[Mixamo Contest] Lady Beetle

mrSuman

decided to give this contest a shot. I hope I can finish this.

my first idea was to have a female archer which had a samurai armor. (please don't mind the anatomy)
My old concept:


This concept is very far from final.

I tried to make a new silhoutte. realized I wanted to make a more beetle like look for the armor,hence the title (I just discovered that a "Lady" was a female "Lord" haha). I'm still gonna borrow elements from my first concept though. I still want to add some japanese/samurai touch.
Silhouttes:


I kinda like the third silhoutte, 'cause antlers are cool!

will update soon. thnks for viewing!

mrSuman

been a while since I posted. slow progress, I've been very lazy

anyway, here's my early concept for the head.



Chose to go with the one on the middle, with the beetle like antlers.

Here's the base mesh





For the headgear, I'm not so sure but I chose the 3rd one, inspired from megakabuterimon from digimon, haha:



quick and incomplete paint over:



Here's where I am currently, still adding the armors for sculpting. Still haven't made armors for the lower half and the attachments of the armors.... hope I can finish this xD

mrSuman

I don't think I would be able to reach the deadline, but I'm going to post updates nevertheless. I would still want to finish this.

TigerGD

Maybe you can fake some iridescence by having your spec color contrast your diffuse.

Or if you don't make the deadline, just build a proper iridescent material.

mrSuman

Thanks for the suggestion! haven't tried doing iridescence but i will I still haven't figured out the colors i would use though. I doubt I'd finish in time.

mrSuman

didn't make the deadline. only reached the retopo stage. But still it was a nice experience. here's my last update