Oni girl

Sense42

I am working on a character to update my portfolio based on a concept of Jessica Madorran (Echo).

The character is meant to be for real-time, and maybe I'll print a copy if I will be able to.

Any critique on the current state is highly appreciated.

Sense42

Here's some progress. I tweaked a bit the proportions and did the high poly for everything. I'll tweak the face some more later. I blocked in some hairs as single side geometry that I will extrude later.

carvuliero

Sense42

Thank you @carvuliero ! I applied what you said and something else I got from another forum.

Overall I modified the body shape, reduced calf size, simplified the knee, tweaked the shoes. I also worked a bit more on the face and hairs. Hairs are in DynamicSubdiv and will get some volume and and be more squared at their ends when I will add thickness.

carvuliero

Sense42

Some more update. I worked more on curves and straights, added thickness to the hairs, modified the face a bit more.

I am not giving a working eye because I am doing some experiments and she will get them in the low poly version.

Sense42

Small update. I started retopo and UVs. Only hairs and eye missing, plus some UV island scaling to do, a little more resolution to the face and less to those pants and shoes probably.

I am thinking how to retopo the hairs. For a game version would be better to have all hairs combined, or retopo each strands? A bit of both maybe? Suggestions on this topic are really appreciated.

Sense42

After a bit of back and forth I have bakes done.

Sense42

Did a first texture pass with photoshop gradients. Still needs tweaks and then I'll import everything in Painter.

Sense42

Time for and update. I worked more on textures in substance painter, still need tweaking and clean up.

Sense42

Textures are almost done. I'll start to work on a pose now.

Sense42

Worked on pose and lighting. Still some tweaks to do and then I'll take the finals renders.

Nuclear Angel

Great job on her! The pose is super cute. Maybe try to get in some slight color shifts on her clothes? The skin looks great with the subtle mottling going on, but the clothes look really simple in comparison. So maybe gradients or hue variation could do the trick. 

Sense42

@Nuclear Angel Thanks for the feedback! Yes I use this character mainly to get better at texturing skin. I tried to add more details in the roughness channel for clothes, but I see it doesn't show up as much I thought. I'll go ever it again

Edrice

Do you need such a tight restriction on polycount? I believe you'd benefit from a bit more definition in the hair and eyes, it's a bit too distracting and you're loosing a lot from the nice sculpt you did.

Sense42

@Edrice I thought it to be a game character not supposed to be seen too close, therefore I tried to save polys where I was able. Now that you mention it I think I could have used a bit more.

Sense42

I will call this done. Here are my final renders. I need to improve my lighting skill for sure.

Thanks to everyone how has spent some time to answer and gave feedback to me, I really appreciated.