WIP Character critique please

rogermein1

Hi

I've been working on a special costume model for an upcoming mobile app 'Now You're Dead' which I would like to get some feedback on. The costume is based off the designs for ME and Dead Space series and is supposed to be an unlockable bonus costume for the game. I'm basically looking to see if anyone can spot deficiencies/things in the model:

Here is the main still image:



Here are the various camera shots and wireframe images to show the breakdown:





and the zbrush model:



and the texture maps:




Software used included 3DS Max, ZBrush, Mudbox and Photoshop for final composites. Final triangle count for the model is 4750. Any critiques would be appreciated, especially things that I can improve. Thanks in advance!

BradMyers82

Cool character! The perspective in your beauty render is off. The character is more in front of the camera, so the horizon going that far up doesn't really make sense. The lighting is very cool, but doesn't quite match either. I think the biggest thing to work on is how the metal is reading. It currently reads more as stone than metal. This has a lot to do with you adding too much noise in the diffuse. Leave that to mainly the spec and try to pull the edges out more with subtle detail. I think if the character had an overall cleaner look it would read much better in general. You could destroy a part of the suit here and there with rocket damage or something, but its important you don't uniformaly add the details, you want the eye to travel around the character with interesting details here and there (subtle details go a long way!) Great job though, I would love to see you push this further!

rogermein1

Hi Brad

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, the perspective is off...I can't believe I didn't notice that before. Then again, I'm very bad at making backgrounds. I based the concept on the battlefield 3 cover. That should have tipped me off right away .

Yeah, I've been experimenting with the metal and it's shininess/gloss factor and I haven't really come to combination that I really like. I guess trying to use the original ME armor concept got me kind of confused. The thing is I don't want it too shiny since the armor is supposed to be battleworn. I'm going to have to keep experimenting with that.

Thanks again for the feedback, really helpful!

rogermein

Texelion

Damn I immediately thought "this look like a mix between dead space and ME...". Nice.

Good luck for the metal, it's always hard ^^.

rogermein1

Hi Texelion

Thanks, hopefully I'll think of something nice .

rogermein

silkroadgame

Hi Brad,
This is an excellent character! Looking at those texturesand your zbrush model,really good.
Btw,I think this's female,right? Lol....

typechristopher

Yea great work, the texture really sells it. Good job.

Now it just needs more badass weapons

typechristopher

Yea great work, the texture really sells it. Good job.

Now it just needs more badass weapons

shaheb123

Wonderful creation try again.

rogermein1

@silkroadgame
Thanks! Yep, it's supposed to be a female character. Hard to tell with so many layers .

@estinto
Thanks, glad you like it! Next time, I'll arm her with a machine gun!

rogermein1

Hi

Just a quick update on the model:



Took Brad's advice and updated the costume so the metal parts of the costume looks more like actual metal than stone. Also adjusted the background because the perspective for the city wasn't proper. Any comments on the latest version is welcome. Thanks!

Shiniku

An improvement for sure! Good work.

rogermein1

Thanks Shiniku! Glad you like it.