Character::Marv from SinCity

collings

Hi, i started this week a new character. Once the hires will be finish, i'd like to try to make an In-game version.

Ok here is the first step, block out the character before import in zbrush.

I'm trying to find some great proportion



here is the initial quick sketch.

zenarion

Looks awesome! What engine?
Marv would be awesome in The Specialists, but you don't need Zbrush for that

MAUL0r

Looking pretty good... though I'd think he'd be 8heads tall, wouldn't you? He's sorta huge...

Please say you're gonna do "severely beaten Marv"!

it'd be neat if you could figure out a shader that helped him handle light like they did in the movie.

Mark Dygert

I really like what you have going so far. That head is top notch work!

collings

Thank you for your comment guys.

collings

here is the first test on the pants.

collings

proportion revisited. is it better?

ebagg

I like it so far, great work! The one crit I have is that the wrinkles of the pants could use some tightening, at the moment the folds feel really random. Usually with baggy pants there are longer folds going down the legs, and bunching right above the boots.

Example:

collings

thank you for your comment ebagg.

Update

collings

new update.

MAUL0r

love it. love the bandages. might need a little more...ahem...crotch? it's marv after all

collings

Here is a little update on the boots.

MoP

nice boots
looking good so far! i agree with ebagg about the cloth folds in the trousers though, they look very random and not sharp enough.

keep it up

ill_logic

i like it. but i don't know about the face though. doesn't seem as sharp & geometric to me as in the books or the movie which is one of the big character trademarks. but that's just me.

-J

Squirmy

The tips of the boots are balooning out, might slim them up a bit. lookn good so far.

ultra

Great improvement!

collings

Thanks guys for your comments.

MoP: this version was just a test, i don't reuse it. But i'm agrre with you and ebagg. I'll try to go on this wayon the next version.

ill_logic: I'm not really work on the face right now. I'll add all the specific feature during the zbrush step.

here is one of my refs for the face. The actual head doesn't looks like this one but i'll try to add later some of the features there is in this ref.


Squirmy: you are righ tabout the boots, i'll fix it in the next update.

ultra: Thanks man.

Zeldrik

I was watching the extras on the sincity dvd and there was a bit with one of the make up artists, he was saying that frank miller did a little sketch for him of Marv's side profile that explained "classic Marv" it was basically showing how the front of his face is a hemisphere like so.

I think your features are too normal at the moment so its watering down the best features Marv has.

collings

thanks a lot for your comment Zeldrik ! really helpful

conte

collings, you are doing games models too?=)
very cool character=)

Mio

hey~! nice character, i like it

collings

Askhat:: yep, i'd like to make a game version once the hi-poly will be finished . I will need all your help to capture a great normal map .

Mio: thanks man.

Ok well, i started to work on the torso and the arms.

collings

conte

looks clean, don't stop and u'll have kewl thing.

jgarland

Looking nice. The body looks great, and the head has a lot of character to it. The only thing I think needs a bit of work is the pants. They look like plastic, and don't seem to have much weight to them. Add some seams, maybe some visible wear, and they'll look much better.

Keep on keepin' on.

collings

thanks guys!
jgarland: i don't work on the pants yet

collings

ok i updated the torso, i think it's better now. next update will be the hands.

collings

Here is an update according to some of the critics my friends gave me.

collings

here is an update

stimpack

it looks fantastic, it has come along way since u first started! keep goin

Renaud Galand

cool update man. It's coming along great

collings

thx man !

collings

mrbones: no there isn't.

update mainly on the head.

tremulant

Damn dude, this stuff is looking great, keep up the work

dkorch

when you first started this I seriously was thinking it was going to look like crap...this thing looks fucking amazing, good job. keep it up. If I were to crit anything right now I would say maybe the seratus anterior muscles could be larger. but thats pretty minor.

again, this is looking friggen awsome!

Daz

damn, that's an astounding update. If i really *had* to crit anything it would be the boot shape. But this is really top notch work.

collings

thanks guys glad you like it !

I'm still not finish the hi-poly sculpting, need to make some scar and scratch here and there on the body. But i wanted to make some test with baking normal map since it's my very first lowpoly model.

so here is my first test.

struve

Wow, you have made huge improvements on this guy. Keep pushing!!

conte

collings

thank you guys!

Here is an update, proportion revisited

Jeremy Wright

Which one is the newest? The one to the right?

The one to the left is a more handsome physique, but the one to the right is closer to Marv's body in the comic; he's not a particularly handsome man in the comics, just big and ugly.

Great work!

Thegodzero

The head still needs to be bigger, even more so with the new look.

conte

oh no, Collings, what you've done!?=(
Old variant was better, did you backup?
my opinion- old var+ with little bit bigger head

collings

damned lol some guys like the new one others prefer the old one. need to take a decision now.
I also think that the second version is closer to the look of the original marv.
anyway about the head, i'd like to keep it that way. make feel the character bigger.

Yes Askhat, i have a backup of the previous version.

ps:: Askhat, i visited your website and wanted to tell that i really dig this torso_armor I 'd love to make things like that

cep

I prefer the new one, looks far more natural.

collings

thanks cep

conte

collings, thx dude, here is progress in gif
http://askhat3d.by.ru/torsopc.gif

collings

yeah excellent thanks, not easy to make hard-sculpting in zbrush

dkorch

hey looking cool. I agree abotu the head size, I think it could be larger...however the stomach on the revised version looks much better imo, it gives a more filled out, real and older feel to it. however the shoulders on the second version look kind of ridiculous...keep the first shoulders, keep the 2nd stomach, make the head larger.

collings

hi dkorch, are you talking about the shoulders or the trapz ... 'cause i almost changed nothing on the shoulders

dkorch

err sorry man, the traps.