Character: Karolina - Semi Realism in UE4

DennisKurzeja

Hello Everyone!
First time posting. Here is my attempt at implementing a full character into Unreal. I challenged myself to create a stylized child character to see how I can do soft faces. I spend a lot time on this and I would like to know if it was worth it.







Concept
Karolina is the daughter of a Jewish family in Warsaw 1939. She is the player character for a theoretical game where you have to survive in Warsaw during German occupation.

I would like to get critique if this semi-realistic look is working out or if its drifting into uncanny hell. I would like to know where I can improve and what could be better.

Shyralon

Looks really good, I like the current level of stylization. Also, the material definition is very nice - are the eye and skinshaders the unreal standard or did you create some if your own? (If yes, would you mind sharing your setup for this?)

DennisKurzeja

 Hi Shyralon. Thanks for the feedback. I copied the shader setup for the eyes and skin of that boy character from Epic's kite demo. I only added some parameters for tweaking the brightness and used different colors in the sub surface profile.

rafregidor

turned out really great
I am also planning to render my character in unreal.
Any tips or possible pitfalls I can expect when moving my mesh from say 3dsmax to unreal (things like how to keep scale, unbroken uvs etc)
Thanks!

DennisKurzeja

Thanks Rafregidor!

The only thing I can mention is to import the smoothing groups and normal tangent information from your fbx file. There is a dropdown menu in the import window and usually it is set to generate new tagents. This will mess up your normal map.

Also Epic made a realistic character rendering demo that you can check out.