i am no big fan of ai usage in general and while i would agree on many of the sentiments written here, it is of course nonsense that people using AI are generally throwing their brains out of the window. we are not even remotely at "i will just let the AI do this for me". that people dont learn things when using AI tools…
People have already mentioned your lighting. But overall, your skillset could be improved. 3D Sculpting, High poly sub division modeling, texturing, baking clean normal maps, etc. These are all the higher tier skill sets that will really make your work pop. I'm still fairly inexperienced compared to some of the other guys…
Book turorial?? What is this, 2002?! find a video tutorial on gumroad from someone working in the industry and learn directly from them, for probably 1/3rd of the price of that book.
a lot of really good advice. For a small game, there's a number of engines out there to choose from. Godot, Unity, Unreal, RPG maker, and more. I would choose one that best suits your game idea and dive right into tutorials.
I agree with ivanzu and BARDLER. In addition to the poycount wiki link BARDLER mentioned you can also take a look at the following resources: Character Modeling Video Tutorials by Andrew Klein: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL20DC39DABF6D9307 Ancient Pigs Basic Deformation Tutorial: Great resource for understanding…