Red Panda Warrior

Heather_Bea · Feb 2015

Hello!
A while ago I had the pleasure of doing a 3D model of a painting done by the artist "Skyside" from Deviant art ( http://skyside.deviantart.com/ ) and have decided to do a second!

http://skyside.deviantart.com/art/Redpanda-440583316

I was having some trouble already getting the shape, so I made some orthos to follow.
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Heather_Bea · Feb 2015

Here is what I have so far. I am not very happy with what he looks like yet, so I am gonna bring it into zBrush and start doing some large changes to the shape. Any suggestions or comments are most welcome!

Heather_Bea · Feb 2015

KeyGuardian · Feb 2015

I'm really looking forward to the conclusion of it!

Heather_Bea · Feb 2015

KeyGuardian- Thanks

So I changed a bit of his posture and general shape, and started building out all the cloths. Once that's done I am gonna take it into zbrush and start the high poly sculpt!

Heather_Bea · Feb 2015

Added the last few items missing and decided to add a tail at the suggestion of a friend.
Onto zBrush!

skillstrengthorluck · Feb 2015

Looks great so far.

Heather_Bea · Feb 2015

Thank you ^_^

Here is the zbrush model so far. The face is only a blockout. I am not sure what all to do for it so I'll just play with that later. I am liking how most everything is coming along, though I think I might go back into 3DS Max and redo the belt.

Jean-Pascal · Feb 2015

Aside from the head, the thing that currently stands out the most to me are the sleeves. They doesn't read as fabric (well, I guess his outfit might actually be made out of an animal fur or something, but you get the idea). I'm not sold on the folds, nor the weight. Time to find some references!

Keep it up, you've made some nice progress from update to update so far!

Heather_Bea · Feb 2015

Jean-Pascal- I completely agree! I'm trying to get better refs now

Heather_Bea · Feb 2015

I changed a the shape/size of his head, still need to get the width/height of it.

I made his body wider, and thighs thicker.

Started playing around with the folds of his arms but felt lost so I looked up kimonos and came up with a few sketches for the shape, and I'll try bunching up a scarf tonight to get the folds down!

Heather_Bea · Mar 2015

Today I spent time using my first max scene to redo the belt. I think the proportions are a better now. I also trashed the sleeves a bit more, I think I'll save them for last now :P
I have also been trying to get the face together. I think he's starting to get his look

Heather_Bea · Mar 2015

Working on Face shape/detail. I am not feeling the eyes yet, but I think they are getting closer. The brows are killing me as well x(

It'll get there I hope

Heather_Bea · Mar 2015

I changed up the face a good bit tonight and am much happier with it. I think I am going to call it done for now. Onto the outfit!

Heather_Bea · Mar 2015

I'm gonna go ahead and call it for the sculpt. Time for some retoppling x(

Heather_Bea · Mar 2015

The retopple ended up at exactly 8100 tris. I am super excited to get my UVs out of the way and bake him up! As always, critiques are encouraged and much welcome ^_^

Heather_Bea · Mar 2015

I ended up baking out AO, Normals, and Bent normals. I might go back and do PRTp depending on how the lighting ends up but for now I am out of time to render!

There is a bit of clean up to do, but I am fairly happy that its coming out decently :-)

TomGT · Mar 2015

Very nice character, and the modelling looks like its coming along well. What kind of style are you going for him?

All the best with this piece!

zOffTy · Mar 2015

looking good!
Looking forward to see your texturing work

TheodorUrhed · Mar 2015

Ooooh, cool! This is where the real fun begins

Heather_Bea · Mar 2015

Thank you all for your kind words!

Tom- I am hoping to keep him as close as I can get to the concept for the style.

Today I cleaned up the maps and added some base colors.

Yode · Apr 2016

this is awesome!!! Im doing a furry friend too! hahaha and im really interested in how you achieve this look on your render, it almost look like it was drawn and its not 3d. If it is possible could you post that process too? Or do you know of any tutorial? Thanks a lot!

Heather_Bea · Sep 2016

So! It's been over a year since I've worked on this, but I've started again! Here is a quick first painting pass, still need to touch a few parts, but I'd love to start getting some feedback about it!

amirabd2130 · Sep 2016

looks really good so far

SylveriaDreams · Sep 2016

This is coming along great! Since his cheek fur comes out pretty far, I think adding some shadows on his collar will help the lighting readability. If the light is coming from above the character, there would be some cast shadows around his neck.

gfelton · Sep 2016

This is coming along great! Though it must be kind of weird getting back into it after a year of being away

QOR_082 · Sep 2016

Beautiful work. The work is nice, clean, with good topo. I learned a lot just by looking at it

Congrats

Nuclear Angel · Sep 2016

This is looking really good so far, love the lighting pass!

TomGT · Sep 2016

Hah, I remember following this thread a year or so ago. Great to see you're back on this character again. Looking good!

Shendoo · Sep 2016

I like so much!

kohg · Sep 2016

This is turning out into a pretty solid piece. Hoping to see more.

Heather_Bea · Sep 2016

Thank you all for the kind words and responses! I will have another update coming this weekend

SylveriaDreams - I'll add that, thanks!
gfelton- Super weird. I have learned so much about modeling since starting this piece and part of me wants to go back to the sculpt, but I'd rather just finish it.

Dvolution · Sep 2016

Oh man, this is going to be good. Looking forward to the next update.

Heather_Bea · Sep 2016

I've painted and repainted the sleeves multiple times but have yet to create something that looks natural. I've tried reshaping the geo, folding a towel over my arm for reference, nothing looks right. If anyone has any advice I'd be very happy to hear ;-;

Other then that, I spent a lot of the time reworking other parts of the geometry like making the assets on his stomach bigger, trying to give him a "pear" shape over all, and fitting the braids better. I repainted some of his shirt to be a bit more clean and gave him a better saturation in places that seemed faded.

I wish I had more to show for the time that has passed but I've been mildly busy : P

Ged · Sep 2016

this is coming along really well! gonna look great with a little lighting. I think the sleeves looked pretty good in your highpoly, wheres that bake information with the folds etc gone? perhaps the sleeves wont look natural until you pose his arms more eg like the concept pose.

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