[WIP] Morrigan Dragon Age remake

natalia_stolarz · Oct 2019

Bonjour ppl

I've been working for some time on Morrigan's (Dragon Age) remake. I'm not trying to match the reference exactly, just attempting to stay close enough

I've chosen Natalie Portman as my face reference and I'm miiiiiiightlyyyy struggling with a likeness...

ref:

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What I have so far (still only high poly):
I work on the head separately so the one attached to the body atm is just a placeholder, dont mind it svp

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the Portman girl:

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the head:

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C&C very much welcommed

natalia_stolarz · Jan 2020

Some beauty shots on the finished high poly:

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HarlequinWerewolf · Jan 2020

Gorgeous work. The detailing is amazing. I think you nailed her likeness and I look forward to seeing this textured

nimlot26 · Jan 2020

I'll keep my eyes on this Natalia

jacopoS · Jan 2020

This looks outstanding so far. keep it up!

tucanoblu · Feb 2020

That's a great one! Lovely

natalia_stolarz · Feb 2020

I think I can call the head finished for the time being

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carvuliero · Feb 2020

I moved few things around just to show you if you put the same amount of time in to her face as you did with her hair she could look much better

Also reducing cranium to normal size will fix the problem with elongated hair style

I pick side view as yours is really simplified and there is almost no movement from feature to feature , adding more planes could fix that also her chin is much more interesting then what you gave her

I really think you should spend more time on her neck as I cant really see any distinct form

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natalia_stolarz · Feb 2020

Carvuliero, thank you for your comment.
Be sure that I spent WAAAAY more time on sculpting her head than arranging her hair. And I really mean it - it took me months since it is my first character ever sculpted. Digitally or not

I don't see any problems with the elongated hair style - I made it like it is on purpose since this type of heavy messy loose buns rarely stay close to the sculpt.
Here's some of her pics I was sculpting from:

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carvuliero · Feb 2020

Ok enjoy your first finished character then

Torch · Feb 2020

Agreed with Carvu's crit, the skull shape is a bit elongated in the original. The piece you're doing looks great though, nice one

akiratang · Feb 2020

Looks amazing, i think you captured her likeness alot actually.
The detail in the work is great too.

Mind I ask how did you arrange the hair so nicely?

natalia_stolarz · Feb 2020

@akiratang - the hair was mostly manual labor, took me a little bit over a month. But it was my first try, a lot of errors was made - it can be accomplished much faster

I was using this tutorial - https://gumroad.com/nimlot26#yXlMP
And this Maya plugin - https://sladkovsky3d.artstation.com/store/zzR2/gs-curvetools-v1-0-maya-plug-in-curve-controlled-hair-cards-pipes-and-more
... plus tons of help from Nimlot (https://www.patreon.com/nimlot/posts) and the community around him

akiratang · Feb 2020

natalia_stolarz said:

@akiratang - the hair was mostly manual labor, took me a little bit over a month. But it was my first try, a lot of errors was made - it can be accomplished much faster
I was using this tutorial - https://gumroad.com/nimlot26#yXlMP
And this Maya plugin - https://sladkovsky3d.artstation.com/store/zzR2/gs-curvetools-v1-0-maya-plug-in-curve-controlled-hair-cards-pipes-and-more
... plus tons of help from Nimlot (https://www.patreon.com/nimlot/posts) and the community around him

Cool , thanks for sharing i will be sure to check it out!
Real-time hair takes time and I've struggled with it looking good. At the moment I was using Tom Parkers method of making hair, while its good its nice to see other techniques.

riceart · Feb 2020

Świetna robota!

Great job!

EvilSylvanas · Feb 2020

Great job, i also think you were able to get the likeness, Keep it going !

CaesarAlbertus · Feb 2020

Great work!!!!!!!

RaulTavares · Feb 2020

oh @natalia_stolarz ...

seimax · Mar 2020

this looks so good !

natalia_stolarz · Mar 2020

Thank you all so much

rollin · Mar 2020

I would look into the lighting and material definition / shading a bit more. As this is the weak spot right now with the realtime head.
The highpoly looks really great btw.