Chola

jose.fuentes

Sup Y'all

been working on a character for a bit, starting to wrap up the high poly.  She is a Californian Chola For those not familiar with the concept I've linked my Pinterest board a bit.  Will start moving on to retopo'ing soon.  Any feedback and Crits are always welcome 



 

Brian "Panda" Choi

This is too real.  Looking forward to the ink.

Carabiner

Belt looks like flimsy fabric, and like it's not actually holding up her pants. I like where this is going a lot though!

jose.fuentes

thanks guys! ill keep pushing for sure.  @Carabiner ill see if I can push it some more next time I sit down 

jose.fuentes

a quick update, ive been retopoing and started to experiment with textures, heres a quick texture pass, still working on the roughness map 



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Brian "Panda" Choi

ayy mami

JesusOrgaz

Wow! Great topology! The skin looks so good!

jose.fuentes

Thanks @Jesús_Orgaz  pluggin away slowly, i recently got a puppy and its greatly affected the amount of time i can put in on her, i hope to have my hair cards done with in the next day or two and then ill start placing them on 

@Brian "Panda" Choi  she's getting there! after the portrait is in a solid place, the make up and tattoos come next

akiratang

Nice model, detail is superb and i like the skin texture 

jose.fuentes

thanks @akiratang

Lou_

You might want to spend a bit more polygons on here face. Ears in particular as the detail areas are the places you want to have solid silhouettes. 

Hope that helps  

jose.fuentes

@Lou_
 I actually did that last night I realized that there was still some faceting going on around the nose and ears, so i updated my low poly and doing some rebaking as we speak

jose.fuentes

Now that my puppy is a bit bigger, I have had more time to work on my model.  Still not very happy with the hair, so I am going to do it again, for the third time.... Hopefully next time is it.  I needed a break from the hair, so I started cleaning up my bakes. I feel like I'm at a good spot, so I'm going to start texturing next. 

jose.fuentes

first pass on textures, skin is still very WIP, it's currently mainly, the export from mari with no touch ups, going to keep working on the skin, and then start adding tattoos... hella tattoos 

jose.fuentes

Did a pass on the skin and tattoos.  For the tattoos I used images found online.   Im going to rework the neck/throat piece  and then start adding a little bit of color to the tattoos.

jose.fuentes

Happy New Years!

Spent some time working on the tattoos, and make up. Going to fix the make up next time I sit down, 

jose.fuentes

I needed to take a break from the face and hair... I downloaded a base mesh AK47 from TurboSquid, reworked the topo.  Then bake and texture.  Still tweaking the wood texture and materials 

Brian "Panda" Choi

This is coming along nicely.

jose.fuentes

thanks

FourtyNights

Even though the structure of your topology is fine... the distribution of polygons is quite messy (I observed from your Sketchfab). You're already having UVs and texturing work in progress, so maybe it's a tad too late to backtrack though.

It's just that if you keep your mesh super clean, it's easier for a rigger to reference polygonal distribution to the original bind pose (A-pose) while weight painting.

jose.fuentes

thanks for the feedback @FourtyNights

at this point im not gonna move back, i wanna finish this and then start something else, I will def try to make more even topology next time 

jose.fuentes

hey guys how does this bone placement look, rigging is def not my strong point, i want to pose this, but ideally have a fully animatable rig