Vespa apocalypse and other WIP

Timbo

Hi All

Its been a long time since I posted on a forum but I have been looking around polycount and you guys have a really active community offering great crits and advice on projects and producing some really stunning work so what the hell ill stop hiding and post some of what I’m working on.

A Vespa apocalypse

This is a doodle that got out of hand and turned into a project, I started with the head and when I had finished it it kind of reminded me of the sky captain out of mad max two, so with an apocalypse in mind I came up with this, its still got a bit of max work left to do I need to finish the googles and I would like to pile some stuff on the back of the bike but I have started to flag on it and spend more time with my other projects but ill get back onto it soon I think its having to skin it all properly that’s putting me off, I hate skinning .

the other project is this army chick, im trying to decide weather she needs something like a huge chain gun of jet pack to kind of give the model a central prop but I am having trouble deciding on what it should be or weather I need it at all I really should have spent some time on a concept but agin it was a bit of a doodle, I spend all my work days following concepts and its nice to just sit down with a soundtrack and model without having to think, its kind of my meditation.

Anyway any advice or crits are very welcome.

timbosart.blogspot.com is my blog if any one is interested.

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Timbo

The high poly models

Timbo

The first pass on the Highpoly of the army girl WIP

Timbo

This is the hair LOD0 WIP

Blaisoid

models look nice, especially the chick.

textures are what could use most improvement. materials don't look very defined, especially their specularity.

the vespa guy also looks a bit clean, he has few stains but clothes seem really fresh anyway. leather elements could use some edge wear.

Xoliul

Yeah echoing that. Models look pretty good (though characters could do with a more interesting silhouette here and there), but texture are not up to the same level. A lot of it looks generic and undefined.

Timbo

Thanks for the quick feedback, you where both bang on the money, the textures are just AO and color at the moment and really do need a detail pass so ill do that and re-post at some point, i also agree with the silhouette issue especially with the girl, ive been trying to come up with something to add a something to the silhouette common things are swords on the back that sort of thing but im finding it hard to come up with something i like, anybody have any ideas ? mine are jetback type thing our chain gun and ammo backpack but that's a little heavy for this character. it serves me right for not modeling from a concept.

Timbo

Hi All

So ive updated my character with a backpack and shotgun I'm still just placing all the sub tools and then ill add the finer detail.

Ive also been working on the hair and now i have the the sections placed ill work on the overall shape