Orroro Monroe (Mohawk) For Handheld

Azure_Dragon

Another university assignment, in which i have to select and create a comic character, once created the art style would need to be also used to texture the character. I have chosen Orroro Monroe (AKA Storm). During this process i'm looking forward to the critique and general discussions about the work. This is my second character sculpt and i'm looking to improve my workflow, my overall sculpting skills and hopefully add some sort of likeness to the character.


Below is the Mowhawk Version on Storm i am creating.





Started of with the face

neilberard

Hmmmm... are you working with any other reference?

Azure_Dragon

Yup i am but theirs not much on her actual face facing completely flush forward, its always tilted slightly, ill put up more references of her Mowhawk look up later on today

neilberard

Faces are really hard. Going off just the drawings is not good enough. I would say go get some good human reference and work out the proportions. I would recommend using separate spheres for the eyes. You may have already done that, but looking at it appears to be sculpted in the mesh. If you need the iris/pupil for reference, just model it out in max/maya, there are many eye tutorials, you can probably find a zbrush eye on badking.au. Right now the eyes being a rough sculpt is super distracting and it's making it difficult to evaluate the rest of the face.

Steve Schulze

Some interesting perspective and anatomy going on in that reference piece.

I found this left over from something I was working on yonks ago. Some of the shapes are a bit different, but it should get you going in a better direction. Might be nice to make her a bit more distinctly African looking anyway.

Azure_Dragon

Is their a side reference of this women? and i do agree she needs to be more recognized as an African lady. Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming. I will be looking into every aspect of the feedback given to improve. Hopefully on my future post on this thread, this will be shown.

Azure_Dragon

A few References for my research

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Body Progress, after feedback ill get back onto the body. Right now i'm moving onto refining the face.

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PROGRESS SO FAR

GenericGoodGuy

You really need to sit down and do 20-50 female sculpts over the course of 1-3 months, her face looks terrifying. The nose needs to be softer and perhaps give it more shape, the eyes need work it looks like they are sticking too far out and the mouth looks unfeminine. Use as much reference as you can and like I said do a head sculpt a day or more if possible, I know it's hard because I'm doing it myself but you can improve in leaps and bounds.

Steve Schulze

Azure_Dragon wrote: »

Is their a side reference of this women? and i do agree she needs to be more recognized as an African lady. Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming. I will be looking into every aspect of the feedback given to improve. Hopefully on my future post on this thread, this will be shown.

There is, but I realised after posting it, that the image originally came from 3D.SK (albeit resed down considerably) which is a paid service, so wouldn't really be right to post any more.

For better facial reference, I reckon Skin, the lead singer of Skunk Anansie might be a good fit. In fact I'd be slightly surprised if she hadn't partly inspired the mohawked version of Storm that you're working with somewhere along the line.

RMeeks

Azure_Dragon

Few minor adjustments to the face, thickened the nose,shaped the lips a touch and closed the eyes a touch, took out the detail in the eyes alongside a few minor nudges to the over all shape o the face.

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Finally have a chance to start back onto this hand held assignment, my previous assignments have taken up most my time. I have under 3 weeks to get this done. Hopefully soon ill be moving onto retop after i have added the high res detail to this model. In the picture above, is the progress i have made today. The body and face are forever changing/adjusting whiles working on other areas. Next the boots, any critique would be great.

Azure_Dragon

Fabric detail remains . Might be pointless since the tri limit is 3,000 and texture size is 1024. Also just noticed a 1million pixol size, anything over is over kill . Looks like i will have to lower up the detail

Azure_Dragon

i have a 1 million pixel limit, is this referring to polygons count in zbrush?

And i totally will look back into proportions and anatomy. I have under 20 days to complete this so i really do need to push forward. But having said that, in the holidays i will look into correcting the proportions and anatomy for this sculpt.

DougClayton4231

I definitely agree with everyone else here, she needs a lot of base work before moving on to detailing anything. The real point of contention is that her head is misshapen and she looks monstrous. The reference that Jackablade posted is an excellent place to work towards.

Azure_Dragon

cool thanks for the feedback, tomorrow i will take that step back, since i worked out my time constraints. I do have a few days free to improve on this model. So what i have decided to do is get on improving now whiles i have the time. This time ill take the anatomy and shapes and form a step more seriously.

At 1st i'm gonna go back and sort out the proportions and compare against real life people. The breast and the belly button are a tad out off place. The buttocks area also seems a little awkward to me aswell. But after my comparisons, ill make the changes and take it from their.

Azure_Dragon

This project has come to an end and i will now be posting up the progress i have made, any pointers for future improvement would be amazing.

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Texture Maps

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In Pose: MvC U3

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Paint Overs:

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Final Hand in Render; Iphone 5 Composite