Zora Guard Character
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Hey guys. I'm working on some Zelda fan art; a Zora guard character! I did a Zora ages ago but I want to do a better one since they are my number one fave race from anything ever.
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It's a tough one, Reow!
I wouldn't worry about sticking to the original design too closely. It would be interesting to see more original design ideas implemented whilst keeping the theme of the character intact.
* Avoid having the fins overlapping joints (elbow). It will make it a pain when it comes to your final posing as your fin will start to stretch. You might be able to get away with it if you implement your fin into the skin of the arm like this:
* Might be worth starting to put some more spiny/bony features into the character more (around the head to add interest).
* Something that the original design had, thinner waist and larger chest. Unless your going for something closer to human proportions (but a bit of exaggeration never hurts
* Larger hands/feet with the webbing. Makes the silhouette more interesting, more like a scuba diver.
* Maybe throw some gills on there (or gill like features to enhance his "fishy-look"). Using bony, curved areas like the zygomatic arch on the skull would help them fit the curvature of the form more naturally.
* Longer "head-tail" (That thing attached to the back of his head).
Again, a lot of this subjective so take away what you will (if anything :P).
Great job so far though mate. Good luck with the progress
blocking out the armour
Update: Added more bits and bobs.
Made a ornate kit-bash set, in the process of trying to make the helmet and armour cool/functional
Whole project is looking really awesome, do you use shadowbox to create the individual decorations?
Yes I used a mixture of shadow box and extract (extract so I can trace around a 2d template) Then use move, inflate, dam_standard, Hpolish and claypolish to get the shapes. Then Zremesh to simplify the bumpy areas and make it lowpoly enough to bring to max. c:
Thanks!
Helmet and armour wip, Trying to balance the details. soo much to do.. Hopefully it will pay off in the end.
The details in the last update look really really small to me, make sure that they read well even when zoomed out. Other then that I think it looks great
I think you are correct thanks
Once again this really depends on what level you are trying to reach. Personally i think you should keep the high details and the maybe exaggerate the medium details just a little bit. I'm gonna keep an eye out on this thread. Great job so far.
Thanks man yep totally agree thanks for advice I had a similar thought process when I was tweaking the helmet earlier. Gotta balance those rest areas with mid and fine details.
More helmet WIP a lot of tedious tweaking/adding. Need to get that design language down along with the readability then I think the other parts will be a lil easier to do since ill have a set idea of what to replicate.
Helmet model done, will come back to adding damage details later.
Thanks Kosh I agree, I noticed last night that his eyes don't line up at all, so I'm gunna figure out a way to fit it to his head better without destroying the subtools, probably use tpose master
WIP. detailing time.
Spent a while tweaking and pushing the anatomy, trying to make it fit with the design better.
Think I finally got it how I wanted it.