Young Squire Cartoony character.
:)Hey guys, I did this quick sculpt, a day or so of work. I'd be interested in some C&C if you guys dont mind.
This is basically what the title of the thread suggests: A young squire who wants to go on big adventures but isn't ready for it. I might have to revise some proportions. I intend to drop this guy in Marmo. He's also in need of a sword (made of wood) a shield and a helmet (basic adventuring 101).
Thank you in advance for your time
This is basically what the title of the thread suggests: A young squire who wants to go on big adventures but isn't ready for it. I might have to revise some proportions. I intend to drop this guy in Marmo. He's also in need of a sword (made of wood) a shield and a helmet (basic adventuring 101).
Thank you in advance for your time
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Other than that he looks great, looking forward to seeing the finished character
Splitting elements atm.
I think the word you were looking for was 'companion' :P And that companion is super cute !!
Hm, he's gonna need a name.
or even butler, but these look great! Can't wait to see textures!
Re-working to something simpler and more cartoony.
Edit: No, that sucked too much. I rather not let them live (the old pics).
What a hair-mare...
Not sure I get what you mean? I laid down about 150 strands and used GMH2 + distribution ramps.
The scene is too big for Vray, so some raycasting errors are showing. Also, I killed the spec on everything, it was driving me insane.
The renders are LOW quality but you get the idea.
Heard great things about GMH2. Gotta try it soon now.
Thx a lot!
GMH2 is great indeed. This script allows me to see what I am doing as I am doing it, you get instant feedback which is priceless IMO. There are a few tricks to it, some such as secondary styles I have yet to play with. All things considered, it was my first time getting into Maya so it took longer for me to get anything done. I am sure other Maya users could have done that faster and better.
Well, I have to finish this dude fast and I think I am closer to a Vray render than a Marmoset render. Can't say Maya treated me nice early on although we're getting over it (but I can't wait to get back to Max).
I don't see myself painting the transparency of 140 pieces. I have had enough of hair for a while even though the learning experience will be of help to do proper hair for an anatomy study I had done a while ago.
In the end it was my fault, I assumed I could bake. Next time I'll use your baking trick which btw I think you should forward to the author of GMH2, maybe there's something to be done to make things faster.
Among ideas -putting aside saving ramps- I am going to suggest pre-made strips of hair so you can define presets and generate them with a click. Also, a way to lock the tail and head of strips, I noticed sometimes when you add or remove geo it rotates and sometimes it doesn't. There's probably a way to lock that. Finally, I wonder if a "Flatten all" (on a plane, like you do with ZB) function would make sense, it could be heavy if you got lots of strands but I think it's worth telling Phung.
That's a lot of dumb ideas coming from a Maya noob, I know...but let me know if they make sense to you.
Excalibur. The real deal. True story.
Nice details. This looks hard to grab though.
exactly what was your approach for creating the strips around the handle? if you dont mind me asking
I did those with Marvelous Designer 3. And a hefty amount of pinning and un-pinning. Pins allow you to counter gravity until you can get to the next "turn" around the object you're trying to wrap. When you got a section properly adjusted you can remove some of the older pins below.
I added the strips mostly to break the silhouette. I did them fairly thick as they were hard to make out as having thickness. I tried multiple settings and that's the thinnest that worked. In the end, I'm aware you won't see it much as the character's hand occludes most of it, but oh well, I always wanted to do bandages/strips wrapped around something (weird fetish, I know).
Almost donde, C&C welcome.
I'm aware he feels a bit stiff but I had to pose him in ZB, BonesPro has a couple of bugs that prevented me from properly rigging him so I had to pick a less dynamic pose using Transpose Master. I can still make some tweaks provided this time ZB won't trash some subtools. If you have ideas to make it look better let me know. Thx for watching and commenting!
This little dude has tons of personality, loving it.
I don't' have much to critique at the moment as it is well done. The pose sells his playful nature, so good job with that.
I preferred his stylized hair from earlier shots but understand if you are setting that up to be carded.
I feel his cape should be a different material then his shirt so that his uniform looks a bit more haphazard to exemplify the playful spirit. Maybe a patch on 1 knee for asymmetry.
Keep up the good work, can't wait to see more!
Thank you so much for dropping by. I was kinda down and thinking I had failed (I am my worst critic).
I'll keep you updated!
But yeah, this turned out great, lots of character and even emotion. Stands out to me.
Congrats!
Do a tutorial on this, please.
Small update on the color front. I figured I might do a quick ZB version while the Vray one gets rendered. I'll use this as a base. Not so sure about the metal. I'll also add a pattern to the cape.
Anyways, let me know what you guys think of this quick coloring pass and thank you for commenting!
Time for some rendering pain in Maya/Vray...
Thx for your input. I have kept everything a layer in Mudbox so I'll try removing it. Keep in mind those are Mudbox shaders, the final look might change once rendered in Maya. At any rate we'll find out soon enough!
I also don't like the black pot over the metal one, however I really like the crown detail, so hopefully you keep that either way.
And you're right about the shaders changing everything once you hit render, a lot of times it's worth it to develop the texture and the shaders/test renders at the same time.
This is gonna be great though.
I personally prefer the dark metal. The dirt is probably a bit much though
@Ysalex: Regarding the metal I am of two minds here: On one side I liked the reflections from the other one, on the other I like the dark cast iron version too because of the contrast. At any rate, even the sculpting layers in MB can easily be removed.
I agree with you regarding co-developing shaders along rendering. It's impossible to predict the outcome sometimes but I had to go with something. The crown and badass lion on the shield will be there, don't worry
Btw, I used your basic eye idea: sclera with opacity map + iris in the center, we'll see how that flies.
Thx again for stopping by, guys!
PD: Is it me or hypergraph is too complicated needlessly?