of the binoculars and round off the corners on that ring piece. Should smooth more evenly and give you a better low poly from the start. Hope that helps.



Been working on the low poly but I also finished the head and added some wear and tear:

Got dash functionality and visuals roughed in after reworking the superarmor system.

here's how my binocular model is going so far would love feedback and advice especially on topology as that's something im trying to improve on