female sci-fi character

BrianP

Update of where i am at now.


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hey dudes i started on this project this past weekend and i am going for a pretty generic sci fi character. my concept is from a book cover for star wars.

C&C very welcome! i am trying to bust this character out pretty quick to get back to my class i am also working on. ugh so much work recently!

concept - http://cghub.com/images/view/176025/

BrianP

i got a nice sculpt over from my lead - Bobo the seal. :poly127: LOL!

BoBo_the_seal

well it was missing that little extra wow factor. Now it has it!

HAHA looking good Brian!

- BoBo

TehSplatt

This is amazing lol

BrianP

small update of where i got over the weekend. diden't get too far

DireWolf

The second one was really disturbing. You better remove that if you want more people to keep looking at your thread.

uncle

^I'd say the opposite.

Shoulder pads seem less beefy in the concept.

ericdigital

DireWolf wrote: »

The second one was really disturbing. You better remove that if you want more people to keep looking at your thread.

Penis's increase views here at polycount, everyone knows that


Looking forward to this, sick base so far and love the concept :thumbup:

I think I agree the shoulder pads seem a bit more slender in the concept, not sure if you're stylizing it up a bit tho.

BrianP

@DireWolf - lol sorry i didn't mean to offend anyone, I just thought it was funny. it just seems like a regular thing on polycount to have penis's on everything. haha.

thx for the feedback dudes! i will defiantly bulk up the shoulder armor.

I am trying to keep fairly close to the concept...especially the colors. But I am not necessarily going 100% accurate. i have been looking at a bunch of mass effect armor to see if i can get any cool shapes out of that too.

anyways, did a little work at lunch.

EiGHT

OOoo slowly but surely man.I still think that forehead is kinda tall.I bet if you took a break from League of Legends for a week this would be more than done.

8=D~

Darkleopard

The waist/legs look to thick to me, but its a great start!

BrianP

here is an update of where i am at so far! feels like it is going so slow but its getting there!

BrianP

did a little work at lunch today. added a few small details and worked on the legs / shoes.

achillesian

DireWolf wrote: »

The second one was really disturbing. You better remove that if you want more people to keep looking at your thread.

you must be new here

Aga22

reminds me a little of a judge uniform (from judge dredd , remember?) i don't think the high heels go along with the "military" and armored look of the uniform (just my opinion)

Pancakes

she looks tight

BrianP

@ Aga 22 - i was trying to give her just a feminine boot. i totaly agree it shouldent be high heels. ill try and make it look more of a functional boot for her. thx for the feedback!

@ Pancakes - thanks!

here is another update. i am going to try to do a bunch of work this weekend! i will finish this! haha

EiGHT

FROM DA GRAVE!

I like.Glad your bringing her back.I must say though, the shell on dem boots is out of control.Push that thickness in a bit and your good to go.

BrianP

getting close!

Wex

Looks like the seat of her pants has built-in cheek pockets. :P

Maybe stretch the fabric across instead? Also looks like her second belt is defying gravity... Other than that, looks good!

BrianP

I really wanted to texture this past weekend so i started on her face. Here is where I am at.

BrianP

Denny

My only feedback is that the backside of her buttocks/legs could very well be naked, same with her knees, as there is no kind of indication of material and that the material right now seem to unnaturally fit every cavity there is.

I think you did very well with the rest though. The face is going to look even better when you get some accompanying hair (if you're going to).

Texelion

Just seeing that thread for the first time. The head looks nice.

I agree with Denny, it's like she doesn't wear pant but you painted directly the body sculpt with the pants color...

Also, the feet are strange, the shape is not natural. I found a photo close to the boots you did :



Check the shape of the sole, especially where the foot should hit the ground, under the toes...

I suggest to add some military badge on her chest too, you know like in Startrek ^^.

OrganizedChaos

I agree with what Denny and Texelion had to say- it may look fine when you're further along, but it's not a bad idea to try out some kind of way to break up the materials. Maybe do some kind of hexagon texture? XD seems like a lot of sci-fi things do that. But yeah, I'm sure once you start messing with spec/ possibly overlays, it could really help with that.
Also, something I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned... but how is that second belt attached? It's just kind of awkwardly floating there. Did you ditch it in your lowpoly?
Looking forward to seeing what you do with the hair And great progress so far dude!

BrianP

dudes! thanks for the feedback! love it!

ill try to make the legs less skin tight in the texture. Also trying to fix the boot to the great ref Texelion posted. i think i can mostly do that in the low poly / silhouette of it. that boot was very close to what i was going for. thanks for that

orginized - the concept has a square pattern i am trying to incorporate. its mandryk's concept : http://cghub.com/images/view/176025/

also pretty much ditched the second belt. it was cool but i was worried too much about it so i saved myself the headache. lol thanks again guys!

Stoop_Kid

She looks sweet! Looking forward to updates.

BrianP

i rigged up this character tonight and did some poses. its a super quick skin and pose for now but you get the idea. defiantly like 1 and 4. all the other seem kinda similar now that i look at them. =/. oh and i did a very small amount of texture work. no spec or anything yet just diffuse

Tits

Very cool!
I very like the pose 1 and 4 too.
Can I ask how do you render it? it looks real good!

BrianP

thanks!

i rendered it with the xoliul shader 2. Just default lights and half lambert on.

daphz

I'm digging 4. Can't wait to see that spec, and hair!

BrianP

update on the texture. focused mostly on the metal tonight.

Blaisoid

there's something strange about proportions, the torso looks a bit thin compared to the head size.

textures are shaping up really nicely though.

ScoobyDoofus

I agree about the proportions. I did a super quick liquify that might help show you what I see...


I realize the textures are WIP, but I'm hoping you're going to use NDO or something to put some more design into those thighs, bracers and belt+pouches. Also...more color variation! Break the palette of her outfit up a bit. Are you gonna do hat/hair, or is she staying bald?

I' sorta question the weird grill right across her clavicle. Seems like a strange design choice for that area, also the transition from the flesh of the neck to the shirt is harsh and doesn't feel real or seated.

BrianP

doooood!! yessssss ty for the paint over, really digging it. here is the concept to give an idea for what the result will be

concept by mandryk : http://cghub.com/images/view/176025/

Fomori

Looking very nice. Good proportion edit by Scooby. I would like to see hair!

battlecow

Nice job, but you really need to check proportions on the thumbs, they're really to far back from the other fingers and make the hands look ungraceful and if you plan on putting a lightsaber in her hand your might be up for a nasty surprise. Give her hands as much love as you did her face, it adds so much to the global quality of the work.

Frump

If you didn't know, sorry to go Star Wars nerd on you, but that's actually a pretty important character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Mara Jade Skywalker. Reading some stuff about her and looking at other images might help you out with refs, even though it's a bit late on in the project. If you did already know, then great.

I am surprised you didn't try to make the lightsaber yet! This is a character I've kind of wanted to take a stab at too but I never did because I didn't know how I'd handle making the lightsaber. Cheapest method would be billboard, probably.

dirigible

Yeah, the lightsaber could probably be done with 2 cards (overlapping in an x shape), both set to additive.
edit:
here's a little proof of concept. It works fine in udk, but doing the same thing in marmoset looks bad, since marmoset rendering is quirky.
(specifically, the problem in marmoset is that the black areas on the cards will cut into white/purple areas, since in marmoset anything with the additive material will do a standard blend with itself, then an additive blend with everything else)

BrianP

thanks for the feedback guys! really appreciated.

@ Frump - haha i had no idea what character it was when i started it. thanks for the info! found some really good ref.

@dirig - ill definatly do what you just posted. looks great thanks for the tip.

working on hair tonight

changes made so far

Neox

Definitely do the changes on the head ryan showed, right now the torsr size ffels off or the head is just too big in comparison.