APB - Aces

LRoy

Awesome concept from APB by Arnold Tsang.
http://arnistotle.deviantart.com/gallery/


Hopefully I can capture the same feel by the end.

Seirei

You have to do the facial expression when it's done. Realy cute concept and a very good start.

Maph

Ditto on the facial expression. It's too great to skip on.

Good start man, proportions are good and the block in looks great. I'll be watching this one for sure!

JoshC

I look forward to this

LRoy

Hey dudes. Gonna have to put her on hold again. Figure I'd post up my current progress.

Started blocking out jacket, having tough time getting that poofy look. Any crits welcome.

Torch

I would have to say this looks.....ace? *Smug expression*

Baj Singh

Hey LRoy, nice start mate. I would probably make the head a little smaller as at the current scale it seems as though she rest of the body looks too short. I would have a look at her fingers too as right now her thumb looks a little short but from that shot I cant tell whether its due to the angle between the thumb and the index finger.

Good luck mate.

Steve Schulze

Head looks about the right scale to me - the concept character isn't very tall. Her arms might be a smidgen short, though it might be the camera skewing things slightly. It's hard to tell with all of the accessories and clothing, but her knees might be placed too high too.

Minor stuff, you've otherwise got the beginnings of a pretty damn solid recreation of the concept.

LRoy

Thanks guys. Tried tweaking some of the mentioned parts.

StrongRum

That looks really nice so far, how are you planning to do the fur on the jacket?

Gannon

This is coming along great! Cool concept.

The cloth material is feeling a bit thick imo. I think it's be cause of the lack of small/tighter folds and wrinkles near stitching seams. The area around the knees and base of the shirt are looking good, it's just the other areas that need some love

SimonT

really love the chracters - shame that the game was a bit lame i guess...

JoshC

Looking stellar so far, only critiques I can see are that the knee belts need to be more loose and tied together by some strap, hard to tell from the concept. Also the zipper on her skirt looks to be coming undone in the concept.

Great work, MORE!!!

LRoy

Found a few differing versions of the concept. The strap didn't really make too much sense to me so I opted to leave it out.

Got the lowpoly to 8k so far, still need to figure out the best way to do the fur. Was thinking of going crazy with fur cards unless someone has a better suggestion?

Saman

LRoy wrote: »

Found a few differing versions of the concept. The strap didn't really make too much sense to me so I opted to leave it out.

Got the lowpoly to 8k so far, still need to figure out the best way to do the fur. Was thinking of going crazy with fur cards unless someone has a better suggestion?

No, that will most likely get too expensive and hard to control when skinning. You should try a similar method to how papagersi made his knight character's hair, paint it in/use photos or whatever. Another method would be to create some digital 3d fur and then bake that in and see how it turns out.
Looks cool btw. But you should reshape those cloth folds more with deeper and more overlapping ones like in the concept. You've pretty much nailed the face imo but can we see some more close-ups please?
Keep it up. Make sure you step it up a level with the textures this time!

ericdigital

you better post an update soon. we want to see moar!

LRoy

Update of where she is. Always appreciate any feedback.

s33th

Wow, how did you do that fur?

I think she's coming along really nicely. You may want to scale down the head just a touch if you want to keep the proportions from the concept.

pseudoBug

the only thing that strikes me as a little of is the leg strap/pant folds area.


Awesome concept. I'd say you've just about nailed it.

I want to play a game with her in it.

LRoy

thanks guys. I agree with the head size. Didn't realize how small it was in the concept. Leg straps are a bit off also. Gonna try and fix them up and get her posed. Here's a closer shot.

Slipstream

That looks amazing. Well done! I too am curious about the fur. Is that individual planes somehow?

Jessica Dinh

Whoa, you really nailed the materials!! I love the leather especially. I think the eyeshadow might be a little excessive, like maybe don't have it go all the way up to her eyebrows like that. Will be awesome to see her posed :]

Ferg

Awesome Lroy! Agree, the fur looks great... cloned alpha mapped geo shells progressively larger and shifted a little? Would love to see a turnaround animation of it. Really like the face as well, nice work man. Agree the knee straps looks weird, but it sounds like you're on it already.

Oranghe

loving this great job!

Funky Bunnies

diggin it lots and lots man!

keep on rockin it
since youre on the hair now id pull down the bangs a little and darken her brows a touch i think

marq4porsche

That looks sooooo awesome, the fur looks great and you've got her personality spot on.

papagersi

I'm liking it !!! getting better man!! it looks good so far!! keep it up!!!

Neox

sweet work! how did you render the fur (engine? viewport? shader?) also how heavy does it hit on the polycount?

artquest

Wow looks amazing!!!

you really captured the concept...

you do know you're going to have to make a tutorial on your fur process right? :P We're all wondering how you pulled it off. It's Gotta be my favorite part.

JacqueChoi

Totally looking amazing mang!!!

^_^


SEE!!!! Fur looks awesome!!!!

odium

The whole thing looks great, you really nailed the concept. would love to see her posed and with some detail on the fur process

Blaisoid

pants seem a bit heavy and leathery compared to the concept (and could use better material definition).
other than that the model looks awesome.

erroldynamic

Looks killer! Please share your furry awesomeness...

daphz

this turned out awesome! does she have a mouth pocket?

Carl Brannstrom

Good stuff!

Would love to see breakdown shots

Saman

Wow, you've pretty much nailed the concept. You could add more small wrinkles to her shirt/corsette/whatever and I think the belt is too thick and undefined. The folds on the jacket and pants need to be more defined and realistic, you can check some reference images for those. You've already got a pretty good model already though so do the changes if you feel that you want to rework some areas, otherwise just keep this in mind for your next project.
Great stuff, now pose her the same way as in the concept!

onelunglewis

Man awesome work on the fur. Would love to see some wireframes of how you handled the cards. Great work!

JoshC

Love it, something looks off about her hair on her head but overall, awesome.

afisher

Awesome stuff mate. The fur looks great! Like everyone else, I'd be interest in how you handled the fur as well.

okkun

Yeah fur is awesome, nice work on the rest too.

You might want to move the straps around her knees down so they sit well below the knee cap. They look about the same height as the concept but she wouldn't be able to bend her knees, not to mention the stretching would look awful when rigged. Unless I'm reading the legs wrong and the knee is in fact above the strap..

ScudzAlmighty

^^I mentioned this after you posted in waywo a few weeks back but I guess you didn't see it. In the concept the straps are a little loose and would more than likely stay aligned with her shins when bending her knee's (notice they aren't causing the pants to crease at all). Where's as you've kinda got them shrink-wrapped to her legs. They look good and will be easier to retop, but they just don't make any sense.

Alos, spill it on the fur already man!

almighty_gir

you're killing it man, fucking killing it.

nyx702

I really impressed how close it is to the concept. Crazy good.

Torch

You're not getting away that easily Lroy :P Anychance of a fur workflow explanation anytime soon? Thanks bro

JR

Torch wrote: »

You're not getting away that easily Lroy :P Anychance of a fur workflow explanation anytime soon? Thanks bro

Haha... fur is like a magic trick. Don't ask the magician the secret, he wont tell you. Just sit back and feel amazed by the show. Or try reverse engineering :P

Xoliul

I thought we didn't roll like that here on Polycount...

JR

Me too... but let's be fair, the guy problably studied and struggled a lot to find an amazing way to make fur. He has no obliggation to share, if he didn't want. It's the kind of thing a studio would pay well to have.

It's like his secret weapon. It belongs to him, and it's up to him decide if he shares or not.

LRoy

Haha whoa guys I don't work that fast you gotta give me some time. Trying to work on all the great crit mentioned so far and get her posed. Once I have the final shots ready I'll post up a howto for the fur. It's not exactly game friendly as it eats up fps like nobodies business so maybe someone else can make it more efficient.

It's essentially a bunch of shells with tapering transparency. The pics so far are screengrabs from maya with this shader http://blog.leocov.com/

Hopefully I can get everything posted either today or tomorrow. Sorry for the wait.

Torch

Oh cool, I think that technique was also explained in the PC wiki fur section. Cheers for the shader link too

LRoy

Posed. There are still a lot of things I'd like to work on, but I think it's best I call it done and move on to another project. Learned a lot so hopefully the next one will be that much better.



Gonna put together some shots to show how I did the fur. just some pics of the alpha and how the shells are set up. It's very similar to the method shown on the polycount wiki. Big thanks to JacqueChoi for helping me out with it. As well as all you other awesome polycounters giving me feedback along the way. Really appreciate it.

Iciban

WOw i love the character! Totally captured the feel from the concept. How long did you spend on this?