LPC #05 - Xaltar - Half-life2 : Alyx Vance

Xaltar

I've never participated in one of these, about time I gave it a go. I'm doing Alyx from HL2. I am pretty much done with the modeling and am moving on to the uvs, gotta make sure I use every pixil of that 128 lol.



428 tris as it stands but I think I will use the extra few tris to support the texture details a bit later on.

Good luck to all

MoP

Not a bad start, but the hair is the wrong shape for Alyx, hers doesn't flare out at the bottom like yours. Also yours' head shape isn't wide/round enough, it looks very elongated.

Here's a decent ref pic...

Also I think you can afford to add some more polys around her chest and probably hips too, just to round out the silhouette and capture more "Alyx-ness". Not sure why you have that cut of 4 tris in her butt, doesn't make much sense especially when she's wearing jeans.

Armanguy

i think hes going to put alphas on the hair, but this is looking good

Xaltar

Sweet, thanks for the comments guys, I'm remaking the head and I removed the ofending butt tris

Its fun getting down to some low poly work for a change.

Xaltar

Got the model down now. I had to unwrap the UVs like 5 times becuse of stretching lol. Anyways, prety much done blocking in the colors now and about half way through my detail pass.

Here she is so far



Thanks a lot for that reff Mop, it has helped me to no end. Man I love this pixil work hehe, I had forgoten how fun it could be.

hawken

baby got butt

Xaltar

OK, I've run out of time so I guess this is it. I wanted to put a bit more time into the back but I just won't have the time. Anyways its been a fun filled few hours.

Here she is



I'll definately try finish this off better if I can find the time but for now I'm calling it done.

C&C welcome.

[edit] Made more time to finish, see below.

MoP

Nice one! Looks really good

I think this could be awesome with a small amount of extra polys to define the jacket shape, make it stand away from her torso in the silhouette, also a bit more contrast at the pixel level would go a long way. But as it stands it's still nice

Xaltar

Thanks Mop, I decided I have to finish it, its bugging me too much. I need to make the colar on the back, add some better definition in the ass area and I have some spare polys to throw around so I think I'll take your advice and get the jacket better defined.

Be back in 20mins or so lol.

Xaltar

Now I'm done

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1116/alyxya1.jpg
C&C still welcome ofcoarse.

Xaltar

Couldn't resist, had to try a turnaround. Not very good but it will do.

Zwebbie

My first reaction was that her head looks a tad small, but I don't get that nearly as much in the more fully textured versions.

I'd paint some more shadow underneath the jacket. It's got a lot on the sides, but nothing underneath it, and that doesn't show that you added the extra polies to define it (which is a shame).

Xaltar

I just can't... stop lol.

Thanks ComradeJ I worked on the shadow a bit more and tweaked a lot of other little things.



Thanks all for taking a look.

movento

Looks really good to me,the face is spot on. The only problem i see is the jeans.They don't really look like jeans,they look like skin-tight pants.Also the color could be more grey-ish.
Oh and maybe she looks a bit to tall,but that could be me.
Good work though

Armanguy

you need to make a utility belt thingy for her and a gun get on it :P

just a quick edit: the head looks really small for some reason .

rooster

mirroring on the crotch looks a bit weird

good work tho face looks cool

Xaltar

Thanks for the crits guys, I was going to just call it done but its too much fun to mess with. Loads of time till deadline so I may as well play with it till I get bored.



Made the head a bit bigger, thanks for spotting that Armanguy. And added a very basic belt seeing as I had the tris to spare anyway. And I fixed up the crotch too, thanks for that Rooster.

Tomorow, the GUNS hehe.

[edit] added ears to the model, now weighing in at 486 tris.

rooster

dont forget her little tasery sonic screwdriver thing!

El Z0rR

woah!:D much better with the slightly bigger head, she was looking a bit butch before

Xaltar

I'm leaving this here I'm afraid. Its done for the purposes of the comp.

Reason:

I have a daughter as of 1:15pm today
2.6kgs of gurgling gorgeousness

Slaught

Congratulations man!

Model looks nice too.

target

Congrats!

Armanguy

congrats hope for the best!

Japhir

congrats!

Xaltar

Thanks guys

Here are my final shots, would have liked to do the other bits like guns and tool but I'm just too tired. I'll make her an SDK later if anyone wants her to play with.

Name:
Alyx Vance

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Beauty



Construction

Xaltar

If anyone wants to have a look at the model I have put it up as an SDK in the P&P section. Thanks to all for the tips and comments, this has been a great learning experience. I think I will do a lot more low poly work, its quick and a lot of fun

Good luck to all in the mini comp and get ready for Dom War 3 we wanna win this year