[WIP] Knight Lady Character Model

MattDawe · Mar 2021

Hi.

This is a solo project I'm working on to create a fully controllable 3D character in Unreal. This is a character I designed awhile ago and drawn here and there, but I recently started thinking about the idea of making her a playable character, with gameplay that focuses on spear and pole arm-based combat. I've never gotten around to giving her a name. My wife agreed to name her, but she hasn't done it yet either. Poor, nameless knight lady.

2D/concept art:

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Sculpt:

The initial sculpt was pretty bare-bones, as all I really needed was a base to retopologize. Clothes and things will be taken back into ZBrush to sculpt details onto them to bake to textures later.

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Topology:

Using the retopo'd base, I modeled the clothes, armor, and hair in 3DS Max.

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Rig:

The rig was done in Maya.

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UVs:

I like to keep the edges of UV islands as straight as possible. It obviously creates a little stretching and distortion, but it makes creating the textures and adding patterns much easier.

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Textures:

So far, I've only begun work on the diffuse texture of the face. I baked the shadow and normal map to a texture from the ZBrush sculpt. From there, I added the base colors and, using both 3DCoat and Photoshop, tablet'd details like the irises and makeup.

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Thanks for viewing! If you have any comments, feedback, or critiques, please let me know. I'm pretty far along in this project, so some critique I might not be able to apply to it (without it causing truckloads of work), but even so, let me hear it and I'll try to apply it to future projects.