Marine
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Lo, back again.
This is a character for our mod (Black Mesa). It is the high poly (obviously) for one of the marine variants. Done in XSI (well, used zbrush to tweak some proportions on the head), but I'll probably go in and give some zbrush love to some parts.
This is a character for our mod (Black Mesa). It is the high poly (obviously) for one of the marine variants. Done in XSI (well, used zbrush to tweak some proportions on the head), but I'll probably go in and give some zbrush love to some parts.
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only thing I'd volunteer is that there seems to be a bit of difference quality-wise between the top half (which is excellent) and the bottom half (which is just ok). I'd consider giving the proportions of the legs, especially the pants and their length, a second look - as well as the boots, potentially. I unfortunately don't know enough about these uniforms to comment more specifically.
made that pass in Zbrush and saved lots of time, since it's available to you.
it looks like creating all the folds for the clothing was a mess, as that's some chaotic edge topology. you could have
made that pass in Zbrush and saved lots of time, since it's available to you.
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I blame mesh smooth... looks good in non wire mode and hopefully the low poly version will have a cleaner mesh.
Couple of things which I'd take another look at: Firstly his crotch seems a tad low, makes his legs look very short (although his bodily proportions seem fine).
Also I'm not really sure what's going on around the shoulderpads, bit of a weird design, what's it meant to be?
I converted a hand into the glove + fingers, so the fingers actually ended up being too spindly (even more than they currently are hehe), so I inflated them a bit. I left them still a little thing to give a bit more space for the low poly model when I bake the normal map.
I'll soften the fold in the face. Easy enough to fix
I'm not sure on the name of the gear, but it's by Crye Precision. A search for 'crye' tends to show the stuff. It is put together in quite a strange way; seams where you wouldn't expect, no 'fly' apparently, just some wierd zip (I think) going back and forth around the inner thighs. I put 4 mag pouches on the chestpad as that is what one of the reference photos had, which I thought looked cool
I intintionally didn't use zbrush as this is also for my portfolio and I wanted to show that I can actually poly model, not just sculpt (such as with the Lictor). I'm applying to visual FX houses too to help broaden the net for catching the first gig and some of them don't use zbrush, or not in that way at least.
The shoulderpads....I really don't know, I just copied what was in the photos. I'm guessing it's incase the soldier gets swallowed by a troll, the shoulderpads will catch on it's throat and make it cough the guy back up. Or something like that.
I'll raise the crotch a bit.
He's looking nice. I think perhaps the pouches over the belly are a bit on the big side judging by the reference and generally because they look a bit awkward.
http://www.militarymorons.com/gear/crye3.html
That is what he is modelling, hope those pics help, and it should help explain somethings about the uniform. There is not standard fly btw.
And your proportions do seem a bit off, id make him more beeft like the guy in these pics. He is a marine after all. Though i know some marines are arent beefy at all but thin lol.
1024 map for the body, 512 for the head (since there will be different variants of marines, with different heads). These are just some screengrabs from xNormal.
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[..] Also cool feature about this particular model is you can make some variants for ingame by just making a few different heads, the hands and rest of the model would stay the same.
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Probably would have to do something about the fingers as well if it's a more drastic change. Like, say, from a white guy, to a black guy
@Mop: Yeah it's a bit boring, there will probably be something put on afterwards. Other items (such as a radio) will be done as seperate objects and placed, so I'll try ot add something to his back. And yeah, you'll mainly be seeing these guys from the front
@VB: Good to see you around again
@East: Just a case of reading/watching tutorials and practice practice practice
For information, the rubber shoulder pads there are for shouldering your gun into and stopping them sliding about during battle (note the outer rubber lips), some guys have them adjusted to their good shoulder, but it's common discipline to be able to shoulder a weapon ambidextrously so you see 'em doubled sometimes.
Other than the points previously raised, there's something a little too clinical about this marine, like he really has just hopped out of the catalouge; The pouches are all perfectly aligned, the armour plates perfectly attached, straps spankingly horizontal, everything pristine. Marines aren't clinical, not in battle. But hey, they're bad guys, and bad guys are always clinical.
Looking forward to seeing this mod come alive! Best of luck.