Post-apocalyptic cowgirl (WIP)
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...Or something like that, I'm not really sure anymore.
This is something I'm working on for my portfolio, and so it's still a work in progress. I never liked how in Post-apocalyptic games people are either just regular people or mutated monsters, so I tried to combine the two into one character. She's also get up to 62% less brown than standard post-apoc characters!
Telling little stories is a lot of fun with this one; like how her left shoe once belonged to a girl who had all her friends write their names on it, or how she couldn't find two gloves and instead uses a sock for her right arm and a piece of that was used to patch up the coat.
She's made up of 6346 triangles and 1024^2's for Diffuse, Normal, Specular and Alpha.Nearly all the texture space is unique, which, in retrospect, isn't something a single 1024x1024 map is really up to.
I'm going to play around with the hair some more, have some stick out, especially in the ponytails, and then rig it. I'd love to hear any criticism!
Thanks for viewing
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This is something I'm working on for my portfolio, and so it's still a work in progress. I never liked how in Post-apocalyptic games people are either just regular people or mutated monsters, so I tried to combine the two into one character. She's also get up to 62% less brown than standard post-apoc characters!
Telling little stories is a lot of fun with this one; like how her left shoe once belonged to a girl who had all her friends write their names on it, or how she couldn't find two gloves and instead uses a sock for her right arm and a piece of that was used to patch up the coat.
She's made up of 6346 triangles and 1024^2's for Diffuse, Normal, Specular and Alpha.Nearly all the texture space is unique, which, in retrospect, isn't something a single 1024x1024 map is really up to.
I'm going to play around with the hair some more, have some stick out, especially in the ponytails, and then rig it. I'd love to hear any criticism!
Thanks for viewing
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I like the look of the face being textured, has a anime style look to it that works
No, i think it's pretty obvious he modeled, uv'd, and textured that third arm completely by mistake.
Looks really cool man, but I don't think the specular is exactly doing its job. Even ceegeey highlights are everywhere. Break that up!
lol@this
But I agree it looks a bit weird, maybe if there was a more obvious connection to the body, like a rip in the jacket
but like... Maybe there is one, and it just cant be seen from that angle.
edit: Blender? nice effort there bro
Modeling: A lot of the pieces don't mesh together. The belt looks like it is just suspended around the waist part of the jacket, rather than actually wrapping around her and holding her jacket closed. It doesn't need to be constricting her, but at least should look like its a part of her clothing. The pockets on the jacket, even if stuffed, wouldn't be that uniformly bulky. If the pockets are full of something, the shape should reflect the weight, if not they should be relatively flat. This goes for the bag as well, it should feel more like its actually hanging. The straps on the jacket look like bars, rather than straps. They are laying on top of the jacket, rather than being connected to it in some way, even texturally. And the jacket lacks the tension that straps give when pulling cloth closed.
Textures: The spec map for the whole model really needs to be developed, that is your chance to really separate all the different materials from one another and make the surface have some visual impact and contrast outside of just color and shape. Over all there are some good starting points in the diffuse, but it all needs to be pushed more.
The red scarf is to saturated, needs to tone it down a bit and add some more color to it. The jacket needs the most work. Leather has a very distinct surface quality to it and the wear and gran should follow the form a lot more. Right now there are parts that are noisy blah, when the cracks and grain should be in more specific places.
Keep banging away at it and you'll get there.
Vj
I think you did good stuff on the face. The modeling is strong, and the design is great. I like the more saturated colors. You really should finish this!
Her overall asymmetrical design is super cool! I love her mix and match shoes and different arm accessories.
CrazyMatt: Yes, that's intentional. Gauss always told everyone to do the unexpected, and I figured the last thing you'd expect with a cute-ish girl would be that she's mutated and has a third arm
SupRore: Could you elaborate on the specularity a bit? Are the highlights too similar across the different materials, or are they too even on big surfaces (like the left arm)?
Harry: I'm posting a different view below. My reasoning was that the right arm of the coat was cut off to accommodate an extra arm, which is pretty visible, and then duck-taped to prevent it from raveling out.
whipSwitch: Thanks a lot! That was a very useful post. I've added folds and occlusion to the areas around the belt; they need a lot of work, but is this the kind of thing that you were thinking of? I've addressed the pockets too, with the right one being empty and the left one (she's left-handed, after all) being full. The straps are now attached by velcro, but I plan on redoing that part of the texture tomorrow. I've dumped the overlay texture on the coat and will be manually painting the detail for that (so ignore its current smoothness). I hope I understood what you meant and am moving in the right direction.
Dolemite, t4paN: Thank you. I'm certainly not planning on removing the arm! It's half the character, for me.
DockRock: Hehe, that's the reaction I'm going for
So I think the third arm is the obvious main problem here. Admittedly, the angle of the renders wasn't very good for that, so I've attached a right-side view below. On top of that, I'm going to add some shreds of the T-shirt on the part where the tiny arm sticks out. Do you imagine that that'd cover the issue, or are there any other ideas?
The bigger right arm isn't a 'full' arm either; it's a bit crooked and bent, its fingers are thinner and the ring and pinky finger both lack the distant phalanx. I assume this wasn't very obvious at first sight, so I think it might be a good idea to make it a bit shorter and bended, to highlight that the third one isn't so much a random mutation sticking out, but part of more deformities.
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9494/20666411et3.jpg
And here are the Diffuse and Specular textures. Inefficient layout, I know, but I'd never done hair or a mouth like this and didn't know how much space I'd be needing. Lesson learned... Obviously, the Spec needs a lot of work since quite a few parts aren't really defined at all yet and the hair is just a mess.
it also looks like the second arm doesnt have an elbow, and there's no real anatomical explanation of it being there. is it grown tothe ribcage? what muscles are there, can she control it or is it floppy? such stuff
I've freakified the two rights arms a bit, as Snader suggested. The fingers and arm are bent, they're skinnier, which means that the normal map shows the bone and muscle structure underneath a bit and there are veins. I hope that this is odd enough. I can't really think of any way to integrate the smaller arm any more at the moment - there's now also more duct tape, so that it's more obvious from every angle that the right sleeve has been cut off. I realise that it lacks a good anatomical basis (the idea was that it's connected to an 'offspring' of the pectoralis maior and the trapezius, with itself having all the muscles of the lower arm), but I don't think any of that is reasonably fixable at this point.
The coat and face have also received a dosis of attention and wear.
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3579/r10kc4.jpg
Plenty of things that still need change in the texture (goggles included), but I've been feeling sick all day and did something fun instead:
Also, yay for Blender which doesn't allow alpha shadows and node-based shaders. Somehow, alpha maps in Blender are the most complicated thing ever, because I always spend hours on getting them to work.
Main things bothering me are the thickness of the straps of the jacket and the belt. For some reason or another they come across to me as if they were inch thick or something like that. All in all very nice looking stuff.
I know - that alpha mapping took me quite a while to find out the first time... and the second time too. It's unbelievably complicated for something that's used so commonly. The worst part is that I don't think there's any way to get them to work with node-based shaders, so I had to render these without. If there's a solution, I'm sure it's nothing short of mind-bogglingly complicated.
I've thinned the straps and belt now - thanks
Are the green background and rim light helping or are they just cheesy ugly?