(finished) female character

JohannesAg

I wanted to try and make my next character from scratch and do the concepting myself, and so I did a blockout sculpt of a body and have been doing some paintovers to try to get something cool going. I kinda want to make something that´s like a mix between something like Alien Isolation and the Division. I´ll have to figure out a bunch of stuff in 3d since I´m not really adept enough at 2d to make detailed design choices but i want to get the gist of what I´m going to make in photoshop before I start modeling.  I´ve spent a bit of time sculpting the head though since I kinda know what i want there. 

But yeah, any feedback on the design would be really appreciated.  

JohannesAg

Finished the rough concept and got some stuff done in 3d. Jacket already looks pretty different to the concept but since I´m not a concept artist there is bound to be stuff in there that will change in 3d, still nice having it as a base though.

JohannesAg

I´m a bit further along. I didn´t work on this for a while but i´m back at it now. Some stuff is still only blocked out but i´ll get to those soon.

slosh

There are some issues with your base nude but its looking great with all the clothes blocked in.  

JohannesAg

thanks @slosh , yeeeah that base is a bit sloppy looking at it now. I might go back and fix it even though I´m not using it anymore

JohannesAg

I´m back at it now with this one, got all my bakes done. Got started on the hair, used the hair and fur substance designer plugin to generate the hair textures. Render is from ue4. Gonna either make eyelashes or start texturing next. 

JohannesAg

Got started a bit on the texturing process and made some eyebrows. Need to revisit the hair soon, I never finished it off so you can still see some of her scalp :P  Also need to fix a couple of clipping issues on the clothes. If I´m not horribly sick of this model when I finish I might throw a rig on it and play around with some animation, I´ve been wanting to try akeytsu for a while now so I might do that with this one.

Sora123

I have a question about the jacket.
Wat are the steps in making the jacket? to be particularly the details. I currently have a problems with my jacket. Siche i want my jacket to be open I have difficulty if I should make my jacket double sided or only the bits I want to show. I dont know how to tackle this problem to be honest? Care to elaborate? https://polycount.com/discussion/215862/wip-cyberpunk-aka-firefly#latest

All in all I think your work is cool!

JohannesAg

@sora123 hey thanks. It´s double sided to about 15 cm in from the bottom and from where it´s open. To be honest i´m not sure how much of it would need to be double sided in a game but for what I´m doing it´s enough so I didn´t really worry too much about it

Sora123

Oke but do you like keep the double sided jacket and use that as a final game mesh? And do you delete bits of the body mesh where the player cant see such as inside the cloth?

JohannesAg

@Sora123 I deleted the inside of the arms of the jacket yea, and yeah any part of the body that you don´t see I deleted, that stomach does not connect to anything, the head is just a head and the arms end just after they reach inside the jacket

Sora123

aah ic that is enough for me to work on my model further thx!

JohannesAg

At this point I´m mostly making small texture changes and noodling with the lighting. I´ll brighten up her boots a bit so they´re not pitch black and work on the back next since I´ve mostly been focused on the upperbody front view until now and so the back view hasn´t had much love

JohannesAg

Calling this one done, there is more stuff i could fix but I don´t have more patience for this project :P, i think it turned out okay.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Jl13en  artstation link  if you wanna look at more pics

HarlequinWerewolf

Awesome work! I've been checking in on this thread and the outcome looks great! Love your materials in particular

JohannesAg

thanks

marioffgallo

Looks awesome man!

Your materials is really pretty good, where did you learn it?
I asked because I still struggling with materials on my models and some courses I found it are just meh...

The eyelashes and eyebrows are polygons or planes?
Just curiosity.

JohannesAg

@marioffgallo thanks man , the eyelashes are polygons and the eyebrows are two separate planes. As for the materials I just play around and try different things until I stumble onto something I like really. I don´t know how to use designer so it´s all done with stuff in painter. 

Polynaught

Great work. Do you've got a render of the color id map(s) that you probably used inside painter? Curious about the complexity.

akiratang

Nice work, I like the design alot, reminds me of something from that game Remember me.

Just curious did you make the clothing in Marvelous D? 

slosh

Looks pretty nice.  The materials are solid.  Face and hair feel a bit odd though.  Mainly the proportions for the face and the hair feels a bit unnatural.  Her face feels a bit long esp under her nose...feels like you could move the mouth and chin up a little to get a more aesthetically pleasing face.  Her hair just looks a bit strange in terms of style and length.  Some of the cards start at the top of her head and are still equal in length as the hairs coming from lower portions of her scalp.  I would expect a bit more layering in the length.  Anyways, just stuff to look out for next time.  

JohannesAg

@Polynaught I didn´t really use a lot of id maps on this one actually. @slosh thanks man,  I´ll keep those in mind for the next one

JohannesAg

@akiratang thanks,  yeah the clothing is all made in marvelous