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It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
Monkey Samurai/Ninja
polycounter lvl 20
Ok, I finally found some time to move my ass and normal map this fellah, I hope making a thread for it will motivate me to finish it. Nothing sure 
Sorry for the big images, btw.
the high poly (that you may saw in the "what are you working on" thread)
The "low poly" (around 8000 triangles. still need to reduce it, damn.)
Sorry for the big images, btw.
the high poly (that you may saw in the "what are you working on" thread)
The "low poly" (around 8000 triangles. still need to reduce it, damn.)
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Looks great and looking forward to the texture.
If you want to optimise the lowpoly I'd probably look at the lower leg straps first, you've got a lot of polys there adding detail that the normal map should be doing, not a whole lot of noticeable silhouette from some of those (obviously don't get rid of all the straps silhouette there though!).
Monkey looks great, have fun with texturing.
also, this is fackin awesome
he feels like he needs a comically disproportionate sidekick, like a fat sumo monkey... or maybe a faithful steed that's really just a pig or a boar or something. I don't know. He's got a ton of character, great work renaud.
MoP : that's exactly where I was planning to delete some polys and thx for the reminder !
Ferg : good idea about the team mate ! Let's try to finish this one first.
The way you've modeled the straps from the bandana seems a little odd to me - wouldn't it be easier to have them straight out when it comes to rigging?
Anyway, amazing model and I'm very eager to see more!
Piotr: dunno. I don't have Mud, I use Silo. Silo has some kind of sculpting thing, but I'm not sure about how well it works.. gotta try it out..
I love the feel of the skin but what is going on with his belly, no muscles, its just flat skin! Atleast give him a belly button!
oh, Love the idea and style
Maybe because not enough cloth overlaying near the legish area or more armor, entire character is uber awesome but still feels more ninja
seen this on tweak I believe as well, can we see a wireframe as well?
oh well great model.
*updated image below*
Spark
Keep it up!
my only crit is concerning the belly..everywhere else the muscles are very obvious, but on that area no abs can be seen.. the sculpt seems to let feel he got some fat, it's all smooth there but, he doesn't look that fat at all..
good start on the diffuse on the face.. !
style of texture of face reminds Maddam's works to me.
keep on rockin'!
Tiny update :
MOAR !
Just a little update to show that it's not dead. I'm definitly too lazy with my personal stuff
As usual, nothing final, it's mainly just research.
I hope it's possible to add patches fuzz to the guy, on his cheeks, torso, forearms, toes, fingers...
Cool stuff
needs more sss and fresnel.
Baddcog,cyborgguineapig,snap.crackle.pop : thx !
TorQue[MoD] : with the hairs, I'm around 9k (doh!)
Snowfly : thx ! Yeah, I've been very lazy lately
The specular of the eyes is almost white, I think that my light setup isn't very appropriate for this region, I would need a cube map for these kind of details. I Still need to work a bit on the fur either but I did a test with the beard to motivate myself
Ok, here's an update (sorry for the large image). I can see the light...
awesome texturing tho, as usual
Its a very cool character except these wooden shoe things, he has some monkeys feets so he could grab on branches and stuff and make some cool kungfu moves with them but with these blocky wooden things i dont know.
the sandal strap does seem loose, it's the first thing that caught my eye. the other thing was the tribal chest tattoo; it just strikes me as thin and spidery next to the swirling billowy dragons...look at japanese tattoos that continue from the chest to the upper arm.
would be cool also if the tattoos accented the anatomy instead of flowing randomly around it.
nitpicking obviously. it's a stylistic choice, completely up to you. :-) this model is hot!
Can't wait to see the final pose. I'm having a hard time reading the monkey from him but i think a good pose should clear all that up.
Thanks again for all the kind words and the constructive critics
not sure about the pose atm, but I think the monkey aspect of the character is reading better now.