Brawler Jun the Swan

EtotheRic

Is it possible to change the thread title to "EtotheRic's art dump"? I'd like to just post future work in one place if possible.

Recent update:


Original Jun


Progress Thread
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82641

Beauty Shot 1


Beauty Shot 2


Comp


Spec


Texture Sample


Anyway, I have a couple more weeks of stuff I want to do with this now that the grunt work is done, I can have some fun with it. Namely I want to do a damaged version with a completely separate set of textures and morphs. Think in the line of the "you lose" screens of the old street fighter games.



I'm tired as hell so it's time to pass out.

EtotheRic

I never got to post the final ztool and face as well.

PatrickL

Came out looking more like a crow or loon than a swan... but a damn cool one nonetheless.

EtotheRic

Thanks guys.

Wow, after looking at my rush weighting job I'm going to have to just redo it. What a mess. I have to add some more joints anyway.

EtotheRic

Blazing along like a herd of turtles. I re-rigged everything a couple times and fixed a lot of things. Doing a polypaint pass.

EtotheRic

So to draw things on even longer I've kind of scrapped the low poly thing and am working on producing a nice high res render. At the end of the process I might see how closely I can match the high res with the game version but I'll see. I think my rendering skills since I've been working on games have really fallen by the wayside so that's really something I want to address. That and presentation of my work just sucks.

With that said I've been studying Tony Reynold's dvd on mental ray stuffs that I think was pimped a while back on the polycount news. I'm happy to pimp it again as I think it's pretty invaluable if you're interested in mental ray shaders and rendering. I had the Mental Ray for 3d max/maya/xsi book already but the dvd is a pretty awesome starting place for character specific stuff and is really one of the best I've watched.

Anyway, here's where I am in the process. I hope to have the rest of the skin maps done this weekend. I need to finish painting veins in the epidermal then will move on to the rest.

Basic untextured skin shader with displacement and normals


epidermal (4096 texture)



And the polypaint I started the epidermal map from

I think I'm going to spend some time emphasizing the freckles and blemishes but any input would be helpful.

EtotheRic

Pretty much finished the face textures, and there are a lot of them. If anyone has crits, questions or whatever, go nuts. There is some wobble behind the ear but I didn't feel like fussing with it since it will be covered.

Mental Ray render


What the geometry looks like

I'm working on hair and the mouthbag now.