WIP Warrior

LungFatang

Hi guys, I'm taking the steps to learn 3D, I've learned blender and gave my shot at my 3rd character model. Lemme know what you guys think thus far and any tips maybe?

My goal is for a low polycount model that is rigged to animate. As soon as I'm finished with this modeling step I'm going to move on to texturing.

ASGUARDVIKING

Hey dude, not to bad. I think for animation ya will need a little more loops around the shoulder area. keep it up.

LungFatang

Started texturing him...

LungFatang

Just a quick update of the texture

Vertrucio

Did you fix the lack of edge loops in the neck and shoulder area? He's not going to deform well at all.

Also, don't just paint on the shorts, either break away polys to put shorts on top of the model, or change the model itself to incorporate the shorts' form in polygons.

You're getting ahead of yourself, take the time to learn it.

LungFatang

Hi Vertuclo,

I added a loop in his neck as per asguardviking's advice. My plan is to incorporate the "shorts" into the base texture as undergarments. I will create separate models for armor to go on top of the base model.

My goal is to create a low poly figure with emphasis on the drawn texture. Is the way I'm going about this goal still wrong? My main inspiration for this model was that of World of Warcraft's human model... It appears to me that Blizzard has painted on the undershorts of their models.

Please correct me if I'm wrong as I am still fairly new to this game.

Thank you guys for your critiques, they are VERY welcome

-Lung

LungFatang

Here is what I've added to the neck.

Vertrucio

While blizzard does paint the undershorts on their models, they also model them to include space for those models. This includes space around the crotch, because shorts of the time weren't form fitting. The shorts also hang off the butt in the back, rather than form fitting there.

Show your edge loops with shaded wireframe, rather than see through wireframe. It's hard to tell if some problem areas are just backfacing edges, or problems in the flow.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Load your model to p3d.in. Its an awesome way to let other people see the model in a native environment.

This needs concept art that expclicitly describes what this IS. Right now, it's still sort of unclear what you want this to look like exactly,s o it's hard to talk about gesture, silhouettes, etc.

LungFatang

Thank you guys so much for taking your time for the advice, this is very helpful to me.

Here are 2 shot of the neck area. I'm also working on the shorts problem as we speak.

LungFatang

I have been working on modeling the shorts a bit.

Vertrucio

Collapse that weird split along the symmetry seam at the back of the neck and move that change in detail up to the top of the head where, usually, hair can cover it and it doesn't matter since it doesn't deform that much.

Right now, you're going to run into some odd deformations in that area.

LungFatang

Here is the collapsed vertecies and his modeled shorts.

LungFatang

This is the model as I've left it today.