Beefy Faun dude: WIP Character

Junkie_XL · Sep 2009

Thought I'd get more eyes on this for crits. My reference is a character named Tyr from McFarlane's Dragon Rider series. I'd like to start baking him down soon...

Update: Started texturing. Using Xoliul's shader.

http://www.vimeo.com/7260613

Turntable (xvid - 23MB)

P442 · Sep 2009

sux. you should give up art

achillesian · Sep 2009

that chain mail is off the chain, please make a detail of it

torontoanimator · Sep 2009

quite awesome, my only crit is id love to see him look a bit more faun-ish ya know? cuz right now if you didnt see him below the knee, you wouldnt know, thats all

ralusek · Sep 2009

i love this. really nice pauldrons, and that mail does look great. are those actually looped polygons? x_x

dejawolf · Sep 2009

yay to good looking chainmail.
although the mail under the pauldrons is looking a bit.. stiff.
usually chainmail falls down. its like a very heavy cloth.

dejawolf · Sep 2009

doublepost

Taylor Hood · Sep 2009

Godly faun man is godly.

woogity · Sep 2009

nice work man! a few things that urk me a bit at a glance, you have nice detail throughout, chainmail is nice

and id hate to have any part of it fall behind. ok crit1 the neck lacks naturalistic form and anatomy take another look at it before you bake, easy fix. second the thumbs on the gloves appear to be over rotated and look real painful take a look at gloved hands in google images to get the seams more natural on that part. lastly for now, the feathered hair at the base of the legs is too cylindrical, it should flare out a bit to make it look more wild and natural. also the sculpting on that section is a bit heavy handed, some finer hairs would add alot of realism there.

that entire main belt strucuture looks awesome man pat on the back for that

-Woog

woogity · Sep 2009

ah last one then i quit promise, the face needs more wrinkles get lots of ref for this, with a beard like that this guy is too old to have such smooth skin.

-Woog

RedLehari · Sep 2009

Only thing i can "complain" is the symmetrical veins in his arms... I would break the symmetry of the veins in his arms.
Beside that... Great job

Junkie_XL · Sep 2009

ralusek: yeah the loops are all individual geometry. It actually took very little time to make the chain mail parts. I laid my chain out flat and then used a plug-in for max called "SlideKnit" which lets you bind any geometry pattern to a UV unwrapped surface.

woogity: Thanks for the crits. Which direction are you saying the thumbs should be rotated? As for the finer details like hairs, etc...this is something I debate with myself all the time. I was thinking maybe I should save that for crazybumping a texture so it matches up later? I'm not even sure if I should've added the finer hairs to his head.

Anyway thanks for the compliments guys. Taking notes of the crits here.

tbaugher · Sep 2009

torontoanimator wrote: »

quite awesome, my only crit is id love to see him look a bit more faun-ish ya know? cuz right now if you didnt see him below the knee, you wouldnt know, thats all

i agree with it not looking faun enough, maybe some twisted horns would help. This is a very nice model. Good Job

Junkie_XL · Oct 2009

Found some time to get back to this. Started baking but I might find myself in an uphill battle with the chainmail resolution. Everything is on a single 2K. Wondering if I should split it up into two textures or just keep going...? Need to get it on an opacity map I think...

Junkie_XL · Oct 2009

Laying down some base colors. Fixed some of the crazy noise in the chain but the opacity is non existent when viewed from a distance. If anyone has any tips or recommendations there I'd appreciate it.

Stertman · Oct 2009

hmm.. nice sculpt but i would go for a completly different coror sheme on this one... i was like cool! when i saw the first post and like oh=( when i scrolled to the last one.. i understand that this is just simple blockout of the colors but doesnt feel right. Highpoly is great.. how did you do the chainmail?

cheers

ScudzAlmighty · Oct 2009

I know this toy! and yeah, the colours don't really look that great there either, might help with some texture variation though.

woogity · Oct 2009

its very pastel colored at the moment, soft low saturation colors. mix it up a bit , for a character like this i would avoid having more than one of such colors in the model, they dont feel right. that ring on his chest really baked out nicely good bakes, work on the textures.

-Woog

Junkie_XL · Oct 2009

Yeah I'm sort of cloning the color scheme of the reference itself. If you don't like the colors take it up with McFarlane. :poly124:

Indeed the base colors are too bright at the moment. Things should darken up as I work on this. And I'll swap out the color completely if it just doesn't work.

Thanks for taking a peek.

Stertman: I used a maxscript called SlideKnit. You have to unwrap a shape you want your geo pattern to lay on. The script creates a morph. Works quite well actually.

Bjoz · Oct 2009

I also gotta say, nice model there! Though me too are a bit allergic to that colourscheme. It will be interesting to see if you manage to save it by keeping on working with those colours

Junkie_XL · Oct 2009

edit: moved this up top...

bugo · Oct 2009

looks nice, careful with the hands, from a certain angle looks weird, but looks good all the rest. I can see the fur was hand painted and the fabric source photo, maybe sharpening a bit the fur would look better?

zxcman · Oct 2009

i love it!

Wheel · Oct 2009

Great job, I luv the attitude and the facial expression. Looks ready to rumble. Congrats.

Junkie_XL · Oct 2009

bugo: Thanks. I'll go back and check the fur out. It already is fairly sharp. It might be my low spec that is drowning it out. Click below to see a turntable because I'm not sure from what angle you speak of regarding the hands.

Turntable (xvid)

zxcman: Thanks!

Wheel: Thanks man.

ralusek · Oct 2009

jizzzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeed in my pants. seriously.

...buy me new pants

Beefy Faun dude: WIP Character

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