Moby Francke Character Concept Guy

SeedyRom

Man, it's been a long time! How's it goin' everybody!

I've been working on this character based on the concept by the awesome Moby Francke for a little bit now. The plan at the moment is to recreate this shot as best I can.



Here's where I am at so far. I've spent a decent amount of time on the face and have only recently diverted my attention towards the clothing. There are still things that I sense are off about his face and I def need to give some love to his beard.



I'm still trying to get the hang of modeling clothing (especially things like shoes/boots). But I've mainly been focusing on getting all the pieces in there before I go back and really hammer out and of the funky bits, of which there are plenty at the moment.



Overall, I'm pretty happy with where this is going and I really want to hit this one out of the park. My goals with this are really to lock down my character making pipeline and finally nail down sweet renders/beauty shots. I think this can can get to a really cool place, especially if I get some help from you guys!

I would love love love feedback of any kind at any time!

Thanks everyone!

fisher

So you are the guy in TwitchTv!!!!

Edit: I'm the guy who doesn't know how to sculpt Ear and Eyes hahahaha :poly121::poly121:

SeedyRom

@DKK thanks for the feedback! I agree with all of your points. I was just noticing last night the shortness of his legs and even his arms. I'll definitely work on bulk him up and fixing up his nose. Hopefully after those tweaks I can work on cleaning up the blob-y-ness.

@fisher Hey man how's it going! and they are super hard... I know you're pain. I hope you stick around this thread and see you on Twitch soon!

SeedyRom

Tweaked the face/head and neck a bit and have been working at getting the nose looking more accurate like @DKK suggested. Getting closer.


I'll upload some pics of the body proportion tweaks soon.

Drgreenethumb

Really liking where this is going! Subbing for more

Kamezis

Nice tweak, want to see moar.
Also, i will make him a little bit athletic. His lower abdomen is a bit fat. In my opinion, in the concept, it's the jacket itself who make him feel fat.

But hey, i like your interpretation so far, keep it up !

SeedyRom

@Kamezis thanks for the feedback! That's a good point. I'll try out making the jacket more full and the shirt a bit less.

I really dig your characters by the way. You have a unique style!

SeedyRom

Post GDC/vacation update. I'm pretty happy with this base and moving on to the more nitty gritty, tweaking minor proportion stuff, fixing and adding folds, buttons, and all the other detail kind of junk.

I feel like the head shape (more cranium) isn't quite there yet along with the beanie and hie entire head might still be a little too small.



After that i'm moving on to retopo.

photonarbiter

I think you're right about the cranium issue. The hat on his head makes it look even smaller. Other than that I'm really liking this one. Can't wait to see more of it.

Kaine123

Are you planning on baking normal maps for the m60 or are you going the tf2 route of texturing with just a diffuse with ao incorporated in? It would be neat if you messed around with the dota 2 shader thingy in tb2.

SeedyRom

@Kaine123, I'm not entirely sure yet. I think that is going to depend on how I end up tackling the texture work on the character himself and how that turns out. That should happen in a week or so. I'm looking to have the highpoly model done this week.