Druid - First sculpt

d2king10 · Sep 2010

Hey guys, I have been working on a druid type character for a project in my university. It is my first time sculpting anything, and honestly it is my first time modeling anything realistic so it has been quite fun going out of my comfort zone (I am used to low poly modeling) :poly124: I have been using Mudbox and Maya, trying to get a good workflow going. Once I have the sculpt done, I will throw it in Topogun and make a game-ready version.

Anyhow, here is the concept I am basing the model off of, if anyone knows who this is by please let me know:
http://heroes.ag.ru/h5/races/sylvan/jpg/HeroesV_Sylvan_04u_Druid_Elder.jpg

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and a closer shot:

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Turntable here:
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CnC welcome of course, and thanks in advance

Taylor Hood · Sep 2010

Being a Night Elf/Dark Elf/ Wood Elf/ Any-kind-of-elf-fanatic I'm glad to see this work, I like the ears. But unfortunately I'm not the best suited for critiquing this work because I'm not a 3D Character Artist.

Maybe picking another material would help? It's a bit noisy. Also, the floating braids (is that what they are? )... kind of distracting

samgriffiths · Sep 2010

Few crits;

Don't use that material to show your work

His chest muscles come down too far, it's like they're drooping, raise them up 2 inches.
His biceps are too fat vertically and his forearm is too small.
Once you knock out the anatomy it'll really help you, keep going good work so far =-)

d2king10 · Sep 2010

Alright, I made the changes you suggested, I will post them with the next update. Quick question, which material would you suggest I use?

The reason his hair shoots out like that is just to make my life easier when I throw it in topogun and have to retopo and rig it. Of course it won't be like that once I have the lowpoly rigged :poly136:

Thanks again.

Edit: Just found this site, seems like it has some great looking stuff, specifically the Clay Base/ skin 2 shader material
http://www.pixelcg.com/blog/?p=165

d2king10 · Sep 2010

Okay here goes todays update, finished up the hood/tunic thingy:

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d2king10 · Sep 2010

Changed some proportions to get closer to the concept, as well as applying some colors to see things easier:

d2king10 · Sep 2010

Here goes the low poly version of the body with normal map and simple colors. Still have to unwrap the hood, but as it is the low poly is made for everything so far:

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alg0801 · Sep 2010

Looks good so far...cant wait to see it with the final textures done

keizza · Sep 2010

his arms need to be moved up closer to the shoulders. also, he has no armpits.

d2king10 · Sep 2010

Thanks for the comments guys, I will see what I can do about the arms/armpits once I finish up his staff. Here goes the full low poly of the body with all normals baked. He is sitting at 10,277 tris:

Base · Sep 2010

I agree with the armpits thing... It makes his whole chest look really strange and 'too big'. Give him some armpits and maybe hammer out where the clavicle meets the shoulders... it feels like his neck muscles are too big for his physique and sort of mold directly into his shoulders. Other than this, it's looking really cool.

d2king10 · Sep 2010

I tried to fix the armpits, hopefully I got it this time :poly124: I also got the staff sculpt and bake done. Now I just need to add the feathers/leaves and he should be ready for texturing: Oh, ignore the random splots of colors on here, I loaded up an older texture file so it was easier to see the body

BlvdNights · Sep 2010

Looks good! I wouldn't mind though if you picked a material on the mesh that wasn't so hard to see sometimes.

d2king10 · Sep 2010

Alright I started texturing him, only got to his skin so far:

Anyone know why in Marmoset, when I scroll out some it starts to cut seems into my model where my uvs are, but when i get closer it shows the model how it is suppose to be? Ithought it would probably be some detail setting but I couldnt seem to find anything to fix it

d2king10 · Sep 2010

Alright, I finished up this guy, I still need to put him in some kind of presentation for my webpage, but that can come later:

wire (11,997 tris): http://grungemedia.com/dkseries/My_Work/druid/finale/screenshot6.png
texture (2024x2024): http://grungemedia.com/dkseries/My_Work/druid/finale/texsheets01.png

Enjoy!

lampekap · Sep 2010

I think ure better off without grass like that

mystichobo · Sep 2010

lampekap wrote: »

I think ure better off without grass like that

I like the grass, but I think it's a bit tall, and the area around the outside looks too uniform. It just needs a couple of blades to stick out the side more.

d2king10 · Sep 2010

Alright, here the final shots are. I can't work on this guy anymore because of deadlines and such. I learned a lot, and hope to put it to good use. You can find my next wip here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76743

Enjoy! (the website part will be filled in once I have an actual website done, which will be sometime before christmas)

Have to thank http://www.maphart.com/2009/artblog/comicon-2009 for layouts of my shots.

artquest · Sep 2010

I like your character! It looks pretty sweet. I realize you probably don't want to mess with this character anymore but I feel as though if you just worked on the pose it could take this from a good piece to a great piece. It looks very unnatural to me, and since he's a druid it seems like his pose should feel very natural. So if you ever get some time to revisit this character Id suggest modifying his pose a bit.

madmuffin · Sep 2010

I'm really digging the grass. How did you do it, is it just planes with alpha or hair+fur or what?

d2king10 · Sep 2010

madmuffin wrote: »

I'm really digging the grass. How did you do it, is it just planes with alpha or hair+fur or what?

I just used planes with alphas. It took a lot of messing around to get the right look.

As for the pose, I just copied the pose in the concept, it would be a pain to configure the pose now because I just skinned it enough to get it into a pose (I didnt want to spend hours working on skinning).

Thanks for your comments

Jonathan Marshall · Sep 2010

At first I was like o_o but then I was like O_O when you added the head-dress. I'm not a fan of elves like these at all, and I still think this is badass.

Druid - First sculpt

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