[Finished] Merc

akiratang

Based on concepts by Alexandr Pascenko. I mix and matched a couple of his concepts into a character I wanted to create. 



I dont make male characters often but I wanted my next low-poly character to be male, and Alex's concepts are pretty awesome!


This is where I'm at with the High poly so far, a couple days work , mainly Zbrush and abit of 3DS Max. The original concepts probably has a few too many pouches so I may remove a few. Might need to make him abit taller but not sure yet, I want to keep him big and buff for the most part.

The goal for this project is to make a low poly character, maybe semi-realistic and about 30-40k tris. 

Any critiques so far is welcome!

akiratang

Been little busy over the past week but worked on him abit more. Starting to add some details. High poly should be done soon so I can get started on the retopo on the weekend hopefully.

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Busy week didn't get as much as i wanted to but high poly i'm calling done.



Probably have to start thinking about what colours I want oh him too, during texturing.

kanga

Looks real good. The trousers at the side of the knee in the front 3/4 view look like they are sticking out a bit far.

akiratang

kanga said:

Looks real good. The trousers at the side of the knee in the front 3/4 view look like they are sticking out a bit far.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into it later. After that I'll split the model for retopo. Hope doesn't take me too long lol

akiratang

Little update on the model.

Finally got the retopo done! there was so many pieces i kinda wished i picked something abit easier haha.



Model is just under 34k tris, my aim was 30-40k tris initially, but i want to maybe try get him down to 30k flat. Still alot of unnecessary edgeloops and hidden faces i could delete to optimise him, but i will worry about that later and focus on the unwrapping soon.

I will see if I can make two textures maps for him, one for the face and one for the body. I hope I can fit all the pieces into the UV space but if I can't, then might make two smaller resolution texture sheets for the body+accessories. 

akiratang

Got the UVs unwrap done over this weekend and just did some test bakes for the normal map.

kanga

Test bakes look real good!

akiratang

Did a first pass for the textures of this character. Almost done

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Calling this guy done. 
Had some intersecting i didn't notice in the render until it was too late, but might fix it later.
Had fun making him overall and another good learning experience.

JamesBrisnehan

The armor looks awesome but the face and hair are reading like plastic. Unless that's the look you're going for. He would make a pretty cool action figure.

akiratang

JamesBrisnehan said:

The armor looks awesome but the face and hair are reading like plastic. Unless that's the look you're going for. He would make a pretty cool action figure.

I was going for a semi-stylised look hence why i went with sculpted hair as well in the design. Maybe if i tone down the glossiness or tweak materials might get better results. Thanks tho