I love the Allison Brie, Korra, and Hawkeye! They're pretty spot on. I think the Mabel Pines could still use a bit more work. It's a bit hard to take such a characterized person and sculpt them in a different style.
@nickcomeau
Hey, thank you! Yes, it is hard to capture likeness if i'm using a different style from the original, but i want to practice on it. Still tring to capture her cuteness!
Here's Mabel with a little tweak here and there.
If i'm watching something new, and turn out it was awesome, i always had a sudden urge to do a fan art of it.
Something to throw into the pile of my work. A quick one, revision come later.
Can't resist to do Kiryuin Satsuki once i see her in short hair. My kind of kawaii.
Kill la Kill surprisingly good and deep, huh, i'm amazed.
HP done. Working on lowpoly now. Just a bit improvement overall.
Tweaked her anatomy a bit, especially hand and mouth.
Made her hair to have a bit more substance, add buttons on her shirt and tweaked overall folds.
Fixed the belt on her skirt, and used new pattern on her shoes.
You have some really solid work, and I'm especially impressed at how varied of styles you are working.
If I was evaluating all of this as is, as a portfolio for a job application, my biggest complaint is that there isn't enough finished work. Lots of busts, partial textures, or screengrabs without presentation lighting.
If you are still just focusing on learning and technique, this is fine, but I would also suggest taking the pieces you are most happy with, while you still like them, and make some more finalized presentation. Larger images, full body assets with textures, with a pose and lighting. Your joker character is probably the best at this.
@Poopinmymouth
Thank you for the kind words and feedback. Appreciated them.
I realized i've abandoned a lot of project because i was bored too quickly, and my motivation is not as high as i expected.
I'm doing a bust mostly because i worked on my low-spec laptop, so i'm keeping it simple and not add too many detail. And just like you said, with this limitation, i'm trying to explore every different styles i could do.
I'm not really good at presenting my model, and i always wanted to quickly posted them so i could get a feedback. I don't really want to spend hours tinkering with rendering.
But with all of that, i'm still definitely trying to up my game though. Probably starting with my Satsuki here.
Thank you again for the feedback!
Anyway, cleaned up the bakes, added base color, and giving her a quick pose.
There will be a bag in her left hand in the final presentation, so for now, ignore the awkward floating hand.
Only AO + Base Color + Normal now. 13k tris so far.
This is looking really good man! I think the cloth work is especially nice and what's really selling it. I think the hand is gonna look a bit awkward regardless of the bag tho. Anatomically it looks slightly off, and I think drawing attention to it with this pose isn't the best idea. anyway, looking forward to seeing the final piece!
@Bradmyers
Yeah, honestly i suck at hands. But my rig is pretty basic and still wonky, so probably thats why it looks a bit off.
Thanks, and i'll keep working on it.
@Jakub
Hey, thanks. But truthfully, looking back at it made me realize my mistakes, haha.
Anyway, since poopinmymouth mention my Joker, i actually wanted a long time ago to re-render it since it was the first model i actually spend much of my time and felt proud of it. But i used multiple maps for each part of the body, and it looks like a pain in the ass to fix them, so i don't bother to try.
But i definitely tried it today though. Took me some time, but worth it, i think. Here it is.
Alright, so I'm bad with words so here's a paint-over
Essentially a few proportion changes. Bigger/lower eyes, shorter face and longer nose. Some adjustments to the hair are also good. I do like the direction so far.
@Kosh
Thanks for the kind word and paintover.
I thought it was good at the time, but now that you have pointed it out, i'm looking back at it, it does look off. Will fixed it.
I think for presentation it works better for you if the borders on the comic strip image are not red. Its a strong color and it takes away from the main subject presented. The others are great though!
@TomGT
Thank you for the suggestion. Agreed that it was too bright, I'll do something about it.
I'm so glad that i could nailed her likeness.
@Alemja
Ah, yes, her legs, i see it. I was sleepy at the time i posted the presentation shot, and i didn't realize my mistakes. Definitely will have to check them out.
Thank you for the kind words. Wrinkles used to be my enemies, so i'm glad i could get past that. Still not satisfied with her skirt though, but my poor laptop already giving it up.
Anyway, the textures i used in the presentation are in 4096, but for sketchfab, i resize it down to 1024.
And i actually could crunch down the tris count, especially at her face area. But since my original target was 15k, and i strike below that limit, i didn't do anything about it, haha :poly124:
Thanks again for the suggestions and criticism. I'll do a final tweak at her model before moving on to another project.
My realistic skill is kinda rusty, so i'm thinking of continuing my Allison Brie bust for my next one.
I forgot that i had this lying around on my hard drive.
This will be my next project to finish. Based on fightpunch 'dude 8' concept.
I'm tweaking overall detail atm, but i had to lower my subdivision level to show my whole model, because i always got 'low memory' problem. Excuse my low spec laptop, haha.
Will separate some parts so i could give a little more detail on each parts.
@artofmars Thank you for the link! I'm going to try it. I've been pulling my hair out these days trying to make his hair to look right. Hopefully those tips will help.
Thanks again, @artofmars , at least now i know how to do hair, even though it still unoptimized
Update. Hair poly count is way too high, and reducing them would be a pain in the ass. I guess i'll leave them as it is for now until i learn some new tips. Will do overall tweak next, so ignore his beard and the ugly shadowing on his top hair for now.
@artofmars Thanks for the critique. I'll keep that in mind when i revisited him later on.
Anyway, started another character, Shinobu Oshino, or Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade from Monogatari Series. Just in time for Kizumonogatari hype. Not really happy with her face, and havent touch her feet yet.
Putting my Musashi Miyamoto on Sketchfab. There's still many slight errors in many places, though. model EDIT: Linking sketchfab to polycount is kinda broken, i guess
And putting initial color and lighting on Shinobu. Still not sure whether to go traditional handpainted, or simple anime-like coloring.
@kodde It was nothing fancy, in fact i have no idea what i was doing lol. It's Marmoset with three point lighting + upward blue directional lighting. I wanted to have her shadow color to match with Kizumonogatari poster (check google, can't linked it now), a bit blue-ish purple. Can't seem to get it right tho, so i just mock everything up till i find the one i liked best.
And the texture is just baked occlusion with simple color on top of it. Havent touched anything at all, except for her eyes. Im going to posed her first before touching her overall material maps.
Last WIP from me. Going to do overall texture work now. I wanted her to look like Persona Dancing All Night character style, so i ditch the lighting, but still not sure if i could nail it though
Practicing a lowpoly and stylized female character after months not touching 3d app. Supposed to be Jennifer Conelly, but i'm not that good with likeness.
I would definitely bring some more warmth to the face, looks like your AO might be set to multiply changing that to a low color burn could add some more warmth.
I also feel like there can be more variation and contrast in the gloss map.
Looking very clean and the stylized wrinkles looks nice!
I would definitely bring some more warmth to the face, looks like your AO might be set to multiply changing that to a low color burn could add some more warmth.
I also feel like there can be more variation and contrast in the gloss map.
Looking very clean and the stylized wrinkles looks nice!
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll try to make it more warm. And i have to admit that i don't exactly know how gloss map actually works, i'm just trying to copy some other people works and see the changes myself to further my knowledge.
Definitely going to keep those in mind as i started my new projects. Thanks again EDIT: Heres the model in sketchfab viewer model
Getting back on my Hotline Miami fanart. Going to do a diorama of the promotional poster, with pixelated PS1 era spec, seems like a perfect fit to it. Each character model is below 500 tris, with 256x256 map.
Have done 4 model so far, Jacket with Aubrey (Pig) Mask, the Girlfriend/Hooker, the Russian mafias and a dead one. Going to add variations of the enemies by using different textures, hair, and weapon.
So far, only finished the texture of Jacket, and the dead mafia.
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Riza Hawkeye from Fullmetal Alchemist.
Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls
Hey, thank you! Yes, it is hard to capture likeness if i'm using a different style from the original, but i want to practice on it. Still tring to capture her cuteness!
Here's Mabel with a little tweak here and there.
If i'm watching something new, and turn out it was awesome, i always had a sudden urge to do a fan art of it.
Can't resist to do Kiryuin Satsuki once i see her in short hair. My kind of kawaii.
Kill la Kill surprisingly good and deep, huh, i'm amazed.
Maybe i'll do Junketsu later too, but in it original form.
Tweaked her anatomy a bit, especially hand and mouth.
Made her hair to have a bit more substance, add buttons on her shirt and tweaked overall folds.
Fixed the belt on her skirt, and used new pattern on her shoes.
Thanks! Hope i do her justice though.
Going to model a handbag and pedestal for final presentation, since the design is a bit to simple.
Been tinkering with lowpoly these days, and manage to bake this morning. Had to relearn everything, haha.
Still need to cleaned it up a bit before going berserk into texturing.
Here's the texture placement
Is there any tutorial on how to tackle handpainted PBR rendering for character out there?
Wanted to learn them, but found none.
If I was evaluating all of this as is, as a portfolio for a job application, my biggest complaint is that there isn't enough finished work. Lots of busts, partial textures, or screengrabs without presentation lighting.
If you are still just focusing on learning and technique, this is fine, but I would also suggest taking the pieces you are most happy with, while you still like them, and make some more finalized presentation. Larger images, full body assets with textures, with a pose and lighting. Your joker character is probably the best at this.
Thank you for the kind words and feedback. Appreciated them.
I realized i've abandoned a lot of project because i was bored too quickly, and my motivation is not as high as i expected.
I'm doing a bust mostly because i worked on my low-spec laptop, so i'm keeping it simple and not add too many detail. And just like you said, with this limitation, i'm trying to explore every different styles i could do.
I'm not really good at presenting my model, and i always wanted to quickly posted them so i could get a feedback. I don't really want to spend hours tinkering with rendering.
But with all of that, i'm still definitely trying to up my game though. Probably starting with my Satsuki here.
Thank you again for the feedback!
Anyway, cleaned up the bakes, added base color, and giving her a quick pose.
There will be a bag in her left hand in the final presentation, so for now, ignore the awkward floating hand.
Only AO + Base Color + Normal now. 13k tris so far.
Yeah, honestly i suck at hands. But my rig is pretty basic and still wonky, so probably thats why it looks a bit off.
Thanks, and i'll keep working on it.
@Jakub
Hey, thanks. But truthfully, looking back at it made me realize my mistakes, haha.
Anyway, since poopinmymouth mention my Joker, i actually wanted a long time ago to re-render it since it was the first model i actually spend much of my time and felt proud of it. But i used multiple maps for each part of the body, and it looks like a pain in the ass to fix them, so i don't bother to try.
But i definitely tried it today though. Took me some time, but worth it, i think. Here it is.
And here's the material, nothing fancy.
EDIT - sketchfab
[SKETCHFAB]3837291669734bb295dee3c0884e78d3[/SKETCHFAB]
Essentially a few proportion changes. Bigger/lower eyes, shorter face and longer nose. Some adjustments to the hair are also good. I do like the direction so far.
That joker is really cool by the way
Thanks for the kind word and paintover.
I thought it was good at the time, but now that you have pointed it out, i'm looking back at it, it does look off. Will fixed it.
Anyway, update on Satsuki Kiryuin texture.
I'll tone down the environment a bit, kinda makes it hard to focus on my char.
Finally done, kinda rushed, but happy with the results.
Suggestion are welcomed, i could probably fixed them later.
Sketchfab
[SKETCHFAB]864f4b6a04e540d1ab9dda692c13d460[/SKETCHFAB]
I think for presentation it works better for you if the borders on the comic strip image are not red. Its a strong color and it takes away from the main subject presented. The others are great though!
Thank you for the suggestion. Agreed that it was too bright, I'll do something about it.
I'm so glad that i could nailed her likeness.
@Alemja
Ah, yes, her legs, i see it. I was sleepy at the time i posted the presentation shot, and i didn't realize my mistakes. Definitely will have to check them out.
Thank you for the kind words. Wrinkles used to be my enemies, so i'm glad i could get past that. Still not satisfied with her skirt though, but my poor laptop already giving it up.
Anyway, the textures i used in the presentation are in 4096, but for sketchfab, i resize it down to 1024.
And i actually could crunch down the tris count, especially at her face area. But since my original target was 15k, and i strike below that limit, i didn't do anything about it, haha :poly124:
Thanks again for the suggestions and criticism. I'll do a final tweak at her model before moving on to another project.
My realistic skill is kinda rusty, so i'm thinking of continuing my Allison Brie bust for my next one.
This will be my next project to finish. Based on fightpunch 'dude 8' concept.
I'm tweaking overall detail atm, but i had to lower my subdivision level to show my whole model, because i always got 'low memory' problem. Excuse my low spec laptop, haha.
Will separate some parts so i could give a little more detail on each parts.
Thanks.
Cloth is sculpted manually. Haven't tried marvelous yet, but it seems interesting.
This is the concept, 'Dude 8' by Fightpunch.
Redoing my fan art of Musashi Miyamoto from Inoue Takehiko's manga 'Vagabond'. WIP.
http://polycount.com/discussion/163282/the-warchief-fan-art-real-time#latest
Thank you for the link! I'm going to try it.
I've been pulling my hair out these days trying to make his hair to look right. Hopefully those tips will help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S8ObUr-Arg&index=15&list=PLqsQQ9PW1WI2qINl6MM6GrBrxu6G6lfzF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v13EPr4DCs8
good luck! can't wait to see progress
Holy shit man. Thanks again for the help! Cant wait to try it out myself!
To keep my post a little bit informative, here is the kind of hair i like to achieve in the final presentation
Hopefully i could do justice to Inoue Takehiko's amazing art in 3d form.
Update. Hair poly count is way too high, and reducing them would be a pain in the ass. I guess i'll leave them as it is for now until i learn some new tips. Will do overall tweak next, so ignore his beard and the ugly shadowing on his top hair for now.
Thanks for the critique. I'll keep that in mind when i revisited him later on.
Anyway, started another character, Shinobu Oshino, or Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade from Monogatari Series. Just in time for Kizumonogatari hype. Not really happy with her face, and havent touch her feet yet.
model
EDIT: Linking sketchfab to polycount is kinda broken, i guess
And putting initial color and lighting on Shinobu.
Still not sure whether to go traditional handpainted, or simple anime-like coloring.
I'm curious what rendering engine/environment you are using for this last piece?
It was nothing fancy, in fact i have no idea what i was doing lol. It's Marmoset with three point lighting + upward blue directional lighting. I wanted to have her shadow color to match with Kizumonogatari poster (check google, can't linked it now), a bit blue-ish purple. Can't seem to get it right tho, so i just mock everything up till i find the one i liked best.
And the texture is just baked occlusion with simple color on top of it. Havent touched anything at all, except for her eyes. Im going to posed her first before touching her overall material maps.
Well I like it
Hey, thanks.
I liked the results too, but it might change after i'm done editing the overall texture material though.
Last WIP from me. Going to do overall texture work now. I wanted her to look like Persona Dancing All Night character style, so i ditch the lighting, but still not sure if i could nail it though
model
I also feel like there can be more variation and contrast in the gloss map.
Looking very clean and the stylized wrinkles looks nice!
Definitely going to keep those in mind as i started my new projects. Thanks again
EDIT: Heres the model in sketchfab viewer
model
Have done 4 model so far, Jacket with Aubrey (Pig) Mask, the Girlfriend/Hooker, the Russian mafias and a dead one. Going to add variations of the enemies by using different textures, hair, and weapon.
So far, only finished the texture of Jacket, and the dead mafia.