Ninrod sea lady

Enalya

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Hi Polycount! This topic is for my personal game character 'Ninrod', I will be posting WIPs and I hope you can help me with feedback.

The concept (paintover):

Feedback on female proportions and anatomy is highly appreciated! Next up will be the retopo...
Thanks for taking a look ^^

~Enalya

P.S. I am live streaming most of the process if you're interested.

Enalya

UPDATE
So the last month I have been receiving critique from all over the web, even an hour long live stream crit session of the legendary @Hazardous
I've done my best to listen to them all and worked on her during streams, so here's where her high poly sculpt is at:



It's time for the retopo. I've been asked to also live stream that painful process, so I will ^^"

Hope you like her!

Enalya

UPDATE
This is where her body retopo is at:



It's going better and faster than I thought, so I'm happy! Here you can watch back some streams: https://www.twitch.tv/enalya/videos/all

Enalya

UPDATE
Topology fully completed! After some feedback I upped the polycount to make her a current gen game char C&C of course welcome!


Next step is UV unwrapping.

Enalya

UPDATE
UVs are done! A screenshot of the process in 3D-Coat:


I finished them up in 3dsMax.

Then I did a Normal Map bake with xNormal and fixes + detail defining in 3D-Coat again. This is the result so far in Marmoset Toolbag3:



I am quite happy with how things are going; faster than I thought! Next step will be texturing.

disanski

Bakes came out nice   It is little late for this now but it looks like you could have packed the uvs little  tighter. There is a little too much empty space right now
Good luck with texturing this.

Enalya

@disanski Thanks for your reply! Yea those islands were just the body; with every element in it's tightly packed ^^
Right now I'm adding scales to detail things more.

disanski

Ah right I did not notice that.

VeryCrunchyTaco

She's looking pretty good so far!  The anatomy's looking pretty solid.  The only complaint I have is that she looks a bit plain and naked-ish.  I really like your initial concept/paintover; it seemed like the scales/parts covering the chest and hips were all connected and flowing, which looked like a really cool idea.  In the sculpt, they feel like less connected, almost tacked on.  I am unsure if it's too late to change this, though.

The bake came out pretty clean, and I'm looking forward to the end result!  You'll be able to do a lot of cool stuff with the skin and final texture.  (Also, here's a neat thing that may inspire/give you some ideas for texturing!)

Enalya

@VeryCrunchyTaco Thank you so much! You know what, you're right, I feel the same way about that.. - the contrast between concept art and the 3D model now. It's indeed too late to change the full geometry, but I will try to reach a better result with transparent textures at the fin ends and actual (coloured) scales.
Thanks for that link! I already had that one saved, it's amazing ^^

Below you see where she is at now. Still some tiny Normal Map issues, but I'm quite pleased about the bake, detail refinement and scales.

Enalya

UPDATE
Now that her Normals are completely done, I did paintovers for colour exploration and received feedback. This will be her final colours I'm very excited to make this happen!

Stavaas

This is pretty cool, wish I saw this thread earlier! Looking forward to seeing how it looks with the colors you've chosen.

Enalya

@Stavaas Thank you, me too haha!

Enalya

UPDATE
Texturing progress, she's almost done Still need eyelashes, fin texture and a pose!

Enalya

UPDATE
Almost everything is done, I'm quite proud! I might add a flow map to the hair, but then I will rig/pose her with a simple environment Here's a close-up shot:

Enalya

UPDATE
Rigging and skinning done! I've made a pose test:



To finish up I'll do an animation and environment, can't wait to share it all

Enalya

FINISHED
I proudly present Ninrod sea lady:

[animated her in this video]









ArtStation link for all images, video and Marmoset Viewer: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/y68Z9

She was a big challenge and I learned a ton, really happy!

VeryCrunchyTaco

Looks pretty good!   

If you're interested in doing anything else, I feel like her eyes/eyelashes/eyeshadow could be beefed up a bit.  I did a super quick paintover to better show a potential option.



If I were you though, I'd leave it as is,  since she's pretty much finalized (and I'm kinda lazy).  Congrats on finishing, and looking forward to seeing future works!   

Enalya

@VeryCrunchyTaco Thank you and thanks for taking the time for a paintover
I dunno, that looks like she's wearing a lot of make-up and doesn't give the natural/nude feel I want. Yea, maybe the skin could be darker above the eye area.