Cowgirl

Eric Chadwick · Oct 2008

Something I'm working on for the iPhone/Wii crowd. Nice change of scene from normal mapping. Thinking about straightening out the UVs for the lips, too jaggy.

10/3 update:

Ninjas · Oct 2008

hehe, nice. That has tons of character. Maybe more shadow under the bangs/hat? Some painted spec on the boots could look nice too. The chest and shoulders look a little beyond tomboy, into manish territory

SHEPEIRO · Oct 2008

really nice, love the texture work on the jeans, makes me wanna do sommit else other than baking too, hat could to do with work though

Master_v12 · Oct 2008

Looks ace man, I'm loving that denim

aesir · Oct 2008

Yea that turned out nice! Looks like my little cousin.

machuca · Oct 2008

loved this. only thing i could say is maybe a little more work on the hats texture (a little too flat) and looking at her from the front theres an edge that sticks out from the crowd right at her cheek.. at 45 degrees and from the side her face's siluete is looking great.
made me wanna try something like this. pure diffuse.

almighty_gir · Oct 2008

your age is showing. take a look out of your window.

even 10 year old girls have boobs nowadays.

and either her arms are too short, or her hands are too big.

still very nice though

WayneAdams · Oct 2008

Why don't you have a seat.... Have a seat right over there....

Eric Chadwick · Oct 2008

Thanks for the crits!

BoBo_the_seal · Oct 2008

Very nice work Eric!

- BoBo

Rens · Oct 2008

Nice!!

woogity · Oct 2008

Nice work and style nj on the edgeloops too! her weights would be cake to paint up. also the denim looks really nice!

-Woog

_Gr9yFox_ · Oct 2008

That looks great! I love the jeans.

Chunkey · Oct 2008

Cute character, full of personality

some slight shadowing could be used as said above but it all depends on how it looks in the intended game engine/format tbh.

ElysiumGX · Oct 2008

Very creative. Great work. Refreshing to see something with character.

Eric Chadwick · Oct 2008

Thanks again for the comments and crits. Straightened out the lip UVs, some hat details, tweaked proportions. Going to learn me some rigging techniques before I pose it.

whats_true · Oct 2008

The side profile of the face is modeled very nice. Head on, the face seems kinda flat. Rosier cheeks maybe?

Cute!

Michael Knubben · Oct 2008

That jeans-texture is really nicely done! Personally, I'd do something with her skintone though. As it stands it's overly bright, and seems a bit bloodless. If you darken it a bit with a light pink/tan colour and add some redish tones at the edges of the shadows (and amp up the shadows as well, certainly under her armpits), I think it'd look a lot more lively.

Her hands also come off a bit manish due to the size, but that might just be me. I imagine if you'd make those any more slender, you'd lose the child-like feel to them.

edit: oh, you posted an update! The new lip is much better.

Eric Chadwick · Oct 2008

Thanks guys, great crits. Messing with the jawbone now, looking much better. Also able to shave off some redundant loops. Reduced the hand depth some, it helps. I don't think the skin will look as vibrant with darker shadows, but I'll try it out.

Jaco · Oct 2008

Damn I love those jeans, and nice colors overall.
Agreed with MightyPea about the skintone.The shoes could use some painted spec too, if they're leather. Also the silhouette of the arms look a bit plain, some thickness around the elbow and fatter palms might fix that.

Ninjas · Oct 2008

Nice job!

Eric Chadwick · Oct 2008

Edited proportions, skinned and rigged, tweaked some topology. Boots are suede, so no shiny bits. Thanks again for the input everyone.

SHEPEIRO · Oct 2008

ace, freaky when twins wear the same clothes and play tug-o-war

PixelMasher · Oct 2008

nice presentation, maybe some move uv space could have been given to the hair but thats really nitpicky. other than that, the skin could maybe use another pass to add some depth and forms.the clothes look really awesome man.

whats_true · Oct 2008

You have this dynamic pose were it looks like they are really pulling that rope, but the face has no strain on it at all. A bit odd to me.

GG on the texture and modeling.

Michael Knubben · Oct 2008

Now that I see the uv's: didn't you put quite a lot of space between uv-islands? Not only is it diffuse-only (making bleeding slightly less of a problem), but you're only on a 256. I imagine you could have scaled everything up by a bit before you'd run into any problems, right? Just wondering, really. I'm mostly just curious if there was a specific reason for it, that's all.

Josh_Singh · Oct 2008

Hey This turned out really cool! Looks like something that could be from a Harmonix game, in a good way

Really fun stuff!

Emil Mujanovic · Oct 2008

Nice one, Eric. I'm really digging the jeans texture most of all.

-caseyjones

Eric Chadwick · Oct 2008

Thanks guys.

About the UV space, I've been bitten before, so I made sure to have at least 2 pixels around each island. The average width in the tightest spots is about 4 pixels. Actually there's a mistake on the inner hair piece, that's the leaf-shaped UV in the middle, it's too close to the island below it so I'm getting a hair-thin dark brown edge. But it's pretty minor.

I'm point-sampling in these shots, so I could probably just get away with a 1-pixel space around each (2 pix total). But I wanted to make sure it would also work when mipped and filtered. Makes a difference when the character is smaller on screen.

mikezoo · Oct 2008

What a pose!! And such awesome hand painted textures! I would love to see this on an iPhone.

nkoste · Oct 2008

Fresh! nice work!

bugo · Oct 2008

cute Eric, love it!

jlewis · Oct 2008

nice modeling and texture work, eric! the fabric and wrinkles on the jeans is very nice. and i really get a playful feeling about the character!!

on posing... if she's leaning back that far, then you might want to add some twist in her spine and hips and definitely some side rotation. also - i think that her shoulders are tilted, but it's kind of hard to tell... maybe more tilt? the rope, her pulling arm and her shoulders will pretty much be a straight line if she's pulling hard enough to be leaning like that. and angle the back leg outwards a bit.

with the playful look of the character, i feel that the pose should be at least a bit exagerated. i would tie a rope to something and pull on it like you have her posed.

overall, a great character. keep it up!!

Eric Chadwick · Oct 2008

Thanks guys. I'm fine with the pose and the skin tones, going to call this done.

I added it to the website, http://ericchadwick.com/img/cowgirl.html

Cowgirl

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