[student] First Game Character

ELee

Hello.
It is first time posting my work here and it is my first game character project.
I would appreciate all of your critiques!





This is original concept my YANGCHONGLIN



finished pose

peanut™

For a first character don't sit back go and do an other one, it looks fantastic congratulation.

dpadam450

Do you have a spec map to show? The skin looks a bit plastic.

ELee

I thought so too. Here is my spec map. If you have any suggestion to fix it, Please let me know!

BARDLER

What are you rendering this in? That might not be the ideal spec map for new PBR methods.

ELee

I'm rendering with Marmorset.

Gluntronics

This looks amazing for a first character! Congrats.

ELee

fixed hair and base finished pose.

ELee

Another views.

Croftyness

Good job. Your spec map is acceptable under traditional game rendering techniques. However marmoset uses PBR. Correct use of specularity/reflectance and roughness/microsurface will really improve your model for your given renderer. You wouldn't tend to see colour in a physically based spec map with the materials you have. For example the leathers specualrity would be a flat greyscale value, using variation in the roughness map to break up glossiness. It's also suggested to stay away from baked lighting unless you're going for a particular style. Similar to that of the specular map your albedo will be fairly flat in terms of baked lighting. If you want to keep traditional methods I think marmoset has an AO and Cavity map slot. These feed nicely into their PBR model although I don't know the technicals of it. The same is true for UE4 I believe, although they have different naming conventions and switch roughness values.
Once again it looks really nice, if you want it to be accurate have a look into those subjects.

ELee

Thank you, Croftyness.
Your advise will help me a lot!

anura

Wow, this is really incredible.
I've just got one question. In the post it says game character, so I was kind of expecting an ingame model.
But it seems really smooth, so I'm guessing it's just a sculptur?

BagelHero

Can we see some wires?

@anura: Looking at the maps, I'd say it's an in game model. It just has a normal map baked from a sculpt.

Brian "Panda" Choi

The skin texture could use some noise, pores, freckles, etc. It looks way too smooth.

Otherwise, looks solid, assuming that it's going for the Final Fantasy clean look.

ELee

@anura @BagelHero : Here is one with wire frame. This was class project and my instructor gave us pretty high limit for hero characters. (limit of 40K tris exclude weapon, base and hair)



@JadeEyePanda : Thank you for your advise. I was thinking about that too. Skin is hard.....

Brian "Panda" Choi

Google Skin Texture Ysalex, he's got a solid primer on polypainting it in Zbrush.

ELee

@JadeEyePanda : Thank you!!

ELee

For some one who want to see 3D version of it, please check link below!

https://skfb.ly/BDrv