[FIGHTER] Street Fighter, Akuma, Apostolon

Apostolon

Hello Polycount,

My fighter is going to be a punk kid/teen version of Akuma. This is my first post here, and I don't have much to show yet but hopefully I'll have time to start going into detailed concept sketches soon. Thanks!

Apostolon

Finished the concept sheet! I may still flesh a few parts out, but I think I'm about ready to start the model.

hadomancer

nice concept!

jarrede

dude this is looking cool, I hope you have enough time to finish

leslievdb

very nice concept, reminds me of naruto some how ^^

Apostolon

jarrede - Thanks! I hope I have time to finish as well. I have a lot of free time as of late so we'll see.

Ravenslayer - Thanks, I agree it does have a Naruto feel to it. I noticed that about half way through and just decided to go with it haha.


Sculpting day 1 is over. He kind of looks like a creepy baby alien right now... hopefully that improves as I progress

HonkyPunch

makes me think of TekkonKinkreet, especially the first sketch. I like it a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekkon_Kinkreet

Apostolon

Thanks! I haven't seen Tekkon Kinkreet, but it looks interesting and I really like the style.

Figured I'd post an update. I've blocked out most of the clothes and gear. If I get a chance I'll start detailing tomorrow.

Apostolon

Another day of sculpting down. It's really hard to concentrate on getting this high poly done when Portal 2 is sitting on my desk calling to me :poly122:

I've decided that I'm going to do something different with his hair. Not sure what yet, but the DBZ spikes aren't working for me. Maybe I'll go more Akuma like.

Apostolon

Got some time to change a few things this weekend. I felt that his face looked a little to innocent to be Akuma, so I fixed that. I also changed the hair style. Obviously still WIP, but I think I'm finally happy with the proportions and such.

Crits welcome

Traix

is it just me or does the left leg seem thicker around the ankle? Other than that it's looking really good

Apostolon

Thanks Traix! It does look like the ankles have an uneven thickness in this picture. They are the same size though.... I think. I'll have to check it.

Apostolon

Cool, I was worried about losing the Akuma quality with the different hair. I'm wandering if I'll have enough poly budget to keep the prayer beads in there once I go low poly. We'll see I guess...

MasteroftheFork

Looking cool, personally I'd lose the goggles, they're too cleche for me.

Apostolon

MasteroftheFork: Thanks, I'm glad you said that. Honestly, goggles just seemed like one of those things that you put on the head of a teen character... I didn't really put much thought into it haha.

Dustinbrown: Thanks for the critique. I've noticed that some of the cloth folds are unnatural. I'll try to push that as I finish it up. As for the anatomy, I'm not too sure about what to fix, besides the biceps looking unusually square... To me it kind of fits with the style. I do think his pose is almost as if he's taking a deep breath, but I figured I could fix that in the low poly. Any specifics you could spare would help a ton.

Apostolon

Well, I'm about ready to wrap up the high poly. Just wanted to see if I could get any feedback before I continue.

There's still a few issues that I have with it, but I should probably move on if I'm going to finish in time.

mitcHELL

yea! i love this.. sweet stylez/lines

crazyfingers

this is really starting to come together, very nice piece. I really like the unified zbrush style.

You should simplify his mouth area/ expression. If you cover his head and leave just the mouth it looks more like that of an elderly woman.

Apostolon

Thanks!

I see what you mean about the mouth area crazyfingers. I'm pretty confident I can fix that in the texture, but I'll try to smooth it out a bit just to see how it looks

God, going back and looking at pictures of my early stages makes me want to delete them. This is actually my first real project in Zbrush. I've done quick head sculpts and such but never a full character. My brain is overloaded from learning too much :poly127:

Apostolon

Finally finished the low poly and bake. I still have some problem areas to go back and fix, but for now I'm going to get started on the diffuse.

Apostolon

I still have quite a bit of work to do on the textures, but I think I got the color scheme like I wanted.

eCzety

I love the style you went for. is looking ace!

Apostolon

Thanks!

Figured I'd put together some of my references to show. Better late then never

eCzety

To me he also resembles north african, middle eastern kid.. great references!

wizo

Hey there,

Very nice research of style, lots of storytelling to your character. The colors brings him to life, great work!

Splinesplitter

He's got so much character in him, it amazes me. I hope you win.