Comicon Challenge Hawkman

Perlinfalcon

So this was my entry for the Gameartisans.org Comicon Challenge last month. Unfortunately I ran short on time and had to submit it in an unfinished state. So I am moving my progress thread over here as I continue to work on this for my portfolio.

I'm currently refining the textures, but any critiques would be welcome.

Joltya

Digging it so far. Excited to see where this goes!

Torch

I'd say the arms are a little short and the hands/fingers look a bit strange. Armor and feathers are great though!

SuperFranky

Do you use polypaint for the skin?

Perlinfalcon

JoltZero, thanks for the encouragement.

Torch, thanks, good advice! I lengthened the arms a bit and did some adjustments to the fingers and it has made a huge improvement. He will be holding a sword eventually, so I will work more on the fingers once I pose them.

SuperFranky, I did use polypaint as a base for the skin texture, but it has gone through a lot of work in photoshop afterward.

Perlinfalcon

Ok, some updates on this. Still probably some polishing to be done. The pedestal is just a placeholder to give reference for perspective. Going to start working on the sword soon.

inflict3d

great job, man!
what's the polycount of this model?

Perlinfalcon

Hey, thanks, inflict3d! The tri count is just under 40,000 for this. I suppose I should post some wires at some point.

Torch

Really nice work!

Vertrucio

I kinda find it hilarious that he has what is essentially boob and pelvis armor. Yet somehow I found it more acceptable on him than when overtly on female models.

Not trying to start an argument, it's a great model, but the thought occurred to me and I found it funny.

DWalker

So, was I the only one who was expecting Brian Blessed?


On a more serious note, you have some texture mapping artifacts on the feathers of his left wing, especially the bottom inner feather.

Perlinfalcon

Torch- thanks!

Vertrucio- Hmm, perhaps, as a female myself, I am subconsciously turning this around... Or perhaps not. I don't tend to really mind ladies in boob armor as long as the scenario they are in isn't too realistic, as there's not a lot of protection there. The original Hawkman has basically He-man armor, so I was trying to get away from that without it being completely unrecognizable.

DWalker- How did you know it has been a lifetime dream of mine to have Brian Blessed posted on one of my threads?? So, thanks for that. Also thanks for pointing out the feather issue. It was one of those things I kept meaning to fix but then kept glossing over.

So, this is getting close to finished now. Please let me know if you notice anything that should be fixed before this goes into my portfolio.