Polish Hussar - Needs Your Help

jbh3d

Hey folks,
I finished this up a week or so ago, and its not as good as it could be. I need some direction as to what I'm doing wrong, as I am doing things wrong. Somewhere. Or many places. Either way, crits please.

jbh3d

Here are the maps, they are 2048x, but I downres'd them to upload.

jbh3d

Here's a new render of the head. I had a looksee at some other maps, and found a few new things to try, but its still not feeling correct.

Things I notice:
1. The hairline is unnatural, the hair itself doesn't feel like hair, which might have something to do with the normal and spec maps as well.

2. The neck lacks any skin detail, but this isn't so much of an issue with this, but something to keep in mind with future models.

3. The facial hair needs a tad of normal map attention.

4. The eyes look bad. And I need to figure out how to fix them.

jbh3d

I did some more updates for the metal. I need to weather it more, along with matching the hand skin tone to the face. Crits are welcome.

megalmn2000

I think the main problem of the character is the anatomy.
The head is a bit too big for the body.
Try to analyse how the muscle of the head works, then you can start to have fun with ZBrush. http://catalog.nucleusinc.com/imagescooked/9300W.jpg
Same thing with the body. http://www.myweightlifting.com/images/muscle-anatomy-chart.jpg
Most people here start with a nude model in order to see if all the proportions and muscles are correctly done. After that, you can tackle the rest of the character (cloth, armors, etc...) This article should help you with the topology : http://wiki.polycount.com/FaceTopology?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryTopology%5Cb%29
UV looks good, but this tutorial should help you for texturing : http://www.nextgenhardsurface.com/index.php?pageid=racer445
Same thing with metal : http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photoshop/how-to-hand-paint-convincing-metal-textures/

Good luck!

jbh3d

magalmn: Your concerns are noted. I shrunk the head a bit and added a few more bookmarks to my collection.

I'm going to call this one; time to study some other stuff for a couple weeks.