God Of War NPC

Grimartwolff

Hi everyone! I am so exited for the new God Of War game that I wanted to create a character that fit in the universe. I Also wanted to try a different workflow involving Photogrametry and scan my head in to get a realistic head to work from. So his name is Dugrof, he is a solitary hunter who I imagine Could be a main NPC helping Kratos and Atreus. This is what I have so far. Going to start retopologizing him soon. Let me know what you think

Brian "Panda" Choi

Good start.  I'm kind of sad that a lot of the original scan wasn't kept in the final sculpt.  Went from you to older caucasian male that's not you.

Grimartwolff

I debated on weather to keep it more like me or not but in the end I changed it to better fit the character I envisioned.  

Grimartwolff

Chipping away at his retopo. 

Rokulakis

Looking good so far! Like the scars

Grimartwolff

Finally Finished the retopo. Sitting at 80K tris including the hair cards. Hit my goal of keeping it under 100k tris. 

Olingova

looks like a solid retopology! I really look forward to see the texture on that guy, which soft will u use?

Grimartwolff

Thank you! Currently unwrapping everything and figuring out how I'm going to  split up my textures. I am planing on using substance to texture him. 

jose.fuentes

this is great, cant wait to see how this ends up 

Grimartwolff

Finished unwrapping, and packing. Split him in to two texture sheets and one just for hair. 

Checker:


Hair:

Props+Leather drapery:
Head, Hands, Boots, and Tunic: 

Grimartwolff

Hi Polycount, 

My computer decided to die on me so  have only been able to work on this guys at school. Here are my Bakes and some preliminary textures in Substance painter. Let me know what stands out or if their's any interesting ideas you think would look cool in textures  

Grimartwolff

Texture Update: Did a pass on everything. still need to do another pass to push some stuff. the fur on his boots and wrists is supposed to be wolf fur, still needs some tweaking and also want to fix up the hair a bit too. Let me know what you think. What stands out, and what I should focus on next  

supremedalek925

Something about the eyebrows doesn't look right to me. I think they're too high up. Nice work on the skin and leather

Kanni3d

The sculpting/modeling, design of his equipment + clothing especially is superb! I'm not too sure how far along you are with the texturing, but a lot of its definitions are still muddy. Hair/beard is getting there!

Brian "Panda" Choi

There's got to be a better way to dot hat textured fur, but I'm at a loss atm myself about the best methodology.

Aydhe

It's certainly not bad work but there's a lot it still needs. When you're sculpting, it seems like you're completely skipping stage of medium details, you're blocking out major shapes and forms and then diretly jumping into details, thing with this approach is that it makes entire character be very messy as details dont have forms to hold onto.
As for the fur, there are few popular ways to create it, one is of course fur planes which is rather heavy. 
Other method is dotted opacity map on overlapping volumes, as an example, imagine creating several planes on top of each other, even tough they're planes, they'll imitate feeling of volume.
Then there is another approach, which you can find by searching for AFRO hairstyle for ames, you basically create cards at 90' angle from each other and it fakes volume from each side.

And most impotantly, have fun

Grimartwolff

Thank you for all the feed back the textures are about 50% done I like to jump around and bring everything up gradually. for the fur I am following Nikita Volobuev's fur tutorial. Here: http://www.artstation.com/artwork/3m9qD I am going to focus on completing the fur and doing another pass on the hair and I will post updates.

Aydhe

dayum, that's something i'm going to use for my faun when i'll be reworking her textures. she deserves more love and this is great!

Grimartwolff

Hi Everyone,

After hitting a few setbacks and having to build a new computer Im happy to be able to get back to work on this  guy. I have been focusing on trying to get my materials to read better. I brought him in to marmoset to see how he is looking. I am pretty happy with everything except the hair and fur. Ive been struggling to get it to a point where im happy with it. Going to focus on that next. Let me know what you guys think or if you have some tips on hair.







 

Grimartwolff

Hi Everyone! wanted to update you all. I am getting close to calling him done. I have been tweaking the textures and lighting to try and find something I like. Let me know what you think

Brian "Panda" Choi

Nice progress!

Needs more noise and discoloration across generally the clothes.  Lookng too pristine.

Eyes need improvement.  Marmoset has an exceellent tutorial on it on their website.

Skin needs subsurface scattering.

Grimartwolff

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

Nice progress!

Needs more noise and discoloration across generally the clothes.  Lookng too pristine.

Eyes need improvement.  Marmoset has an exceellent tutorial on it on their website.

Skin needs subsurface scattering.

 Thank you for the feedback. Did another pass on textures adding more wear and dirt to the shirt and some color variation all around. trying to improve lighting right now. 

Brian "Panda" Choi

Their art dump might also help as an rendering target
https://magazine.artstation.com/2018/06/santa-monica-studio-god-war-art-blast-character-art-vfx/

Grimartwolff

Some progress. Redid the Hair, Beard, and Hair. Also been working on lighting

Grimartwolff

Finished Him up. More renders at https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Dg59G

Brian "Panda" Choi

That skin is still reading plastic, admittedly.

Can you take a screenshot of your skin material?