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hi all. I've decided to enter the challange. A bit late i know but im in it more for the feedback then anything else.
Here is a character i started on a few days ago, as my first proper attempt at a character made from a single mesh. Also my first try at low poly game style modelling. Well here it is so far:
Not exactly sure where im going with this character. But im thinking of making her a post apocalyptic warrior type character with crazy hair and cool boots. Here is a quick concept sketch:
kind of reminds me of.....omg the name escapes me right now.....but if any of you guysb watch anime....she looks like the Major from Ghost In the Shell (Stand alone complex more exactly cuz she looks guy-ish in the fist movie).
anyway....off on a wild tangent there.......i love the idea and setting. Can't wait to see her done!!
hmm.... 'guyish'?
that wasn't exactly the look i was going for, but funny you should mention it cos ive been trying to model the head today and its been really tricky to get it looking femanine. Like seriously i've been at it for hours arg... who would have thought a friggin female head would be so damn tricky? jeez... Also i have no idea how i'll do the hair.
but on a happier note, i modelled her weapons, and textured one of them. hope you like it!
special thanks to Mike for his tutorial on uv mapping. Reaally helpful.
here is some more progress on the model. I shortened her to a more cartoony seven heads height. she was eight before. Also reduced the breasts, and made the hands. Currently shes at 2740 triangles. also unwrapped the uvs which was real chore especially the hands. Not totally sure of the colours yet. I was thinking of a minimised colour pallet, with dark reds and greys. Anyway let me know what you think. This texturing was more of a way to avoid doing the head than anything else.
Does anyone have any good advice on how to the do the hair? I want it to be scruffy like in the pic but im wondering how on earth i'll do it with just polys.
I don't have much experience modelling hair, but one way to do it is to get the overall shape right, then fiddle with a transparency map. Have a look at Mike's Alpha maps tutorial.
thanks alphaflyte, i had a look at mikes alpha tutorial. It looks like it'll be a big help.
I have made a lot more progress on the mesh now. Mainly i did the head, taking a lot of care to keep it as smooth as possible without any ugly looking creases to keep her look as feminine as possible. Here is the head while it was still really early in progress. I painted over it in photoshop so i could get an idea what it might look like as im done (to see how much detail i still needed to add).
and here is finished head purely in 3d. Yet to be textured of course. These are just stand in textures atm. The head here is 854 triangles which i will reduce plenty later.
and here is the whole thig so far, Just connected the head to the body. This is currently at 3402 triangles and hardly any textures...not quite sure how i'll fit in her weapons in the poly limit. Does any one have any ideas on how i should set up the eyes so i can animate them?
I've started trying to do the textures properly now. I got a 1024*1024 texture for the colour so far.
some questions:
1. As this is game art, should i use a specular map? or do i paint the specular onto the colour map. At present i've painted a little bit of light info on the colour map.
2. How exactly do i use the specular map? Which attribute do i link the map to? ie specular colour, specular Roll off or eccentricity?
Should the material be a blinn, a lambert or what?
3. difuse maps??? should i use one, what do they do?
Basically what im thinking is certain parts should react to the light source different if they are more shiny, but if i just paint on the highlights on the colour map they won't react. What is the general approach within the game industry? if there is one. Any help would be greatly appeciated.
Also one more question which i will reiterate cos no one replied before. SHould i make the eyes seperate objects? In a typical game would the eyes need to be animated? (im tempted to think not)
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