Monkey Samurai/Ninja

Renaud Galand

Ok, I finally found some time to move my ass and normal map this fellah, I hope making a thread for it will motivate me to finish it. Nothing sure

Sorry for the big images, btw.

the high poly (that you may saw in the "what are you working on" thread)



The "low poly" (around 8000 triangles. still need to reduce it, damn.)

vahl

looking great Renaud , I love the way you sculpted the flesh there

IronHawk

He's built like a climber. Those forearms could pull holds like a champ err... chimp.

Looks great and looking forward to the texture.

Darksun

Looks great! Is the highpoly regular Sub-D stuff or Mudbox/ZBrush?

MoP

Looks really cool Renaud, I love the sculpt details and proportions. Nice style while still staying believable in terms of muscle structure etc.
If you want to optimise the lowpoly I'd probably look at the lower leg straps first, you've got a lot of polys there adding detail that the normal map should be doing, not a whole lot of noticeable silhouette from some of those (obviously don't get rid of all the straps silhouette there though!).

Piotr Słomowicz

Im pretty sure its sculpting. Does anyone do characters with sub-d these days anyway?
Monkey looks great, have fun with texturing.

Ferg

I'm guessing since the file name is "monkey_samurai_mudbox.jpg", it's probably sculpted in a program like mudbox

also, this is fackin awesome

he feels like he needs a comically disproportionate sidekick, like a fat sumo monkey... or maybe a faithful steed that's really just a pig or a boar or something. I don't know. He's got a ton of character, great work renaud.

Renaud Galand

thx for the replies guys. Base mesh in max and sculpted in mudbox (good find Ferg ).

MoP : that's exactly where I was planning to delete some polys and thx for the reminder !

Ferg : good idea about the team mate ! Let's try to finish this one first.

Mathorne

This is amazing. Your scupt impressed me thoroughly, but seeing the normal map applied to the game model impresses me even more. Definately one of the best I recall.

The way you've modeled the straps from the bandana seems a little odd to me - wouldn't it be easier to have them straight out when it comes to rigging?

Anyway, amazing model and I'm very eager to see more!

Darksun

Ferg: lol dur on me.

Piotr: dunno. I don't have Mud, I use Silo. Silo has some kind of sculpting thing, but I'm not sure about how well it works.. gotta try it out..

BoBo_the_seal

kick ass!

ironbearxl

Awesome, can't wait to see it textured!

Davision3D

Great work! The Style is very cool.
I love the feel of the skin but what is going on with his belly, no muscles, its just flat skin! Atleast give him a belly button!

PixelGoat

looks almost like theres a piece of cloth over the belly.

oh, Love the idea and style

seforin

definetly dig it, but for some reason it seems more ninja then samurai to me.

Maybe because not enough cloth overlaying near the legish area or more armor, entire character is uber awesome but still feels more ninja

seen this on tweak I believe as well, can we see a wireframe as well?

dejawolf

thats not a monkey, thats a hominid. monkeys hipbone is vastly different from human hip.
oh well great model.

spacemonkey

He's cool I love all the asymmetry in the clothes and bandages

Austin

Looking awesome man! Kind of looks like if Gorillaz broke out of 2D and went to realistic 3D.

Renaud Galand

thx guys. I spent my whole lunch time on playing with the diffuse. A lot of stuff are still really wip, such as hair, colors and a few areas here and there. I'm planning to add some additional alpha planes to make a better beard.

*updated image below*

Japhir

OMG 8) that looks amazing! love it! i'd add some planes too, seems too round now. can't you make the normals define some hair groups too?

Zephir62

WAY too much specular power on the face.

D4V1DC

Damn love seeing your work!

Spark

Awesome work per usual Renaud, just waiting to see the final of this guy.

Spark

Honolulu_Ninja

really like the sharp characteristics in the face, looking crisp

Blaizer

Cool, very cool, this is turning great by moments

Keep it up!

kakikukeko

Very nice concept and execution! great character!
my only crit is concerning the belly..everywhere else the muscles are very obvious, but on that area no abs can be seen.. the sculpt seems to let feel he got some fat, it's all smooth there but, he doesn't look that fat at all..
good start on the diffuse on the face.. !

J Randall

I am really enjoying this, can't wait to see more progression on this with textures.

monkeyboy_garth

There's awesome sauce all over that monkey, Renaud. The only place I can find to crit is the feet, because they don't seem to be as beautifully finished as the rest. But hey, It's going to be one hell of a model anyhow. Well done!

conte

damn, that rocks!
style of texture of face reminds Maddam's works to me.
keep on rockin'!

Renaud Galand

thx for all the comments! Btw, I'm more or less agree with all the critz which has been mentioned. I'll try to fix that asap

Tiny update :

vahl

looks great man, are you planning to add SSS/transmission ?, also, i'd reduce the glossyness a bit, but I don't know if you worked the spec/gloss yet

MOAR !

Renaud Galand

yep, I should definitely reduce it. I don't why, but I like wet skin HEHEHE. Thx for the reply vahl and yes, SSS map is planned. I'll probably use the Brice's Shader for the final shot

Zwebbie

Great work! Have you considered adding hair to the cheeks and sideburns to make him a tad more monkey? Right now I feel like the head could pass for just a very stylized human.

Renaud Galand

ComradeJ : yep, I'll definitly add some hairs here and there to make it more monkey-ish.

Just a little update to show that it's not dead. I'm definitly too lazy with my personal stuff

As usual, nothing final, it's mainly just research.

pliang

Yep looks like its almost there...I'd add some liver spots where appropriate and some more wrinkles on him.

Baddcog

Very sick. Same deal, more hair to be monkey but sick whatever it is.

TorQue[MoD]

That's looking gorgeous! How many polys? And I love the detail in the texture even if its not finished yet. For an Ugly mofo he's got a beautiful face :P

cyborgguineapig

LoOking mighty fine. Love the face especially.

Snowfly

Long time in the making eh! He's turning out brilliantly. The color scheme's nice, very pleasing to look at. Seems a bit muted though, maybe turn up the saturation on the yellow triangles, and add a more bluish hue to the pants? And it might be that particular screenshot, but the eyes don't seem wet enought yet.

I hope it's possible to add patches fuzz to the guy, on his cheeks, torso, forearms, toes, fingers...

Cool stuff

Pedro Amorim

super awesome!

needs more sss and fresnel.

snap.crackle.pop

great work Renaud, the belt reminds me a tape they use in restricted area.

Renaud Galand

pliang : thx, yeah I should add a few more details here and there.
Baddcog,cyborgguineapig,snap.crackle.pop : thx !
TorQue[MoD] : with the hairs, I'm around 9k (doh!)
Snowfly : thx ! Yeah, I've been very lazy lately
The specular of the eyes is almost white, I think that my light setup isn't very appropriate for this region, I would need a cube map for these kind of details. I Still need to work a bit on the fur either but I did a test with the beard to motivate myself

Ok, here's an update (sorry for the large image). I can see the light...

Japhir

that is so amazing! love it! maybe the skin color is a bit unique for a monkey but i like it! (they already have albino monkeys out there so who cares about skin color :P)

vahl

looking awesome renaud, my only crit would be that the little straps on the "shoes" things are too loose, you don't have the feeling they will stay attached to the feet if he moves.

awesome texturing tho, as usual

Davision3D

Great texture, if you ask me make the image bigger i want to see all the details.
Its a very cool character except these wooden shoe things, he has some monkeys feets so he could grab on branches and stuff and make some cool kungfu moves with them but with these blocky wooden things i dont know.

Snowfly

bewdiful!! nice update on the beard. nice update on the pants. i like the subtle pattern on them.

the sandal strap does seem loose, it's the first thing that caught my eye. the other thing was the tribal chest tattoo; it just strikes me as thin and spidery next to the swirling billowy dragons...look at japanese tattoos that continue from the chest to the upper arm.

would be cool also if the tattoos accented the anatomy instead of flowing randomly around it.

nitpicking obviously. it's a stylistic choice, completely up to you. :-) this model is hot!

Thegodzero

I can always could on your skin textures to make me happy in the pants.

Can't wait to see the final pose. I'm having a hard time reading the monkey from him but i think a good pose should clear all that up.

Joao Sapiro

this looks heavily awesome man, really inspiring my only crit is that since he is a monkey why no hasselhoff chest hair ?? add even some hair in arms etc, with alphatest planes etc, might look cool dunno ehehhe, kickass work man !

Renaud Galand

thx guys I'll definitely work a little bit more on the sandal's straps and the tattoos. For people who are noticing the fact that he's not looking very monkey-ish atm. It's actually a personal choice, I always had in mind a kind of hybrid creature between human a monkey The pose should indeed solve the problem.

Thanks again for all the kind words and the constructive critics

jibowski

this looks great! i really like the skin. good job renaud!

Renaud Galand

hehe, after a few weeks of rush @ work, we got 3 days off (woohoo), So yesterday I got some time to make some rigging test. Next step, background and diffuse tweaking and "done".

not sure about the pose atm, but I think the monkey aspect of the character is reading better now.