Arenanet art test 2014

Dantert

HII! I'm gonna post here my work for the Arenanet internship art test.
Hope you enjoy it!

Zbrush screens





Here's some work on the fur and neck part




I am a big fan of the stag armor of Guld Wars 2 and at first I modeled the horns with some details on them but then looking closer to the concept I saw that the horns are smooth like they are made of metal so I opted for the smooth ones


For the fur I tried a new approach, using meshes underneath to have a better life while baking and cutting out the alpha map.
Some dolyak Fur ^u^




a new update soon with the lowpoly version

Dantert

And here's a new update, still have to redefine the materials in the diffuse and add the specular map but I'm nearly there.
1024x1024 diffuse/alpha for now and nearly 7500 tris as requested

Dantert

Such a bad compression from photobucket...

Torch

Looking good Dan, are the hard surface pieces just standard poly modeling?

chudork

awesome work, is fur sculpted on? or is it painted the mesh with an alpha?

mediochrea

Dantert wrote: »

Such a bad compression from photobucket...

Avoid Photobucket like the plague, I would suggest imgur or minus, or straight up dropbox.

Dantert

mediochrea wrote: »

Avoid Photobucket like the plague, I would suggest imgur or minus, or straight up dropbox.

Thanks mediochrea!

Yup the fur is sculpted on and the hard surface are made in zbrush with a custom brush and some work on it

Thanks Torch and chudork!

Dantert

the image on dropbox didn't work...

Dantert

Here's an update on the diffuse, still no specular applied Tell me what you think!

Prism

Great work man!. How did you get that armor to be so clean ?.

Wishie

Awesome work! Loving how crisp those shapes are.
Hope you can add more detail to the back areas. Looks a bit plain.

Dantert

Thanks!!
@Prism: you mean the sculpt or the lowpoly? THe sculpt is made with one of my custom curve brush and some work on it.

@Wishie: you're right, I'll see if I can add more details on the back

DWalker

Her spinal cord looks far too deeply incised to me. At the very least, it should blend more smoothly, both to the sides and above/below.

BeserK

Great looking model!
I think DWalker is right, it looks like you've used a fairly strong ambient occlution map and darkened/saturdated her skin with it, might be better to ease off that a little bit.

You've done REALLY well with that poly limit and map size!

Dantert

Yep I think you're right, I was thinking about remaking the back, that will be pretty fast to do, thanks!

Torch

I think there's a few proportional issues, stuff like the face where the nose may be too long, mouth too wide and eyes may be too far apart/large as well. I understand its a bit of a ball ache to change now that you're onto the texturing stage, maybe you can leave it as it is. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the details added!

Cglewis

I think its looking good, i agree with the protortional crits from torch
but i also feel it is to clean, there is no battle damage. youve done a great job with everything but giving that little details like scratches in the leather and mud and dirt on the boots and even on her little cloth i think would add so much character to the piece I also feel her skin is to clean as well

I really hope this helps its a very cool piece for sure

Goeddy

lookds good, facial features are a bit large, but thats not too bad.
it would look a lot better with some more wear and tear, but nc soft´s style is actually super clean, so i don´t know if it would be smart to add that.
her underwear also looks a bit too modern/elegant. i´d maby redo that for something more rural. and the back yeah.
already looking pretty great though.

Dantert

Thanks for the good crits!
I had copied the face from my norn character, it's true that she's not a canonical beauty though XD Could be that I've put in it too much of my personal style but I like it as it is right now ^^' maybe because I'm attached to my gw2 character, also I don't think I would have time to change it
@Cglewis & Goeddy: yeah more details would surely give more character to the whole character but actually as Goeddy pointed out this is for Arenanet and their armors are always really clean without scratches or things like that, like the armor has just been forged and polished so it's wise for me to stick to the concept and the game style, I'm adding some metal details with the specular to give in some imperfections but I can't push it to be riuned by battle I think.

Dantert

Here's the new update! Now with the specular map, tomorrow I'm gonna pose her and make the final renders

PyrZern

The back of the helmet looks pretty weird with flat horizontal line. (above the neckguard). Is it like that in the concept too ? The cloth patterns are beautifully done though

Dantert

From the concept you can't see the back so I tried something different from the model ingame, interpreting the concept (this one https://imageshack.com/i/jj3rnqj)

Goeddy

the back is way better now. seeing the concept though makes me realize your proportions in general are way too cartoonish.
you know the chick in the concept looks like she is 2 meters tall and your chick looks like 1,60 but has artificialy stretched legs.
its mainly the facial stuff, i think tweaking the proportions of the facial features in the low-poly should do the job.
i don´t know if you want to change that, but i think this would be the main criticism cause everything else looks well executed.

Dantert

Hey Goeddy! Are you reading my mind? I was looking at the model this morning and decided to rework the proportions, actually the norn females are 9 heads tall and mine is 8 and I spotted a problem with the arms and hands a little too short, will fix it today though
Thanks for the crits anyway!

Dantert

Here I am again with an update, fixed the proportions with an average norn body as reference from the game, I tried the proportions from the concept but they seem too exagerated to me... however the new proportions work fine, now she has a more nornish stature^^
Also I tried some poses and refined the lighting to something that I think I can use for the final shots, hope you like it! And as always all the crits and comments are welcome! You're helping me a lot that way:3

Dantert

Gotta tweak something in the specular now and I think I'm finished
I'd like to know what you guys think about it now with the new proportions and the pose

Goeddy

looks good, pretty good job mate.

Dantert

Thanks Goeddy!

Dantert

UPDATED WITH BETTER RESOLUTION IMAGES
Finished the final images, hope you like it!^^
Tell me what you think about them


I'm gonna send them all soon

Beauty


Turn t-pose


Turn wire


Maps breakdown

Dantert

UPDATED WITH BETTER RESOLUTION IMAGES

Jet_Pilot

Antlers don't read like bone.
http://www.buckmanager.com/media/images/2008/01/buck-typical-nontypical-bc.jpg

Leather doesn't read as leather. All you have is brown.

kmactastic

^That's because it's metal not bone.
Maybe add a shadow under her feet to place her? Looks awesome. Good luck!

Dantert

@Jet_Pilot: as kmactastic kindly said they are made of some kind of polished metal not bone, like in the concept

@kmactastic: thanks a lot for the encouragement ...."unfortunately" I've sent them yesterday since I wasn't receiving any comment XD But maybe I'll try the shadow anyway even if I can't change the images I've sent

cgtest

Looks really good, is this a maya render?

Thanks

cgtest

Looks really good. Is this a maya render?

Thanks

Dantert

Thanks!
It's rendered in Marmoset toolbag 2

jinn15

good job man!! im really diggin the your submission and that skin!!! =O so bootiful haha and how did u like marmoset 2? i had trouble w/ the everything is shiny problem because of the reflection blinn-phong thing

Dantert

Thanks! Actually I'm doing fine in mt2 I always reach something good enough with some tweaking on the maps/lights and render setup, I don't really find myself confortable rendering directly in maya or 3dsMax though XD