@Artquest: Did what I could to deal with going overboard with the values by softening the contrasts on the skin areas and face (using your pics as reference). On my end, I just replaced the dark brown-y areas with the pink I had in the gaunt of the face. @Broadway: I think I figure out your cannon texture thing? It's…
This time, more armor element iterations. Big questions like "How much Blood Elf design do I incorporate? How much of Pandaren? How much Engineering design do I add? Do I keep this all unified, or a conglomerate?" That fourth idea I took a crack at for posterity, though to be honest, I'm definitely not feeling it. Reduced…
Alright, jumpg staight into the low poly. I'll save the high poly for later I suppose after the 15th. Not a lot done past couple of days due to a bad flu case. That subtracts a couple full powered days from my schedule. Marmoset is freaking out at the moment for some reason, so I'm gonna hand ya'll the quick and dirty from…
Try to crisp up the textures a bit, you can still see brush strokes where in the reference toxic posted, every brush stroke hints at the shape of the object or some sort of light reflection. The shoulder pads and the back cannon are good, just try to bring everything else to that level if you can. But it's so close to the…
Hey, I love how it is turning out, though I'm a bit concerned by the lack of "Engineer" qualities. I don't picture a guy with a cannon on his back being Blood Elf or an Engineer (if it is intended on being a cannon that is). But here is some nitpick feedback lol. It's a bit harsh, I don't mean it that way, that's just the…
Well if you don't have enough polygons left in your budget then you've gotta stick to the alpha planes. in which case I suggest painting with 100% opacity and making crisp, clean, and rather large shapes in your alpha like this (maybe even with less detail): But if you do have the polygons just model the hair and texture…
I really like where this character is going! Very nice style so far. I took some time this morning and did a paint over for ya(hopefully it gives you some ideas). I went a little overboard on the particle effects but I really thought it would help push the idea of the magic cannon being a part of his equipment. Gotta ask…
Hopefully, this communicates as an intention to really get a solid design running before I head off into the technical hell that is ZBrush (at least to me). I feel like I've already answered some of those internal questions 3 days ago, like this Blood Elf having adventured in Pandaria for some time, profession and what he…
I think your biggest problem atm is that there is almost nothing blood elfish about him. When I'm looking at him, he seems like some cocky dude straight from Halloween party. His profession isn't very clear as well. Basically, you just took a blood elf, dressed him like he is some dwarf wannabe, and added pandaren flavour…
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