Aztec Barbarian WIP

Norron

Hey all, I'm working on this character here and I feel that I need some good advice before moving on.

The basic idea was to make a modern game art enemy character that would fit a specific concept. If you think like Serious Sam and Bulletstorm this would be one of the horde dudes that you take a shotgun to in droves and then scrape off your shoes.

These are just viewport grabs from Zbrush with Polypaint. I feel like it needs more love in a lot of places but I'm at a loss. I'll probably end up redoing the body paint, cloth, and stone anyhow. I'm mainly concerned with the texture but any crits you have will be much appreciated.



Most of the character is mirrored over the midline except for the torso, helmet, and smashy club-thingies. I still need to go back in and make the detail more unique in those places.



Here's the layout just because.

Oniram

the texture looks too grainy atm.

Norron

I can probably even it out a bit. Most of the textures are basically just layers of color sprayed dots so I guess it got a bit too dense.

Norron

Shameless bump here, I was doing some test bakes and got this error on one of my meshes.



Anyone have any idea what's going on here, because heck if I know.

Oniram

looks like a cage issue. where are u baking from?

Norron

Do you mean what program? The High is straight from Zbrush, then baked in Xnormal.

I lazily made the Low meshes from the lowest subdivison of the High Poly instead of retopologizing properly, so I'm wondering if that one mesh doesn't fit perfectly with the high or something.

HntrLuc

Try increasing the value of "maximum frontal ray distance" for of your mesh in the "low definition meshes" tab in xnormal. That'll make the cage bigger without having to do it manually in the viewer.

Norron

That did the trick, thanks for the tip man!

minimari

The head piece feels too out of place for me. If he's fighting, I feel like stone is too heavy for him to perform well in fights. I would make it metal(or whatever they used) instead. The fan on top, I think feathers would be more interesting, but thats just me Umm as far as him being equal on all sides, give him some battle scars, give him some dirt, make him dirty! Give him blood! I was watching sparticus, and those guys get dirty cause they fight in the rink full of dirt. I would reference to that show for some ideas! Hope that helps

Norron

I forgot to say, the fan's going to be alpha'd and have everything but the feather strokes removed. It was based off of headdresses similar to this.

http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/images-2/220_00_2.jpg

Thanks for the insight.

minimari

oooh i see now thats cool!