Gladiator Character ( Unreal Engine 4 )

Behemoth

Hi people,

I've been working on this character for a while in my spare time.
Firstly, I don't consider myself as "character artist", but the main purpose of this was to practice and learn the full process to create a functional character in videogames production, so i know that the topology isn't perfect at all, and there's lots of things to solve (learned a lot, mission accomplished ).

Also, i've made a custom rigging in Blender, and idle animation, a tiny morph and imported it in UE4.

Then i created an environment, created a cinematic, fx (well the fire is in the engine's default assets) and postprocess , and then composed the background track.

I've fought with many issues in this project, so i want to make a video where i explain those problems and how to solve it, and how the scene was made entirely. If anyone has any questions or wants to know how i made anything, feel free to ask me , i hope that someone can learn of my mistakes .

Here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESD01ibYJUg

And some snapshots:












More information in this thread (Spanish) : http://www.foro3d.com/f37/gladiador-udk-character-107995.html

I hope you like it!
Cheers!

gekigengar5

Your video reel has way too long of an intro. Just get straight to the art. But there are still a lot of issues with it

-your camera moves are very dizzying, and the sudden cuts aren't recommended either.

-Typically a "Murmillo" gladiator would be armed with a short sword/gladius, not a pillum which is used for throwing.


-I think your metals are looking pretty good.

-Your cloths and leathers need work, they don't seems to have the same realistic material properties as the metals. They come out looking too flat.

-The environment looks very rushed, especially the pedestal

I would try to keep everything consistent. Give everything the same amount of quality.

Behemoth

Hey thanks a lot for the feedback!!

gekigengar5 wrote: »

Your video reel has way too long of an intro. Just get straight to the art. But there are still a lot of issues with it

-your camera moves are very dizzying, and the sudden cuts aren't recommended either.That's true, i just wanted some kind of dynamic scene, hehe. Maybe for my next projects i should think in something more relaxed.

-Typically a "Murmillo" gladiator would be armed with a short sword/gladius, not a pillum which is used for throwing. Well, pilum kills too in melee combat,so it's ok hahaha. Nah, i didn't want to make the tipical Gladius, and i had a pilum done, so...why not? hehehehe


-I think your metals are looking pretty good. Thanks!

-Your cloths and leathers need work, they don't seems to have the same realistic material properties as the metals. They come out looking too flat. Totally agree, i ported this from UDK and i'm kind of newbie in PBR, cloth and leather has been difficult for me.Truly i need to focus on improve that

-The environment looks very rushed, especially the pedestal. Yes, that's because i wanted to build it as fast as possible, is not a environment scene, so i needed to fill it and finish the exercise. I used so much vertex painting instead of unique textures to accelerate the process, but that's true, pedestal sucks hahaha

I would try to keep everything consistent. Give everything the same amount of quality.

Thanks again!