How do you start working on your characters?

respira

Do you sketch things out first? Hop in Zbrush right away? etc

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Burpee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RWiVRwoE8

lotet

respira

So much for intelligence

JohnnyRaptor

As tempting as it is, 

Use whichever medium that allows you to visualise your ideas as efficiently as possible with the least amount of effort and as fast as possible. 

Whichever way is the best for you, pen and paper, photoshop, google and photo ref bashing, zspheres or some other way - remember to kill your darlings

respira

I was actually wondering how do other people design their characters rather than advice on how to do it....

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Neox

respira said:

I was actually wondering how do other people design their characters rather than advice on how to do it....

maybe try to be more specific then?

Eric Chadwick

@respira You're getting replies like this because you're asking very broadly. Which looks like laziness. 

Please see our Info sticky for info about how to approach this, especially the How To Ask link:
http://polycount.com/discussion/63361/information-about-polycount-new-member-introductions/p1#asking

Show people that you've done your homework, and they will be much more likely to put the extra work into their own replies.

Chimp

me and my bro roleplay on text chat on skype, improvising the character as we go and figuring out it's main features in terms of personality and look, from there its scribbled and over several weeks we continue to flesh out the visual and then I model it.

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sziada

start

Chimp

TeriyakiStyle said:

That seems pretty slow chimp - I thought you were knocking out AAA assets in 4-5 days.

lol :P never said characters, and never said me. A non hero prop should be done in a week indeed.
That said, most of the time I mentioned is design, the actual modelling probably would take a couple of weeks ideally. Anyway you know my intention was to get someone to not spend 2 months on a project before they have the skills to justify that long, and instead bang things out in a week till they can get to average portfolio quality with that time, and then take longer on something better than average.

kanga

If it's a job I alter a zbrush model I already have. If it's a challenge and/or fun I start from a zsphere, and lately a dynamesh, and just let the character grow from there.

JohnnyRaptor

This is how i usually start

AtticusMars

JohnnyRaptor said:

This is how i usually start

That is pretty nice, can you show what the topology looks like? Whenever I've built zsphere basemeshes for humanoids it is always a massive struggle to get big poles out of the center of the chest.

JohnnyRaptor

Sure thing, check below. Now the topology will be rubbish but we wont have to rely on it besides for the very basic shape and .

So this is from a series im doing on my twitter of a complete process for a game character, 

Image above being stage 1, this is what the topology looks like at stage 2,


I got stage 3 up and stage 4 should follow by the end of the weekend.