Female Rebel Concept

Pendaroni

Hi everyone,

I am working on a project to create a female rebel character based off of a friends concept art.



Here is the model which is to be kept under 30k tris. I found the hairstyle awkward to model so I altered it slightly.










and I will be modelling another version under 10k tris.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Brian "Panda" Choi

What texture maps were you planning to use?

Pendaroni

I am using a texture map and normal map that I have created in ZBrush and now have to clean up in photoshop.

Brian "Panda" Choi

You planning to pump out Specular Maps of any kind?

TophT

You're only using about 63% of your UV space. That is pretty low and will result in too low a resolution in your textures and too much wasted memory on empty nothingness pixels.
Try and get that up over 80% or so. That will help out plenty.

Pendaroni

You're right about the wasted space. As I posted the maps and looked at them I realised I wasn't using the space efficiently. That is something I will try to correct. Thanks for the advice.

Pendaroni

I decided to create specular maps as well so here is my progress on the maps so far:

Brian "Panda" Choi

Are you familiar with Physically-Based Rendering by any chance? You might want to do that instead since that's a much more current-gen texturing and rendering workflow.

garriola83

You can still optimize your UV map. If anything, you should remodel your mesh to accommodate for better mesh flow, stronger silhouette and a better UV island placement.

Pendaroni

I am familiar with PBR but I have not had much practice with it. I made the choice to texture in this way and I have to stick to it for my project but I appreciate the advice.

If I have time in the near future I think I would like to remodel the mesh and improve it further but, right now, I don't have the luxury of time to change it .