Help and Critique on College Character assignment.

Keith01

Hi Community,

I could really use some second, third or as many eyes as I can get to help my work.
I don't want to move on to anything else until I am happy with the body. 

The main concern I have are the legs. Should I keep the legs I have or change back to normal human-like legs?

As you can see I have not kept to my drawings too much as I decided I wanted to change during the sculpt. Also I am going to add more vertebrae later to represent the spine a bit better.

Thanks to anyone who helps
Keith

Alemja

If you want to go with the reverse joint legs, you are going to have to make modifications.

• First thing is that the character is off balance, and looks like he is leaning backwards. To fix that you have to line up the shoulders with the heels.
• Next the flat feet aren't really working, unless he's supposed to be a frog-like guy. It doesn't look like it can support his weight since it has a heavily built frame.
• Currently the anatomy is also very blobby and undefined, I would go down a subdivision or 2 and define the shapes more before getting into details. If you are using dynamesh, use a lower resolution.
• Be sure to look at anatomy of people with similar builds as the creature you are making, and animals that have similar anatomy, this will help you with your forms and eliminate guesswork.

Here is a quick paintover:

Keith01

That's great Alemja, thanks so much. Yep absolutely correct about the soft muscles. I will define them a lot more.

I will make some of these updates and will update them here.

Again thanks very much.

Keith01

Right so I've reshaped my model and I've gone down considerable in density so i can begin to define my shapes more. As you can see they're a lot of bubbles on my model that I need to fix and define.

Also this is the reference I've been using

Keith01

Slowly getting the shapes and forms. Proving quite difficult to perfect the anatomy. Defining the shapes while trying to also keep them a bit soft is proving difficult. Going to move onto the biceps next

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slight update

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Starting retopologising it. I'm colouring in the muscles and where I need the edge loops for animation.

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Slowly doing this

Keith01