Main Character Chick
polycounter lvl 18
hello! this is a girl I'm working on for a FPS here at uni. I'm going to be taking here into zbrush later on. But for now, here she is, at 3500 tris, and a knife that will have a separate mesh container at 114 tris. (knife is in a sheath on the back)
The game is a sound based FPS called resonator, so that huge thing on her arm is the "resonator" gun. There will probably be a dedicated site later on that i could link to. Anyways, any comments, crits, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
The game is a sound based FPS called resonator, so that huge thing on her arm is the "resonator" gun. There will probably be a dedicated site later on that i could link to. Anyways, any comments, crits, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Here is an old tutorial that I wrote. I hope that it can help you little in this aspect.
http://tutorials.rsart.co.uk/tutorials/efficient/index.shtml
My next point is that it lacks a certain amount of volume - typically on a human you can see areas of mass, like the thighs are seperate from the calves simply in how the muscles bulge and then come in at the knee. However, on your model the leg is basically just a straight tube. Look further, it is angled out from the pelvis, but then come vertically down, giving it a bandy legged look, like a cowboy or a well used whore.
Also, the generall proportions are slightly off - the boddy is slightly too long and the arms too short - see where the hands stop? they should be lower down the leg. With arms straight down by your sides, the bottom of the armpit is only slightly higher than the nipples (on a man), the elbow is at the same height as the belly button, the wrist is at the crotch and the hands reach almost halfway down the thighs.
There is some nice poly flow here:
http://www.capcom-central.com/concept/re4/LeonWireFrame.jpg
All those horizontal lines across the body and legs could so easily be curved. For the upper body, follthe shape around the chest and ribcage, use the edgeflow to be the edges of the masses, like groin, abdomen, chest, shoulders, nech etc.
This is old, but have look at the horizontal edges on the chest.
Also, this older sketch may help, showing the curves following areas of the body:
Obviously the "you don't need quads" bit doesn't apply to the part you ship off to ZBrush, that needs 100% quads and a pretty even poly distribution.
But so many people don't realise that while a rectangle is a quad, a quad is not necessarily a rectangle. Diamond shapes are still your friend.
What was the old mantra? "Diamonds over squares, diamonds over squares." It's still useful.