Update: Still tweaking the metal diffuse and spec to get it to look right but still nothing. I may move on to the face just to take a break. Any an all crits are welcome thanks

Looks like a good start to me! I'm loving The Invincible Iron Man and was surprised when they gave Pepper a suit. My only critique is to bring up a bit more of the mechanical elements. Like around her knees and shoulders are going to have more of the hard edge elements that define the suit a bit more. Can't wait to see more progress!

Update time! Im trying to balance the comic armor with the movies more realistic approach so heres an update with some more mechanical parts

Update time!

Looking great man! I would say her feet are getting too narrow. Don't know how close you are sticking to the cover or if you have another image, but they remain practically square. Actually now that I look at the cover, I wonder what the purpose for shaping the feet/toes like that would be?

Thanks mospheric, Ill try to to work that into the next update.

Another Update

Heres another update. I've started working on the head/face/hair. Please excuse its current crudeness, I haven't done organic modeling in some time and this is supposed to get me started back in. I'm going to try a few different hair styles with her with some paint overs but the first I modeled was a ponytail not sure if I like it or not. I also have a lot of work to do on the face/head. Any help or crits would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Lots of Ps work this morning. I did a quick hair study to see if I wanted it up or down. Im also shit at hair so this was good practice. There are also some close ups of the head as well.

Alright, Im calling it. This is done, time to UV.

there is something reeeealy wrong with her face

Haha ok could you be a little more specific?

her face like that of a doll, its too unrealistic and its perfectly symmetrical

the legs are a bit short.

Yeah superfranky has hit the nail on the head. She does appear doll like due to the childish look she has. Her face is too flat and she has a very large forehead.

But don't get me wrong. It coming along great. It just need a few tweaks here and there. I would recommend taking the face into zbrush/mudbox to help you make the alterations fast.

Thanks for all the help guys. I intended to take the head/hair into zbrush anyways to sculpt the hair. Ill also make her taller in the next update.

Heres an update, let me know where I need to fix next as I need as much help as I can get cause zbrush and I arent good friends yet

Frankly, her face looks awful in a lot of ways. If you have time, i suggest you learn anatomy some more.

I tried to correct some things, but here I'm bad at quick drawing ^^ :



Hope it helps.

Thanks for the paintover Tex, Ill make those corrections. There isnt going to be a helmet for her, at least for the time being. There will also be some alpha planes in there to show stray hairs and such.

If you watched that blur tutorial by Sze Jones: Digital Female Character Design, she talks and shows you that you should do as much as you can in your modeling application before taking It to ZBrush. I think that process would benefit this design a lot, i've redone a design 3 times before I was happy so It's just all part of the process and learning what works.

I like the idea, I did feel however that if the design of the suit were more "sexy" <not revealing but more exaggerated (more: Jeffrey Scott Campbell) type then this can really pop.

Best of luck we are watching.

Make sure you use reference for the face. I would suggest doing Gwyneth Paltrow, but the comic really doesn't look like her. Also I'm not for the bun on the hair. Off the top of my head, I always remember her taking off her helmet and her hair was down.

I like the suit design, though I agree with $!nz that the suit could be a bit "sexier." Smoothing down the hard edges on the thighs and calves would give the suit a sleek and sexy feel.

I think this model is going to turn out great in the end. Hopefully it will give you good practice with creating a female character

@$!nz, @mospheric I thought about doing something a bit more sexy but im just not sure it fits her. Pepper isn't supposed to be flashy and all that. I will however try to exaggerate some portions to giver her curves a bit more accentuation. I am using a reference for the face, my gf actually but im just not comfortable with zbrush yet to get it right. As for her hair I'm planning on doing multiple version of it, the bun just seemed the easiest and you dont see many characters with it. Or i dont at least.

Anyway sorry for the wall of text but when I get home from work before I head out to TDKR Ill make some modifications. Thanks again for all the help!

Maybe a more "sci-fi" haircut could be better. I only saw the Iron Man movies so I don't know how Pepper is in the comic book, but maybe a real "secretary" look, with sophisticated hair and GLASSES could be really sexy.

Gosh, I went on DeviantArt to look for secretaries... what a bunch of pervs ^^. Anyway here a some cool things I found :







This pic is too large I put th elink :

http://vonman.deviantart.com/art/The...cretary&qo=341

Oooooo that is a great idea Tex! Thanks for all the reference. I think Ill just end up having to do multiple hairstyles...