The face is excellent! Its almost a shame to have him wearing the helmet and cover up all the personality the head has. Saying that having no helmet/ mask takes away one of the main identifying marks of him being Batman so...
http://dailybooth.com/LiverpoolEcho/18130618 "200 youths in masks in the Toxteth area" So where are the rest of them? I shit you not, i was mugged at knife point in toxteth for a Bigmac meal. So 200 is pretty dam shy of a shitstorm.
Make the high poly Retopo it so it becomes a low poly model which fits the requirement, Unwrap low poly Bake the maps Create textures/masks from the map Test and repeat until you think you are finished
The composite shader is kind of crappy, the composite MAP is quite good, so use a standard material and in the diffuse slot put a composite map then load in your textures and masks and set your blending modes (normal, multiply, overlay ect).
Think about it like this. A world completely stripped of light. Everything is black. Whatever you paint on the emissive texture is the only thing that you will see. Basically emissive is like a mask. Black will not show up anytyhing birghter than black will.
I'm sure you could use the texture pain tool, but o think you're best off using vertex color as a mask instead of a spalt map. this would require a cgfx or hlsl shader in Maya but is a much better solution.
the first thing that sticks out to me is that you've got a few cuts through the center of the mask that dont add to the shape.. i think that with some optimization you can model in the 4 large dents and still get the same polycount
Well she's still a WIP. She's missing the harness, the gloves, the belt pouches the shield, the face mask, the straps on her arms etc but yeah i'll have a look at possibly putting a pouch or something with a small knife on her arm.
WIP Base I'm working on for the Petrol/Blood challenge, working with a pal from work; will start a thread soon! Critique would be greatly appreciated; this challenge is a big learning curve for me! (Masked areas are areas I need to work on)
just roughing in my colors and layout, wanting to post now early on to maybe moivate me to finish kinda cheated,, detached hte horn and capped the holes under them so i could make the alpha antenne for the mask