Hope to get the textures finished in the next day or maybe tonight. I've got my Tom Selleck reference ready to go, for the stache and maybe I'll put some Wolverine type arm hair on his tri-cep and posterior deltoid(rawr!). Update: He's in maya and textured. The portrait is a shot out of MudBox with a slapdash background I painted up.
This is my favorite illustration of a dwarf by amazing artist Adrian Smith. I don't know that I'll be able to match this look, but it's definitely an inspiration.
Number 6 doesn't look anything like Justin Bieber, but 5 sure does ring of Sorbo. What player would ever pick 4 as a look is a mystery to me-though, sadly, nature has chosen it for me in real life. Thankfully A is an option! I hope to start work on the game model soon.
Here are a few face change ups. These are created for symmetrical textures/uv/geo. They would look a bit better with some asymmetry of course...so I might take one and create asymmetry in just the area of the eyes, nose and mouth.
Prop for my MMO character. It isn't meant to match his armor, just the style. There is a glowing bowstring, however Mudbox likes to pick and choose it's opacity maps.
The first image is out of maya's default viewport with the textures still at the resolution I painted them, 1024.
The second image with the greenish-brown background is out of Mudbox. The textures have been smooshed down to 512 for the character and 256 a piece for the armor.
That one was a beast, now just pants, belt, boots, gloves, cape and weapon...by tomorrowish!
This is one of the shoulder pieces for my bird guy. 420 tris and I will admit this is pre texture smash, so the texture is at 512x512. I'm sure the reduction to 256 will obliterate them, but oh well. On to the helmet!
Here's the helmet...I suppose it "goes without saying".
This is a low poly character(2600 Tris and a 512 texture)with actual painted textures. It's pretty fun to get away from projecting photo textures onto everything and pick my own colors and such. It is a polypaint job out of Zbrush!?...I thought for sure that mudbox, with its layers and straight to photoshop exportability would be the way to go, but no. I prefer the fluidity or less-clunkiness of the Zed. The feedback or paint stroke is more instant or something, though the color vertex baking to get a map is not. I hope to have his armor and weapon done and also painted by next week. Should be a bit of work, but fun.
I probably should have gone with the title "Some Brief Practice". Anyway, this is a new character I'm working on to update my reel. The top two images are the model in the Mudbox viewport with a diffuse layer and the bottom two wire frames are from Maya's viewport. Next step clothes!
Here's the diffuse pass. Now just need the subsurface, gloss, spec and some eyeballs.
Updated!
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