karin kanzuki first low poly char
polycounter lvl 12
First model I followed through. I couldn't have done it without the support of these forums, learning on my own with a full time job in the military.
Please tear it apart polycount!
Please tear it apart polycount!
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There's a few things that stuck out for me. Her face was the first thing I noticed as it doesn't remind me of the character exactly, and it kinda looks like she has freckles. The leather or spandex parts of her outfit (under her shirt, wrists/forearms, skirt, and socks I think) look purple when I think they're supposed to be black. That could be open to interpretation though. Can you post your reference? Overall I feel she looks masculine compared to the more feminine character from SF Alpha 3. Perhaps someone here may give you some more in depth tips about the anatomy, but here's a couple images I just looked up. I hope that helps, and good luck.
Personally, I think her face is a bit masculine. Something to do with her cheekbones and eye sockets... Cool model though. I like her posture.
she does look very masculine... tbh she looks like a man in a cheer leaders outfit, but saying that theres only a few changes and shell be sorted;
Her face - its too angular, a females tends to be more curved and oval shaped/rounded.
Her legs look massive, now they may be like this in the reference, but just expand her hips out abit more (not too much!) and it'll add a more feminine look.
But nice model overall
Also the jawline is too hard
this might come in handy maybe. Discusses capcom's freaky proportions
thanks man! the general consensus im getting is that her face is too manly. I was liberal towards the design and color scheme as I noticed there was alot of slight varience across internet reference. Thank you!
thanks for the complement, the general consensus im getting is that her face is too manly.
interesting link! I will get on that when I have the time!
Beyond the face, what stands out to me the most are her proportions, and anatomy in general. She has an extremely slim waist, and the hips look quite narrow as well. The pelvis in general might be a little small, but it might just be the tiny skirt confusing me, not sure. Her upper body is a little mysterious as well, her ribcage looks quite narrow yet her shoulders look massive. The area around her neck is really confusing as well, there's a couple of layers of floating geometry with what looks like holes where you can see right through the model, and it's just difficult to try to figure out how her neck, chest and shoulders connect underneath her clothing.
The bow in her hair looks strange. It kind of reads more like a big dogbone-shaped piece of plastic than something made out of fabric, and the way those ribbons just stick right out of it bothers me a lot.
The gloves seem to be a bit lacking in definition. I think you need to use geometry for the brown parts, they look kinda painted-on right now. You've seem to got some pretty nasty stretching going on in the back of her hands, as well. Come to think of it, the hands could probably use more polygons in general, the fingers look quite blocky.
The textures have a lot of room for improvement, IMO. The mostly flat colours works pretty well for this type of character, but I think the colours are a little too vibrant, and the shading a bit too monochromatic. It looks like you've tinted your AO bake which is a good start, but I still feel like there could be more colour variation. The black spandex/leather/whatever they are parts could look a lot better with the use of a specular map, but if you don't want to use one you need to add more contrast and visually separate it from the other fabrics just using the diffuse map. Finally, and this is probably more of a UV issue than a texturing issue, but the white trim on her collar, sleeves and skirt seem a bit inconsistent.
Did a little paintover that might help illustrate some of my points. Hope you don't mind.
And here's two scans from the Sakura Ganbaru manga where Karin originated, they may or may not help, I guess. One Two
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10452 tri count, the face somehow got subdevided in my workflow, thats somthing I could fix later...
The highpoly is pretty buried in files somewhere (i blame my workflow) but i do have the normals without the difffuse.
I realy like the colors you put into the diffuse especially the orange and blue, I remember trying to paint more detail into the diffuse and it not working out because the normals would work against it. ill revisit the diffuse as well as the spec. I Admit not putting to much effort into the spec especially.
Things to correct:
1.)Fix face
2.)widen hips
3.)make taller?
4.)pay more attention to spec (spandex)
5.)revisit diffuse
6.)edit face topology