[Mixamo Contest] - Omar Pico - Professor (WIP)

opico

Here is my start with some sketches.
So far I know I want to make a Professor.
Good luck everyone!

Anais

Wow great concept drawings! Welcome.

Dryulya

I love it.

opico

Thanks Anais and Dryulya. Glad you like the start!

InfinityComplex

Hey, One question.... Are we allowed to have more than one entry?

opico

Not sure about it Infinity... you should ask in the contest thread.

opico

Looking good guys!
Here is my character BIO. Hopefully I can post some sketches and references this weekend.

opico

I decided I want some sort of anime style for my character.
I think I'm going with N°3 as the base silhoutte.
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Anais

Nice! I say keep the suspenders idea though!

opico

Thanks Anis. I'll consider the suspenders!
Here is some progress with the sculpting.

darkscythe

it reminds me of one the character in Disney Tarzan also the look and feel, very good job

opico

Thanks darkscythe. Maybe the bad guy... Fantastic animated film!

Here is a paintover of the base and some exploration with the height of the character.
I think I'm going with 9 heads (let me know what you think), since I want some anime style in my character. Also reminds me of Jubei from Ninja Scroll, an old time favorite of mine.

Now it's prop time design and then back to scultp.

opico

Looking good guys!
Here is more progress.

opico

I´m almost done with the head. The hair and mustache are provisional.
I think I'm going to put this guy in the context of a cave, so I´ll give him proper props.

So far I have a lamp in his torso belt. Reminds me of the cops in "The Fifth Element".

... maybe the glasses are a bit big...

opico

More progress on the low mesh. It's around 17.000 tris at the moment.
Also sculpted some details and applied the base color and materials.

Now it's time to texture this guy!
...still needs more props...

opico

Here is more progress. Basically I just have to "animate" the character.
I had some difficulties with Blender importing the AutoRig, so I had to switch to Maya.

chudork

looks nice, i like the overall cartoonish look of the character

opico

Thanks chudork. As the project was progressing I realize that I wanted something less cartoony just to change direction from a couple of my latest projects.