I like it but the shield face feels really noisy. The designs on the sword are nice, clean and easy to read but the shield feels like you used a black brush and just grunged it up in the diffuse.
I really like everything on this character... except the hat. I have always thought the hat looked both ridiculous, and that it would fall off in the first battle it saw. Almost like a Indiana Jones gag where he always had to go back and recover it after. Maybe consider a full redesign into a hat like this:…
This is awesome, you don't wanna push the metal material to be brighter on the belts, seems to blend in too much with the leather. But honestly really liking the direction of this :)
I'd desaturate and light up his hair just a little, that it looks more like... an ash-blond color or such. He just looks way to realistic for this haircolor.
Here is a composite of Link. Don't really like this part, don't know if I'm going to use this final composite but it's Sunday and I'm tired so I thought I'd post before I go back at it later.
Maybe it's just me, but the red coloring in the render simply screams Marmoset and I think that bringing that back down a little would take less attention away from your work, which is pretty great by the way. Really like the scabbard.
It has a very similar feel to Skyrim. The main thing that caught my eye right away was the sheath looks like stone not gold. Most of the materials are very subtle which I think is fine but the gold just comes off as unfinished.
Yah, like I mentioned in the WAYWO thread, the hair just doesn't match the face well. :/ Actually, it might not even be the hair. I think it's the hat. Maybe if you replaced it with a hood instead? Though I know this would probably be too far off from original Link