Dark Elf Ranger Drizzt Redesign.

dwgagner

FINAL RENDER
Thanks for feedback during process.





Original Post:

This is a project I put down some time ago and just picked back up to finish it. Based on a redesign concept of Drizzt Do'Urden my girlfriend drew when we were burning through the Legend of Drizzt series.

Concept by Rachel Downing.


Current WIP sculpt.

Nuclear Angel

It is looking really good!

The only thing is that I find it to be a bit of a shame, that you are covering up his face with a hoodie, I would love to see you try to make his hair. As the concept is nice.

dwgagner

Nuclear Angel wrote: »

It is looking really good!

The only thing is that I find it to be a bit of a shame, that you are covering up his face with a hoodie, I would love to see you try to make his hair. As the concept is nice.

I've been playing with either, just hadn't decided just yet. I actually have his hair created already, so the hood is a more recent addition. In the books he's described as a character that's often pulled his cowl over to try and hide the fact that he's a dark elf. He also has glowing lavender eyes that I thought I could play up nicely if they are in shadow. I'll probably do renders with both though.

PyrZern

I'd like to see more seams/details on the pants. It's severely lacking compared to other things.

Tectonic

adding on to what @PyrZern said, it would be cool to see some stitched patterns on the cloak.

but dang that fur looks pretty good, could you comment on it? are those planes right now, or is it fibermesh?

dwgagner

Tectonic wrote: »

adding on to what @PyrZern said, it would be cool to see some stitched patterns on the cloak.

but dang that fur looks pretty good, could you comment on it? are those planes right now, or is it fibermesh?

Sure and I agree I can definitely add some more interest to the pants and cloak.

The fur is fibermesh, I created the pelt shape I wanted (deleted it after I created the fur) I then sectioned the pelt into many different polygroups of approximately the same-ish size, I believe I did this quickly using zmodeler and inseting all polygons then autogrouping the inset polygons to split them up (it was quite a while ago), created the fur fibermesh and then styled it using the groom and move brushes with automasking by polygroups set to 100.

dwgagner

Swords update.

Icingdeath (mainhand) and Twinkle (offhand).

dwgagner

Quick progress update render, nothing fancy. Need to do a skin pore pass. He has white hair in the description so this will be a challenge getting white hair to read right. I had a hair style worked out on him but I realized the fibers were too thin and thus not reading correctly, so redoing it. May redo his fur as well, feels like it's not reading correctly atm.

Sugus

I remember reading the Drizzt novels as a teenager, absolutely loved them. This is looking really good so far, can't wait to see this progress!

Texelion

Nice work dude.

Maybe he looks a bit too human, you should go for the angular face from the concept, especially in the cheekbones and chin areas ^^.

Maxilator

Looks really good!

Harlyk

Nice and clean

Tectonic

looking great! although I'm getting a nick cage vibe from him haha.

dwgagner

lol, he's not based on any actor in particular or anything. Used a Scandinavian male model as ref.

I avoided getting too stylized or angular with his face because I'm taking a lord of the rings elf approach to him. Ideally I'd like him to feel the way it might if they ever made a solid movie about him.

A lot of my at work stuff is pretty stylized so trying to stay away from it in my personal projects to keep portfolio diversified.

dwgagner

Pose test render, planning to tweak his legs and his left hand a bit more, maybe shift his torso more over his left leg vs. being centered quite so much. Pose needs work, not enough weight to it yet.

dwgagner

alimux

looking great ! good work !

dwgagner

Thanks alimux