[WIP] The Dwarf of Thunder "Dhor" - hand painted

nba12375

Hi, Polycount!
Just started the hand-painted style dwarf Thor. The casual outfit one is inspired by the fat Thor in the end game.
Still struggling to choose the color of the armor.

Any critiques are very appreciated. 

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Update.

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Update.
Start working on his clothes and props. 

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Update.
Start working on the armor.

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Update.

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Casual costume Update.

Crazy_pixel

I really like the clean shapes. But I have one question ... what happened with the penis?! I'm looking at his pants and the volume is gone.

nba12375

Thanks!Haha, great detail observation. Maybe he wears SUPER tight magic underpants
But actually, the penis is still under the pants!  

Crazy_pixel

  

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Weapon Details Update.
starting to work on the details and damages.

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Finally determined the shapes of the armor, I hope it has looked more interesting than the original design.
Looking forward to work on the details and damages! 

jose.fuentes

Loving how clean the shapes are coming along 

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jose.fuentes 
Thanks, Jose. It took me a while to modify the armor's details from the original concept design.

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Finally finished the armor Dhor's highpoly sculpt.

pixelpatron

He's rad, need a rim-light source for that last shot though. 

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@pixelpatron
I will do that, thanks for your suggestion!

pixelpatron

nba12375 said:

@pixelpatron
I will do that, thanks for your suggestion!

Ya, came across this years ago, and it's my visual standard for straight mesh renders. Freakin' gorgeous. Worth while to setup a render scene in Maya or whatever. 

 

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pixelpatron 
Oh wow, thanks for sharing! 
This render and lighting set up are amazing! 

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It's been a while.
I did the retopology in Topogun, and tried to control the triangles lower than 15000 for each skin.

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I used XNormal to bake, and after multiple bakes and repairs, I stacked these maps in PS for the grayscale texture which to be used as the basic textures of the hand-painting stage.
 

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Update.

Adjusted the main lighting value of the grayscale texture, tried to make the character's top brighter than below roughly.

Crazy_pixel

Really nice progress!

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@Crazy_pixel
Thank you! 

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Grayscale Update.

Added lighting details and exaggerated shadow.

If anyone can give me some advice to improve, I will be very grateful!.

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When I shrinked the models to small, I found out that it's a bit hard to recognize the character due to the complicated details that lack of focusing, so I made some adjustments and details to the greyscales, to make the light focus more on the face and beards.

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Gave them some colors.

rrrodreis

He is looking amazing! Amazing work with the light focus update! 

Zonvolt

Lookin good! One question, why did you choose such a limited poly limit? Is the intent to make a game-ready character for a specific game like WoW or HotS? (Warcraft and Heroes of the Storm)

nba12375

@rrrodreis, Thanks! 
@Zonvolt, You've right! This project's goal is to practice HotS's style and make them look like they can fit in.

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Highpoly sculpt renders Update.
you can also see them on my artstation: https://www.artstation.com/kao12375

Triz173

This project is amazing man, loved it from start to finish! Also love your painting skills! Big up

rollin

The hoody version is so nice and fresh. Really like it! Maybe a bit too much color in the shadows and a few sharper material details like small defects or similar would be nice to give it bit more crispness - but love it nonetheless. 

Cubox10

Love the artfeel overall. It really has an amazing vibe.