Lyla - scifi game character WIP

pastelspirit

I'm working on a character for my game. (Which will take about 111 years to finish if I'm doing it all by myself...no problem, I'm willing to spend the time )
Feel free to encourage me, offer me millions of dollars (or some crits)...;)

The concept design and toolbag renders (only the head and the boots are lowres meshes at this point).

Still balancing the face-head shapes and texture... (no reference used for sculpting and no photo used for the textures).
(Interesting how different lighting can change the feel of the expression...right?)

pastelspirit

Anybody knows why the attachments do not show up as images? (The FAQ did not answer the question)

skodone

did you attach them with the manager? or BBCode
i would recommend using a imagehosting service
such as Tinypic
so you dont have to keep the forum restrictions and the images
will be fully visible in the post with [ img ] tags

pastelspirit

Ah, ok. Solved, thanks!

skodone

love her face!but is there something with her left eye or is it just the angle?

pastelspirit

Yes, it's not perfectly rotated at the moment. Wanted to break her stare...
I think I'll make her smile soon.

skodone

looking forward!

Leinad

This is looking fantastic! I love the face. One minor suggestion would be to make sure the eyebrows match the color of the eyelashes. Can't wait to see what you do next.

pastelspirit

Thanks!
Right now those brows are just placeholders.
I have to disagree. The brows color match quite rarely the eyelash colors. (Especially if she has makeup on )

pastelspirit

Not so serious now.

skodone

haha very nice! love the smile!

Tits

Looking great, love the eyes!

DWalker

The nasolabial folds are quite wide; they rarely extend much past the corners of the lips, and have a distinct curve dictated by the muscles of the cheek and around the lips. The are also very deep; you'll rarely see that much definition in a young and healthy female.

Her eyebrows don't have the distinct sculpted arc of the concept, nor do her eyes have the almond shape (although some of that might be from eyeshadow... the concept is a bit low res...)

There's something odd about the orbit of her eyes that I can't quite place; it's almost like there's a chunk missing. The also feel too deep, especially when compared to the concept.

pastelspirit

Yes, the smile definitely needs more polishing, thanks for the crit!
Eyebrows are still placeholder.
But don't compare her face to the concept please! That has a pixelated something there just to indicate that 'there is a face'.
Thanks again!

pastelspirit

Built the lowres legs and sweather meshes, started texturing.

pastelspirit

Continued sculpting and texturing and something new...hair.
Hair is hard... so here is a test with hand painted hair planes.

Defused

looks really nice could do with some adjusting on the fringe and it going through the coat but other then that it looks really nice gj

pastelspirit

Update on the head (eyebrows area) and the vest became a realtime mesh. Refining the textures - shader.
I'm thinking how I could do the fur on the vest...

skodone

ravenslayer did an amazing fur on his orcking

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=135316&highlight=orcking

erroldynamic

Great progress so far. Looking forward to the next update.

jhoythottle

That hair is looking pretty good. Nice fabric texture. Her torso seems a little wide, almost like you scaled her on the x axis. Maybe it's just me.

pastelspirit

Thanks guys!

skodone:
Yes, his fur uses the same method as the hair you can see here on the previous head screenshot. However, I'll need to do convincing 'furballs' and scatter them (see concept on top). So I'm thinking of the best shape - texture combo that gives good furball result.

jhoythottle:
Thanks! Yep, when a woman puts on a vest like this, it looks like this.
I like your retro space girl stuff!

skodone

could you actually tell me a bit about this method, because i didnt really understand how ravenslayer did this and im really striuggling at creating low poly volumous hair

pastelspirit

Sure!
(Hair is hard to do...)

So take a plane, give it a planar UV.
Then paint a lock of hair - fur in photoshop (or your preferred paint program) on a new layer (so it's not the background layer).
Then take that layer copy it, make it black and white, and adjust the brightness - contrast so that it will be pure white where the hair is, darker only at it's edges. Use this as the alpha in a .tga. So you will have a painted lock of hair .tga with this B&W in the alpha channel.
Experiment!
Then take your plane and scatter it over the surface you want to cover with hair - fur.

You will need to experiment. Plane shapes, how to paint different hair locks, etc... (a full head can use 6-7-8+ different types of hair planes painted.

Have fun!