[Mixamo Contest] - "Optinium" - "The Magician " (WIP)

Optinium · May 2013

**LATEST UPDATE**

Here is my concept

Ultraperson · May 2013

That looks like it will be fun to make.

Optinium · May 2013

Started on a base sculpt...

Optinium · May 2013

Continuing work on base meshes

Optinium · May 2013

WIP Update

Plenty still do do ^^

eEe · May 2013

Awesome concept and great progress, looking forward to this one

Optinium · May 2013

WIP ipdate

Optinium · May 2013

Messing around with some textures/color this morning, also contemplating getting rid of the bottom half of the coat. Thoughts? Loads still to do in terms of sculpting, just experimenting as I won't be touching this for a week now due to travel/interviews!

Mysteryotto · May 2013

Pretty dope! I get a very "Savage" feeling from DC comics. The character looks a little unfinished without the rest of the coat, but I understand your want to change it. Have you experimented with other coat tails, like something you would see off a tux; ie, the split tails, of the stubby short tail? Granted he's appears to be a dark character, he is still a gentleman in style just the same..:D

Optinium · May 2013

After a busy week away from home, I managed to do a bit more on this tonight.

Kyuzo · May 2013

it's just me, or his legs tooo short?

Optinium · May 2013

I dunno, I can't really see it but then again maybe I'm to close to the problem. From his hips to the base of the foot is the same height as the hips to the top of the head, which as far as I'm aware is right...

Maybe it's the FOV or the hat and bulkyness of the coat that make him look taller/wider?

Kyuzo · May 2013

i don't know, maybe it's a presentation issue, or something else, but i dont see any at your initial anatomy sculpt, but for last ones it looks like this:

Fenixy · May 2013

Proportions are: from the chin there is 1 head to the nipple; from the tip of the head, to the crotch, around 4 heads; 1 head from the navel to the crotch etc...
Just move his pelvis up abit.Also low pants with such fitting folds around crotch, kinda creates illusion of his low pelvis. (well, atleast that's how I see the problem)
Other than that, I like the concept so far, reminds me of Van Helsing for some reason. Keep it up!

Optinium · May 2013

Took the advice and made the slight adjustment to the crotch area and also started work on the low poly/normal bakes...

lotet · May 2013

looks nice, great clean topology. might be a bit to saturated on the body and hands, while the hat and other accessories are a tad blocky.
how many polys did you end up with?

Optinium · May 2013

Thanks Lotet.

It's sitting at 8,700 tri's at the moment, so well under the 20k limit set. I'm going to get some textures sorted on it and then see how it looks with them applied, I guess I can easily add some geometry if some elements look a bit skewed

Luke_Starkie · May 2013

Looking good man, nice bake but I'd definitely plan on making more using out of the 20k limit! Just add as many poly's as you can to get rid of sharp edges!

Optinium · May 2013

Wipdate on the low poly, feedback, advice and/or suggestions welcome

http://i.imgur.com/sArlKuy.jpg

Mysteryotto · May 2013

Awesome! What a great job! It might just be from my perspective, but have you worked with other texture samples for the pants? There's something about the stripes, wheras the rest of the model is so high quality, and the pants texture, seems almost like a xerox stain, when the ink smears while printing. Is it possible there may be a more solid stripe pattern to use? But, like I said, I don't know if that is just from this perspective, angle..I could be wrong.

Optinium · May 2013

It';s not you

, it was a surface modifier in Zbrush which didn't do the best job. This is about a 50% done (if that) diffuse, so still plenty to do and fix.

Mysteryotto · May 2013

Right on! I'm digging it!

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Optinium · Jun 2013

Did some work on this tonight Reduced some of the noisiness in the diffuse, added some geometry to smooth some areas out to.

http://i.imgur.com/FULMWp2.jpg

Optinium · Jun 2013

Update Spam!!!

Need to do the hat, add the rope, tweak parts of the diffuse and differentiate some of the materials... Then onto rigging posing and extra bits...

http://i.imgur.com/D2AVpeR.jpg

Optinium · Jun 2013

Getting to the end of texturing methinks, any suggestions/feedback anyone?

Optinium · Jun 2013

Anais · Jul 2013

Hey there! Looks like you're almost done!

Just a quick reminder that the deadline for your submission has been extended: you have until tonight (Monday July 8, 11:59:59 pm PST) to email us your entry.

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Good luck!

[Mixamo Contest] - "Optinium" - "The Magician " (WIP)

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