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[ChalklYne]

wanna go back to here then?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

profile view of his chin needs revisited... jawbone looks a little bowed out?

[katanamaru]

I think making the ears smaller was a mistake.

 

The thing that is off to me is how far forward his face is. I don't know the terms so I'll try to explain. The distance from the corner of my eye to the front of my ear is about 3.5 inches. Your face looks closer to 5 or 6 inches.

[Kreed Antilles Ordo]

I'm confident it'll turn out great

[Scorpion]

Sad Galen is sad (low poly mesh)

[Circa]

Yeah the ears are too small now.

[Milamber]

Hey Chalk, after my last exam would you be interested in letting me have a go at the low poly model? As in, sending me the head and letting me move the points around so I can give you suggestion on what to do that way? Morph-able! xD

 

That is if you're comfortable with it ofcourse. I might not do a great job at it, but I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

[ChalklYne]

The DL link is in your inbox. Do what you please with it dude.

[ChalklYne]

So I took the head all the way back and fixed a bunch of really cool stuff which will make sculpting way easier for me. Does it look better to you guys topology wise?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep in mind this is before the sculpt to make it a bit more defined, so not really extremely focused on the certain shapes as much as I am getting the topo laid in a way that when I subdivide I wont be doing too much weird tweaking which will be lost in the lowest resolution. also remodeled his temples, the connection to the ear, the ears, the nose. So I am pretty happy with this topo better than the last even though the last was just so close it just had too many flaws in the lowest subdivision to preserve the sculpt in the areas most prominent for SK

[katanamaru]

Can't speak to the topo, but the face still looks too far forward. If that's how JA models are positioned then carry on.

[ChalklYne]

Yeah I was only concerned about topo. But good eye. I already started the sculpting in zbrush and I am positive this will be my best head yet and most likely the finished product.

 

no need for any crits atm but here is a preview of me starting to get his shape together

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ChalklYne]

starting to take shape

 

 

 

 

I am going to take a break and revisit it in a while and see where to go from here

[Lamented]

Nice work, but...

 

Ears. Those could use a fix if you ask me.

[ChalklYne]

ears are irrelevant. I modeled them very low res just getting the basic shape in to save verts, and if i start subdividing it and painting it in high res, it will warp tremendously when I break it back down to low res. I just need to get the basic shape down and leave them alone and fix them via texture and softimage. Trust me theres some sort of weird method to the madness lol

 

so I broke his body way down. Went from just over 6000 verts to just under 3500. I will be sculpting in the rest of his belts and all of his arm and leg wraps. still not done just wanted to show some progress

 

 

 

 

The boots will be a bit thinner and the shoulders will better defined once i get into zbrush I just don't feel like screwing with it right now, 

[ChalklYne]

In the middle of sorting everything out.. figured Id show a progress pic. Still working of course

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just trying to get the basic shape down so I can export the low res mesh and unwrap it again. Then re-import it with nice uv layouts and paint and sculpt it all into shape so maybe I can get some nice shadowmaps rendered again and use it for the folds and things in his clothing. We'll see how it goes. Feel free to poke in with anything while I'm going

[ChalklYne]

Still workin the mesh a bit

 

I am only going to model in one foot and mirror it. This is just a rough sculpt to get the geometry somewhat where I want it before I unwrap it, then I will go back and give it a real nice sculpt over so It has good shadows to render out rather than trying to texture them all in. We will see how it tunrs out.

 

 

 

[Circa]

It's looking good. I don't really have anything to critique yet.

[katanamaru]

I don't think I'd add thight muscles to his legs. It seemed he was in regular pants and not form-fitting clothing.

[ChalklYne]

Yeah I'll soften those down a bunch 

[Milamber]

 

 

 

shoulders/chest in general.

[minilogoguy18]

You made him buff when he isn't, he's supposed to be more lean/cut. He's athletic but not a body builder.

[ChalklYne]

You made him buff when he isn't, he's supposed to be more lean/cut. He's athletic but not a body builder.

 

I did that intentionally, but will try to tone it down a notch

 

Thank you

[minilogoguy18]

Hands and feet are still improper. The hands are small as well as not proportionate and the feet are not shaped right as well. Feet do not come to their longest point at the center toe and not all fingers are the same length. The fingers also look like curves rather than having 3 distinct points in which they bend.

[ChalklYne]

Thanks @@Milamber and @@minilogoguy18..

 

There are few things as annoying as getting to the final stage, then realizing you need to go back to square 2 on a part so I really appreciate the criticism on such necessary parts like the proportions

[ChalklYne]

OK so I got a basic sculpt down to make sure thats how I want the mesh, then here is the low poly version. I'd like to make sure proportions are just right before moving any further since I will soon be using the uvmaps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will just remodel the hands when I get there.  And this is not the final head, I just slapped the old one there for sizing

[Milamber]

I don't really see any changes to the proportions, so I repeat my previous post