Mixamo Fantasy Character Knight

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

This is the WIP design for the Knight Character I will be entering in the challenge.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

Current Blockout Stage. Worked a bit on the face and armor.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

Continued work on the armor.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

Made some slight changes to the overall look of the armor for a little more contrast between hard edges and organic feel of the character.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

Tightening up the model a bit. Hopefully by tomorrow I can begin some of the Hi-Res Detail.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

Working on the head sculpt, should be able to finish by weeks end and work on the armor details this weekend.

Kn1ghtHavvk · Jul 2012

Hey man! Had no idea you were on Polycount! It's Boob from Full Sail! Very nice work so far! Looking forward to how you finish this piece up!

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

thanks man, im hoping to do our Alumni proud here. I just recently joined. hoping to utilize these challenges to try and continue to build the portfolio.

bggeneral · Jul 2012

You've got great drawing skills, looks very nice so far. I'm looking forward to your progress.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

thanks for the kind words. it is much appreciated.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

Working in the finer details to the armor and under garment.

crazythisguy · Jul 2012

wow. i like the armor! super cool

Di$array · Jul 2012

First of good luck with the compeition.

As for your piece you've got a great design but he seem to be quite short or are you going for that stocky look? I also quite liked he round knee pad in your early concept design. But the ones you have now are working well.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

Thanks for the best wishes. I am having fun with this guy. I do have the model a little bent kneed for possible rigging later, Once I finish the overall Model and pose I think he will look a bit taller. His height overall is about 6ft. I changed a bit from the original knee pad because I felt too much of him looked organic and I didn't think I had enough hard surface to really get the contrast in the silhouette I was looking for. I hope the changes I made show thru in the final version. I still have a ton of detailing to finish.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

Hopefully I can start the color textures this weekend and start testing out a few of the maps on the low res model.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

Testing the normals from the hi res model. Have a few areas to tweak on the maps, but its coming together.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

6200 poly's on the low res model. Still have to work on the sword and shield

Texelion · Jul 2012

That armor looks really muddy, not metallic and hard. You should try to have a sharper highpoly. Looks like you sculpted everything with the standard brush ^^. Hard surface is... well... hard to do in ZBrush. But there are some tools like Trimdynamic, H-polish or Pinch which will help.

Also, 6200 polys, or tris ? If it's tris, you could add some definition into the silhouette, the limit is 15 000.

lberry1976 · Jul 2012

It is 6200 Poly's. I agree about the softness of the armor. I am working to try and refine that as well. Thanks for the input, much appreciated!

lberry1976 · Aug 2012

I made some slight changes to the overall armor design.

Mixamo Fantasy Character Knight

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