Awesome concept from APB by Arnold Tsang.
http://arnistotle.deviantart.com/gallery/


Hopefully I can capture the same feel by the end.

You have to do the facial expression when it's done. Realy cute concept and a very good start.

Ditto on the facial expression. It's too great to skip on.

Good start man, proportions are good and the block in looks great. I'll be watching this one for sure!

I look forward to this

Hey dudes. Gonna have to put her on hold again. Figure I'd post up my current progress.

Started blocking out jacket, having tough time getting that poofy look. Any crits welcome.

I would have to say this looks.....ace? *Smug expression*

Hey LRoy, nice start mate. I would probably make the head a little smaller as at the current scale it seems as though she rest of the body looks too short. I would have a look at her fingers too as right now her thumb looks a little short but from that shot I cant tell whether its due to the angle between the thumb and the index finger.

Good luck mate.

Head looks about the right scale to me - the concept character isn't very tall. Her arms might be a smidgen short, though it might be the camera skewing things slightly. It's hard to tell with all of the accessories and clothing, but her knees might be placed too high too.

Minor stuff, you've otherwise got the beginnings of a pretty damn solid recreation of the concept.

Thanks guys. Tried tweaking some of the mentioned parts.

That looks really nice so far, how are you planning to do the fur on the jacket?

This is coming along great! Cool concept.

The cloth material is feeling a bit thick imo. I think it's be cause of the lack of small/tighter folds and wrinkles near stitching seams. The area around the knees and base of the shirt are looking good, it's just the other areas that need some love

really love the chracters - shame that the game was a bit lame i guess...

Looking stellar so far, only critiques I can see are that the knee belts need to be more loose and tied together by some strap, hard to tell from the concept. Also the zipper on her skirt looks to be coming undone in the concept.

Great work, MORE!!!

Found a few differing versions of the concept. The strap didn't really make too much sense to me so I opted to leave it out.

Got the lowpoly to 8k so far, still need to figure out the best way to do the fur. Was thinking of going crazy with fur cards unless someone has a better suggestion?

Originally Posted by LRoy

Found a few differing versions of the concept. The strap didn't really make too much sense to me so I opted to leave it out.

Got the lowpoly to 8k so far, still need to figure out the best way to do the fur. Was thinking of going crazy with fur cards unless someone has a better suggestion?

No, that will most likely get too expensive and hard to control when skinning. You should try a similar method to how papagersi made his knight character's hair, paint it in/use photos or whatever. Another method would be to create some digital 3d fur and then bake that in and see how it turns out.
Looks cool btw. But you should reshape those cloth folds more with deeper and more overlapping ones like in the concept. You've pretty much nailed the face imo but can we see some more close-ups please?
Keep it up. Make sure you step it up a level with the textures this time! ;)

you better post an update soon. we want to see moar!

Update of where she is. Always appreciate any feedback.

Wow, how did you do that fur?

I think she's coming along really nicely. You may want to scale down the head just a touch if you want to keep the proportions from the concept.

the only thing that strikes me as a little of is the leg strap/pant folds area.


Awesome concept. I'd say you've just about nailed it.

I want to play a game with her in it.

thanks guys. I agree with the head size. Didn't realize how small it was in the concept. Leg straps are a bit off also. Gonna try and fix them up and get her posed. Here's a closer shot.

That looks amazing. Well done! I too am curious about the fur. Is that individual planes somehow?

Whoa, you really nailed the materials!! I love the leather especially. I think the eyeshadow might be a little excessive, like maybe don't have it go all the way up to her eyebrows like that. Will be awesome to see her posed :]

Awesome Lroy! Agree, the fur looks great... cloned alpha mapped geo shells progressively larger and shifted a little? Would love to see a turnaround animation of it. Really like the face as well, nice work man. Agree the knee straps looks weird, but it sounds like you're on it already.

loving this great job!

diggin it lots and lots man!

keep on rockin it
since youre on the hair now id pull down the bangs a little and darken her brows a touch i think