My First Character - Sculpt Feedback [nudity]
Hi guys, working hard here on my first character model.
I'll post what I've done so far and would love some feedback and crit in any areas of my work, but specifically on my sculpt which is where I presently am. I'm going to post my reference images first, however.
Here are some screenshots of my final base mesh, ready for zBrush:
Close up of the head topology:
And finally, my sculpt as is at the moment:
I am aware of some obvious parts that need work on still, such as the lack of alphas across the whole model and the ears still needing to be sculpted in. But please, any feedback, tips, tricks or crit that you think I would benefit from would be greatly useful.
I'll post what I've done so far and would love some feedback and crit in any areas of my work, but specifically on my sculpt which is where I presently am. I'm going to post my reference images first, however.
Here are some screenshots of my final base mesh, ready for zBrush:
Close up of the head topology:
And finally, my sculpt as is at the moment:
I am aware of some obvious parts that need work on still, such as the lack of alphas across the whole model and the ears still needing to be sculpted in. But please, any feedback, tips, tricks or crit that you think I would benefit from would be greatly useful.
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I'm out!
Hahaha, fair play.
I'll give you a reason.
In my class, everybody was picking - as you say, the ta-ta heavy girl - or the muscular man, but I wanted something that would be more interesting to sculpt and something a bit different. I thought the shape of this reference would be a bigger challenge for me than the other reference models.
I guess I brought this upon myself :poly124:
I also never thought about having to justify my choice to anybody outside of the classroom... paying for that one now, too.
It is definitely something I'll consider more closely for my next model, however I don't have the time to go that far back in the process now. I may be able to adjust some of the proportions in my retopology but I don't want it to affect my normal projection too heavily.
Thanks for the suggestion though, here's where I'm at now, I'm going to go ahead and add my alphas soon, assuming I don't get any crit or suggestions that warrant a change to the actual sculpt:
You need to pay more attention to the larger shapes. Push your base mesh to its absolute limits before ever moving forward with detail sculpting, otherwise you are working backwards.
Thank you for the tip. Our tutor wanted our base mesh to be nothing but the general, low poly shape of the reference model however. I think for the people with more muscular references or female subjects there were some other topological considerations, such as pectoral edge loops.
It sounds like this is something you would advise against, in the future, though?
Also you should balance it further, you have a lot of unbalanced thin polystrips right besides wide ones, try to balance all your polies to be evenly spread over the whole sculptmesh
Here is the outcome:
I suppose I should probably talk about the destination and application of this model.
Following a finished sculpt, it will be retop'd for game engines and used to project normal detail onto it.
Disregarding the fact that the reference subject is slightly leaning in the shot, there are clear issues with width and various placements of areas on the body. Unfortunately, I just do not have the time left in the assignment to go back and fix it all with a new/edited base mesh, so I've done what I can in zBrush.
It's clearly a lot better now, at least. Of course, by no means perfect, but I'd like to thank you for pointing out what should of been such obvious problems to me. It's all education.