[WIP] Assassin's Creed 'The Rebel'

HazelTheHobbit

Hey everyone! First time posting here but figured it was about time I did!

I'm picking back up this personal project that I started about a month ago. I only recently realised the concept was actually from Assassin's creed but oh well haha. http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Rebel



Here's my progress so far!



I've just finished my degree and I'm on the hunt for work at the moment so critique is much appreciated so I can improve and learn and make a nice portfolio piece

Elithenia

looking forward to seeing what you do with this

HazelTheHobbit

@Elithenia Thankyou!

HazelTheHobbit

Been away for a few days so only just got the chance to work on her again today. Changed her headwrap/turban to something more natural (and that I could find good reference for)
Just been noodling with bits and proportions, feeling better about her hands but the knuckles/top of her hand seem a little exaggerated so I'll be fixing that soon.

HazelTheHobbit

Making small changes to the anatomy and some other bits and also modelling some jewellery/bracelets

Zolizzo

It might just be me, but I feel like you have her shoulders a bit too wide and the biceps a bit too beefy to match the concept. 
It's looking really cool though, and you're doing a killer job with all the clothes!

HazelTheHobbit

@Zolizzo I think you're right about the shoulders! I'll take another look at them. Also I deliberately beefed up the arms cause its a pet peeve of mine when female characters are supposed to be fighters but have really skinny arms I'll find some reference for the kind of body type I'm after and then check if the arms still work
Thankyou! 

HazelTheHobbit

More updates! Looking for feedback before I move on

HazelTheHobbit

Got some feedback today so I've mostly been working on those things and doing some detailing on other parts.
I plan to make her two weapons so I think I might take a break and start on those so I can look at her with fresh eyes afterwards.

jose.fuentes

this is coming along so beautifully 

jakeroddis

Looking real cool! Folds and details are looking nice, i would really look at the arm anatomy here. Wanting her to look stronger is fine, but be sure the proportions of the upper arm, lower arm, and shoulder all work. i would work a little on each individual muscle form, particularly where the muscles overlap around the shoulders and elbows and find lots of reference as to how that affects the surface. 

Be sure the reference you find is someone with a more natural build rather than a body builder, odds are a pirate wouldn't be built and toned in the same way.

Elithenia

Love the details you've already gotten in

kreativbloc

This is some good work man. Keep it up. Loving that belly. Good job on the folds too.

HazelTheHobbit

Thankyou everyone! 
I worked on the arms with some more reference and I feel like they still look exactly the same as they did before so I'll be making another attempt at them again soon.

After several attempts I modeled a gun that I was pretty happy with (definitely not my forte) 



Made some fancy patterns in Zbrush



And this is where the pirate is up to! Very close to finishing (I think) so I'll be doing another detail pass (particularly on the body and face) and then be moving onto retopo

HazelTheHobbit

Okay think I'm ready to move on from the highpoly! 

jacopoS

Hi, this looks great! I don't know how I missed this...
I think it all looks very good but I can see a few issues with te arms: the deltoid should reach half the length of the humerus, the brachioradialis should originate higher, plus a few more things... I think I can help you with that but I see you're about to move to retopo. Let me know if you're willing to spend some more time on the HiRes and I'll be posting some more in-depth explanation for you.
Overall it looks great regardless

HazelTheHobbit

Thankyou for the feedback! Unfortunately by the time I saw this I was too far gone into retopo so I'm probably just going to leave the arms as they are for now.

HazelTheHobbit

I made some pretty big strides with texturing & I've got the majority of the base textures in now so I'll be going through and working on them bit by bit. Feedback is really appreciated around this stage since texturing tends to be a weakness of mine!

HazelTheHobbit

More texture updates! I'm quite pleased with the progress so far

JLeeD

Hey, this is awesome! Really lovely and clean work, I'd love to see the topology of this purely for my own learning purposes. It seems a bit of a shame that the embroidery on the top hasn't come through as clean as it is in the sculpt. A bit of feedback on the skin I would say its looking a little flat, have you got a sub-dermis map set up? Particularly along the forearms I would expect some veins to be visible and it could give the skin that bit of extra depth. Really sweet so far though, keep it up!

Leon_Raven

This is awesome! As @JLeeD  said already, even though the dirt makes the skin more interesting, the skin itself still feels a bit flat. More variation in skin tone and colour would definitely make everything pop out a bit more.  

Tad

howd u do the cloth?

Ged

very nice so far! those spikes of hair coming out from under the turban really help her character in the concept, hope you can do something like that

HazelTheHobbit

@JLeeD Thankyou! I'll be posting the wireframes along with the finished model later! Yeah thats something I find incredibly frustrating when you put tonnes of work into the sculpt and it just doesn't come out as strong in the bake Thanks for the feedback on the skin! I didn't have a proper sub-dermis set up so I did that and also added some veins and stuff which made a huge difference!

@Leon_Raven Thankyou!

@Tad The majority of cloth was done in marvelous designer and then I sculpted quite heavily over the top of it in Zbrush

@Ged Thankyou! I had tried to do the hair prior to your comment and got really frustrated with it and deleted but your comment inspired me to go back to it and make it work and I'm a lot happier with it so thankyou!

HazelTheHobbit

She's finished! Thankyou to everyone who gave feedback and/or commented! You can check her out on artstation for more screenshots and breakdowns and marmoset viewers etc https://www.artstation.com/artwork/422E2

NovaaH

Love her ! Really sad that her hat didn't had a little topology dedicated to it, on the face shot, it's a little too visible for my taste.

Would love to know how you went on doing her clothes, it's not really specified anywhere, and they look amazing. ( Especially the leather jacket ... And the boots.  )

Ged

Cool, the hair looks good! Great finish! well done!

HazelTheHobbit

@NovaaH Thankyou! Yeah I know what you mean- I'll pay better attention next time! The jacket was simulated using Marvelous designer and then I sculpted over the top of it in Zbrush to get some better folds and surface detail. The boots I just extracted from the legs/feet mesh and sculpted by hand. Then I textured in substance painter

@Ged Thankyou!

NovaaH

Arh, Marvelous again. 
Really need to get some practice with it. 

HazelTheHobbit

@NovaaH Its definitely worth it- I only know the bare basics of it enough to get a decent enough base mesh to work with in Zbrush- that's still where I do a lot of the work  

TheRealRyan_

Awesome! everything look so clean. What did you texture in?

HazelTheHobbit

@TheRealRyan_ Thankyou! I textured entirely in substance painter  

TheRealRyan_

Damn! how did you get that patterning in the fabric? Look great and i cant figure out how to do stuff like that. 

Mitchellangelo

This looks really good!  The anatomy looks very spot on and I really admire the color palette on the clothing.

HazelTheHobbit

@TheRealRyan_ I just put a tilable texture in the 'base colour' option and then overlayed it in the blending option thing- nothing fancy and there's probably better ways of doing it but it worked for what I needed :P 

@Mitchellangelo Thankyou! I can't take credit for the colour palette though since that was from the concept  

Mitchellangelo

You're right, but still you've done a real good interpretation of it:)

HazelTheHobbit

@Mitchellangelo Thankyou! 

Mitchellangelo

For sure

Jakub

Sweet, I like how she turned out