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Critique for your September entry.

Hey, Chris!

My purpose with the critique is that since you finished, you obviously hold this kind of art form in high regard, and I hope I would be safe to bet, you are looking forward to joining the game industry eventually. I hope I can point out some things that will improve you chances for that in the future!

First, great job on finishing. Obviously, not many did, so I have to acknowledge that alone as an accomplishment!

Alrighty:

1) UV Layout - Your UV layout for the male head was fine, but the body layout is much too spaced out. Much of the male and female body textures looked to be repeated or mirrored... this can easily be done by simply overlapping the UVs from both sides of the model onto the same area of the texture! You could have easily have done the same body texture in half the size. The female head layout is ok, but could probably have been saved some space. Save for the mole on the female, it looks like both sides of the head are pretty much the same... space could have been saved by halving the texture and simply mirroring the UVs over it.

2) Texture quality - I commend you for hand painting the majority of your texture! However, I think if you do so, it would be best to go all or nothing. The Male's face looks too different in comparison to the rest of it! The female face is just one color, which was noticeable. Aside from that, I think you're on the right track! Better and better quality will come with practice. That said, I think the female's headgear was quite nice.

3) - Modeling - Your modeling shows promise.

A decent texture is really what makes your models shine. Of the two, I'd say the male was the better model. However, for both models, you have lots and lots of polygons that are not adding to the shape in any important way. I think, aside from the smoothness of the male's plume, you could have almost exactly the same model with 1500 polys or maybe even less. The geometry used to model the straps on the male's chest is totally lost in the texture, and could have probably been done just with the texture alone.

The female especially shows far too many polygons to justify the shape, and I think could again, have been done with half of what was used. Also, the dress has unnessesary geometry for it, and could have been done with the texture alone.

Hope that didn't all sound too harsh! You are definitely on the right track and have already exceeded what I see coming out of many art schools. Practice geometry efficiency. Try to meet that 1500 limit! Put a little more contrast into your textures to make them pop more, and keep practicing!

Congrats!

Excellent feedback, and much appreciated.
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Chris

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