Portfolio Creation: Bringing my 2D concepts to 3D

Farva

There are several reasons why I am making this thread so I will just list out a few of them.

1) I am graduating in 6 months so I need to get my portfolio ready and I would love your guys help.
2) I will be bringing all my 2d concepts into 3d and showing my process along the way.(I don't really know what I'm doing, which leads me to #3)
3) If you guys show me a more efficient process I can try that on my next character (I will be doing at least 3).
4) If anyone has any questions on how I am doing whatever I will be happy to share.
5) This is my first time posting my art up anywhere besides facebook, so it will be good to get feedback from you guys.

So that's about it, I hope to learn a lot from this and I hope that anyone who stumbles along this thread can learn a little something too.

Also crits are welcome on anything (character design, process, colors, modeling etc), I want to learn as much from this as I can.

Still a WIP, but I'm moving on till I can get some feedback, or start polishing after my next character is done.

DiegoTeran

i guess start sculpting?

Farva

That is the plan, base mesh of my first character should be up by tonight.

DiegoTeran

awesome ill keep an eye out on the thread buddy. good luck

Farva

Just finished the base mesh for my first character. I might have to rework some of the typo to get the poly count a little lower but I'm done for tonight. Let me know what you guys think. Next step zbrush

Farva

Quick update with the weapon, now time to take it into zbrush, yay!

Farva

Something that I have noticed with my models is that I haven't presented them very well. First tip I have is read this article I found on another thread about presentation:
http://seanvangorder.com/blog/?p=24
Awesome article with some great tips, I will do my best to follow this with the rest of my posts.

DiegoTeran

yea sean is very smart with his work. he is great at presentation. also try and look up the other post about presentation we started. i think its actually the same one lol anyways, good so far but i suggest maybe some bigger images?

Farva

Quick zbrush update. You aren't really going to see his chest and what not below his armor but I figured I would get some anatomy practice in while I'm at it. I should be finishing the sculpt in the next week so ill keep updating. Let me know what you guys think, crits more than welcome, cheers!

DiegoTeran

not bad not bad! his mouth could use a little work and also his forearm.

i love the armor

dragonxxxv

sculpt is looking good dude, nice damage on the armor just inside the scratches there's not much detail in there so smooth a little bit on those huge deep gouges

Add3r

Still got awkward mouth, but I do really really love the progress of where the pauldrons are going after seeing the begin of the sculpt

BTW, really like your presentation in this last post as well. Great improvement.

Farva

Thanks for all the crits guys! I haven't gotten around to fixing his mouth or forarm yet but I will definitely do so. Here is where I'm at right now. A problem I ran into that I wasn't sure how to do is how to make a texture follow the "flow" of a character on cloth and what not. If you look at his chest drape that is what I'm talking about. The texture doesn't follow the flow of the drapes up into the arm like it's supposed to. If anyone know how to do that or knows of any good tutorials let me know.

Dilkesy

looking really good man

Farva

Thanks man I'll hopefully have the rest of the sculpt done in the next day or two.

Stormfreek

This is sick man! Keep up the awesome work!

MetaAlex

Dude I'm sitting next to you!! keep it up. Good use of those brushes! Digging those decals!

Farva

Sorry for the late update, baking this guy down took a while to get right. Going from low poly to high poly back down to low poly isn't the workflow I would recommend and I'm excited to do everything in zbrush on my next character.

I'm pretty happy with the way this bake turned out with a few exceptions, let me know what you guys think.

storyart

This is looking super awesome! I think the bake turned out great. Keep up the good work and keep us posted!

Farva

Now that I've rendered this out I see a few things I want to change, but his armor texture is pretty much done. Let me know what you guys think, as always crits are more than welcome.

Farva

I'm going to move on from this guy for now. There are still a few things I need to do for him (his weapon beard, some effects etc.) but I'm calling him done till I finish my next character. As always crits and comments more than welcome.

Farva

Just finished the hi poly for my next character. I'm liking the hi to low poly workflow much better. The retypo process might take me a bit as I have never done it but I will update as soon as I have some good progress.

As always crit and comment away, I would love some feedback.