Final project Destiny character concept

Mrfido · Dec 2013

Hey guys still kind of new to polycount but I am working on my final project for class. I wanted to start this thread so I can ask for feed back when I work on this project and also light a fire under my butt. What I will be doing is creating from some concept drawing I found from the new game Destiny.

My work flow will be

Base mesh in 3ds max
High poly in zbrush
Retopology in 3D coat
Unwrap UV in 3ds max
Bake my AO, Normal, Spec Maps in xNormal
Finally texture in Photoshop/3dcoat.

I have really only worked in zbrush and 3d coat for a month so this is going to be very difficult for me but if I don't challenge myself I wont get better.

Here are some of the concepts that I put together and I have also started to sculpt the high poly.

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Thanks guys I am going to try my hardest for this project.

stevston89 · Dec 2013

Good luck with this. Really like the concept choice. From what you have so far I would turn your subdivisions down and get the overall proportions down first. I don't even know if it is worth while for you to sculpt all of the muscle details as they will never be seen. That is unless you want to learn the anatomy then go for it.

shakeyyjakeyy · Dec 2013

Looking forward to seeing this completed. Are you doing all the hard-surface details in zbrush?

Mrfido · Dec 2013

shakeyyjakeyy wrote: »

Looking forward to seeing this completed. Are you doing all the hard-surface details in zbrush?

I was planing on doing that but is would you think its better to just make that stuff in 3ds max?

Mrfido · Dec 2013

stevston89 wrote: »

Good luck with this. Really like the concept choice. From what you have so far I would turn your subdivisions down and get the overall proportions down first. I don't even know if it is worth while for you to sculpt all of the muscle details as they will never be seen. That is unless you want to learn the anatomy then go for it.

Yep that's what I wanted to do. Plus I wanted to create a base mesh for when I create other models.

I heard from someone on YouTube that they recreate a base mesh every couple of months to keep practicing so I wanted to start that as well.

Mrfido · Dec 2013

Here is some progress that I have made on the sculpt. Also this is really my first time sculpting the human body.

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NegevPro · Dec 2013

It's looking pretty solid at the moment. I don't know if it's just me but his arms look a bit too small.

Mrfido · Jan 2014

Here is some progress. Sorry it took so long but with the holidays and time spent working at my internship it was hard finding time for this.

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Brian "Panda" Choi · Jan 2014

Mrfido, double check you anatomy before your continue to construct clothing and armor on top of it. Your legs don't have the gestures they should.

Also, I recommend talking to Dustin Gagner about his workflow for his Destiny Hunter character model. He posted on Polycount previously a thread journaling the work he did to get that character done. The images for the thread seem to be down, unfortunately.

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Intirgued as to where this goes. I like the chosen concept.

Mrfido · Jan 2014

JadeEyePanda wrote: »

Mrfido, double check you anatomy before your continue to construct clothing and armor on top of it. Your legs don't have the gestures they should.

Also, I recommend talking to Dustin Gagner about his workflow for his Destiny Hunter character model. He posted on Polycount previously a thread journaling the work he did to get that character done. The images for the thread seem to be down, unfortunately.

Intirgued as to where this goes. I like the chosen concept.

Thanks for the help I will email him right now. Zbrush is super hard haha
But thanks again for the help this site is amazing.

Brian "Panda" Choi · Jan 2014

Drop your subdivisons and use the Move Brush to move the lower res form around back to a more proper and gestural T Pose.

Mrfido · Jan 2014

JadeEyePanda wrote: »

Drop your subdivisons and use the Move Brush to move the lower res form around back to a more proper and gestural T Pose.

Hey @JadeEyePanda Is this better??

I just started the hands so those will look a little weird.

Brian "Panda" Choi · Jan 2014

Yup.

Mrfido · Jan 2014

JadeEyePanda wrote: »

Yup.

Cool

Any tips on sculpting hands and feet. They are giving me some trouble.

I was making them out of zspheres.

Brian "Panda" Choi · Jan 2014

You could do that. Probably makes sense even more since they can act as separate subtools in the final model.

Mrfido · Jan 2014

Here is what I got done for today.
I had some trouble with the hands and feet. But other then that I am getting the hang of zbrush a lot more.

Final project Destiny character concept

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