Retrogasm 2018 - Lotet - Soul Reaver - Raziel
hero character
I Loved Soul reaver when I was younger and Ive always wanted to do a take on Raziel, so here comes Retrogasm and gives me a perfect excuse 
Spent way to much time on the concept, I had way to much fun rendering, Im doing some slight redesigns. for example I wanna make his crotch a bit more safe for work :P Im also thinking about keeping his lower jaw and making his wings part of the cape instead.
Concept.
here is the first pass on the sculpt, looks horrible, not really sure what happened but I feel really rusty at sculpting for some reason.
Spent way to much time on the concept, I had way to much fun rendering, Im doing some slight redesigns. for example I wanna make his crotch a bit more safe for work :P Im also thinking about keeping his lower jaw and making his wings part of the cape instead.
Concept.
here is the first pass on the sculpt, looks horrible, not really sure what happened but I feel really rusty at sculpting for some reason.
Replies
so Im finlay starting to feel Im getting somewhere with the sculpt, I feel like I was stuck in the valley of suck way to long for this one. I didnt really have a clear direction on what I was doing, but its finally starting to look the way I envisioned it
next step is to actually start refining my shapes, and do the hair.
So I finally have an update Im proud of, spent way to much time getting the hair right :P
also did a proper design of the leg armor, still need to build that one though.
SO I have not had much time to work on this lately, but I modeled the leg armor pieces and added some more details to the wings and the cloth.
I also made a quick marmoset render to get a better feeling of what he will eventually look like.
Absolutely love your style, cant wait to see it when its done
I think the cape in the concept is really nice. Are you going make it so that the wings go through it, perhaps, or got something else in mind?
So here is another update, probably the final one for the high poly. not that much has changed, but Ive added some more detail and wear on everything.
Ive also re-made the wings again, I will poke some holes through them in the future as well, but Id rather do that with an alpha map on the lowpoly model rather then the sculpt.
time for retopology...yey
Just a small quick update, Ive re-topologies everything...ugh...not fun :P
He is sitting at 14k at the moment, thinking of adding some more here and there but we will see If I have the energy or not haha.
I'm not sure you needed more horizontal loops on your bandages parts, but the vertical ones sure add some good flow.
Can't wait to see the textures!
@GravityBwlast - I agree and did some tweaks, hopefully its better now
Ive now UVd everything, and just wrapped up the baking.
the UVs are split into 3 parts, the main body, one for things with alpha like the cloth and the wings, and then finally the hair which I wanna try getting some anisotropic shading to work.
now for the fun part, texturing!
thanks @Brian "Panda" Choi ...I think, Im not sure if thats a compliment or not xD
i love Soul Reaver so much that i tried to cosplay Raziel at the age of 9
it looks awesome , everything from the proportions to textures
well done
here is my final submission! more Images and a marmoset viewer over at my ArtStation