hand painted texturing and topology issues

KiwiHead

Hi guys I am working on a real-time character and I am kinda struggling with the hand painted/cartoony texture look. Here are some concepts I made for this guy:




I am also quite new to +15k polys modeling, is this topology acceptable? or does it need major changes? any tips/help would be greatly appreciated!





feedback will be greatly appreciated!

Nekhro

Love the concept!
Colors needs much more cartoony love. You lost that nice black from the figure in concept

PacoCasares

Reminds me a little bit of darksiders, perhaps you can look at their artstyle? Personaly, the model could do with more brush strokes, more careful detail on the bones a little bit of fake baked lighting (red colours on the bone borders, shadows and defined lighting on texture) and a gradient indicating where you want to look at the character more closely (brighter at chest and head, and darker as you go down) You should go with a black that is almost black, but maybe with 1 or 2 % red at the dark bits. I think the king on this would be on working on a shader that illustrates a second texture when light does not hit it. And go with the likes of Wind waker. Good luck!

KiwiHead

Thanks guys, I made him a few tones lighter so I could accent some of his muscles a bit more with different tones... I will try with an almost totally black version with the red tones/brush strokes you suggested Paco. Regarding Darksiders, it was my main inspiration ! Will work on those bones this weekend, thanks for the input!