Little Archer character

Crowdsmurf

Hey Everyone,

Looking for some feedback on a character I'm working on based on a concept by Sephiroth-Art.

It's still WIP, but I'm getting at the point where I'm starting to put the final touches and I'm starting to lose sight of what to adjust/improve; so I would love to hear from you guys .

The concept by Sephiroth-Art:


Zbrush Sculpt and maya render:



Retopo (around 8k tris) and first texture pass:




Next up is getting the eyes better and making a simple rig so I can pose him. If you made it this far, thanks for reading and please leave a comment .

Cheers

slosh

Dig this little guy and the materials look good!

butt_sahib

Looks pretty good man.
Really close to the concept

I wouldve liked the fingers to be more flat though

Torch

Looks awesome man, reminds me of Vivi in FF9

jStins

Nice interpretation of the concept. Has a lot of appeal! I think the shading and textures look nice, but the helmet reads as a wee bit noisy to me and the high saturation in the moss/rocks is a little distracting.

Looking forward to seeing him posed.

Crowdsmurf

Good stuff everyone, thanks! One of the reasons I loved the concept so much is because he reminded me so much of Vivi .

@Jsins: I may have overdone it a bit with the noise in the helmet. I tried really hard making it look interesting, but perhaps i took it a bit too far. Good point on the rocks, there was something off about them, but I couldn t really grasp just what it was that bothered me.

Update coming soon!

Xaragoth

I really like it, looking forward to you posing it From this shot it looks like he's smiling below his helmet. So happy.

oxblood

really nice work on the character, the only crit I have would be to work on the rock a bit more, the textures seem a little flat in comparison to the model. besides that I love this

Lloth

Looks great! The materials are very convinving man. Apart from the crit already mentioned above, maybe take another look at the feathers on his arrows. They lack a little bit of detail and seem very painted in comparison with the rest of the model.

jStins

Crowdsmurf wrote: »

Good stuff everyone, thanks! One of the reasons I loved the concept so much is because he reminded me so much of Vivi .

@Jsins: I may have overdone it a bit with the noise in the helmet. I tried really hard making it look interesting, but perhaps i took it a bit too far. Good point on the rocks, there was something off about them, but I couldn t really grasp just what it was that bothered me.

Update coming soon!

Maybe you could tone down the noise (similar to what you have on the gauntlets) and pull in some design elements like what you have on the belt. Might create some nice rhythm, but I'm not sure how far you want to deviate from the concept.

heboltz3

This is adorable! So much character in this little guy.

The helmet noise is a bit much at the moment, but that's just tweaking.

Great presentation, get him rigged nowwwww!!!

Crowdsmurf

Thanks for the comments and critiques! I tried to take together what you guys said and did some tweaks and updates:

-made a simple rig and tried out a few poses(mostly Jason Baskin's rigging script)
-desaturated/darkened the rocks + pushed spec en gloss
-took down some of the noise in the helmet
-adjusted the eyes/ feathers and bow textures
-played around with more lights and light setups




I like the jStins suggestion about the patterns; I'll probably have a go with that and see what the effect is. Other than that, I'm starting to be fairly happy with it. If you guys have any more suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them!

Anchang-Style

Thats a really freaking cool marmorset render...
eventhough gotta lie if I'd say i didn't read the Topic and expected something in the lines of this (nah kidding )

Crowdsmurf

Thanks Anchang-Style; had a lot of fun messing around in marmoset for this one; glad you like it! And yeah, it's impossible for me as well to hear the word archer and NOT think of the show .