Little Kerrigan Prime - Smallcraft
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- UPDATE 3/27: Project Finished -
Sweet, got my first finished model up on Polycount, now it's time for my first active WIP thread.:)
Here she be. Again going pretty much just hand-painted diffuse with Kerrigan here, though in hindsight sculpting her out and pulling a re-topo'd base mesh would have been a LOT smarter than just straight up box-modeling her, but...meh...old habits, dying, hard, etc.
JUST started on her diffuse last night, so she's pretty rough and there's a lot of hard seams and stuff, but a decent place to start from. Comments and critiques always welcome.
Sweet, got my first finished model up on Polycount, now it's time for my first active WIP thread.:)
Here she be. Again going pretty much just hand-painted diffuse with Kerrigan here, though in hindsight sculpting her out and pulling a re-topo'd base mesh would have been a LOT smarter than just straight up box-modeling her, but...meh...old habits, dying, hard, etc.
JUST started on her diffuse last night, so she's pretty rough and there's a lot of hard seams and stuff, but a decent place to start from. Comments and critiques always welcome.
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All her designs are adorable, I can't handle it!
I'm looking forward to seeing the diffuse map define her scales and wings better. Right now they look unintentional.
I'm loving the look of the dreads so far!
Can't wait to see your works in progress.
Only CC is you might want to be careful of her arms + wing spines being too thin/ fragile in places... as you might want to 3D print it out later
Kerrigan here got delayed a by some technical issues, but she's back on track. Just uploading some progress so far. The major change has been her wings. It was suggested by a few people I play around with their shape a bit more and I think I've landed on something I like a lot better now. They definitely feel more chunky like the rest of her.
Her textures have a ways to go yet, still haven't hit most of her legs, back, wings, and shoulders. I'm including a few notes I just took to that end.
Man, I keep forgetting how badly Blogger hosting tends to wash out images. I need to get my act together and host this stuff elsewhere.
I am finally, after almost a year of abandoning this project, returning to finish Kerrigan here. She deserves it and I never really finished with the my original texturing experiment. Got super side-tracked by freelance and...uh...games. :icon15:
So here she is at the moment. Still a lot of texture painting to get to. If I remember correctly, I was referencing Laurel Austin's awesome zergling cuddle time painting, but she ended up looking way too pink for a Primal Kerrigan look, so she's going to get a major purple and green hue shift overhaul.
Interestingly enough, I ended up using her model to learn some basic rigging techniques to get her wings to kinda work. It's still super broken, but at least I have a better understanding of IK/FK systems.
...finally
I'm still not 100% happy with her and I think I would tackle her completely differently next time, but experimenting was still fun. It's too bad she got pushed off and delayed so many times and trying to pick up in the middle of an unfinished project is a trip of Gandalf level proportions.
Anyway, I may go back to her a little bit later to finish off her little companion zergling, but for now I'm calling her done. Enjoy!
Side note: I really wish I could change the title of this thread. Seemed funny at the time...now it's just dumb. :icon15:
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Nevertheless was pleasantly surprised. Well done!
I may actually come back and revisit this project all over again when I'm more confident in my sculpting ability. As much as I'm kinda tired of looking at her right now, I'm still totally obsessed with Kerrigan. The Queen of Blades has infested my heart.