New Female Character

Corweee

Decided to spend the past couple days working on a female character. This is the first full body female character I've worked on (previously only modeled heads.) Just blocking everything out and building out all the accessories (I really hate the side pouch so far, haha.) Here is the concept I'm working from: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/58kmO8

Still not sure if I want to keep going more realistic or switch to a more cartoony/stylzed look...

Ashervisalis

Hey, your face looks super masculine right now.

slosh

I think you've made her torso too long.  I would elongate her legs more like the concept.  The concept is a bit stylized so I would stick with that honestly.  Would probably be good to get more thick to thin exaggeration.  Larger feet too.  I'd agree that the face is probably a bit to angular so I might soften that a bit.  Good progress though!

OutlawHue

I agree with what was already stated above (except the face). Did you build the female anatomy to work with the clothes and accessories?

I think "each to their own" when it comes to facial structure. I like it!

Corweee

Hey all, appreciate the feedback. I can see how the face looks slightly masculine but I think "super masculine" is a bit aggressive. I referenced a combo of Ashley Greene and Charlize Theron for the face and I think Ashley has a stronger jaw line. Easy enough to adjust. And for the proportions I used an ideal female proportion image. I also agree that it might look better more stylized. 

Corweee

Took @slosh 's advice and went for the more stylized/cartoony look. I exaggerated the anatomy and completely reshaped the face. Still blocking this out as well.

Corweee

Latest update. I've built 98% of the model out and got everything out of the dynamesh stage. I've been doing some overall detailing and will probably start doing some finer details soon. The ears are a brand new addition so I'm still working on those, and I need to figure something interesting out for the glove.

Corweee

Ok, I think I'm done with the hi-poly. Some spots need more subdivisions and I'll probably do a once over and see if there's anything that needs a little more clean-up, but overall I'm ready to move on to retopo. 

Corweee

Just finished up the retopo. Came out at around 55k tri's. It's also totally UV'ed, I just have to lay them out and break them up the way I want. I'd like to have everything spread across 3 UV sets. One for the main body elements, one for the accessories, and one for the hair/fur. Also forgot to make her pipe weapon so I'll probably whip that up next and then start texturing finally.

DavidCruz

looks like she could fit right into fortnite, idk if that was the goal at the style change but it looks like it for me.  Looking forward to the final.

Corweee

Thanks @DavidCruz ! Definitely hit the nail on the head as far as what I'm going for stylistically. I referenced a combo of Overwatch and Fortnite characters because I really love both of those styles. 

Corweee

Solid bake! Still have to clean up the usual Lip line and in-between-the-finger artifacts but aside from that this bake was pretty painless. Probably will start painting the textures next week. 

Corweee

Got all my base color gradients in as well as started a new render scene in Unreal. Still much more work to do on the textures but should hopefully have this finished and posed soon! 

slosh

Looking good!  Not sure why you didn't just go with volume fur on the coat.  It would match with the hair so much nicer IMO.  Cards look kinda janky and unnatural right now.  I think it would be worth redoing that to be a volume.

Corweee

Thanks @slosh ! I didn't go with volume fur because I wanted to try and emulate Mei's fur from overwatch. 
I know right now it doesn't look that great because I just quickly placed it and haven't gotten back to it since (I was leaving it for last.) It needs to be much more curved so no gaps can seen between the cards, right now it's very flat. I'm still finishing up the main textures and will probably start diving back into the fur either tomorrow or next week and if it still looks janky I can definitely go back into Zbrush and whip up some volume fur pretty quickly, there's plenty of room on the texture sheet for it as well. Appreciate the feedback!

Corweee

Textures/Materials and fur are done. I think the fur cards are working much better but feel free to give any input, also tried not to push the PBR too hard since it's stylized. Just need to pose it and I think that'll be a wrap on this one. 

Corweee

Final posed model! This was a fun one. 

Brian "Panda" Choi

That fur could use some more soft blending against each plane of it.  HAve you tried throwing subsurface scattering on it?

Corweee

Hey Brian, I haven't but I could give it a try, I could also use a gradient in the alpha potentially. 

Brian "Panda" Choi

Gradient would be, I believe, a more expensive way, yea.  The reinhardt I did had the same fur solution, and as far as I could tell, throwing an adjsuted SSS on the fur helped it all blend softly together, and got it close to the Overwatch Mei's look.

Corweee

Ok, going to have to agree the fur with an SSS pass does blend much nicer. 

Brian "Panda" Choi

I think the tradeoff is that the fur doesn't cast a shadow well?  I don't know if you see that on your end.

Corweee

I do but I definitely don't mind it, it makes sense that it would have a much lighter/softer shadow anyway. Thanks for suggesting that it definitely pushed it further!

Corweee

With SSS. 

alin_aliosa

Pretty cool result! Try to do a little idle animation of it and make a gif It would be cool to see her alive

Corweee

Thanks @alin_aliosa ! I might do a couple idle animations of her in the future when I get more free time!