Metal Gear Solid 2 - Fatman (WIP)

mfrederick

I decided I wanted to do some Metal Gear fan art, and Fatman seemed like a fun option.  Right now I'm pretty much just blocking things in and getting a feel for how I want him to look.  The end goal for this project is to make a game ready version to plop into Marmoset Viewer.

I'll try to post my progress fairly regularly.  Any thoughts or critiques are very welcome!

Rawbert

AWESOME!
keep it up  

KingKellogg

Nice start.

RobeOmega

Looking nice so far! One critique I might make is that compared to the reference he is currently not fat enough.

mfrederick

Thanks everyone!

Robeomega, thanks for the input, totally agree.  I'm going to work on this a bit tonight, fattening him up is definitely gonna be one of the things I tackle.

mfrederick

Here's a small update:

I fattened him up a bit, separated the arms from the torso to make things easier as I progress, and I started blocking in the extra layers of padding.  I'm going to start cleaning up the jacket a bit and spend a bit of time figuring out the forms and flow of the major folds.

mfrederick

I spent a few hours this weekend pushing around the silhouette a bit and starting figuring out the main shapes and flow of the folds in the jacket.  I'm going to continue working on the jacket, especially the sleeves, since I didn't really spend that much time blocking those in.  Then I'll move onto the pants and vest.

mfrederick

I kinda fell off this project for a while.  I've been super busy lately, but I finally got the chance to pick it back up again.

I wasn't satisfied with the overall proportions, and there were certain things that I wanted to flesh out a bit more to get a better sense of where I wanted to go with this.

Here's where I'm at now:


He's a bit taller now, and I shrank his head and feet a bit.  I also started adding in a few more elements, and worked up parts of the jacket a bit more.  Any critiques are very welcome.

mfrederick

It's been a while since I've had the chance to work on this or make any updates, but I managed to get a bit more work done on this guy recently.  I've been working on him occasionally when I get the chance.  I still have a few more accessories I need to make, and quite a few parts need another polish pass.

I already retopoed a majority of him, so once I finish up with all the sculpting, I should be able to jump in the baking and texturing phase pretty fast.

ackehallgren

One of the more underrated MGS characters.
Can't wait to see the end result. Those folds in particular are looking really nice!

mfrederick

Thanks, Ackehallgren!  

I totally agree about the underrated part.  He's such a unique character, and probably one of the only video game bosses with roller blades.

Magihat

The cloth work is strong in this one, great job so far. Can't wait to see him textured!

mfrederick

Thanks Magihat!  Cloth was definitely one of the major things I wanted to get some practice in with this piece.  

Managed to get some more work in here and there over the week.  Pretty much all the pieces are there and where I want them.  I'm going to continue to do a bit more polish on him, and if everything goes according to plan, I'd like to finish the retopo and get some initial bakes done this weekend.  Here's some quick screen grabs of where he's at right now:

Zi0

Ow yeah, Fatman. Nice work so far!

Tits

Sculpt looking great and very clean, nice work on the clothing

mfrederick

Thanks for the encouragement, ZI0 and TITS!  I'm having a lot of fun with this one.  I'm trying to find the time to work on this and post more regularly, so hopefully I'll be able to have some more frequent updates.

First pass of the low poly done!

He's at around 60k tris right now with normal maps, rendered in marmoset really quick.  After a bit of clean up, and rebaking a few pieces, I'm going to go through and clean up some of the geo a bit further and then start up on texturing.

mfrederick

I started working on the textures over the week.  Here's what I've got so far:

I've still got a lot more polish I'd like to do, and then I need to take a quick pass at the geo and get some of that cleaned up in a few places.

slosh

Looking great man!

Nomad - Nicolas Pirot

That looks really cool, nice job on sculpting the cloth!

erroldynamic

Pure awesomeness so far!

mfrederick

Thanks everyone!  Managed to get a tiny bit more work done on him this weekend, hopefully Ill have a lot more progress to show in the next update:

mfrederick

I continued working on the textures and materials a bit:

I still have a bit of work I want to do, especially on the pockets, but I think I'm going to pose him first before I continue working on the materials, so I can see him a lot closer to how he'll be in the final renders first.

Finalhart

OMG it looks fcking good! That folds...  O.o

amirabd2130

this looks awesome

mfrederick

Thanks guys!

Over the past week, I posed him, played with the lighting a bit, and continued polishing the textures.  I want to continue polishing the textures a bit and create some kind of simple base.

slosh

Looking really sharp!  The specular on the jacket looks too high to me unless you're going for a nylon type fabric.  Also, hard to tell cuz its zoomed out but the skin could prob use some more work both in diffuse and specular.

mfrederick

Thanks slosh!  I was going for a synthetic blend for the jacket, but it's definitely a bit more glossy than I'd like.  I messed around with it a little bit, and I think It might be an issue with my normal map, since it still looks kind of shiny even if I lower the spec and gloss a bunch.  I'm going to have to play around with that a bit and see where things went wrong.

I'll work on the skin next and see if I can get it to a better place. 

mfrederick

Finally got the chance to finish this off.  There's still a lot more I think I could do with it, but I figure at this point, I'm better off moving on to a new piece and applying everything I learned with this one.

Thanks for the help everyone!  

lotet

wow, great job. one of my fav characters from MGS2.