HMP Contest - Ziemanskye

Ziemanskye

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9oCK7NkGik"]HMP Contest - Gabrielle (by Ziemanskye) - YouTube[/ame]


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"Also ran" entry, since the cloth sim takes forever and always (*always* :poly127:) seems to explode at frame 47 and I just dont have the time or the patience to fix that, meaning my animation is about 1 second long

Anais

Welcome and good luck Ziemanskye!
Don't forget that the Polycount community is awesome and filled with talented artists: feel free to ask for advice and comments on your work: you'll get help from experienced modelers.

Ziemanskye

Part of why I put my name in for this contest was because I wanted to learn more... and I've so far learnt that I need to work on my sketching/drawing skills.

I seem to have progressed onto a kind of DXHR kind of vein, but I can't draw well enough to show the little details I'd like to add: that may be for the best, since I need make with the model work

Ziemanskye

Didn't take long to go back to the drawing board - It is supposed to be a costume contest, so it might help to have an at least vaguely interesting costume afterall...

Ziemanskye

Updated detail version of the one I liked the most - think I need to darken the colours a bit more, but it shows the general direction I want to go

Ziemanskye

So here's the design I'm playing with for now (and yes, I know that the guidelines don't match on the two images...)



And here's where I'm at with the modelling -


Since the face is garbage (so are the hands but I'll deal with them later), I'm playing paintover on photos to try and work out what I should be doing...

BananaHead

hi there,

here is some reference that helped me a lot when i was studying good facial topology: http://www.phungdinhdung.org/Studies_paper/Realistic_face_modeling.shtm
hope it helps you.

best luck to you

Dryulya

I like the proportions of the body. interesting stylization

Ziemanskye

Slowly making progress:

thanks Bananahead - the link was educational (and it helped solve my problems with the nose)

And Dryula - it's only part stylization; it's almost equally the fact I have no idea how to model people. What I've done before has tended to be more architecture, so even at this incomplete stage this is the best I've ever done at character modelling.

Mixamo auto-rig test
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ0u-UgKk0c"]Test01 - YouTube[/ame]

Houdini cloth test
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4_VtRXF0xA&feature=player_embedded"]Houdini Test 02 - YouTube[/ame]

Textures/Materials need a do-over, and I want to re-model some parts of it to make the Houdini bit easier (and more interesting in the final outcome).

Ziemanskye

More incremental updates: lost the sleeves and hood, because they weren't all that interesting, though the final version may end up with a shrug. Also need to work on the specularity of the material and the render settings

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moE6n6wY3e4"]05Mat09Alt - YouTube[/ame]

Vivi_ZA

lool gangnam style. Cloth looking good dude. Get some more light on the tests so we can see more clearly whats happening, but it looks good goodluck man!