Gah. I'm no good with choices. Theres too many characters. Its like trying to buy icecream from Baskin and RObins or something.

I had Elena the Swahili Capoiera girl picked out and then switched to Pullum Purna the Arabic belly-dancer typed girl and now I'm not sure which I want to go with or whether I should choose on of the other 50 odd characters.

So...
or

Well, I've made my choice.

*updated - See below*
I've drifted away quite a bit from the original design, maybe too far. Who knows.



Still thinking of ways to work a little more Kenyan/Maasai into the costume.

Any crits or suggestions welcome.

looks cool man, Elena is a very colorful character, will be interesting to see your palette for her.

Made a small update to the concept - replaced the jogging bra thing with a linen wrap. I think it fits the character much better.

Also had a play with colours sticking pretty close to the original lay out at this stage and keeping it pretty clean. I'm not sure about the white hair. I'll see whether it looks better natural when I come to do the texture.

Anyway, onto the model.

Just starting off. Its been a long, long time since I've done a character with anything like this number of polys so any crits will br greatly appreciated.

On a side note, I'm wondering about giving the character a shaved head with a nice traditional Maasai styled headband. I'll see how it looks when I come to it.

Went a bit more stylised - thinner, longer limbs, bigger feet and hands, smaller head, longer hair and bigger pants legs (which won't look quite so much like flares when I come to model them).

Concept looks very cool, I like the B&W image. Good luck with modelling!

Cheers mate.

Time for an update.

Still all sorts of anatomical issues going on here, but she's coming together.

oh my.

Is that good or bad?

obviously she's still very WIP, but she has a lot of proportion issues (IMHO her head is way too small), and she looks like she's falling over backwards. Easy to fix with some Deformers/soft selections though.
Interesting style, try to keep it consistent to make sure it doesn't come off as unintentionally weird though.

Yeah, I didn't pick up on the weight distribution issue until after I'd taken the screenshot.

The head size was a stylisation thing to make her look extra especially tall but maybe I overdid it a bit. It probably won't be so pronounced when she's got hair, but I'll review the overall structure when I've got the main details blocked out properly.

Keep up the crits guys. Anything that looks odd, let me know about it. As I mentioned earlier, its been quite a while since I've done any characters over 400 polys (besides that Guitar Hero thing), so I'm a bit rusty (And wasn't all that good with proportioning in the first place). I'll get there eventually but any pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

making her hips broader than her shoulders will give her a more femanine quality.....Hawken/Fogman posted a good posture pic in FOgmans thread, worth taking a gander at

Found some time to work on this tonight, mostly just fixing up all the things that were borked about the first version.
I think I've got everything more or less proportional now. The arms obviously haven't had much work done on them as yet.

Looking back at the first image is kinda laughable. I'll put it down to lack of sleep.

Moving along at the proverbial snails pace

that head is looking perfect.