Pratikah - Arenanet Art Test

Pratikah

I'll be tackling the Arena Net Art Test like a handful of other folks on here, here's the concept.

Gonna post a quick WIP shortly

Pratikah

Ill post more in the upcoming days, but heres a quick shot of my head so far.

feathers

could use more polys in le boobies

FullSynch

Agreed, foxy, not boxy!

Pratikah

If I've got them left over at the end, but the entire character is capped at 6500 tris, so I went sparing (I've also rounded them a BIT more since this pic, but ty)

Pratikah

Ive mostly got the low poly taken care of with a few test normals baked on for testing purposes. now its time to sculpt.

Sukotto

I'm confused are you making your low poly before you sculpt? That's not the best way to do it. First you're supposed to make a base mesh of all evenly spaced quads, then sculpt everything, then retopo for your final low poly which CAN have triangles.

Pratikah

Ive been going back and forth a fair bit tbh. this is my first time going through the zbrush process, so i'll be the first to admit I dont know the "correct" workflow. I'm kinda buffaloing myway through, but I'll end up with a high poly sculpt and a low poly model at the end of the day... Im more than open to suggestions, so a base humanish mesh with even spaced quads into zbrush, which is what i started with, but then once i had the form i pulled it back out into max and started making low poly chapes for the armor stuff that Id then take back into zbrush to sculpt. Lol, I can hear how convoluted it sounds as I type it, but you live you learn I guess.

edit: doing everything from scratch in zbrush, how would you go about making alpha planes for hair or fur instead of geometry? or do you just leave that part out and add it in max once all is said and done?

Pratikah

took a few days away to tackle some other things, but after talking to some people about process I've got my base meshs laid out in zbrush ready to start sculpting.

sun_smasher

sweet I like how this is coming along and look forward to some sculpting results.

Chaseingames

Looking good so far, she's got some strange hair going and you tackled it well. How do you plan on approaching the fur on her shoulders? Whats the poly limit?

Pratikah

Thanks guys. Yeah, her hair is interesting to say the least. Im going to lay down a base geometry of sculpted fur all over, but when I get it back in Max I want to do what I can with alpha planes to spice it up. The poly limit is 6500 tris.

Pratikah

Heres another update, got the body resculpted, including the hair and her uh... hat.

guhhh

i like the hair

Pratikah

pretty much finished on the high poly. now to make the low and texture. Special thanks to Ravenslayer for showing how he did his fur, i was pretty stumped on a good way to portray it, hopefully i can still translate it into some alpha.

Pratikah

Quick update, got my normals and spec pretty much worked out off a rough diffuse and my high poly. Sitting at 6,456 tris of a 6500 limit.

low_polly

coming along nice. pic resolution looks a little low res so I can't see your awesome detail.