Latest Character Finally Finished
polycounter lvl 18
Some of you might remember this from the old boards when I first posted him. You might be saying..."Wow that was a while ago". Well it was, but shortly after I posted those images my computer took a major crash and took about a week to fix and thankfully I managed to save my work when I had to format, but my copy of max was lost. I was using v6 for that model and I only own 5. I had actually gotten 6 from my roommate when I was living back in Phoenix, and never had a hard copy of it on cd. So I had to wait a while to finally get a copy of 6 mailed to me. But once I did finally get it, I had also aquired a job at the same time to help pay some of the debt I was in from the move so I didn't have alot of time to work on him. But alast, here he is. If you dont know the character, he's player class from the game Phantasy Star Online that I modeled to be imported in UT2K4. I would have him ready to import but I dont have him rigged for animation so it's just going to have to wait. Mostly cause I dont know how, but I'm wanting to learn. I had to take a few minor liberties here and there due to different art styles of reference images I had gathered. All in all I'm pretty satisfied with him. What you see is 3160 tris and three texture maps. One 1024x1024 for the body and two 512x512s for the head and Mag (wing looking things behind him). If need be, to make him easier to import into UT2K4, I can drop the Mag. Let me know what you think.
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Perhaps you could add some more detail to the texture? like scratches or dirt? Looks a bit too clean, though that may be true to the original character, I wouldn't know. Good work!
little chips out of the paintwork and such, maybe some burn marks... he looks too brand new out of the factory atm.
Laheen - Phantasy Star Online is only one of the best games ever
Rick - I forgot to mention that this character is an Andriod and not a person in a suit.
i dont know if this has been said, but while the skin is good, it doesnt match the quality of the mesh. There is so much detail in the mesh, yet the skin is simple to put it bluntly. Not saying the skin is bad, becuase it is awesome, great work, its just...with all the detail in the mesh...the skin is just...boring. Get some more detail on there, add stuff, make it more real and sophisticated
Revan: I totally see what your saying. That image of the wire frame is old and has been refined. Alot useless polys were removed from the arms up to the shoulder pads and on into the neck area. Left some detail in the joints though so it would deform well. The thing I found the most odd was the character was designed with alot of painted detail in his upper front. The only way I knew what to paint on his back was to turn on the game and look at this old model and texture from like '99 -'00 which never got updated when it was ported to the gamecube. The back was so very plain and lacking of any detail. It was basically just a couple of dark lines to show where plates of armor came together. Kinda strange from a design aspect because that was the side of the character you saw the most when running around.
Poop: I totally agree with what your saying about faking the volume (which I painted). That was one issue I thought about when I was painting it. But all of the reference images I had of him were either from the waist up or too small to make out any details and it actually looked flat. I did a little savaging around and I found a slightly bigger version of one of the refernce images I used and I can now see that there is volume to the leg sections of armor. While it isn't as stand out as it is in the torso, it is there. I'm going to go back and touch it up. Thanks for pointing it out. I was starting to feel like I was the only one seeing it.