Kota's Militia

[ChalklYne]

Some rough drafts of Kota Militia I did over the past few weeks in the backround

 

 

[NumberWan]

These look very good. When I saw them in TFU, I had questions, whether they had these helmets from the start, or did they adopt this uniform at later stage.

[Zappa_0]

very nice!

[ChalklYne]

moar

 

[minilogoguy18]

The feet and hands need to be redone, the feet have no ankles or any real shape to them and the hands are anatomically incorrect which will cause bad deformation. The thumb branches out from the bottom of the hand, not the side. The shoulders, elbows and hips all look like they'll deform bad, especially the shoulders, the topology really isn't right in that area.

 

http://wiki.polycount.com/LimbTopology

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1mExXURsWk

 

Homework for you. The hand modeling video is really good, a prime example why a JA modeling tutorial isn't needed, they're all over youtube, no ones looking though.

[ChalklYne]

The thumb was modeled out of the bottom. Directly following another hand tutorial. Modeled over Kyle's hand. They are only 4 sided boxes right now. When I get to rigging the shoulders, hips, knees, or fingers I will add in an edge loop here or there where I need them. The hand is fit to the skele so I shouldn't have a problem with rigging them. IF I do I'll fix it when I get there

 

 

Theres the low res mesh

 

Looks kinda screwy I'll probably repaint him sometime. 

[AshuraDX]

you might want to rework those hands

take a look t your fingers , are they BENT that way , so smoothly ? I doubt it

(if they are , go see a doctor O.o )

[ChalklYne]

Mesh bad. Tried again.

Maybe do another quick sculpt in zbrush just to form the low res mesh better to what ill be sculpting at the end? Then after i work a basic zbrush sculpt i can export the low res mesh and unwrap it and it should eliminate stretching crap from the sculpt at the end. Sound about right?

Edited March 17, 2016 by AshuraDX
embedded your sketchfab model

[ChalklYne]

@@AshuraDX howd u do that?

[AshuraDX]

@@ChalklYne
do it like this:
 
take your sketchfab link ->
 
https://sketchfab.com/models/69d90a1c9c0d4b75b433cd1ad53f27e2
then put the highlighted ID number inbetween sketchfab tags

[sketchfab]69d90a1c9c0d4b75b433cd1ad53f27e2[/sketchfab]

and voila you embedded your model

[ChalklYne]

[AshuraDX]

@@ChalklYne you could really round off that body, you're trieing to stay lowpoly, which is good - but you shouldn't stay too low either, because that will reduce the possible quality a lot

[ChalklYne]

Ill focus on that now and update soon

 

@@AshuraDX what is an acceptable target tri count? I been keeping them under 3000

Edited March 18, 2016 by ChalklYne

[AshuraDX]

Ill focus on that now and update soon

 

@@AshuraDX what is an acceptable target tri count? I been keeping them under 3000

I also just noticed that the hands look tiny - go ahead and use mine, they are posed perfectly for the JKA skeleton - all you have to do is import my basemesh, upscale to 156.25% fromthe world origin and everything should be in place

[ChalklYne]

[ChalklYne]

Reworked his face and a few more small things then Ill unwrap,

(i.e. the neck, the back faces of the shoulder straps, etc)

 

[ChalklYne]

So Ill leave this here for a few hours... if theres no further objections Ill unwrap him.

[AshuraDX]

@@ChalklYne messed up normals on the left hand

 

EDIT:

@@ChalklYne check the bag on his right leg too

[ChalklYne]

Will do thank you

[ChalklYne]

Feeling ready to unwrap.

 

[Archangel35757]

Can you show a wire-edged overlay? The ankle joints seem like they could use a little more tweaking... showing a little more krinkles in the leather?

[ChalklYne]

You click that little box at the bottom and set wireframe to black or whatever instead of opaque. Yeah I was sitting at McDonalds this morning checking it out and felt the ankles needed work as well.

This little box

[ChalklYne]

Almost done unwrapping...wont be texturing too much right now... Going to set up heirarchy and caps and get him positioned correctly next.

 

[ChalklYne]

Ill unwrap his backpack tomorrow

 

[ChalklYne]

So Ill leave his textures like this and hope a few people want to help church it all up before release. I struggle with texturing and want to keep the momentum right now.

 

 

 

 

And the face

 

 

 

Going to fine tune some stuff then dropbox his textures and an .obj.

Once I gett he heirarchy all set up and caps and tags and what not ill upload the xsi file and call him "done".

 

Hoping to get some help rigging/texturing at the end of it all once the material is all out.

 

ID like to sculpt them but Zbrush R4 has a problem exporting UV coordinates so Ill just come back to that or work around it after all characters are modeled.