This is pretty damn awesome! Making a narrow confined space is a pretty great idea for quickly making something that looks so polished and finished, when I periodically do this kind of thing it's always surprising to see how much quicker I've got.
What's on his shin? The calf muscle looks like it bulges out too quickly also. What he means by the small of the back is the spot between the butt and that muscle that is across the mid back (I'm no character artist so I'm horrible with anatomy).
I reflect bobo's thoughts exactly. Bring that crosshatch stlyle over to your textures and that will separate you from being too similar to WoW or torchlight, which is is a neat style but quickly becoming tired. Be unique! You have the freedom to do so.
You could use floating geo to get the placement down quickly, then at the end when finalizing the mesh chop the geo up and merge the floaters in. This may suck depending on how many holes you need, but if its just a few it should be easy.
Seconded, if not just for the awesome texturing and concepting skills. Try doing some traditional sculpture too. I wish I did before. I've been doing some super sculpty models lately and it does quickly improve your spatial reasoning.
Last update for today, trying to get the gun model to work - still super early, but feel like I'm getting there. Note that the shader is sorta bullshit, just quickly slapped the shader from the gloves onto the gun, so it feels more coherent.
its great you took the time and effort to create and document this, thanks! I'm not currently working with any normal map tech, but I guess it's quickly becoming commonplace and I'm sure this advice will come in very handy getting up to speed- Cheers!
Is there a way to drag and select all the uv shells instead of selecting one point from the shell? When selecting all the points it scales weird. It would be nice if you could scale all of them really quickly from a drag select all
20D, 350D, some olympus SLR. To give an idea of the size difference. I liked the idea of the smaller 350D when I purchased mine, but you quickly realize you're going to be the weirdo camera nerd no matter what carrying a camera this size.
annd by my sword you shall be slaain* cough.* Since Im still looking for the mesh colour prefs, here is one I quickly nabbed a render of, he is still mirrored and I have made his thumb slightly stubbyer(word?)