ESCAPE – Assassination – Sami_M

Sami_M

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Hi everybody,

I'm new to the Polycount forums. My idea is to show a historical japanese castle and a ninja girl escaping after she has assassinated her target. Aim is to have more cartoony and colorful visuals. I'm working with Zbrush and using spheres with dynamesh to block in my shapes. I also polypainted some colors to show her form better. Feedback is most welcome. Here's my progress so far.

Conor

Lots of style and personality in this already. Off to a great start.

Lord Fryingpan

Very nice indeed, can't wait to see more !

Sami_M

Thanks guys. I'm just starting to refine her body further. I'll try to get it done today and start working on her costume tomorrow.

AimBiZ

Nice start although she looks more European than Japanese at the moment. Look up reference and pay close attention to the nose and eyes. Mulan could be a good inspiration as well on stylized Asian faces.

Sami_M

Thanks for the feedback. I'll tweak her eyes when I have the body done. Nose is going to be a tricky.

AimBiZ

From what I've seen, compared to Caucasian the nose tends to slant outwards rather than inwards, or downwards depending on how one sees it. That would be a good place to start I think.
http://photo.pixmac.com/4/pixmac-photo-51450099.jpg

akacg

Great start!

Sami_M

Thanks akacg

I just finished her arm but I'm now having serious problems with resymmetry. Everytime I mirror her hand it breaks the whole model. I haven't had this kind of problem before. Probably it's something do with dynamesh. I think I'll retopo her now and make the needed adjustments for her body and face. That will also clear out the mirroring problem. Also it's lot easier to make adjustments then. Her body looks bit awkward now but she will look a lot smoother when I do the new topology.

akacg

Im sure when you make the new topo and repoject or mirror then it will work hopefully...

Sami_M

I did a rough block out of her clothing. I still need to add arm guards and socks before I polish her further. Instead of retopologizing her now I just decided to copy her right arm and mirror it. Its not attached to the body but it really doesn't matter because she now has some clothing to cover the problem area.

AimBiZ

She doesn't look much like an assassin at the moment. She need attire that conceals her identity, like the classic hood and mouth cover. Those could actually help the eyes stand out more.
The knees needs to be lowered as well. Yes, it's stylized but her calves look elongated atm.
I think it would help if you did some drawing over the body mesh for the costume design before even blocking the model out, so you have less technical constraints.

Sami_M

I'm not going with the traditional ninja route, more like Naruto. I want more style, color and humor. I'm also planning to use stylized rendering methods like outlines, cellshading combined with hand painted textures. But I agree that a maskless assassin might not work. That is where the environment and story telling comes to play. She is also missing her ninja equipment. When I have all the pieces together I start to polish her get rid of all the problem areas. She is still pretty rough around the edges.

Here's a sword basemesh that I did during my lunch break.