Henchman - WIP

Rsylke

Robin hood - "Prince John’s henchman"

Concept by HONG SOONSANG 

lotet

great start! subbed.

Rsylke

Ty!  

Blade113

nice job!

Rsylke

Blocked out the hair and made a new render. 

Rsylke

Rsylke

Started Retopo last night. Going through each piece and adding fine detail also. 

lotet

Looking really nice overall!
I think some pieces could use a tad more polish. like the boots and hands (especially the fingers). the arms also look a tad wobbly, especially the biceps.  another idea would be maybe try make the mail on the arms with micromesh?

Daf57

So cool! Nice work so far!

jose.fuentes

Looking great so far!

gfelton

This great dude, really looking forward to the finished piece!

Rsylke

Yea I will probably revisit the the arms here shortly. I really need to fix my base mesh anatomy for my next project. I might do micromesh for the mail armor, for a little more pop in detail and fibermesh for the fur on his cloak and trim. The boots are just blocked out atm, but I'm going through each piece and polishing and adding small details before I retopo and uv unwrap.  Thank you guys for the feedback !  

Rsylke

Here's a little update on some things I've been working on lately.  I've been UV unwrapping each piece and baking out the normals. I also started adding a little more detail to the boots. 

lotet

Nicel! glad to see your still working on this

Rsylke

Yea I'm trying real hard to stay focus on this one and finish it out, but sometimes I need a little break in between. 

Rsylke

Gloves Update

lotet

Looking good! I like the detail on the gloves. 

the fingers are looking really small and thin at the ends though, I think you could thicken them up quite a bit.

Rsylke

Thanks ! I'll take a look at the fingers tonight and see what I can do.

Ouran

Looking great ! I'd inflate the padding on the forearm protection a little in order to make it look less flat.

Rsylke

Great Suggestions guys!  I'm going to start posting more of the sculpted pieces before I take it into topogun. So I can make the changes you guys suggest before I jump the gun on retopology. For now, I wanted to post some pics of my progress with the low poly and bakes. 

Tits

Love the style! the topo looks pretty clean too, looking forward to see where you take this

Rsylke

Thank You!

Rsylke

I changed up the the mail to lay over the arm. Going to make a strap under the arm soon. I used an insert brush and spent time lining up the rows instead of micromesh.  

Rsylke

Did a quick test bake to check the retopo. Going to continue retopo and bring out the silhouette a bit more. 

lotet

not really digging the micro detail on the chainmail, I guess they are some sort of attachments? right now it looks more like noise and dosnt really match the style, other then that its looking good!

Rsylke

I was going for scale mail that lays over the arms and loosely stays in place with an under strap.  If you'd like to send some photos of examples of stuff, Id be interested to see. I also thought about just micro mesh the arms completely with chain mail. 

lotet

well "real" scalemail kinda just looks like this. or this. you can easily just make the mail go all the way around like a normal chain mail skirt in real life.

but my crit wasn't really aimed at the leather straps, but the small dots on the plates. usually scales are overlapping with each other, thus covering any visible attachment point. the rings that are usually connecting them is covered by the overlapping scales themselves. 

Rsylke

ahhh.  I can get rid of those dots. The IMM brush i was using, has those as separate grouped objects.  Would that help ? 

Rsylke

I've decided to redo the scale mail completely.  I'll be posting pics later this week of the revisions.

Rsylke

Created my own IMM brush and started laying it out around the arm. Inflated the padding on the forearm and added knuckle guards. 

lotet

That is looking MUCH better!

Rsylke

Thank you. It's a little time consuming, but it gives me a little better control over the scales.  I'll post a pic when I finish it and then probably work on fixing the boots. 

Rsylke

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I'm still working on this guy. I changed the trim on the bottom of the jacket and have been slowly working on the scale mail on the arms.  

Rsylke

The Scale Mail wasn't working out, so I decided to uv master unwrap the arm and apply a chainmail surface noise. 

Rsylke

It's been a minute since I've updated this thread. I decided to rework the fur trim on the lower part of the jacket and also redo the retopology. 

Rsylke

lotet

Looking good, glad to see your still working in this guy

Rsylke

Thanks!  It's been a struggle, but just making progress whenever I can. 

Rsylke

Here's the wire

lotet

These spots are weirding me out, other then that its looking pretty good.

Rsylke

yea I need to clean up the topo on the throwing daggers.  I'll go back and clean up the cape clips, they've been bothering me too. 

Rsylke

Any suggestions on how to clean this up?

Rsylke

Also having trouble on the cape clips topology, if anyone has suggestions. 

Rsylke

AO and normals baked out. Blocking out colors for substance painter

Rsylke

lotet

Textures are looking nice, esp the metals and the leather. did you manage to work out the topology?

Rsylke

Yea, I got rid of the triangles that were causing shading issues and lowered the loop count on the blades. 

Rsylke

Played around with rigging and trying to get the pose ready for marvelous designer cape stuff. 

Feashrind

Favorited, I just love the colors and style. 

Rsylke

Thanks!   It's been a long project

Jedairusz

Topology suggestions:



Look great btw!