Student WIP: Future Knight

Heather_Bea

Hi there! I started my most recent project for school today. I have two weeks to get this model up and running. The first week is for getting a high and low poly done with Normal and AO maps baked out, and the second week is all for texturing. (I think I will be using 3D coat or poly painting in zBrush. )

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated!

Heather_Bea

For the first day I spent time getting a base body to match anatomy more, and wipped out some of the armor. I used Aneta from 3DSK as reference. I think I am going too slow so I might switch over to zbrush tomorrow to try and get the armor out quicker.

Carabiner

If I were you I'd take a step back and look at the anatomy again. I'm no expert but the hips look narrow, and not sure what's going on with the hands!

Heather_Bea

I agree, thank you.

Heather_Bea

Today I messed with the anatomy a lot and started getting the basic shapes of the armor out.

Heather_Bea

Yesterday I spent time shaping out a lot more of the pieces in zBrush. Today I retoppled and finished the arm. Tomorrow I plan to finish the rest of the pieces and project the details I have onto the retoppled models, then get started on the real detail work. This is a new work flow for me, I am liking it so far but am unsure if it would have been faster to just build everything out in max then bring it in to zbrush.

iadagraca

Looks good over all, but compared to the concept the character looks a lot more slender.

I'd think either the armor or the figure overall needs to be thicker.

ScottHoneycutt

iadagraca wrote: »

Looks good over all, but compared to the concept the character looks a lot more slender.

I'd think either the armor or the figure overall needs to be thicker.

Agree. Good progress overall. The concept has such good "character" to it with the proportions ... don't stop without capturing it. The armor has a real strong shape variation to it and is very layered looking. Yours is looking more flat at the moment. Make it thicker

Heather_Bea

I took the advice and tried to plump out her legs and torso. I think the arms could use a bit more and will do my best to add a bit more there.

Low Poly (the smaller parts on her torso and the cover on the arm have not been retoppled yet)

High Poly


Once again, thanks for all the advice and keep it coming ^_^

Heather_Bea

My low poly ended up at 7700k

I changed the color scheme up a bit. : P

I baked out the normals, I think they turned out well for the most part, but I am having trouble in a few spots that turning edges is not helping. (specifically in the back hip plate) Are there any other ways to fix that?

manilamerc

Did you check your smooth groups? Maybe you just have to redo the smooth groups

ScottHoneycutt

manilamerc wrote: »

Did you check your smooth groups? Maybe you just have to redo the smooth groups

Also check the silhouette of the two meshes and make sure they are closely aligned. It's OK to add a few polys in this stage if it does in fact improve the bake. Try adding some poly details on the sections that have errors and test if it takes care of the issue.

Heather_Bea

Did both of those suggestions and they helped! Thanks ^_^
I placed a cavity map on the base and started doing some basic lighting. I am trying to get it into Unreal4 to do the beauty shots with normals and spec, this is something I have not done with hand painted stuff so its been a wild ride already to get it to look semi-decent. x) I'll be playing with that later on.

Heather_Bea

Done!

ScottHoneycutt

I like it