Miles Edgeworth

Phoenix_Trite

Since I am a huge fan of the Ace Attorney series (+ the spinoffs), I decided my first serious project in Zbrush would be recreating Miles Edgeworth, and eventually get him rigged and game ready.

(Quick something about me) I'm 13 years old, I have been doing 3d for about 4 years (it got serious 2 years ago), but after I recently got myself a Wacom, I'm trying to get into Zbrush. I have done some muscle studies and my own creatures, and after 2 months of toying around in Zbrush, I hope I'm ready for this.

This is where I'm at after about 40 minutes of work (and don't worry that horrible hair is just a placeholder). The face shape still needs work, though...

Phoenix_Trite

Blocked out some facial features, and started on the ears. It's not much, but I just want to show some progress so that I can get critique before I head in the wrong direction. Life's been kinda hefty lately too, school etc.. is consuming my free time, and just yesterday, I managed to run into a sign (of sorts). The result was 4 stitches just above  the knee, haha. Well, shit happens.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Switch to a more neutral grey mat cap.  Red wax over accentuates details, especially at this stage.

Good progress!

Phoenix_Trite

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

Switch to a more neutral grey mat cap.  Red wax over accentuates details, especially at this stage.

Which matcap do you recommend? Is clay or green clay okay?

TheWarlord18

This is Orbs modeling gray mat cap and its one of the best out there.

http://www.pearltrees.com/orb/ftp-public/id12803883/item138130022

Phoenix_Trite

Thanks! How does it look?

Also, should I render in orthographic or perspective? Right now it's orthographic view

TheWarlord18

Whats the reference you're working from? Mostly what i can say now is that the head needs to be shaped a little better, its feeling a bit square atm. Anime characters are incredibly hard to nail. try and find some reference of similar characters to get a better idea for the translation to 3d.

Phoenix_Trite

Ye.. Anime characters are incredibly hard to nail. That's kind of why I wanted to do this project instead of creating my own chap.

I'm basing it off back when he only was a prosecutor, not a chief prosecutor (That would be before Dual Destinies). I want to get as close as possible to this:


While I want to stay away from this:

It's hard to sculpt him with a neutral expression because every picture I see of him shows him with an expression of sorts. 
(I have more pictures btw but they would make the post infinitely long.)