#33 - Vertex - Ally

allyx

I never actually knew what vertex shading was until I read over the contest, but I have painted skin weights before. The model isn't optimized yet and probaly won't be in some areas to get better details when I apply the color to the vertices.

This a Lara Croft like character, but she doesn't seem very female from the front view. She is already at 3200 polys so I may decide to change the hair style after I complete the arms to the finger tips.

I will have some clearer pics after I fill in more details, but I would appreciate any advice anyone has to offer.

Nato_VanDookie

It's not bad, has some potential for sure. The only problem I see is around the mouth area, the lips look odd and the edge loops there seem strange...

allyx

Thanks Nato, I usually wouldn't model this way, but I was just trying to set it up so I could add some more color to certain vertices. I'm still tweaking and applying color to the vertices to test some things out and will clean up some edge loops when I am bring the character down to 4000 polys.

allyx

Oops I forgot to include the buttons on pants.

My next steps:
- I need to edit the eye lids and move the eyeball, and probably do a little more tweaking on the face.
- Tweak the neck and jacket colar.
- Start optimizing, mostly just deleting half of center line edges.
- Add more hair.
- Setting up the bones for a rough animation test
- Painting the vertices






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Nato_VanDookie

The face looks much better, as do the hands. Good luck.

( and on a side note, I checked your site there, you make some great skins and very cool ship models)

allyx

I started the vertex painting. It's still not quite optimized in some areas, but will be easy enough to fix after I paint and weld the the 2 halves together. Currently at 4050 triangles.

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Jaco

Looking good! I think her mouth might be a bit small, and the eyes are either too small or too far back in her skull maybe?

allyx

Thanks Jaco, I made some changes to the head. The eye ball and socket was moved forward ,and also the increased the cale of the eye ball.
I'm not quite satisfied with the head so I haven't weld the 2 halves yet, but she is under 4000.


I optimized the crotch too much, but will fix it.

allyx

I was unclear if the hand held props counted as the character equipment, but it's still under 4000 polys with the torch. The character will be holding the torch.

Japhir

very nice!

allyx

The vertices are painted. I seperated some of the faces to get a little more color in the hair for a textured look. This effect also used on necklace, eyes and some other shiny parts.

I'm just about ready to bind the character to the skeleton.

sinistergfx

Very nice vert color work!

Japhir

yeah looking great! i also love the fire of the torch!

george.vas

I like this, good job.

Emil Mujanovic

Atleast now I know who I have to beat!

-caseyjones

allyx

I just have to work on rigging the head and things will be complete. The final rendering pose will be from a different angle with more focus on the character, but I will try to fit theas much of the helmet in the background.

Japhir

very hot! those crystals rock!

almighty_gir

holy shnizzle, i should start using vertex shading as a base for my textures O_O

allyx

It's finished!

Spelunker in The Caverns of Doom


3999 Triangles

The scene was created in Maya and the render is just a screen capture of the regular viewport, not high quality mode.

I might redo this character with proper textures in the near future.

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Japhir

this looks totally great! really cool and inspiring stuff! love the way the winning pose turned out.

Jaco

Nice! Congrats on finishing, looks like we might be the only ones who finished

Emil Mujanovic

This came out looking really nice. I love the colouring on the face. Good Luck with the judging.

-caseyjones