[Mixamo Contest ] - theXyronDilemma - Conrad "Steampunk Pilot"

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UPDATE:


So, I'm new to Polycount and new to contests too.

I've been wanting to do this character for a while and this contest is the perfect excuse to finally model him out. His name is Conrad and he has a fraternal twin sister named Felicia, who I did a low-poly model of back in grad school. The gameplay mechanic I had going for this duo was that it would be a co-op 3rd person shooter/flight combat game where each character would switch off either piloting a plane or being on the ground in combat. If you're on the ground, when the plane is still up in the air, they way you'd get back into the plane is to use your electric/magnetic glove to grapple hook your way back up, kinda like the Bionic Commando arm.

Here's my concept and turnaround.

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Here's a progress shot of the Zbrush model so far.

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And here's another progress shot with his clothes.

ArtisticTiger

Love this concept are you going to texture him as well?

Oh and if you dont mind, how did you model the clothing?(I'm working on char with a coat but the collar stands up.) I'm fairly new in the modeling world.

theXyronDilemma

Thanks! I'm going to texture him as well using Polypaint in Zbrush and then clean up the textures in Photoshop.

And I modeled the clothing in Zbrush by masking areas off of the body and extracting them into a new SubTool. For the detail, I mostly just used the Standard brush and the hPolish brush to make the creases a little more crisp. Hope this helps.

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Here's some progress. Just adding details like the buttons on the vest and the buckles on the shoes. Also started working on his goggles which are also prescription eyeglasses. I call them goggle glasses. Please don't sue me, Google.

AA3D

love it
specially that jacket
itll take forever to unbutton it i guess lol
great work and good luck

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Here are a couple more progress shots. I'm slightly behind where I'd like to be but I'll use the upcoming weekend to catch up. I'm also in the process of redesigning his glove.

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Thanks, AA3D. He doesn't need to spend too much time unbuttoning the jacket/vest since he could always just slip it off like you would with a t-shirt.

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I'm not finished with the glove but I wanted to start polypainting. I'm liking the progress so far. *shrug

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An update on polypainting. I think I'm happy with what I have so far. Critiques welcome!

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Here's another progress shot.

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Here's my low-poly so far. I'm halfway through baking out the normal maps. The game model is sitting at 19,434 tris right now.

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Here's the latest progress shot of Conrad's low-poly game model. He's at 19,602 tris and this is a screenshot from Maya's High Quality Rendering viewport. I'm going to upload this model to Mixamo and continue working on the texturing.