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aniceto
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I noticed my polycount account ticked over 20 years this year  :# Feels like I need to start a thread to mark the occasion.

This is a character I started a couple weeks back, with the goal of having a more stylised character to add to the folio.

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  • aniceto
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    Some progress on the hair and other bits and pieces. I need to clean up the shapes on the back of the head.

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  • MrHobo
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    Really loving the face on her, it's got a nice balance with proportions and stylization.
    You know where you're heading for the texture style yet? Feels like she could go in a lot of directions successfully.
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  • aniceto
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    MrHobo said:
    Really loving the face on her, it's got a nice balance with proportions and stylization.
    You know where you're heading for the texture style yet? Feels like she could go in a lot of directions successfully.

    Thanks! I'm thinking of grounding the textures in traditional media. Something soft but with enough detail to show off the forms in flat lighting...
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  • egeguncu
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    Nice work! The face looks really good, although I feel like the eyelid structure is a bit too weak. Have you based it on any specific reference? If not I'd suggest maybe just making them a bit more ticker or just close the, a bit more. Regardless, great work that's coming along nicely.
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  • aniceto
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    egeguncu said:
    Nice work! The face looks really good, although I feel like the eyelid structure is a bit too weak. Have you based it on any specific reference? If not I'd suggest maybe just making them a bit more ticker or just close the, a bit more. Regardless, great work that's coming along nicely.

    Appreciate the feedback. I can see what you mean about the eyelids, definitely worth a revisit, cheers!

    Nearly wrapped up the low for the body. The first version is just going to be a straight diffuse texture with no normals, so I'll try not to overcook the highpoly for now.

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  • aniceto
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    Worked on the face a bit and started refining the shapes of the hair, and set up a base for the texture in Painter
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  • Joao Sapiro
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    holy shit Aniceto !!!!!1 thats a name i havent seen in a long time !!
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    Joao Sapiro said:
    holy shit Aniceto !!!!!1 thats a name i havent seen in a long time !!
    Haha, cheers mate. Glad to see a familiar name that still remembers me  =)
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  • aniceto
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    Some progress on the head and hair. Haven't touched the body since last update. Still plenty to do but if anyone wants to share their thoughts feel free!

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  • Eric Chadwick
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    This is looking great!

    For me the pink skin is a bit jarring, since that hue appears no where else. Maybe choose a complementary skin hue, or add a pink complementary color elsewhere in the kit?

    Also, how much is painted-in lighting, vs. how much would be covered by PBR lighting. Hard to tell since you have a strong rim, but obviously-painted steel reflections.
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  • aniceto
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    Eric Chadwick said:
    This is looking great!

    For me the pink skin is a bit jarring, since that hue appears no where else. Maybe choose a complementary skin hue, or add a pink complementary color elsewhere in the kit?

    Also, how much is painted-in lighting, vs. how much would be covered by PBR lighting. Hard to tell since you have a strong rim, but obviously-painted steel reflections.

    Thanks Eric! Appreciate the feedback :D I'm keen on the skin colour, so I'll see what I can do with the body to make it fit.

    I'm thinking unlit colour with painted-in lighting for this iteration, with a stylised rim light like below. Just need to figure out how to execute it...

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  • Eric Chadwick
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    Ah, unlit will be great.

    Right now though, the front is mostly in dim lighting, I feel like I really want to shine a big fill on it. All those colors are muted way down.
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  • Neox
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    aniceto said:
    Just need to figure out how to execute it...


    use a custom stencil/depth buffer, offset it by X pixel and use the same buffer as a mask. blurring is gonna be the most annoying here to set up as you have to do this a few times with various offsets and then layer it together, but its doable pretty much exactly like you did it in PS

    i did something similar here. but only did one step of "blurring"

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  • zetheros
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    you could try doing a value check, make everything greyscale and see which areas are too light or dark, or need more hand painted light info. I just loaded this into photoshop and used the burn and dodge brushes. Overall you could push details and contrast a bit more. Either her skin is too dark for her hair, or her hair is too dark for her skin imo. Pants could use more detail. The gold ornaments in her hair contrast too much with her hair (or vice versa) and could use more detail. You can take the eyes up to another level by increasing contrast and saturation


    https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0688-7692-4D5A-1935
    https://sketchfab.com/search?q=handpainted&type=models
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  • Neox
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    had to check for the project, switched machines in the meantime and didnt run it in ages. but regarding that rimlight.

    this is a 1 bit mask of the custom stencil buffer set to 12 (could be any number really, dont even ask why 12, dunno anymore :D )
    here is the custom stencil mask applied per object (so it doesnt apply to the entire scene, it will also not work with this simple mask approach as if something is behind the asset it would take that objects stencil mask. i am sure you could technically also do something depth based


    what you basically do now is take that mask, offset it by X,Y units, invert and multiply by the original mask without offset

    the result applied to the characters alone

    as its one bit in nature this will be very harsh, if you want to soften that transition you will have to do the same, stronger offset and layer it together basically. a simple blur would already mean doing this 8x, 1x per direction

    in this example its also just straight up units applied to the screenspace texture coordinates, you might wanna change that math to work with percentages or pixels using the viewsize.


    and applied to the scene this very basic version looks like this, i just blended it with a color against the scene output.
    i applied a whole bunch of other things/math to it, like different offset at distance so it doesnt appear much fatter on characters further away. offsetting it based on where on the screen it happens, so my character in the center has the backlight applied as if it was behgind, while one to the left or right has it coming from their respecitive sides.
    i also masked undersides/downvector from it, to reduce some noise here and there.
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    Ive been playing with an alternative setup, where I render the stencil into a lowres texture, which can be blurred and modified, it would in theory have some nice transitions overall. But it isn't foolproof yet and no idea if it would be feasible at all for realtime usage
    more blurred

    or sharper but not 1bit perfect
    but as its blurred, the less offset there is, its easier to create issues like bleeding into areas where you dont want the rim

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  • aniceto
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    Thanks for the feedback all! agreed Eric and Zetheros. I did a bit on the texture and tweaked the colours and values, but looking at your paintover and links Zetheros I think I could go a bit further.

    Still need to fix random bits and pieces, and the hair isn't fitting yet.

    Also thanks for showing me the approach Neox! The end goal is to embed this on my Artstation page so I'll have to figure out how to get the same look in marmoset or something similar.



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  • Tits
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    Lovely texture work, quite a big step since the last update I feel
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  • zetheros
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    wow what an overhaul! awesome work
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