The Explorer - Character Modelling WIP

Magihat

Latest WIP update July 13 - testbake for face and quick substance magic

A few of you may have seen this thread under a different title but now its back and with a new concept. I have been struggling with this character a long while now and after I so cleverly thought of the idea to design clothes myself late last month progress pretty much grind to a halt. When I found the concept below I instantly knew that was the direction I wanted to go so here we are!

The new concept is by Ji Yeun Kim https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nZWOO


To help discipline myself and don't lose track I have set up some goals:

• Reach a standard of current generation games
• Capture the concept as faithfully way as possible
• Push myself when it comes to details - especially concerning pores
• Finish within a reasonable time frame
• Post bi-daily updates at a minimum

...and some time-estimates:

• 3 Weeks for all the high-poly modelling
• 5 Days for lowpoly, UVs & baking
• 1 Week for texturing
• 2 Days for scene set-up and posing
• 4 Days for if something blows up in my face

Original estimate of completion: July 26, 2016

Final deliverable: Game res model (30k-70k tris) PBR textured in Substance Painter and presented in Marmoset Toolbag 2.

I am very open to any sort feedback you may have so please feel free to leave a comment.

Magihat

Dormant but not dead! This is my first pass of pores and wrinkles. 

Magihat

Decided to drop the previous concept and test a different style of clothes. He will be strapped in with pouches and stuff on the sides so I will have to see if that helps with the dullness of him. Will change the thread title as soon as I figure out who he is.

Magihat

I could not get the clothes to sit right on the body no matter how much I tried then I realized that it was because the body was absolute shit so I started to try and fix it (here is a pic of the previous body if you want to really see how bad it was). Any suggestions on further improvements are welcome!

Magihat

So I have decided to make a shift with this project and here is the first WIP from that:

(also, does anyone know how to get good looking renders from ZBrush?)

Magihat

Blocking some more of the clothes. Slowly getting everything in place.

Magihat

Finally got all the clothes and details in there so that I can start getting the forms and proportions together. 

Magihat

Fiddled around with the proportions after some feedback. Feels a bit better. I probably won't have time to post some more updates until saturday or sunday but if anyone has some comments about the proportions or design it would be greatly appreciated. Here is the non gif version of the new one: https://timoliverhaag.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/explorer_june23_proportionfixes.jpg

(heh, just noticed that I forgot to move down his eyebrows so he got a derpy surprised expression)

amirabd2130

looking forward to this

Magihat

I tried to do a first pass of the details/folds and I am not feeling what I have. I am still on track with my schedule but I better step my detail game up.

Asura

This is looking really solid. Small points that I have noticed is that for the cloth under the knee braces, they look a bit flat. In the concept the cloth has a bit more volume and seems to be thicker /folded on the top. Other than that this looks great!

Magihat

Uploaded a very decimated version of him to Sketchfab. Easier than trying to capture shots from all angles.
https://skfb.ly/Q6Yt
(edit: seems like sketchfab intergration is broken as usual so here just go to the link above)

@Asura Thank you! Sculpting folds is something I really need to work on more. Like a lot more.

Magihat

Slight update on the face.

Magihat

Progress have really slowed down as I try to wrap my head around how to retopo the clothes but here is a quick lowpoly substance test at least. Still haven't gotten to the pore-details yet.