Lowpoly elf girl

Wendy de Boer

Hiya everyone! I'm trying to de-lurk a bit, LOL.

Here's something I've been working on. It's a lowpoly elf girl (600 tris to be exact).







I haven't really decided on the colors yet, I was just testing. I got her unwrapped, so I will start texturing her soon.

KMan

I think that's a really good use of your polys there. For how low you are going, and what style, I'd almost scale the hands up a bit more. The same goes for the nose.

The proportions are nice and fit well with the style.

FatAssasin

Nice proportions. Looks good man. What size texture are you going to use?

Dhin

She looks great DP (I hope you don't mind me calling you DP, DemonPrincess is just too long to type, though I just did so don't see why I'm complaining . . . but I digress,) I always love seeing you work, it's very fresh, sexy and stylish. I can't wait to see more. Keep it up Lady.

KDR_11k

The boots could use some more verts or at least a bit of rearranging to be less blocky.
Oh and are you still using Milkshape?

ElysiumGX

Nice one, D. Piddy. Love those hips. The boots looks a little large from the side angle. Perhaps bring the back top section more towards her leg.

MoP

Great style as usual, although I agree with KMan, the hands could be larger to match the bigger-than-normal feet.
I also agree with KDR_11k, a few more verts in the boots would round them out a little, at that size I think they should be slightly less blocky.
Also I think the face looks very flat from the side view, I think this is accentuated by the sharp chin, maybe just add an extra vert in the middle at the bottom of the face to round out the chin and jaw line in the profile?
Nice colours. Hope you get this little elf lass textured!
Looks great for only 600 tris, keep it up!

MoP

sundance

cute. quit lurking j00 secksie modeller. love that avatar btw.

Zeldrik

Very cute!

adam

I was lovin' this model until the image fully loaded and I saw her boots. I know you have a modelling style Demon but her boots seem a wee bit too large for me. The rest of her is awesome though. Now yah just gotta skin her!

moose

thats awesome i really dig your recent models you've posted

sdk! (you know you want to be the first SDK on the new boards! )

Conor

Cool, but the boots are a bit over the top. Scale them down to a little more normal I think and she'll be better, but still have the cute look.

Wendy de Boer

Thanks for the comments, everyone!

I made the hands a little bit bigger and the boots a little bit smaller (especially in the side view). Here's what it looks like now (old version is on the left, edited version on the right):



I tried adding a vert to the chin, but I thought it actually looked worse, so I left it be.

I also made an SDK if anyone wants it.
The file includes 2 versions of the model. One is segmented at the waist for the use in Quake 3: Arena, because that's what I intend to port her to if I get around animating her. The other version is the one you see in the thread.

You can pick up the SDK from this page:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/torquebimini/

Available formats are ms3d, 3ds and md3. She's mapped on a single texture sheet. I've included both a 256x256 and a 512x512 version in the SDK.

IceWolve

Some one should texture her like a warcraft night elf!

moose

damn ice, mind reader

got the sdk, hopefully ill find some time soon to do a skin for her. iz badass!

IceWolve

hehe srry can't find the off switch :P

Sean McBride

Yeah this is awesome DemonPrincess! I'll be doing a skin in my spare time

ElysiumGX

Already started. I like her, and it's good practice for me. Having some trouble with alphas, but progress so far...

moose

comin along, should have more progress later tonight

NuclearTes

@DemonPrincess: Lovely model DemonPrincess, but you already know that.

@ElysiumGX: Cool work so far. I love the big eyes.

@moose: I love the high contrast metal ornaments. They are very crisp and the design is beautiful.

Zeldrik

Going for the Warcraft night elf colours eh moose? Its looking great, I agree with Tes nice design and very crisp.

moose

NT and zel, thanks

yah, she is a WoW Night Elf some fan art i guess. I put some of the pieces in there that would make her recognizable as a NE (boob hook things), while still being able to come up with my own stuff. I want to keep pretty true to the wow ne, and have some fun at the same time

IceWolve

Looking realy good moose, i realy like how you are making good use of transparencys like on the hip attachment thingies.

poopinmymouth

I could not resist.
About an hours worth.

ElysiumGX

a bit more

moose

more here too, getting closer

ElysiumGX

steady as she goes



damn, you guys are good.
I could use some advice.

DH_

in before soul with a gothy one



this model has some nice character, nice job on it demonprincess. its nice to do some old school stuff again too.

Wendy de Boer

Wow guys, these are turning out really great!

SouL

DH, you fucker!
Awesome model, DP. Very clean and well built.

Snowfly

Just playing around..

moose

dh, snowfly, kickass hot!!

grid... Elysium: thats look cool, i dig the lace up clothes not to sure about the tattoo, i think the arms could hold up without it. You may want to try adding more texture to the brown clothing, to really set it off from the skin. maybe some thickness would help it too (edges, slight shadows). those are some big ass eyes too, but they're kinda cool like that.

dig how you handled the hair snowfly... heh thats smart.

there are NEVER enough goth chicks, do one soul!

DH, that boob grabber design and those crazy panties rock. she's a cutie

im done for the night, i may come back to it and tweak some things:

Jes

Moose watched that WoW Cinematic trailer WAY too much.. :P
Nicely done, though..

Snowfly: Neat, although the pants just seem to start out of nowhere!?

Ely, that thing is HOTT!!

rawkstar

cool stuff everyone, here's mine:



a bit of overnight fun at 256 resolution.

MoP

Awesome stuff guys. And girl. This is what you get for releasing the first SDK on the new forums (surely it has nothing to do with the fact that it's a great model to texture...)!

Just... great to look at. Damn, I'm gonna have to go overboard on mine then!

MoP

poopinmymouth

Awesome snowfly! I love how your painting style works on this model. Just great in the face. Moose and DH you guys are rocking my cock. I had to pick it up off the floor cause it got rocked off. Dh, your hair came out awesome, alpha some of it, PLEASE! Moose, I liked the skin tone of the wip you showed me last night a bit better, it was more blue ish. Rockstar, yours came out very cool, I like it. It has your typical face texture, and shiny metal bits, but thats what we all love about you! 8-) Now get a job slacker. Oh yeah, put fire in her nipples too. 8-)
Grindy, Could we see a shot at full bright? I think right now you might have gotten too deep into the detail work without doing enough broad scale light and volume. She could use some kind of overlay on the leather to pump up the interest level. Looking cool though man. 8-)

ElysiumGX

Poop: Viewport shot from Wings. Figured out how to do full bright.



Wasn't sure how to handle the lighting because I'm trying for a more simplistic character to match the mesh, but I'll try to hint at more shapes. I plan to add more to the leather. In fact, I think I'm going to wake til next weekend, and brainstorm what I should add to her.

moose: thanks for the advice. the tattoo is gone. I like big eyes, but not in the anime sense. Eyes really bring life to a character, I believe. Very cool metal designs on yours.

Snowfly: that's cool. very smooth texture. I think it's my favorite atm.

DH: Holy hell. Now I know what Poop means by lighting and volume. That's excellent.

Rawkstar: She's hot.

JKMakowka

Awesome work everyone, but I have to crit the faces:

I think Snowfly got it best, but maybe a bit too cute;
moose's looks way to manish, mr_Rockstar's eyes are way to low and ElysiumGX's eyes are way too big I think.

moose

yeah, the face was the one area i was planning on revisiting after looking at it fresh today.

sundance

i like grind's and fly's. the clothes on moose's are noice, but i'm not keen on hot pink skin...

DH's pic is taking ages to load.

IceWolve

Looking realy good, great work so far moose. dh_, im realing liking that dark tone you got on her.

poopinmymouth

snuck in some more work at lunch

qubism

a quick start on it. dunno what i should make out of it ...

MoP

wow tom, great start. your usual control of highlights and saturation there, but a totally different style from what i remember
the hair is painted excellently. just needs some opacity-mapping on the front there and it will be perfect.
the nice rosy cheeks and highlighting remind me of old 1950's style childrens book illustration, which is nice

I just think the style of the body texture doesn't match the style of the face and hair... maybe try a different colourscheme on that? can't wait to see it finished though.
and hey, i'm on IRC right now!

Jeff Parrott

Here is what I got done so far. The idea is there, but it's still really rough.

MoP

Good start Jeff, but if I were you I'd move the eyes outwards from the centre of the face, and maybe scale them up a little too - she's got a wide face on the model, and the eye placement and thinness of the mouth is making her look like she has huge fat cheeks at the moment. Also I'd use a more saturated highlight on the leaves, slightly yellowy-green, will give them a little more "life", if you know what I mean!

MoP

Makk

meh...


WIP so crits are very welcome.

Great work guys

MoP

Makk: nice start, i like where you're going with the clothes. However as I think and other people have mentioned, this model doesn't really suit small eyes in a "natural" position... you have to go kinda extreme with the eyes to make the face look right, IMHO. Keep it up though!

Anyway, hmm, Ember is the name? Here's a WIP start on my skin i'm calling "Esmerelda" ... heheh

Hot gypsy elves, anyone?



just started the face really, the rest is all just blocked in colour.

MoP

sundance

makk, that's foxy

poopinmymouth

I love the head, and I love the body, but not the two together. They dont really mix style wise, as mop has pointed out.

Hair is really cool though.

poopinmymouth

It's poison ivy!

Looking good Jeffro, I am with mop on the face, and overall there could stand to be a bit more shading and color variation.