Sketchbook: Shun Kim

ShunKim

Hey everyone, I'm a currently a student at Gnomon School of VFX and am training to get into the game industry. In this thread, I'll be posting my progress on my project for my class: Character for Games. I've always wanted to design a character and take it from concept to finished asset, so I'm going to make my first honest attempt at it! Any thoughts, feedback, or suggestions along the way are much appreciated. I'm really looking forward to getting involved in the community!

ShunKim

So this is the concept I will be working on. I'll have material sep and a blockout up soon!

sefice

subbed! would love to see this in 3d!

ShunKim

sefice wrote: »

subbed! would love to see this in 3d!

Thanks!

ShunKim

So I made a material separation breakdown for my concept.

ykanoism

W00t! Your character will look awesome in 3d

jinjorz

badasss!

LaynaLazar

I want to see more color change! Everything looks the like same colors

ShunKim

LaynaLazar wrote: »

I want to see more color change! Everything looks the like same colors

thanks for the feedback! a few others have also told me the same thing. good thing is that i can mess around with the colors pretty easily. i'm still pretty undecided on which color schemes look best, so the textures and colors are very well subject to change.

LordSebbington

I can get on board with it being mainly one colour, as long as there's some nice variation in the material textures and subtle colour differences.

This is a sculpt I love for that very reason:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101621

pweisfeld

moar material separation shun! I love your concept, as you know

onelunglewis

Your going to get your best bang for you buck with the differences between the black leathery material and the nice spec of the metal borders.

J-Fletches sculpt is awesome, but there is a long road between having a nice looking render in zbrush and having a successful real time character in game. You could have a beautiful sculpt but the same design in game could turn out completely different.

Play up the contrast that the skin plays on the "one color" and the interesting shapes that the make. Well designed forms are much stronger than a nice texture map.

ShunKim

sweet! thanks for the cool tips. I'll tie that into my concept asap.

ShunKim

here's a quick update of what i have done so far.

ShunKim

more progress, continuing block out. managed to rough out her weapon.

lelatr

cool shunny!!!

pweisfeld

lovin' that sexy hard surface

Stubbs

Nice. Great progress so far.

ShunKim

quick update on my hi-res. not really happy with the skirt yet. i'm going to tweak it a bit.

absorbentghost

Nice work man ,looking forward in seeing more.Did you start the armor in zbrush or straight in maya?

ShunKim

absorbentghost wrote: »

Nice work man ,looking forward in seeing more.Did you start the armor in zbrush or straight in maya?

hey thanks!
i made blockout models for all of her clothes and armor in maya first and then popped them into zbrush.

ShunKim

here's some more progress on my character. retopped game-res mesh is clocking in at around 18.4k tris. i'm currently in the process of UVing.




edit: here's an update on my high res sculpt

ShunKim

update: normal maps and the first AO pass! still needs a lot of cleanup.

marmoset renders:

alecchalmers

Are you gonna pose her with the hourglass eventually? I think that was a nice design choice, and a more dynamic pose.

ShunKim

alecchalmers wrote: »

Are you gonna pose her with the hourglass eventually? I think that was a nice design choice, and a more dynamic pose.

eventually! and thanks

ShunKim

update: working on textures! no spec yet.