Grace The Space Scavenger

jman86

Hello everyone out there. I hope everyone's week is kicking off well. I haven't posted on here in a long time put wanted to get back into the swing of things. 

What I am working on is a portfolio piece that I started the end of last year but got swamped with stuff and very behind on her. It is a character that is made by Brobossa from DA named Grace. When I saw her, I knew I had to create a model of her. She is too adorable. Here is the link:

http://jmanartwork.deviantart.com/art/Grace-560830441

What I'm doing is modeling and then creating a game model version of her. So far I have the hi-poly finished of her, and the shotgun (I threw a little polypaint on the shotgun to get a general idea). Next I'll be sculpting details into the bow and then I'm going to try a fibermesh technique I've seen on youtube and tuts to make the hair cards just a little bit easier to deal with. But I'm open to feedback on anything and everything. I look forward to being around the board more and getting to know many of you awesome artists on here.  

jman86

Bow sculpt 

jman86

Does anybody have any tips when it comes to making hair cards and UV'ing them? I know hair cards can be a long and painful process, but just want to see if there are any extra tips out there. 

jman86

Grace’s hi poly is all finished with hair cards ready. Now begins the lo-poly build which I believe I will use topogun, which I’ve always wanted to use and compare against maya. Through a quick splash of polypaint on for directional purposes. 

jman86

Using Maya 2016 modeling toolkit for the retopology. I wanted to use topogun but for some reason it was hard purchasing it. 

jman86

Done with the retopology of Grace herself. Next thing is to retop her weapons and then I can go on to the texturing. Right now she is sitting at 40k without weapons. I think her max will be 40k-43k. But I'm going to start removing more topology where I know won't be needed. I'm trying to model her as if this version will be used in a cinematic setting. I will do a few LOD's just for practice too. 

Fradnor

Awesome character, and retopology can be quite a challenge sometimes. The gun with the wrench handle is sweet.

jman86

Fradnor said:

Awesome character, and retopology can be quite a challenge sometimes. The gun with the wrench handle is sweet.

Thanks man and yea retopology is always a nice challenge. I love the concept that the artist made.

jman86

Small update. In the texturing phase and getting the hair cards set up and decent looking. I'm using substance painter for the texturing and photoshop for any additive pieces.

jman86

Another small update. Just finished the low poly shotgun with normals. I'm going to make a few tweaks to the normals, and then texture it. I don't want to spend too much time on the normal fixes cause I know if I use more topology it would solve it but I rather keep it lower since most of the topology is on the character. 

jman86