Arena Net Contest
polycounter lvl 4
i saw a few other entries on polycount so i thought i would join in on all the fun!!
this is my entry for this years Arena Net Contest, was very anxious to get this started but here is my current progress
wip
cheers everyone
this is my entry for this years Arena Net Contest, was very anxious to get this started but here is my current progress
wip
cheers everyone
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in the concept her eye area is black so this year i decided to make her have blindfolds on, mainly due to the guild wars expansion coming out >.> i hope anet doesnt mind...
@pyrzern yea im really hoping that the anet artists dont mind *fingers crossed* are you doing the contest year by the way?
I think your entry already looks better than my last year attempt.
i would love and greatly appreciate any and all comments and critiques
the last image is just... for fun, i really hope shiro is a hero for the revenant in the gw2 expac
It looks like you need to accent the edges of the armor more, in both the spec and the diffuse. A lot of the edges and corners should be getting close to white. The spec for the metal looks like it should also be pushed more, it's currently way too dark.
Your glossiness looks very uniform across the model, making it look like plastic. I'm not sure what renderer you are using but one way to get around the glossiness issue is to use your spec map as your gloss, since gloss maps are not part of the given specs. It's a little hacky, but it helps get around that limitation. If pieces are mostly separate you can also modify the glossiness values by material, with metals being very glossy, skin and cloth being less so.
The metal could also use some more variation in the diffuse, it's a little hard to tell because of the size of the maps but right now they look very flat. Even small amounts of noise, color variation, small scratches can greatly help it read as metal.
The fur could use some gradients to give it some fullness as it's looking very flat, almost untextured. Since you have tris to spare, I would also use the extra tris to give the fur some more volume, it's could especially use it on the back and on the skirt.
The skin could use some more love, the AO on it seems like it's getting a little muddy and going too brown when it should probably have a little more saturation and red to the darker areas. Tattoos also have a slight transparency to them as the ink is under the skin, right now it looks like yours has opaque paint on top of the skin.
Overall I think you could use a little bit more global lighting as everything is reading a little flat in the diffuse. If you can rendering out some AO will help as opposed to painting it out manually. If you set up AO bakes with half a sphere instead of a plane as the floor you can get a nice gradient where it is lighter on top and darker on the bottom. You can also do a top-down gradient and apply it to your model similarly to how LoL or Dota characters are done and apply it to your existing textures and it can help with the lighting as well. Here are a couple of ways to do that: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101248
I hope this helps! Good luck!
PyrZern i totally agree with you, yea since i still have like... 160 tris left over i can use, ill put those to use on the fur, i wasnt quite sure if i should or not but ok i will!!
NOTE: I tried to painted these as if they where 100% lit, similarly to how you would paint them on a texture sheet, external lighting is not considered.