Personal Future Soldier Character

CrazyMoon · May 2016

I've been wanting to make this character from Xinzhe Zhang in realtime for a while now. Now finally I have the time to do so, so here I go! This is the artist's artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artist/qeaval

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Since the face in the concept is obstructed in the concept I took some liberties with it. I want the helmet to be removable and show her face in the model. I also made a body for her. Any tips, comments and observations are very welcome!

These are my first WiPs (Not a lot of love in the feet yet):

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CrazyMoon · May 2016

I blocked out the armor roughly and did a more detailed pass on the head, giving her more character I hope. I already started polishing the shoulders, these rough block outs help get an idea of the size and parts of the piece. They will all be adjusted a bit while polishing. Will remake the arm from scratch since Im not happy with the look, it doesnt feel like its part of the suit. There is also something bothering me with the legs, not sure what though.

CrazyMoon · Jul 2016

Alright I haven't posted here in a while but thought I'd post what I got to in the high poly. I already did the retopo and some texture work as well. Will post those another time. I still have to build a couple of shapes here and there. I think I'm missing one more bow piece, a plug on the right arm to cover up the connection from arm to armor and one more piece on the legs that wont be as noticeable. Once I have that done I will make the feathers for the helmet.

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Blade113 · Jul 2016

pretty cool, lots of fancy details

IrishMaster · Jul 2016

You can't show the ass ..it might trigger someone .ha

CrazyMoon · Jul 2016

@blade113 Thanks

@IrishMaster It might :pleased:

gfelton · Jul 2016

That bow is badass, I love it!

Maxilator · Jul 2016

Looks really good, be careful so that i doesn't become too noisy though. I think the bow could look a bit better if you did something more with the string, like some thingy where the arrow touches it and maybe some compound bow like solutions. Keep up the good work!

CrazyMoon · Jul 2016

@gfelton Thanks man!
@Maxilator Thanks for the feedback! So far there is no arrow in there. It's just shapes of the bow. I agree with the string. Though I'm not sure if I want to add too many things that aren't in the concept.. I want to try staying true to it.

CrazyMoon · Aug 2016

This is what she's looking like right now. I'm open for any suggestions for now I just made emissive strings, might go back to metal but for now I think I like it.
I made the base yesterday but still have to texture it. Also still have to pose it. This is Marmoset right now btw. Hope to be done with her this week

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dGreenberg · Aug 2016

Fantastic stuff, @CrazyMoon! I'm envious of your crisp clean edges on her metal bits. Did you end up sticking with zBrush for that stage, or did you clean it up any in Maya / 3DS Max first? Either way it's some fantastic detail you got going on.

For her body suit thing do you think you'll end up making it more blue like the concept, or are you going for more of the fleshy tone? As it is, I think it just blends in too much with the rest of the skin, and could use a punch of color contrast there.

A minor suggestion might be to add a few more divisions in the hair cards. Everything else on the character has that intentional strong form silhouette, but the hard angles in those feathers catch my eye. I like the idea of the emissive glowy bow string; I think it works well with the emissive parts of her armor. Can't wait to see the final result. Keep up the great work!

CrazyMoon · Aug 2016

@dGreenberg Hey man first of all thanks for the kind words!! Yeah I ended up doing everything in ZBrush. I didn't model anywhere else. If that helps :P I used a lot of dynamesh at high resolutions (the high poly for only the armor ended up being 81 million polys) and the workflow seems to work quite ok it just needs a lot of pc power imo.

For the suit Im not entirely sure, I was sticking more the other color variation from the concept, but I completely agree! I have to add some contrast there. I think Ill just have to make it a bit darker since in the concept it looks darker too.

The feathers I also agree with I will have to add some more edges on the outer feathers at least, the ones that impact the silhouette a lot. Thanks for all the feedback man it really means a lot

Asura · Aug 2016

This looks amazing!! My only crit would be that she would probable have some color variation in the front. Her suite and skin right now read as the same thing. Unless that's the point.

Good stuff either way dude.

dand3d · Aug 2016

Asura said:

This looks amazing!! My only crit would be that she would probable have some color variation in the front. Her suite and skin right now read as the same thing. Unless that's the point.

Good stuff either way dude.

Asura beat me to it. The cloth is now reading as skin, looking back at the concept art the cloth was a blue color. Likewise the only other thing I'd say I'd change is... I'd add just a few more edges in the feathers behind her head to break up the hard poly edges in the silhouette. Beautiful work though.

QOR_082 · Aug 2016

Your style is very cool.

CrazyMoon · Aug 2016

@Asura @dand3d Thank you both!! Yeah I agree 100% with those crits. Greenberg pointed it out earlier as well meaning it is urgent for me to fix I will get on that tonight! I will make the suit a bit darker and maybe add some slight touches of blue to it

And yeah the feathers are also in dire need, at least the outer ones as you said.

@QOR_082 Wow, thank you I appreciate it!

CrazyMoon · Aug 2016

Alright so I made the suit darker and the feathers that were affecting the silhouette a lot smoother. I can still probably curve a couple of feathers a bit more. Also made a base for her and her energy arrow. Now Imma start making making some poses for the final presentation.