BLINK
interpolator
I dont know if you guys remember this character from x-men age of apocalypse but I just thought it would be nice to have some female characters in my portfolio so heres a start on her. Just worked on the head a bit so far, the rest is still basemeshes.
there are a few pics of her on google for the curious http://images.google.co.uk/images?gbv=2&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&q=xmen+blink&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=18
Im also using the Age of Apocalypse graphic novel for reference
there are a few pics of her on google for the curious http://images.google.co.uk/images?gbv=2&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&q=xmen+blink&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=18
Im also using the Age of Apocalypse graphic novel for reference
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Good start on the character for sure man! Looks like you're going for the Kubert style? I'm a personal fan of Madureira's take on her, but your proportions are starting to shape up. I would shorten the bicep area and thin out the shoulder line as she is also lookin' quite bulky around her armpits. Give her some mass on her thighs so she has a nice taper to her legs which will help stylize her and sexy her up a bit too. Get those jelly hands under ctrl yo! i kid! i kid!
Looking forward to this one!
thanks for the crits guys I will probably have some more time to work on this tonight, as for the style I personally prefer madureiras take but I cant seem to find enough good reference of her in that style so its pretty hard to achieve
the image on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(comics) is the only madureira ref I have.
maybe I can work towards his style more if I can find more ref or order the rest of the AoA xmen books hehe
She's coming along nicely, there's a few things going on with the proportions, but I'm not sure if that's a style thing or not. The knees, especially the space above the knee caps, need some more focus, style or not, they look blobby, and wonky. I'd think about moving the part of her shirt-thingie down a lot more, or... I don't know, her mid-riff area seems a bit short, but I can't tell if it's the shirt that's causing that look, or not.
Keep working on it, she's shaping up very nicely. and this is just my vote against any more Madureira influence.
push that style man... i feel like you're heading in the right direction as far as exaggerating the proportions, but they just feel out of whack atm... maybe bring down the hips to lengthen the torso and lower the knees to keep the thighs long. i like how your building up the thigh, but push it further. all the appendages seem very straight except for the calves which just feel too low, but can be corrected and flow better if you lower the knees... before making big changes to your geo, just do a full frontal assault and play around with the silhoutte in PS or somethin. she really just needs more curve and angles that are well balanced to add the mass... ranting like crazy fool tonight... sorry
btw, is this 3dCoat? I remember a bunch of voxel sculpts you used it for in your sketchbook, just wondering if you decided to stick with it...
yeah I havent worked much on her back yet, no its just mudbox 1.0 I plan on buying 3d coat but it is really hard to get voxel sculpts to be as well refined and sharp as polygon sculpts. Thanks for the crits firebert and whipswitch
Jeremy-S I might make her face look a little less guant as she doesnt look to healthy right now and will play with proportions and curves as you and the other guys have mentioned
The rib cage is lookin kindof low in both the front and back shots tho imo (or somthing that's compressing the midsection down too close to the pelvis). Mostly on the [character's] left side, tho now i'm having trouble seeing it :S
anyways, turnin out sick so far man =D
Just realised comicon challenge is on and I didnt enter and Im creating a comic character anyway - DOH!!!
FAIL! now go kick yourself :poly114:
gonna move on to lowpoly sooon, only thing that bugs me is the hair...any suggestions to make better hair? I dont mind starting the hair over from scratch if you have a good idea?
i especially like her hands and stomach / breasts, gimme.
i think the butt creases weird with the back of the leg.
the lats look pushed too far in, because i think when the arms come down it may pinch them in more, making them look weird. looking at blink2.jpg i try to imagine he rib cage and it just looks too tiny to balance her frame.
going to add some braids or hair ties on the tails or something? they don't come off the head right...
other than those nitpicky things, it's cool, i'd totally fuck your elf chick, untextured.
I will see what I can do about the ribcage/lats being too small and the butt crease hehe have to go look at some reference.
No she doesnt have hair ties or anything like that so I think I will re-do most of her hair with multiple poly objects instead of my one big hair poly mesh as I have now. It needs to look sleek and thin and long hmmm might be hard to achieve.
that untextured bit is awesome
as for the hair Ged, i say put some bands against the skull where they braid off and then roll with it... for rigging, they'll work find where they are now... maybe put some twist in there first, refine some buldge areas, keep it stylized, and then let the texturing aid the rest.
\Man that gastronemius is bugging my ass off.....
thanks people
whats bugging you about it? too low?
so i've seen it too, but didn't really say anything for whatever reason. but i see it too, ya. so you need to try for something like this, something that's makes the silhouette more dynamic and still have balanced, logical forms, that's what's making it look strange and i'm pretty sure that's what butt is talking about.
i'm suggesting you make it like the blue lines. the red lines are basically trying to exaggerate what i see you're doing wrong.
i liked where you were going with the ass before... the fold was just off the some positioning, but it had that weight to it that had the potential for some hottness and just a little saggy... get that shit right man!
yeah, the legs man, i know you are totally goin' for that style, but i agree that it needs that profile curve to make the silhouette more appealing.
new hair hands and proportions should be better, I had trouble seeing what you guys were pointing out guess I had a big gap in my anatomy knowledge there, thanks KP and butt. Just gotta make her backpack full of shards now.
:O.
Looking kickass!
lol there was originally cloth there but it didnt subdivide well so I got rid of it...yes technically she is commando :P
thanks!
the proportions are so unnaturally delightful. It makes my teeth tingle and grow.
very inspirational work!
just about finished lowpoly now its on to uvmapping and textures
shes quite low poly only around 6500tris at the moment. any suggestions on where to add some geometry?
Also might want to up the difference on the loops on her arms where the cloth ends and the arm begins rite now your normal map would be doing it all.
never done an alphad lioncloth before so this is the way I thought would work thanks for that advice I will see if I can do it the back face way instead. as for the arms yeah thats no problem, well spotted. I thought the ass needed more shape too but I wasnt sure if that was actually necessary.
thanks.
lowpoly uvmaps and bake done! phew long 2 days of work :P I do realise there are still some small shading/ambient occlusion errors eg on the bum , I will sort that out
8monkey
xnormal
Looking really good man. Marmoset really can be a bitch with its shadows
Try scaling the file you are sticking into marmoset, the shadows are affected by scale.
In the render settings of marmoset there is a show scale reference tickbox that shows a scale man.
Im thinking of using no shadows and doing a render with the skinshader in marmoset. I think it works for the style quite well, like this:
Ok just looked at this again for the first time in a while and realised there are some really bad issues
1.the mesh is triangulated in a really wierd fashion, its gone non-symmetrical and has lost some of the smooth flow . I used both silo and c4d and roadkill to handle this mesh so one of those parties must have ruined my mesh
2. the normal map/ textures have oddly visible stepping in smooth gradients when viewed close up, like Ive converted things to 8bit that I really shouldnt have - is this maybe the cause?
some good news I got xoliuls shader working in max and it looks good and the highpoly pedestal for her is almost done
this is in max viewport
She will be posed, right?
thanks muzz, yup, wanted to get the textures done before I think about posing.
and dude it's really hard to pick which render i like best :P (they both look cool in different ways, been having the exact same probs latley :poly122:)
I second that
I really like the stylization and painting, I could understand the exaggeration within her legs, but her forearms are way too long in my opinion otherwise it's looking great.
posed her in transpose but its not really a great pose, its alright I guess. I have some assets to make for a mod and alot of stuff going on at work so I cant spend too much more time on this.