[WIP] Quetzelcoatle

Aqua Dark

UH. So I'm working on this guy. barely started BUT THAT IS OKAY. Because I'd like feedback and such. : D

I have a quick shitty concept i did. I'm not falling it 100 percent sense its not really fully realized. Just gives me a place to start from.



SO this is all i have at the moment. With his one figure. . .



ONWARD.

Aqua Dark

Aqua Dark

Got the base body down. What you think?!

Shanthosa

I like the silhouette it builds a lot right now. Right at the front where his torso meets the ground you have some uneven polygon distribution. Right above where the "plateau" drops off you have a couple short faces and then just one big one that goes all the way down for the rest of it, right here:



Try redistributing some of the detail from above to the lower section, just to make the silhouette a little less faceted.

I love his head, it came out great. The fingers are suffering from some similar faceting problems that can be solved with another couple edge loops in there I think.

Keep going! Can't wait to see more.

Aqua Dark

Thank you for the advice, I'll get right on that!

Notes

Not sure if you animating this or not but you should take a quick look at this about limb topology. It might help later down the line when bending the fingers and such.

http://wiki.polycount.com/LimbTopology?highlight=%28\bCategoryTopology\b%29

Aqua Dark

OMG Thanks for reminding me. I was gunna do the bending on those but i completely forgot! I have to go back into the hands anyways.
Uhg awesome like btw.

Aqua Dark

Worked on the hands and arms a little more and Made his wing things. What ya guys think?

Aqua Dark

OMG WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?!! Okay so i did a lot of shit without feed back because my dead line was coming up. I am going to post turn around and such. Detail shots later and i would love you guys to just rip it apart.

SO I'LL DO THAT LATER In a few days or such.

Aqua Dark

I would like any advice.
Poly flow
Texturing
Design

I would love to know if this is portfolio worthy and what to do to make it so.

Aqua Dark

Currently re-texturing this guy. Going for more a chopiesh stylized shapesss. I'M GOING TO FINISH IT TONIGHT. NO MATTER WHAT. UGHUHGUGHGLALALA

chrisradsby

I like the new direction! Good work! Nice job on the last one too though! Looked really good!

Pabs

im digging this new style

Chris Kuhner

Agreed- really enjoying the painterly and blocky feel. Particularly in the shoulders and neck region.

Roxxor

Love the headdress. Hate the fingernails and loin cloth. (Why does a snake even need a loin cloth?) Maybe side armored pieces instead? Skin texture is great too. Love the definition in the chest area. Maybe asymmetrical details like a scar?

Aqua Dark

Yay! Glad you guys are digging the new style!
(this update shows why he needs a loin cloth)

I pretty much got the base down. Going to add scale details on the green + his markings and such. I'm going to try and add a little bit more color variation as well.

minorthreat

That's an awesome easter egg.

Aqua Dark

Last update for today. Finish later.

Aqua Dark

finished the skin pretty much, working on golddd

ZacD

So much better, I'd make the highlights on the gold pop a little more, unless you are going to do that with the spec. But I'd kinda like seeing this guy as 100% diffuse as well.

Aqua Dark

Fixing some value stuff.

jaydon

This is looking really cool. good job

sybrix

Love that paint job. What program are you paining it in?

Aqua Dark

Thanks guys! I'm actually using Viewport Canvas in 3Ds Max to paint on it. Also photoshop for adjustments max cant do!

Aqua Dark

PURDY MUCH DONE.

pixelb

It's absolutely nuts how much better 2.0 looks than the original. If I may ask, what prompted the change in how you paint textures?

Sugus

This is looking very nice! I'm not sure myself but surely it would be more efficient to have the feathers in another separate map? What i mean is you have a massive alpha map that only affects the feather, so whatever engine you use will be reading all of it to only say "oh, only feathers are alpha-ed". If someone with better knowledge can contrast this i'd be helpful

Good job on it though, really liking it!

Aqua Dark

I wanted to repaint it for my portfolio. The first job was rushed because it was for a contest. (THATIWONFIRSTINOMGOMGOMG) I actually wasn't going to redo him completely but it ended up that way. lol

I have no idea about having the feathers on a different map. BUT IT IS GOOD TO KNOW That it might be better for it to be on a whole another map. But at the time i'm not going to really bother with it.

THANKS GUYS!

joshmtyler

Sugus wrote: »

I'm not sure myself but surely it would be more efficient to have the feathers in another separate map? What i mean is you have a massive alpha map that only affects the feather, so whatever engine you use will be reading all of it to only say "oh, only feathers are alpha-ed". If someone with better knowledge can contrast this i'd be helpful

It really depends on the engine, but in UDK having the alpha in the Alpha channel allows for 1 texture call so it is cheaper than pulling from another map that is smaller. It's already there! What makes for heavy memory is the extra space outside of the alpha in the plane. So you want to cut the geo as close to the edge of the sillouette as possible to prevent overdraw.

Slipstream

Excellent execution

You could also have the feather mask on one color channel in a separate texture. That way you can use the 2 remaining channels for another set of masks, or to define emissive area's.
It doesn't even have to be the same size as the rest of your textures if memory is an issue

Aqua Dark

Oh! That makes sense, cool to know! Thanks for educating me on that.
HERE SOME MARMOSET RENDERS!!

Sugus

@Josh: Absolutely right! Very helpful, solved my doubt. I guess i was thinking in multi alpha's, which i usually stuff in one texture within the RGB channels.

@Aqua: Love how it turned out! Beautifull