Hey great start to a model. I made one similar to that. I wouldn't use floating geometry unless it's an emergency. It makes the AO bakes look goofy if you do it too much. Definately cut into the mesh the way you are doing.
actually I used a sphere with a pole at the sides and it worked perfect. the shape near the poles helps to define the sides of the visor. my main priority was to have the top of the helmet say perfectly smooth can''t post any images unfortunatley
Agree with the above comment. Really solid, but lighting could be more dramatic and defined to really make the level look great. Some of the bare concrete such as the roof beams could also use a little more variation. Perhaps other props or decals.
Thanks for the comments! I recon the feet is a definate thing to sort up, I'm not happy with them,, there more like fingers or just planks atm hehe. I was gonna go really exaggerated with this piece but I stopped dunno why lol
Hahahah You should've came in today. I brought 'her' in. She has these really thin eyebrows. I may have to paint it in as a solid line rather than trying to define the individual hairs. It looks blotchy and way too light.
great edge flow on the face. Ankles seem kinda strange to me though, maybe a little wide. Her calves dont seem too defined either. Everything else looks really cool so far though. Nice work!
you should definately render an ambocc map, will add a lot. edit: also the wood dosent really read very well, maybe a nice clear wood pattern there would help, or adding in the fine detail from the reference posted above.
Cheers Gav, here's an update of progress so far. I'm still working on making the arms easier to read, mainly removing small details and adding more well defined lines and shapes. Not sure if I want to revise the font or not yet...
he ment that the massive ammount of polygons not defining any shape would make rick stirling scream i guess ( i can be wrong thou ) with that poly density you could make 4 of those characters without loosing detail.
Thanks for all the feedback, guys. Kev, I'm definately going to give that a shot. Until next time, here's some stairs. Again, quick low poly, you can see from the silhouette it's just box stairs, nothing fancy.