The Quarterly CHARACTER ART Challenge | April - June

Alemja

Welcome to the Quarterly Character Art Challenge!

New concepts will be chosen at the start of July
Previous Challenge Thread

How it works

• Every new challenge, 3 Character Concepts will be provided
  
• Pick one concept to work on for the duration of the challenge and post your progress here!
  
• Complete a 3D game res model of your chosen concept
  

Guidelines

• Help other artists grow! When you post an update, also leave a critique for someone else. Share knowledge you have learned
  
• There are no software restrictions; you're welcome to use as little, or as many different software packages as you like.
• There are no polygon or texture restrictions, it can be a 3,000 triangle hand painted model or a 100,000 triangle current gen model. Just make sure the final result is a game model, not a sculpt!
  
• You are welcome to cross post on different sites (Artstation, Facebook, Discord etc.) for additional feedback
  
• Before starting your character, break down the concept and plan your work accordingly. Being able to effectively estimate how long it will take to complete a project is an important skill, especially for freelance artists.
• Your final presentation should be posed and rendered in any real time engine. (Marmoset, UE4, Unity, etc.)
• Don't be afraid to ask questions, but don't hesitate to find the answer on your own - chances are, the answer to your problem has already been answered within these forums
• If you feel anything should be modified or added to these guidelines, please let me know!
  

Resources

• Polycount Character Wiki 
• Polycount Tutorial List
• Polycount Character Art Challenge Facebook Group

Concepts

Please credit and link to the artists when posting on other sites!

废土 by Y0YI .

IMP by Yi Zhang

Turn Left by YAN LIANG

How concepts are chosen:

• Trying to keep it consistently one male character, one female and one other non-human (robot, creature, humanoid, etc)
• Trying to keep the 3 concepts look like they are part of a theme or could fit in similar universe.
  
• Concepts must be full body and clearly drawn. There shouldn't be a lot of guesswork on what the details or proportions are. Turnarounds are a good thing to have, but not required
• Concepts shouldn't be too complex or too simple to allow people to get them done in the time-frame while also finding something interesting and giving a challenge.
• Must be able to link back to the original source artist to they can be properly credited, places like Pinterest can lead to link rot. If I cannot find the source or original artist, the art will not be used
• If you are a concept artist and want your concept removed or want to create a concept for a future challenge please feel free to contact me.
  
• If you have any suggestions of themes you would like to see in the future, send me a message!
  

Isunoj

Wow, wonderful concepts. I'll get the second one, for sure.

Torch

Awesome concepts!

tystnad

Awesome concepts indeed.  The second one reminds me of Harley Quinn. It's so tempting to try to model it though I'm afraid I'll just add another one to my growing pile of unfinished projects. 

Tri_Harder

Love all of these concepts, like everyone else I'm partial to the 2nd concept....SO last night I went ahead and created a first pass for the bat.
Once I get the kids to bed, I'll grab a base mesh and start working on the body.

alifarsangi

Hi guys. its been a while, with lock-down i have plenty of times to do something so i decided to enter the GAME, here is  my super quick block-out, i think i am happy with everything together , i will start sculpting from next weekend ! let me know what do u think so far.

i painted hairs a bit on first image if u wonder how i did it

Jaco

Great start Ali, not playing games with that blockout If you looking for crits at this stage only thing I'd point out is the face, looks like the concept has more delicate features in general. Like thinner lips, less defined nostrils.

Can't wait to see this one finished

alifarsangi

@Jaco thx for feedback, i worked a a lot on face after feedback, changed a lot of thing

here what i got so far with sculpt, i tried to make exact like concept but its hard to judge it in t-pose, i will pose it to match it up perfectly with concept before i jump into low-poly

Corweee

This looks great so far. My only comment would be that the face shape looks a little too full. Personally I would skinny it up a little, but then again that's just my opinion/interpretation, you might have a different idea in mind for this character stylistically, just my 2 cents. 

alifarsangi

@Corweee thx for feedback, i agree with u on thinner face, i will pose it and change face to mach it up with concept

alifarsangi

I managed to pose and adjusted face this weekend, i dont think i am going to make lowpoly for this character, so i guess here is my final renders,

there are more shots  on my Artstation if like to see https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ybd0nR

StephLee

she looks great!

PastyPict

Is there going to be announcement for the next character art challenge soon?

Alemja

@PastyPict Yes! thanks for the reminder

Alemja

New Challenge is up!

https://polycount.com/discussion/221093/the-quarterly-character-art-challenge-july-september/p1?new=1

As always if you wish to keep working on one of these concepts you are are free to do so, you can either post here or in a new thread. This thread will no longer be stickied