1880s Western Gunslinger

tac0m · Dec 2016

Current progress on my most recent character.
C&C are welcome

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GeoCat · Dec 2016

Wow... this is nice! Nice work! Looking forward to textures n stuff...

cheers

Prose_One · Jan 2017

This looks great! loving it!

If I were to change anything, I would:
-Add a bulge to the front pocket that the chain going into (assuming it is attached to something)
-Add variation to the height of the boots (eg: http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/19251/18472874_1.jpg?v=8D0DAC4E9036940 )
-Give him some sweet other accessory like an awesome rope!

Anyways 10/10 so far!

tac0m · Jan 2017

@Prose_One- good ideas. Thanks for the feedback.

Did some work on his face. No details yet.

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apllana · Jan 2017

Cool looking character! I like the variations on the jacket and his face is coming along nicely.

tac0m · Feb 2017

slow progress. the struggle is real

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ZacD · Feb 2017

He's looking pretty similar to Bryan Cranston / Walter White. Not sure if that's intentional but it stood out to me.

tac0m · Feb 2017

Yeah it was kind of intentional. I used Bryan Cranston and Tom Selleck for face reference. I tried to have a mish mash of their features together.

AgreeingMachine · Feb 2017

The hem of his coat and his facial hair are the only areas that stand out to me as asking for some love. Give him some sweeping folds and bushy whiskers!
You really worked the eyes nicely between shots of the face.

slosh · Feb 2017

Cant wait to see you detail this fella out! nice progress man. and trust me, i know what slow progress is like lol.

tac0m · Mar 2017

Started detailing.

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Snakes · Mar 2017

Hey mate just jumping in here from 10k hours on facebook. Love the detailing in the last pic! Love the face you've got going for him. What sort of feeling or style are you going to go for with him? His clothes seem realistic but currently his face is pretty stylised with proportions. Either way super impressed man, can't wait to see whatever direction you take him. Wanted to ask about your workflow for blocking in the clothes. Were they initially made in MD or done by hand? Clothes are super challenging for me! All the best ^_^

tac0m · Mar 2017

Hey Snakes, thanks for the nice comments. I'm going for exaggerated realism, mostly with punchy colors and deep wrinkles. His face is still going to be worked on but it's a slow process for me haha. I did make the base of the clothing in MD but i swear i did so much sculpting I probably could've just sculpted it from scratch and saved myself some time.
Clothing is pretty hard to get right, but don't give up. Keep at it and you'll surprise yourself.

tac0m · Mar 2017

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Face update

Some proportions were off a bit. Fix what i thought was wrong. Still detailing the clothes but just took a break to work on the face tonight.

Snakes · Mar 2017

Cheers man!, awesome update. Definitely feeling the exaggerated realism more with this pass as he has a bunch more going in his cheeks and necks. Think this will be a friggen killer piece! Do you think you'll give him hair cards Or some nicely sculpted hair? :O

tac0m · Mar 2017

Hey Snakes, thanks dude. For the hair i'm going to make this a game ready character. So i'll be making hair cards for him. LOOOONG way to go on him still *womp womp*

LilyNion · Mar 2017

Oh my gosh I'm in love. The face update is SO amazing. I can't wait to see more!

I do have a question, what material is the jacket? From the first picture I would say it's some type of soft light fabric, but the face update shows a more leather-like texture. Looks SO good though mgmhm.

tac0m · Mar 2017

Hey LilyNion,
Thank you for the feedback because i can see what you're talking about. What you're seeing is actually the vest (not the jacket), so i will have to revisit it because it's not supposed to be leather

Snakes · Mar 2017

I think the vest is probably okay, might consider applying a really noise nanomesh sort of thing to it to emulate some kind of fabric? I think it'll be hard to really tell what kind of material it is until you get to texturing (unfortunately).