Knight Guard 3D Character

MrRagingSunshine

Hello everyone!

My name is Zach Winkler and I wished to post my latest project that I am working on for critique.

I am doing this project with nothing but extracts and base shapes while using this as a chance to crank out my ability to create good silhouette and forms.

Obviously I haven't created every piece for him yet, but I'd love your opinions on where I am currently at in the project so I can fix those ASAP!


Concept I'm working from

Brian "Panda" Choi

I feel like the forms created by the shoulder pads are not stylistically similar to the rest of his armor, like his chest plates or thigh plates, but this should be a relatively quick fix? Unless the pads need to be incongruent to the rest of the armor design?

Otherwise, the thrust of the armor design is clear .

shinminho

wow

DcPunk

I look at the thighs and kind of want to see the armor there flare out to the side. Rotated out a bit. I think it would break his silhouette a little. Not too much of course or else he's going to be smacking his hand and fingers on it constantly and that would be no bueno

Selwy

Could it be, that the legs are a little bit too short?
Cheers,
Selwy

MrRagingSunshine

Wow guys, thanks for the responses and critiques! I really appreciate it.

I made some more armor pieces for him and made some changes to parts based on what you guys said.




As for his height, it looks alright to me but here he is without his armor just to be sure!

garriola83

he looks a tad short for me, but please keep going.

MrRagingSunshine

Once again thanks for the critiques guys I really appreciate it! I got some other critiques and a really awesome paint over and I'd love to show you my progress. Once again please do critique my progress!

Grubber

Nice!
I would suggest to make all armor pieces and belts in polygon modeling software instead of zbrush, and then add damage, ornaments, etc., in zbrush. At least it would work for me Also, maybe he need some cloth hanging behind those hanging armor pieces on the hips?
Good luck!

MrRagingSunshine

Thanks for the comment Grubber. That's what I normally do and it is very effective obviously! This project I wanted to see how extracts could be used effectively, and I think next project I'll know what I can manage better in maya and what can be be drawn up in Zbrush easier than in Maya!

As for cloth, the concept has a cape in it that I make include, though a back cloth might look nicer overall, I'll look into it.

This next update has more polish on it, and I'm digging how it's turning out, what do you guys think?

Grubber

I see. Have you checked Mike Jensen's dvds on hard surface techniques in zbrush?
Anyway it is very interesting how the final model will look like.

Cheers

LRoy

This is looking really nice man. Think maybe the shoulder pads could be a bit more defined (the grooves)

MrRagingSunshine

Thanks for the comments guys! Yes I have seen his vids before, that guy is amazing as making hard surface from simple stuff! I could stand to learn a lot from his stuff. I'll probably need to go over all the armor for another pass, so I'll keep his vids on my other monitor for sure!

But anyway I have another update for you all, I got some wonderful critique from a friend and really touched up the face and hair, and I think it turned out pretty great.

The same friend suggested I model out the chainmail, so I'll be looking into how to do that best! But as always, tell me what you think guys.

MrRagingSunshine

I'm back from the last absence with my latest update, I believe that I'll declare the base sculpt after this and get to retopoing, tell me what you guys think.

I may add a cape later when I create some more props for him, but for now this is what I got!

MrRagingSunshine

Oh hey guys, before I forget, I just wanted to link to the creator of the concept for this guy. Give his site a look if you like how the guy is turning out!

http://edwinchan.ca/

Just wanted to link that as soon as I could, I'm currently in the process of retopoing this guy, so stay tuned!

MrRagingSunshine

Hey all, have a big update for you with my second texture pass complete on my knight. I definitely wanna know what you all think of this update, so give me your critiques!

CJFerguson

I think the textures look good! One thing that strikes me as strange is the armor hanging down over his butt. That one butt triangle just looks off to me. I also think because of that it possibly gives the chain mail underneath too much space on the back side of the character, whereas on the front side it's pretty well balanced with the more solid armor (except for maybe on the arms). Looks good!

MrRagingSunshine

Thanks for commenting Ferguson! Glad you're loving the textures, do you think messing with the shape of the plate would help with the 'balance' issue?

Edit: Also it seems that I forgot two of the belts for the legs on the back, maybe that'll help too haha

sdmitchell

This may sound a little ridiculous, but I think he's looking a little TOO grey right now? Maybe try altering the contrast of greys between materials.

MrRagingSunshine

Nah that's a valid point, the concept does use purple shades and I could stand to include that a bit more. I'll add some in the next pass

thepapercut

Looks really good.

MrRagingSunshine

Hey all thanks again for the critiques and comments, I touched up the texture and did my spec map, and I'm really excited to hear what you think about it!

silkroadgame

Impressing!

Di$array

Maybe by having the leather straps a reddy brown may inject a bit of colour into the piece and would hopefully complement the amazing job you made on the metal plate. While we are talking about the texture I feel the skin is too plastic, try adding additional tones to give it a bit more life.

Sadly the proportion are way off but you could alter them now or in you next piece improved upon it.

MrRagingSunshine

I messed with the belt color and did another texture pass on the face, and I think it looks a lot better. I also messed with the hair based on critique a friend gave me!

As for proportions I'm not sure if I can mess with it too severely with the stage it's at, but I did pull the arms a bit to see if looked nicer!

Croftyness

This type of leather would be really awesome. Give it some grit and texture.
Also make the leather a bit smokey in colour. With different shades of the base colour.

oxblood

MrRagingSunshine wrote: »

Hey all thanks again for the critiques and comments, I touched up the texture and did my spec map, and I'm really excited to hear what you think about it!

wow your spec map had such a good result. really nice

MrRagingSunshine

Hey man, thanks, I really like how the spec map added to it as well!

I'm at the home stretch, want to know what you guys think about him! I'm really happy with all I've learned on this guy alone, and I can't wait to apply it to future projects!