Sheik - Ocarina of Time - Redesign

EmJaeR

So while I was trying to design the second outfit for my Celtic Redesign of Link, nothing was really grabbing me so I took a step back and ended up at Sheik! However this version she isn't manish (or a man depending how you look at it), she is a tough badass woman. I'm trying to stay away from the over sexualized models I've been seeing of women with perfect hourglass bombshell proportions with, lets face it, useless armor and protection. I'm going for a more built version and staying away from the giant wedgie tight pants. Sound off!!

suspectlogic

cool, i'm doing a zelda redesign project myself. I'd recheck her head size. it seems a little small

EmJaeR

Thanks! You may be right. I'll look into tweaking it a bit, shouldn't be much of a problem.

EmJaeR

Small update, enlarged head a bit added some detail in to match the level of detail done with my previous model. Also gave her a dagger and throwing needles.

Tits

Love this
Really nice detailing work looking forward to see more!

EmJaeR

Thanks Tits! By the way I really liked your Fan art of Ellie. Top Notch!

dand3d

I like it, but I thought the idea of Sheik was that people would think it was a male.

HomeGrownHeroz

Great work mate, how have you done the pattern on the boots?

EmJaeR

@dand3d - Yea you're right, the initial idea is for people to think it was a male. But I just felt like taking a different spin on it. The way I thought of it was that it's already been discovered she's Zelda but she wants to continue to battle sans dress :P.

@HomeGrownHeroz - The patterns were done using Standard brush with an alpha and the DragRect stroke. I have a library of a bunch of celtic designs and I just found some that I like and tweak or re-create them in a way that I need them to be. For the boots specifically I would mask out the exact area where I want the design to be and then use the DragRect to get it on. The trickiest thing was just matching them up if I had to do the DragRect on different angles. It's quite simple once you have the design you are looking for

HomeGrownHeroz

Awesome job though. I presumed they were done with alphas, was just impressed that you managed to get the patterns nicely placed in

Lavitz

Excited to see your progress on this, loved your link redesign.
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EmJaeR

Thanks all!! Alright I think I'm pretty much done the sculpt (Unless someone points out some major critiques). Thanks to the ladies that gave me some helpful feedback!

jksl

her face is so masculine..

AlexKola

Can't wait to play Link's Uncharted! lol Keep it up man.

EmJaeR

Threw down some base colors on her. Still have a lot of cleaning up and tweaks and such to do.

Chris Kuhner

Wow man, looks great so far! Though I think you could get away with lightening up the color palette on her a bit and brightening some of the colors. The combination of low value/contrast and desaturated colors leads to it being a bit muddy. Try to avoid pure black and use a color instead. Can't wait to see more of this.

EmJaeR

@Chris - Thanks man! Yea I can agree with you getting right of some of the super darks. This was my first pass and just base colors so I can definitely lighten up some of the areas and rid of the pure blacks that are popping up.

EmJaeR

Quick Update, Just brightened some of the colors and changed some of the trim.

EmJaeR

Another quick update. I tweaked the colors and added some variants. Play to keep it all hand painted so I'm trying different techniques. Some work some don't but it's a learning experience. Also tweaked the lighting into something that would be closer to the final render and match the Link Redesign I did previously.

citizen_j

digging the textures!
Nitpicking: In the model there's this concavity between the front and inner thigh muscles. To me it looks just a tiny bit strange. maybe BULGE THE CROTCH! or the inner thigh.

Might help if you just brighten the texture in that area.

EmJaeR

@citizen_j - Thanks! As for the thigh I'll look into tweaking some things and seeing how it goes

Here's an update. Got some clean up to do and break up some of the perfections. Still have the spec and gloss maps to do.

LRoy

Looking good. I think some of the armor could break up the silhouette a bit more.

EmJaeR

Thanks LRoy! I appreciate the suggestion but I don't think I will be adding any armor. It would stray too far away from the design of Sheik plus it's too far in the project to add armor if I was going to. If anything I would just bring out the should cloth and leather more. Thanks though!!

LRoy

I didn't mean add armor, I meant that if that turnaround was just a black silhouette rotating it would look like a naked female with a poncho on haha. I think just pulling out the edges of the existing armor would be fine, but not sure how lowpoly this is.

EmJaeR

Ah yes, sorry I misread that. Hmm I'll test some things out with the shoulders but the leather on the legs and arms won't change as Sheik does have a very slim silhouette other than her shoulders and the big anime hair, this doesn't diverge too much from it.

EmJaeR

Alright so I think I'm pretty much done with the textures unless someone points out something major. I need to move onto mesh clean up, rigging and posing.

Gheromo

Looking good! I think AO overall is too strong in many detailed areas causing them to become very noisy, perhaps tone down and color it so that there is less black lines all over the place.

EmJaeR

Fixed some of the darks and such. Tweaked the lighting as well.

Fingus

Looking good. The pose is still rather stiff though. I want her to do something with her left arm as right now it's sorta just hanging there unnaturally. Perhaps have her reaching for the knife at her back?
She's standing straight up now, stiff as a board, which I feel doesn't really suit her. She should be more loose and nimble, or perhaps in an action pose of some sort.
Take a look at some of the official art:

darknessbear

Wow... that looks incredible. Nice job.

EmJaeR

Thanks guys!
@Fingus : Yea I agree it's a bit stiff. I'm still playing around with different poses, I have a plethora of the official art as well as screens from the games I'm looking at. Your first image is one of the main poses I want to try but only thing is that is covers up a lot of the model (The second image even more) that's why I want to have at least one of her standing so you can see the model in full.
I've been working on some variation of the first image while still trying to have the model shown. Thanks though . Always appreciate crits!

EmJaeR

Updated with new pose!

AlexKola

hrmm looks cool, I think I'd like to see either a backlight, or a lightened bg for some character poppage tho, what do you think?

XemnasKH

Nice work, this turned out pretty good. Keep it up.

EmJaeR

Here is the most recent version of it I had it done a bit after the current one posted but just didn't want to spam

kez-muff

Looks awesome. I don't know why but the first thing I noticed was the colour of her eyes, I don't want to sound like a nitpiky fanboy or anything but they should be red. Everthing else looks great though