Yoda - game character

strash07

Hi!

I didn't really planned to do whole character. I have sculpted a head and then tought it may be worth to do full (game) character from it just for training and portfolio. I baked maps and painted textures for head so far. I would like to hear what you guys think about it.

strash07

Thanks for comments. I have tweaked a little bit shape of the head. But about Coat i want it to be game character that can be animated so trying to keep folds flow i one direction - need probably more work though. Anyway have a look at new head shape and tell what you think. And what do you think about textures? I suppose there is a room to improve there I have not that much experience with texturing.( I have increase brightness on specular so it easier to see it here - i am using much darker for rendering)

strash07

I just did a little test with textures for Coat. I want to keep it around 3-4k triangles. Its 2k so far. Hope to see your comments. Cheers.

jrmenace

hey looks like your on the right path with this but to me the headand neck need a lil reshaping i think the necks alil too big, and the shoulders a lil more refined.Mos of all I think the texture needs some reworking add more colors and blend a lil bit mo. heres a lil pic i think the textures should aim to this
http://getoutofcreditcarddebt.com.au/yoda.JPG

chrisradsby

Looks good! Nice work! I would say that his arms are a bit too long, it looks like Yoda but it doesn't feel quite like Yoda yet, you're on your way though. Try to make sure that the detail around the eyes really pop.

http://www.irmin.com/wallpaper/Movies/Yoda.jpg

I would say that you have to nail his expression as well later
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BEHtl-kfA-I/S-oJvFHVT6I/AAAAAAAAAX4/j4obttinX_Q/s1600/yoda3.jpg

The texture looks good and all, but I think you can make it a lot more interesting, even though Yoda is mostly green, he also has spots, and yellow parts.

http://www.cinematicwallpaper.com/wallpaper-science-fiction/Star-Wars-episode3-5.jpg

http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/starwars/pages/episode-iii-yoda.shtml

Try to get some yellow in there as well, you can see some subtle hints of it on his forehead, under his eyes, cheekbones, top of ears, top of nose, around the eyes. I think the specular could be better, even though you said that you brightened it, it looks quite un-detailed. A detailed specular, high-sharpness, high-contrast would probably look nicer.

http://www.fx81.com/images/frh_c2.jpg

If we take a look at this artwork, you'll see that the character is mostly blue but has a lot of different shades of blue. There is also a grainy feeling to the skin, so you get that pore-like skin, both normal , diffuse & spec can show off this. A really well-made specular does wonders

Oh well, I looking forward to seeing more progress! I hope what I've said helps!

strash07

Thanks guys for great comments! I will keep working on it:). I'm not super experienced with textures so your help is really needed here. I am rendering with marmoset toolbag so there is only specular level (no specular color, of glossiness map). Should I look at other methods to show model ? Or just should tweak it for marmoset ? What engine you usually using for game characters to show/work on them ? Thanks.

I have change body proporsions - screen from Max.

chrisradsby

I mostly use Marmoset or I use some kind of real-time shader in 3ds Max.

DrunkShaman

Looks like a teenager Yoda to me man...Nice work though

Keep it up.

Highelf

For the color map I would change the skin colour hue to a more lighter yellowish green and add alot more different hues very subtly (yellows, reds, blueish greens). Don't be afraid to go wild with it. :P