Pumpkin character

Clinsparks

Hi everyone ! 

I want to share some character modeling I'm working on, I never post my work, so I thought it would be a good day to start
It's based on Servando Lupini's concept (https://www.artstation.com/artist/vando). 

The concept


Here is the blocking 

Here is the sculpt


And the low poly model I prepared 


The head sculpting still needs some work, I barely touched it, after that I will begin the baking process.

Of course, C&C is welcome

N4meless

Wow cool characters, love the sculpt on the body, maybe change the size of the detail on the hand, give it a more stylized look.

PeteJViney

I think you've really accurately captured the feel of the character and you've replicated the pose and form incredibly well! If there is one thing I would suggest editing, it would be to angle the right eyebrow (as you are looking at him) to be a little more cross and stern.. Keep up the good work! This is great

AgreeingMachine

I really admire the wooden texture you've put into the hands, and stem of the pumpkin-head. Was the blocking and low-poly pass done in Maya?

It's begging to be hand painted!

Clinsparks

Thanks for all the feedback

@N4meless
I did some changes on the details scale on the arms and legs, they are easier to see now at a correct distance.

@PeteJViney
I did a little fixing pass on the right eyebrow, it works better now, and it will be more visible at render time as I will use a low camera angle.

@AgreeingMachine
It was a bit of a tough process for me, hard to get details to show at a correct distance from the camera, I mainly used the Orb Slash brushes. The details you see in the sculpt picture are from a previous version, now I scaled up the details, they were not visible enough before.
The blocking was done in 3ds max. Unfortunately I'm don't think I will do handpainting for this one as I'm not really at ease with full painted textures.

Here is the actual state of the character in Marmoset with a bit of lighting and all baking done, i'm starting the texturing now

Clinsparks

Hi !

I'm back with my pumpkin man, this time completely finished
I struggled a bit with the texturing and the final composition, but I'm pretty happy with the actual result.

C&C is still more than welcome

Here's the final render in Marmoset :


The wireframe



The final sculpt

lotet

Wow, nice work!
my only crit would be that he is leaning just a bit to much to feel balanced (even in the concept tbh).

Clinsparks

@lotet
Thank you very much !
You're right for the leaning, it's been an issue since the begining, it was hard to keep the same pose and having a balanced character.
I think it comes from the head, that is not really centered on the body, where the neck should be and the body is slightly leaning too.
Some fixing incoming

theStoff

I really like this guy. Super fun! I do feel the concept looks a bit unbalanced too though so I wouldn't worry about sticking to the pose too perfectly. I feel pulling the feet back might help balance the character. Just so that they look like they're holding up the head.

Clinsparks

Thanks ! The original concept is really cool, fun and challenging
I did a bit of fixing on the pose by following both your advices.

Darkmaster

I love everything about this.

Khimarra

Eee! He's so grumpy!!! Awesome concept choice, and I love your texture work!

Vozz

Awesome work, incredible presentation. 

pOgOstyle

Rly cool one. 
I have problems to recognize the cane on the final render cause the bg root have a similar darkness value.

jose.fuentes

great work!   I also agree that the cane is a little lost in the final render

Randell Trulson

This is freak'n awesome.  I am curious how you got from the rendered version to the final one that looks....almost hand painted....stylized

Asura

I am absolutely in love with the shapes going on with this character! I agree with the comment about the cane being a little too pushed back in the scene. Maybe adding a lighter material to it will help. 

Clinsparks

Thanks everyone for you replies !

@Randell Trulson
I think the original concept's lighting helped me a lot to create my final image. I also did lot of tests in marmoset during the texturing phase, each time submitting my wips to friends to receive their feedback, so each time I upgraded my textures, I did some adjusements too in my rendering scene. I hope it helped

@pOgOstyle @jose.fuentes @Asura
I did a little fix with a light that cuts the cane and the right hand

lotet

Looking better! great work.

DMacDraws

Hi matey, amazing scultping! If you don't mind me suggesting I'd say you could add contrast to the eyes and motuh. For me it took a minute to register his pupils and moutshape, which is a shame because you've done the work to make a great expression but the forms are muted a but by the texture/light. 

I saw in the original concept he used a slightly darker orange on the pupil and set it against the uplight on the sockets. You could do a similar thing. I think with the mouth you could apply more ao shadowing by hand particularly along the crease of the lips and perhaps darken the orange around them in a gradient?