Character Sculpting

Moosey_G

I've been really inspired by Joe Pikop to start sculpting out high poly characters. I've never done this before so here's my first shot. These are some screen shots of my work so far, I've decided to post it now that I feel pretty adamant about getting it done. I'm looking for any kind of crits, like what I'm doing wrong, what I could be doing better, "tips/tricks". Go easy on me polycount

The basemesh wasn't modeled from the concept so the proportions are a bit off, but I've been fixing it as I go along.


Current Progress


Base Mesh


Concept by Laurel Austin

Moosey_G

Bump for to save my thread for crits. I'm sure you guys something to say!

ZacD

You should model the parts separately and figure out what parts would be best just to model and which parts should be sculpted.

The buckles/boots/metal bits/ should probably just be modeled, and the vest/pants/head should be separate meshes

Moosey_G

Yeah, I noticed how difficult it was getting to separate and model things. Especially the boots. Thanks for the info.

Ged

I think you should check your base model first, compare it to the characters base model in that pic and yours is way off, thats a big problem and means that no matter how well you sculpt this will not look much like the character in the concept. Good to see your having fun with sculptris but yeah break it down into easily managable tasks first eg 1.basemesh 2. armour in hardsurface app 3.sculpt

Nizza_waaarg

awsome concept to work from man ^^

agree about splitting things up a bit too... few peices seem like they'd do from some good old fasioned poly modelling as well but sculpting's always fun :P
arms feel a bit too short and like they're coming out way to low on the body, just gotta pull em up to fit into the shoulder a bit more i think. The mask in the concept has got a more rounder form to it as well which looks really cool, might be an idea to try and get rid of the flatness if you can

cool start so far

Moosey_G

Ged wrote: »

I think you should check your base model first, compare it to the characters base model in that pic and yours is way off, thats a big problem and means that no matter how well you sculpt this will not look much like the character in the concept. Good to see your having fun with sculptris but yeah break it down into easily managable tasks first eg 1.basemesh 2. armour in hardsurface app 3.sculpt

Okay, sounds good. When you say armor in the hard surface app do you mean like a base of the armor, or all of the armor (zippers, accessories, etc.)

Nizza_waaarg wrote: »

awsome concept to work from man ^^

agree about splitting things up a bit too... few peices seem like they'd do from some good old fasioned poly modelling as well but sculpting's always fun :P
arms feel a bit too short and like they're coming out way to low on the body, just gotta pull em up to fit into the shoulder a bit more i think. The mask in the concept has got a more rounder form to it as well which looks really cool, might be an idea to try and get rid of the flatness if you can

cool start so far

Thanks for the tips guys I hope I can sort things out a bit more after retopologizing. Here's the finished product.