I think the vampires are in a pretty good place for a test bake. There's always more I could do, but I'm eager to take the second race of Project Nova out of Zbrush and into UE5. I've imported the human lowpoly as a starting point for retopo. Have a great week!
Good point, I did remove a fair amount of colour nuance, especially around the legs lol The current plan is to bring the lobba' girl into UE, and do the same thing I did here with the male basemeshes. After that I'll improve polypaint across the board, then handpaint the roughness and specularity maps while finalizing UV…
Yay! it's done (at least for now) and in UE5. Next up is finishing the lobster race and getting her in engine as well. Once all races & male counterparts are in UE5, I'll fix up baking errors, improve texture maps and optimize UVs (probably at the same time as animations, so I can fix or improve troublesome lowpoly…
More polish work, tidying up, proportions work as well as adjusted the sculpt for rigging, as I want the 'wings' to be able to hang down like a cloak as well as go up. With this range of motion, I have decided on the classic T-pose instead of an A-pose for the 'wings'. They'll be important in conveying emotion, as well as…
Last week I used consistent references (nsfw) to improve the human female basemesh. It's still damn hard to make something that doesn't feel uncanny, but It's just a matter of learning and forming the neural connections and muscle memory that will enable me to 'see' what works and what doesn't. Ideally over the years I'll…
For me it's the opposite lol, I suck at hard surfaces. Exactly, I think it's fun when you can get your character naked and customize their genitals even if there is no gameplay reason for it. And since you have multiple humanoids you can make interesting body designs that expends the lore.
I think I went a bit too heavy handed on the fine details, which I've noticed seems to be a common theme and bad habit of mine that I need to watch for. Next week I'll be cutting back on that & smoothing shapes to regain the larger chitinous plates that were present last week. That said, the finer details will be helpful…
The first and largest of the 'wing' limbs are done, and the rest are smaller. Honestly not a lot of work done last week due to the release of Shadow of the Erdtree, and market research is something I take seriously. I'm back on my usual schedule however, so hopefully we'll see more work done next week. Have a great week!