Hi, I've had many questions like this when I first started character creation; dont worry :) I'll post a workflow - whether this is "adapted" or slightly changed for different users; it varies but it works fine for me :) Maya * Create Base Mesh Zbrush * Sculpt Base Mesh to ensure correct proportions and anatomy Maya *…
I'm not a character guy, but I really like the design for the first guy. It's a nice blend of mechanical and organic elements. There are a few areas that could use some work though. For instance, his chest shows hard edges and is clearly defined differently than the rest of his clothing in the high poly. When texturing,…
Very nice! I think some of the things could have benefitted being seperate meshes in the high poly scupt, when it is done like this leads to soft edges where the clothes meet the skin, probably the biggest example is the neck ring. That being said it can take alot more work than is realistic with negligable improvment,…
Hi to everyone, my name is Alexandr Novitskiy and this is a short breakdown of my latest work “Lost Undead”. Project artstation is here. In this article we will talk about steps which can make your work closer to a very best result. Today we will talk about: concept, silhouette, texturing and cloth, rendering. I wish to…
Hi, I worked on this original character (ZBrush sculpt) and now will be working on further texturing him in substance painter, rigging, and animating him, and making him a playable character in the Unreal engine. This thread will document my progress. I originally made the Hippo Warrior’s UDIM texture set 2048
x 2048, and…
I hope this is the right forum.. anyways, Hi! I'm working on a Unreal 4 game, and to get cloth to work I've learned I should use a Nividias PhysX plug-in for Maya. But when I install the plug-in nothing appears in Maya. I downloaded NVIDIA_PhysX_For_Autodesk_Maya_2013_64bit_3.00.01116.02380.msi from Nividias site (I'm…
Thanks a bunch for the advice! I have a few concerns with character model creation that I would like to get solved. 1) Do people generally model the head before the body, I read once (in a really old book, I believe it was Quake 3 era) that it is best to model the head first to give the model character. 2) Is it okay to…
Reviving this quite important thread, since I've had some problems with choosing the most optimal t-pose. These things concern me: - the importance of the anatomy on the armpit - polygonal angle on the armpit for normal map baking - humeroscapular rhythm (the movement of clavicles, scapulas and muscles related to the…
Late on the crit here but I do see a problem with the high poly. You have a lot of straps that bear weight, but the only place you really show that is in the knee pad straps. I've worn a one shoulder big messenger bag for a long time and that shoulder strap and securing strap really digs in. It was bad enough with art…
Ooh, I'm gonna join in! Gonna try Deirdre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre I am not someone who dwells on the concept too long, so I just sketched out her proportions and started working. There's not much on how Deirdre is supposed to look besides 'yellow tresses, green eyes, cheeks coloured like foxglove(which is a…